Hail to the blonde hottie of Dancing With The Stars’ Derek Hough! It is SO good to have him back this season. Can’t wait to see his moves and silly antics. He’s paired up with Ricki Lake who is also pictured at rehearsals.

However according to oddsmakers it is Elisabetta Canalis who is favored to win Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars  which is interesting given no one has seen her dance! Do you see the abs and ass on that girl? Her body really is perfection. Bitch. Does she speak any English?  She’s paired up with Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s brother Val. It will be interesting to see if there is any chemistry there.

Lacey Schwimmer is rocking some very serious, very sexy curves at rehearsals. She’s paired up with Chaz Bono who has handled the backlash with grace and class. I hope he does great and if truth be told I’m really hoping to see his mom Cher in the audience.

Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars premieres on Monday, September 19 at 8/7c.

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Some of the Dancing With The Stars’ professionals (and celebrities of DWTS’ past) hit Malibu beach for some fun in the sun together while Maksim Chmerkovskiy opted for some quality alone time.

Derek Hough, Tony Dovolani, Lacey Schwimmer, Anna Trebunskaya, Cheryl Burke, Jennifer Grey, Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft look to be having a blast at Malibu beach yesterday.

Soon enough we’ll be seeing these fabulous people back in their dancing shoes when Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars kicks off on September 19. On Monday (during Bachelor Pad) we will learn which celebrities are confirmed for the show.

Are you looking forward to this season of Dancing With The Stars?

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Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars may not be a complete loss after all! Derek Hough has confirmed that he will be back for Season 13!

The blonde hottie took a break from the last season of Dancing With The Stars so that he could concentrate on a new film role in the independent dance movie Cobu 3D and he’s ready to come back:

“When we’re doing the show we’re in the bubble and we get into the stress and the drama and all of the behind the scenes stuff,” Hough says. “It was good for me to take a season off and see what the audience sees. It gave me a new boost and inspiration to want to do some great things.”

But that doesn’t mean he is done with movie-making. It gave him the opportunity to:

“push myself and introduce me to a career I’d love to do more. It was a fantastic experience.”

I, for one, am ecstatic that Derek Hough will be back on Dancing With The Stars. He’s not only the consummate professional he has a fabulous sense of humor and is just a joy to watch.

Are you happy Derek is coming back to Dancing With The Stars?

Did Derek Hough Dump Cheryl Cole Two Weeks Before X-Factor Did? That’s the rumour. Poor girl if it’s true.

Although the ‘alleged’ romance between Dancing With The Stars’ Derek Hough and Cheryl Cole has never been confirmed, there have been numerous sightings of the two in both the U.S. and England.

Derek Hough & Cheryl Cole Shop The Grove

The latest is that two weeks before X-Factor dumped Cheryl Cole’s ass because of her difficult-to-understand accent, Derek Hough dumped her because he couldn’t handle her hermit-like ways and apparently told a friend:

“I love that girl with all my heart, but I just can’t do it any more. I have done everything I can to pick Cheryl up. But every time I am with her she refuses to leave her room for days and days.

“It’s not healthy behaviour and doesn’t make for a healthy relationship. It’s tough but I have to leave Cheryl and get on with my life.”

While I realize that I have a celebrity gossip site, I really don’t believe half the crap I read. This is one of those times. Perhaps the distance thing and their careers made it impossible to have a relationship (assuming they actually were in one together) but this seems a bit far-fetched. Maybe it’s true, who knows?

What do you think? B.S. or true?

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I miss Derek Hough on Dancing With The Stars. His personality is infectious and he has some killer dance moves. Sure Derek has nothing to do with the Sucker Punch movie premiere other than he attended it, but that’s good enough for me.

Starring in and attending last night’s premiere of Sucker Punch: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Jena Malone and others. Also attending was Joe Jonas.

The movie:

A young girl is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.

Nylon Magazine Goes All ‘Sucker Punch’

PHOTOS: DWTS’ Derek Hough Teaches His Moves

The movie hits theatres on Friday. Will you be seeing it?

Pictures after the break

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Season 12 of Dancing With The Stars hasn’t even started and I’m already missing Derek Hough. I KNOW I’m not alone in that sentiment. Besides being a superb dancer, he has personality plus and I think that’s what I’m going to miss the most.

First his sister, Julianne Hough leaves and says it’s only for a season (she’s yet to come back), then Edyta leaves. However with Edyta it’s a safe bet she is never coming back because she was pretty pissed with the producers of DWTS and how they saw her career versus how she intended her career to go.

And now Derek is leaving us for a season. Let’s hope it’s just one season (for purely selfish reasons of course). In the meantime,  we get to watch Derek teach his moves in Las Vegas at the Palms Casino to local students where fellow DWTS’ pro Kym Johnson joins him.

Lots of pictures after the break

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