DWTS: Who Will Take Home the Disco Ball Trophy?
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It's happy feet time!
With just a couple of days to go until the disco ball trophy is handed out on Dancing With the Stars, we thought we'd check in with some DWTS vets to find out what they think will go down when Mya, Donny and Kelly waltz as if their lives depended on it…
Three Beat the Pressure, Advance to Finals on Dancing With the Stars
They've jived and jitterbugged, waltzed and rumba'd—all with an eye on lifting the disco-ball trophy on next week's season finale of Dancing With the Stars.
Mya and her "tutti-frutti booty" distanced herself from the pack Monday, scorewise, while Donny Osmond suffered an early stumble that left him playing catch-up all night. Making up the middle of the pack were Joanna Krupa, who's handled Derek Hough's standout choreography like a champ, and Kelly Osbourne, whose biggest competitive hurdle all season has been her own nerves.
Though it's hard to believe any of them had time to rehearse, what with all the sound bites they're expected to provide and David Bowie impressions they must do.
But tonight, after a dance sequence from Nine and performances by Leona Lewis, Alicia Keys and the Bee Gees, the competition was eventually whittled down to three finalists.
By the will of the people, who obviously love an underdog...
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Dancing Mya's Butt: Best Friends With Len Goodman
Mya definitely wants to make it to next week's Dancing With the Stars finals, but she's also kinda looking forward to the day when it all comes to an end.
"I'm very nervous because if I make it to the finals, we have four dances next week," Mya told me earlier today. "It's going to be another hell week, and our bodies are so broken down."
But not so broken down that it prevented her from coming in first place last night with an 87 out of a possible 90 between three different dances. But the best part has to be that she and her partner, Dmitry Chaplin, have really won over Mr. Grumpy Len Goodman.
Read on to find out what Mya thinks about Len admiring her backside, the possibility of Dmitry going completely shirtless and why she needs to watch the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Donny Is a "Pretty Tragic" Semifinalist on Dancing With the Stars
Serious stuff, these semifinals.
Donny Osmond, Joanna Krupa, Kelly Osbourne and Mya marched into the ballroom tonight knowing they had three dances ahead of them and little room for error if they wanted to be center stage on next week's finale.
First, each did a ballroom number, then a Latin dance containing a 15-second solo and finally the dance each couple had to prepare a few weeks ago in case they were forced into a results show dance-off.
So that's why Donny needed a sparkly green jacket!
Overall, we saw many impressive moves, some sharp hip action and a lot of energy, and any three of the four deserve a spot in the final (based on talent and/or personality).
Then again, you be the judge...
Semifinals Are Set on Dancing With the Stars
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Perfection paid off for Mya.
As expected, the R&B songstress was voted into next week's semifinals on Dancing With the Stars.
But which three of her fellow celebs were given passage to join her?
As musical guest Susan Boyle knows, being the favorite doesn't necessarily mean you're going to go all the way.
For instance, the fans have been loving Donny Osmond all season, but their last glimpse of him had him looking like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reject.
Aaron Carter has smoothed over most of his initial kinks but had to dance for his life last week. Kelly Osbourne has regained her confidence, but do the voters still have faith in her moves?
Meanwhile, though Joanna Krupa galloped through her quickstep, Derek Hough's impressive choreography made their futuristic paso doble encore worthy in the judges' eyes.
But was it semifinal material?
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Dancing's Mya: I Can Eat Whatever I Want...for Now
Sure, Mya and Dmitry Chaplin grabbed a perfect 30 with their '70s-themed samba on last night's Dancing With the Stars, but the singer says Donny Osmond was the real star of the night.
"Donny and Kym Johnson rocked the house," Mya told me earlier this morning. "It was hilarious with Donny and his Jheri curl. He was like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and Boy George all wrapped up in one."
But Chaplin's mustache also made quite the impression. Read on for more of this week's installment of my exclusive morning-after chats with Ms. Mya…
Mya Finally Impresses All Three Judges on Dancing With the Stars
The ninth season of Dancing With the Stars is almost over, and there had been no perfect 30s heading into tonight's show, with likely candidate Mya running week after week into Len Goodman's puritanical naysaying.
With a spot in next week's semifinals on the line, the remaining five contestants were tasked with two complete solo routines apiece—one ballroom number and one decade-specific(?) Latin dance.
And though they know full well that a top-notch critique from the judges doesn't necessarily equal clout with the voters at home, each still came in hoping to knock Bruno Tonioli's silk socks off.
Mya kicked off the ballroom round...
Ballas & Hough "Sing" Before Two Are Booted on Dancing With the Stars
OK, we understand Mark Ballas and Derek Hough are totally into the whole music thing.
But they must know that we know from watching Britney, Paula and other pop-music makers that, if you're doing a taxing dance routine while performing live, you're probably not doing a whole lot of actual singing.
As we said, the Ballas Hough Band made a rousing Dancing With the Stars debut. We assume their song had words under all the spectacle.
Otherwise, Tuesday's show was another of those tense affairs, with two celebs headed for the door and everyone forced to prepare a dance-off-worthy routine just in case.
So there was Donny Osmond in his green sparkly jacket and Kelly Osbourne in her hot pink and leather...
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Dancing's Mya: I'm Not Mad at Len Goodman
It seems Len Goodman has it out for Mya and Dmitry Chaplin. Week after week, the resident grumpy judge of Dancing With the Stars always finds something wrong with their performance.
But Mya isn't letting it get to her. "If I fell on my face I might be embarrassed, but I'm happy and proud of myself for coming this far," she told me this morning. "I don't care what other people have to say."
Besides, Mr. Goodman isn't Mya's biggest concern right now—the flu is! It's already struck Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer. Donnie Osmond also talked last night about feeling a bit under the weather.
Yikes!
Find out what Mya has to say about staying healthy, meeting Cloris Leachman and next week's plan to perform two dances.
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Dancing's Mya: "Dmitry's Been in a Lot of Pain"
Mya and Dmitry Chaplin knew going into last night's Dancing With the Stars that they probably wouldn't be getting a perfect 30 for their jitterbug.
They correctly predicted that judge Len Goodman would have a problem with Mya's feather-dusting and Dmitry's sweeping at the start of their performance.
"We were like, 'Oh, well!' " Mya told me this morning during our weekly exclusive morning-after chat. "Last week they said we lacked character, so this week we gave them characters. It was, Let's do a little bit of acting for the audience and people at home."
That's not all I have for you from Ms. Mya. Read on to find out why Dmitry is in pain, what's it like meeting Michael Jackson's mother and why the group dance-off at the end of the show almost left Mya hurlin' her cookies.
Dancing With the Stars Still Less Than Perfect
The heat was on tonight on Dancing With the Stars as the nine remaining celebs hoofed for their lives in advance of Tuesday's double elimination.
First off was either a waltz or jitterbug, and the retro vibe continued with a Grease-style dance marathon, minus the hand jive, of course.
You could tell that Aaron Carter has been emotionally hurting from being in the bottom two, two weeks in a row, Mya is physically hurting from being tossed all over Dmitry's hunky shoulders, and Kelly Osbourne sprained her ankle last week. Melissa Joan Hart had to deal with taking a 7-point dive and Donny Osmond, poor lad, was saddled with the pressure that comes from entering the week on top.
And no one had scored a perfect 30 yet!
The contestants had no choice but to up their game or face the wrath of the increasingly contentious judges, not to mention the prospect of viewer unappreciation if they focused too much on fancy footwork and left their hearts at home.
At least there was one thing the judges could agree on—nothing.
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Mya's Dancing Motto: "Don't Step on Dmitry's Feet and Don't Kick Him in the Nuts!"
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Kelly Osbourne wasn't the only one hurting from last night's Dancing With the Stars.
Mya tells me the Argentine tango has left her and Dmitry Chaplin painfully black and blue. "My body is very sore from kicking each other," she told me this morning during our exclusive weekly postperformance chat. "There are tons of bruises on my legs. That's why I wore fishnets."
As for Dmitry, Mya clocked him where it really hurts at least five times during rehearsals. "My focus last night was, don't step on Dmitry's feet and don't kick him in the nuts," Mya said. "I was so nervous because a guy can't dance through that. He'd be hunched over."
Luckily, she avoided contact with the family jewels during their performance. Even so, Mya says she may be picking up a special gift for Dmitry to prepare for next week's jitterbug. Read on to find out what it is, plus get more details on Kelly O.'s injury…
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