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1 hour ago, crowceilidh said:

Julianne should go to Australia to replace Sharna who should judge here.

We don't need Derek AND Julianne play fighting in the judges' seats.

I would love Sharna to replace CarrieAnn. Cheryl could have been a judge but I think she would not be asked. I've never listened to her podcast but I guess it's mostly putting down DWTS from what I read.

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Amanda Kloots Says 'Dancing with the Stars' Partner Alan Bersten Left Her 'Raging Inside'
The talk show host says that the pro was 'very mean' during their time together on 'DWTS' Season 30, feeling the show was pushing her to have a breakdown.
Mike Bloom   Nov 24, 2024
https://parade.com/tv/dancing-with-the-stars-amanda-kloots-alan-bersten-partner 

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Amanda Kloots Says 'Dancing with the Stars' Partner Alan Bersten Left Her 'Raging Inside'
The talk show host says that the pro was 'very mean' during their time together on 'DWTS' Season 30, feeling the show was pushing her to have a breakdown.
Mike Bloom   Nov 24, 2024
https://parade.com/tv/dancing-with-the-stars-amanda-kloots-alan-bersten-partner 

She makes a big to do about how he made her feel bad, and then she "clarifies" on instagram how much she loved him and all of the great things.  Well, then don't do an interview with the other stuff as the focus then....  

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Ratings: DWTS Surges to 4-Year Highs With Season 33 Finale
By Matt Webb Mitovich   November 27, 2024 
https://tvline.com/ratings/dancing-with-the-stars-season-33-finale-viewers-joey-graziadei-jenna-johnson-winners-1235382787/ 

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Facing originals on NBC (including The Voice), Fox and The CW, Tuesday night’s DWTS finale avearged 6.4 million total viewers, the dance competition’s largest audience since the Season 29 finale on Nov. 23, 2020.

And in the coveted-and-delicious 18-49 demo, DWTS scored a 1.14 rating, its best number since the Season 29 premiere on Sept. 14, 2020 — and marking the highest-rated regularly scheduled entertainment telecast in primetime since NBC’s This Is Us series finale (which posted a 1.28 rating on May 24, 2022).
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The three-hour DWTS finale also swept additional key demographics including Adults 18-34 (with a 1.27 rating), Women 18-49 (1.61 rating), Women 18-34 (1.90 rating) and Men 18-34 (0.65 rating), among others.

Compared to its year-ago finale, DWTS was up 16% in viewers and up 70% in the demo. In fact, that 1.14 rating marked the best demo number for a finale in more than six years, since May 21, 2018.


'Dancing With the Stars' Season 33 afterparty on 'GMA'
Good Morning America   Nov 26, 2024

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Will Way Home Wane in New Home? Did Blue Bloods Waste a Joint? Did Alfonso Make DWTS Awkward? Is Doomsday CGI Super? More TV Qs!
By Matt Webb Mitovich, Kimberly Roots, Ryan Schwartz, Charlie Mason, Rebecca Iannucci   November 29, 2024
https://tvline.com/features/superman-and-lois-doomsday-visual-effects-better-snyder-dc-movies-1235382418/ 

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10 | In Dancing With the Stars finale, did Alfonso Ribeiro’s quick clarification about Danny Amendola’s “Strap it up” comment make the situation better, or so much more awkward? And were you fairly gobsmacked by how much Amendola resembled Barbie’s Ryan Gosling once he was in the full Ken get-up?

If this is true, it means that all 5 contestants in the Finale got paid the same - regardless of where they finished.  It also benefited the person who otherwise would have been eliminated from the semi-finals.  They would have lost out on $50k for not being in the Finale.

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Salaries on Dancing with the Stars vary by role, with celebrities earning more than professional partners: 

Celebrities

The starting salary for celebrities is $125,000, which includes training. They receive additional bonuses for staying in the competition, including: 

$10,000 per week for weeks three and four 

$15,000 per week for week five 

$20,000 per week for weeks six and seven 

$30,000 per week for weeks eight and nine 

$50,000 per week for the semi-finals and finale 

The Mirror Ball trophy for the winner 

A maximum of $295,000 for the entire season 

Professional partners

Starting salaries are rumored to be $1,600 per episode. Salaries for more experienced partners can be negotiable and go up to $5,200 per episode. The reported cap for a professional dancer is $100,000 per season. 

DWTS has never confirmed these salaries. 

https://parade.com/1240167/paulettecohn/dancing-with-the-stars-salaries-celebrities-pro-partners/#:~:text=How Much Do the Stars,definitely still an impressive amount.

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2 hours ago, twilightzone said:

If this is true, it means that all 5 contestants in the Finale got paid the same - regardless of where they finished.  It also benefited the person who otherwise would have been eliminated from the semi-finals.  They would have lost out on $50k for not being in the Finale.

https://parade.com/1240167/paulettecohn/dancing-with-the-stars-salaries-celebrities-pro-partners/#:~:text=How Much Do the Stars,definitely still an impressive amount.

Wow, dancers really don’t pull in a lot of cash. I made more than that as a nurse. Plus their careers are limited by injury, aging. No wonder they go on tour. 

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3 hours ago, Quickbeam said:

Wow, dancers really don’t pull in a lot of cash. I made more than that as a nurse. Plus their careers are limited by injury, aging. No wonder they go on tour. 

They have to parlay this show into getting other work   Many teach dance and some own their own studios    Being popular on the show can increase their fees and gain them students   

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Val Chmerkovskiy Makes Bold Claim About 'Showmances' on 'DWTS'
Mike Bloom   Dec 5, 2024
https://parade.com/tv/val-chmerkovskiy-dancing-with-the-stars-showmance-romance 

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"[A] long time ago, my first couple of seasons, I'd been given partners that I did have romantic exchanges with. Incredibly unprofessional to do so in my mind," he said on the Dec. 3 episode of the Lightweights Podcast. "Because I'm here as their teacher and as their partner. And I'm probably, in some way or another, in a position of authority to them. [A] don't shit where you eat kind of thing comes into play."

Val went on to clarify that he was fine with romantic activities between partners that happened ultimately after the season. After all, a number of celeb/pro pairings have found their "happily ever after" from the show, including Kym and Robert Herjavec and most recently Britt Stewart and Daniel Durant. The difference, in his opinion, comes from letting those advances take precedence while rehearsing non-stop to stay in the competition.

"Behind closed doors," he noted, "I undermined my own season by doing that."
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“If it's genuine, it's awesome," he admitted. "When it's authentic and it’s two consenting adults enjoying their time together, I love that. But when it's two adults putting on a show, because they know they can manipulate the algorithm to give them more likes and more views, I just don't like anything that's inauthentic."

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DWTS Alum Cheryl Burke Criticizes Show Judges, Says They Should 'Educate Themselves'
By TooFab Staff   12/6/2024
https://toofab.com/2024/12/06/cheryl-burke-slams-dwts-judges-ballroom-dancing/ 

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Dancing with the Stars alum Cheryl Burke is calling out the judges of the reality competition series over their ballroom dancing expertise, or as she believes, lack thereof.

On Wednesday's episode of her Sex, Lies and Spray Tans podcast, the professional dancer slammed the show's judging panel -- which includes Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough -- for not being "experts" in ballroom dancing, saying they need to be more educated in the genre in order to be more "strict" in their critiques.

While answering fan questions on the episode, Burke -- who appeared on 26 seasons of DWTS before retiring in 2022 -- responded to a fan who asked if she believes the ABC series "should go back to being stricter as it pertains to true ballroom dancing." She said she does, before explaining why.

"You have to know what you're talking about, right?" she said. "They have to be able to back up whatever they say. ... If you're just saying things because you know it's the right terminology, and you can't explain yourself as to why it should be a certain way, then it's kind of hard -- unless they get judges that have more ballroom experience than some of the current ones that are seated there as of last season."

"You can't really be more strict in a genre that you're not an expert in is my point," Burke continued. "And maybe that is why the show isn't as strictly ballroom as it used to be because you got the majority of your judging panel [who are] not experts in the niche of ballroom dancing."

"I think that, just like the pro dancers have to continue to educate themselves on their craft, I also feel like the judges should do the same," she added.

The two-time DWTS champion went on to stress that she believes the judges should take the adjudicator's exam in order to further educate themselves and become an expert in dance.

According to the National Dance Council of America (NDCA), the purpose of the exam -- which includes written and theory review portions -- "is simply to assure that all of the Adjudicators of the NDCA, while having different ranges of careers and expertise, should all have a common base line of knowledge in all styles and a clear knowledge of what responsibilities they have as an adjudicator."

"Derek should take his adjudicator's exam. Carrie Ann should do it, so should Bruno," Burke said. "I think that's important, and why wouldn't you wanna do that? After all these years, if you weren't as familiar with the genre, why don't you familiarize yourself with it?"

"Or maybe they have, I don't know. I'm not them," she added.

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I did like when Len would say what judges were looking for when judging standard and Latin ballroom. I think Derek does little educational tidbits too.

Cheryl is always bad mouthing DWTS now. I think she's bitter because she wasn't asked to be a judge. If the show is thinking of replacing CAI, I hope they ask Sharna instead. Anna and Karina are other choices. 

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I took time off of the show for a few seasons because it was getting to be too much of a celebrity coddle than a reality dance competition. When Mark took Ballroom and Latin to an exciting level with Charli I thought the show was coming back. Unfortunately  It's getting further and further away from ballroom and Latin so I doubt I'll watch next year. The social media trends bore me, they seem childish and unnecessary and they are mere fillers when the show used to be so good with better video packages like Dance Centre and the confessionals. Now the show just relies on TikTok with asinine lip syncing and viral moments instead of dance. The quality of ballroom and Latin is terrible amongst most of the contestants and it's just not worth my time 

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2024 in Review: The Scenes We Wish We Could Unsee!
By Matt Webb Mitovich, Kimberly Roots, Andy Swift, Rebecca Iannucci, Vlada Gelman, Nick Caruso, Dave Nemetz, Charlie Mason, Claire Franken
December 10, 2024
https://tvline.com/lists/most-shocking-tv-scenes-2024/dancing-with-the-stars-encanto-donkey/ 

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Dancing‘s impressive hair and makeup team always outdoes itself on the traditional Disney Night episode… but maybe the prosthetic artists could have pulled back a bit on this Encanto look. We’re not even sure how poor Alan Bersten was breathing in his donkey getup, let alone performing a jazz routine with Ilona Maher. Couldn’t he have gotten one of the backup dancers’ cute donkey onesies instead?

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Stephen Nedoroscik Is 'Blind' in Bright Light and 'Scared' to Drive. How the Pommel Horse Hero Competes (Exclusive)
The Olympic bronze medalist and "Dancing with the Stars" finalist opens up to PEOPLE about living with limited vision — and not letting it stop him
By Rebecca Aizin   December 12, 2024
https://people.com/stephen-nedoroscik-pommel-horse-dwts-limited-vision-exclusive-8759232 

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On 12/12/2024 at 8:35 AM, tv echo said:

Stephen Nedoroscik Is 'Blind' in Bright Light and 'Scared' to Drive. How the Pommel Horse Hero Competes (Exclusive)
The Olympic bronze medalist and "Dancing with the Stars" finalist opens up to PEOPLE about living with limited vision — and not letting it stop him
By Rebecca Aizin   December 12, 2024
https://people.com/stephen-nedoroscik-pommel-horse-dwts-limited-vision-exclusive-8759232 

In the Olympics they said he can't wear his glasses during his routines, so he feels the bars since he can't see. Pretty amazing!

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DWTS got a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination...

‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Gladiator II,’ ‘Wicked’ Among Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominees
By Hilary Lewis   December 13, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2025-costume-designers-guild-awards-nominations-nominees-list-1236086199/

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Winners will be revealed at the 27th Costume Designers Guild Awards, set for Feb. 6, 2025 at The Ebell of Los Angeles.
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Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, “Killer Dolls – Gioffrè Vincenzo
Dancing with the Stars, “Soul Train Night” – Steven Norman Lee, CDG and Daniela Gschwendtner, CDG
The Masked Singer, “Who Can it Be Now?” – Steven Norman Lee, CDG and Luke D’Alessandro, CDG
Saturday Night Live, Ariana Grande Host – Tome Broeker, CDG and Ashley Dudek and Cristina Natividad
We’re Here, “Oklahoma, Part 3” – Diego Montoya and Marco Morante; Derek Anthony Purcell and Amber Watkins

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Val Chmerkovskiy Has His Sights Set on Something Big
December 15, 2024
https://entertainmentnow.com/dancing-with-the-stars/val-chmerkovskiy-judge/ 

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“I’d love to judge,” Chmerkovskiy said on the December 3 episode of the “Lightweights” podcast. “I don’t know. You know, again, I’m never going to count me out. I don’t know if I have the tone for it,I don’t know if I have the name for it, I don’t know if I have the look for it,” he said.

“We’ll see. I definitely have the knowledge for it, the rapport for it, the, you know, I’ve paid my dues for it, but, you know, there’s so many people that make those decisions that have nothing to do with our show on a higher executive level, network level, that, you know, if it happens, I’ll be grateful,” Chmerkovskiy continued.

“Just because I, like I said, this is my life, and I have a lot of passion for it. But, you know, my heart is not going to be broken if it doesn’t come to me,” he added.


DWTS VAL CHMERKOVSKIY on JUDGING THE SHOW, JENNA JOHNSON WIN, ZENDAYA, FATHERHOOD, and WHATS NEXT
Lightweights Podcast   Dec 3, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwts-val-chmerkovskiy-on-judging-the-show-jenna/id1547670966?i=1000679134637 

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... Val discusses this season on DWTS, his reaction to Jenna Johnson's win with Joey Graziadei, training with different celebrities over the years like Xochitl Gomez and Zendaya, and his journey from the competition world to working on this hit dance television show. ...

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