Dancing with the Stars Season 3 Premiere [Part 1]
Sep 14th, 2006 by Ashley
Dancing with the Star is back!!!
First run, Men – cha cha cha and Women – Foxtrot
Joey & Edyta
Joey Lawrence: Actor (I always think actors/actresses have advantage over others in this competition, provided they’re at least decent ones)
Edyta Sliwinska: Third season for her. She had partnered with George Hamilton and Evander Holyfield. It seems that she has better luck this time.
Surprisingly good for first run. But according to Tom, they have 6 weeks before this, so I guess they should give a good performance. Still, I still consider it strategicly not good to score too high in early stages.
Sara & Tony
Sara Evans: Top country singer. Shes practices while touring and taking care of her 3 kids.
Tony Dovolani: partnered with Stacy Kiebler in second season, they were highly praised but ended up 3rd place in the finale.
Sara was stiff. Seeing her Foxtrot with Tony made me think of the very first Foxtrot I saw which was performed by Stacy and Tony, beautifully, heavenly. What a pity. Sara looks graceful and elegent. Appearance-wise, she has great potential to bring a shining Foxtrot, but she just didn’t flow, let along flow smoothly.
Tucker & Elena
Tucker Carlson: News anchor with a shiny smile. He looks as if he should be in the 60s instead of persent time, from head to toe.
Elena Grinenko: Young Russian. First time.
The performance was horrible. Can’t say anything bad about Elena. Her dancing swells and she has awesome personality, but Tucker, on the other hand… Well, yeah, he enjoyed himself very much, but man, you’re here for a competition not just for fun. Judges were cruel but I totally agreed with them. I’d be meaner actually. Len said, “I wondered when you’re gonna stand up and dance, but at the moment you stood up, I’d rather see you sitting there.” He spent half of the dance sitting on a chair as if he’s on a toilet, smiling, and the other half walking… and smiling like an idiot. I feel truly deeply sorry for our new comer Elena. Hopefully we’ll be able to see you next season.
Monique & Louis
Monique Coleman: actress from Disney’s hit High School Musical.
Louis Van Amstel: Returned for his 3rd season. He previously partnered with Trista Sutter and Lisa Rinna.
Nothing much to say. She’d overdone her facial expression at the begining and then went totally numb. But I’d say Foxtrot’s not her dance, maybe she’ll shine in other Latin dances. We’ll see.
Emmitt & Cheryl
Emmitt Smith: Professional football player. NFL legend. He’s the second NFL player who participate in Dancing with the Stars (Jerry Rice in season 2)
Cheryl Burke: Champion of last season, partnered with Drew Lachey. Wonderful personality. An excellent and patient teacher, great choreographer.
It’s hard to imagine someone as huge as Emmitt dancing, let along dancing well. Emmitt surprised us all. I was expecting a tragedy like what Master P brought us in last season, but no, Emmitt can dance. They put on a great show and got standing ovation from the audeinces, which is a first in first run. One of the Smith family put it well, “It’s like watching my Teddy bear dancing!”
TBC…