Dancing With the Stars: Memories of Michael Jackson

What does the King of Pop have to do wtih Dancing With the Stars?

By Marc Malkin, Brett Malec Oct 13, 2010 6:15 PMTags
Michael Jackson, LaToya JacksonL. Cohen/WireImage

La Toya Jackson hasn't shied away from reality television.

There was Armed & Famous three years ago in which she trained to become a reserve police officer. Two years later, she jumped the pond for the U.K. version of Celebrity Big Brother. And now, Entertainment Weekly reports she's on the roster for Donald Trump's next round of Celebrity Apprentice.

However, there's one show she won't do—and it's all because of her King of Pop brother, Michael Jackson

La Toya says Dancing With the Stars really wants her. "I've been asked to do the show many times," she told us the other night at Bravo's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills party at Trousdale. "My mother and I, we love that show. It's my favorite show. I was dying to do it and then last year I decided I don't think I want to do it."

Why?

"I lost the drive that I had for doing it after the incident with my brother because he loves that kind of dancing," La Toya explained. "He and I used to dance like that around the house just for jokes, for play. And when he passed, it's like, 'I don't think I want to do that because it would remind me too much of him each dance.'"