ESPN reporter Erin Andrews leaves dance rehearsals with her Dancing With The Stars’ partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy after her stalker was sentenced to 30 months in jail for secretly taping her nude  in her hotel room and posting it to the internet.  He not only taped her but 16 other women and posted it on the internet.  My heart goes out to her.  She appeared on Good Morning America a couple of days ago (the morning after his sentence) with her lawyers and it’s a good interview although, clearly disturbing and sad.  I’ve included that video if you are interested.

Four more sleeps until the premiere on Monday March 22.  The heat is on!  Also leaving dance rehearsals were Pussycat Doll’s Nicole Scherzinger and her dance pro the yummy Derek Hough, Shannon Doherty, Buzz Aldrin, Soap Star Aiden Turner and his dancing pro Edyta Sliwinska.

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It’s lovely that the group from Dancing With The Stars remain friends and are supportive of one another years after dancing together.

Cheryl Burke appeared on stage with her former partner Wayne Newton at his Once Before I Go Show in Las Vegas where her fellow dancers joined her:  

• Edyta Sliwinska
• Alec Mazo
• Anna Trebunskaya
• Jonathan Roberts

Joining them were Wayne Newton’s wife, Kathleen McCrone, Alison Fiore, Vanna White, Drew Carey, Holly Madison (also a DWTS alumni), Carrot Top, Alicia Jacobs, and Tracey Davis.

Given that it’s Wayne Newton’s concert and Cheryl Burke was his DWTS dance partner and she is on stage with him, I suppose I should have made their picture the main one, but I heart Sabrina Bryan.  So sue me. 

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These pictures are from yesterday but considering I couldn’t post I’m doing it now.  You may or may not have seen these, but considering the Dancing With The Stars lunatic that I am, I’m posting them anyways!

Edyta Sliwinska looks, um, excited to be with Ashley Hamilton.  I’m just reporting the obvious folks.

Debi Mazar and Maksim Chmerkovskiy leave rehearsals with what looks like desserts of some kind in a box.  Mmmmmm.

Michael Irvin and Anna Demidova arrive at rehearsals.  Something tells me he will probably be a graceful dancer.  What do you think?

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Former Dancing With The Stars’ Kim Kardashian is joined by her sister Kourtney Kardashian and fellow DWTS’ members Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Sliwinska and Maksim Chmerkovskiy at ‘A Night For Change’ An Alternative Intervention Models (AIM) Benefit. 

I like Kim with bangs.  Plus I think she’s lost weight, her face looks thinner to me.  What do you think?

I’m not up on the latest Dancing With The Stars’ gossip, but I’m thinking Karina and Maksim really are a couple!!  They both seem to have really strong alpha type personalities, but when they are together they seem to have mellowed a lot.

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US Magazine is reporting that Brooke Burke confirmed Olympic Gold Champsion Misty Mae-Treanor is injured and out of the Dancing With The Stars competition for good:

“It’s such a sad situation. She did hurt her Achilles tendon. I don’t know if she tore it or ruptured it,” Brooke said on L.A.’s 104.3 FM. “She’s out of the competition. Just like that, it’s over for her.

“The sad thing…this is her jumping mechanism,” Burke added of the beach volleyball champ, 31. “We’re all really concerned for her. She may be having surgery this week. We don’t know yet. It’s such a bummer.”

“She heard a pop,” Burke said of the Olympic gold medalist, “so it’s really serious.”

Poor Maksim Chmerkovskiy who took a year off and is paired up with Misty.  Brooke said there were rumours that he and Edyta Sliwinska would dance together, but nothing is confirmed.  The same amount of shows remain so they will need to get creative with whatever it is they choose to do.

As for her partner Derek and Shannon Elizabeth, she confirms they “are still together:

“They’re living together,” Burke said. “She comes to rehearsals and they’re going strong.”

What do you think they will do now??

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