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  • Jodie Sweetin Parodies “Full House” Introduction on First Night of “Dancing With the Stars”

    Jodie Sweetin Parodies “Full House” Introduction on First Night of “Dancing With the Stars”

    Jodie Sweetin, with the help of her pro partner Keo Motsepe, parodied the introduction of Full House on her first night of Dancing With the Stars competition. She got plenty of support from her Fuller House costars, too.

    Andrea Barber tweeted her excitement over the incredible job Jodie Sweetin did at the season 22 premiere.

    Candace Cameron Bure watched Jodie Sweetin perform three times.

    John Stamos asked fans to vote for Jodie Sweetin and Keo Motsepe.

    Did you see Jodie Sweetin and Keo Motsepe perform on Dancing With the Stars Monday night?

    Based on Monday’s performance, might Jodie Sweetin be in line for the season 22 mirror ball trophy?

  • Jodie Sweetin: “Fuller House” Wants Everyone to Vote for Her on “Dancing With the Stars”

    Jodie Sweetin: “Fuller House” Wants Everyone to Vote for Her on “Dancing With the Stars”

    Jodie Sweetin has danced since she was a little girl. She occasionally showed off her skills as Stephanie Tanner on Full House. With tonight’s premiere of season 22 of Dancing With the Stars, the cast and crew of Fuller House wants to be sure everyone is well-prepared to support and vote for Jodie Sweetin.

    Earlier this evening, the Fuller House Twitter account posted great shots of Jodie Sweetin with her pro partner Keo Motsepe.

    Keo Motsepe’s post was retweeted, too.

    Just a few minutes ago, Jodie Sweetin and Keo Motsepe performed. Fuller House wants to make sure everyone knows how to vote for their girl.

    It’s plain to see that Jodie Sweetin and Keo Motsepe will be known throughout this 22nd season of Dancing With the Stars as Team MoSweet.

    How do you think they did? Don’t you love how Fuller House is standing by Jodie Sweeting through every step she dances on the ballroom floor–and behind the scenes, too?

  • “Fuller House” Cast Supports Jodie Sweetin’s “Dancing With the Stars” Gig

    The Fuller House cast is behind Jodie Sweetin as she prepares to compete on the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars. Sweetin recently reprised her role as Stephanie Tanner on the Full House reboot.

    “I think so many people know me as Stephanie and as that character, which is amazing and there’s been incredible support for it,” Sweetin said in an interview with People magazine on Tuesday. “But now I get to show people who I am and also, I kind of get to find out stuff about myself.”

    Jodie Sweetin isn’t the first of her Fuller House cast mates to compete on Dancing With the Stars. Candace Cameron Bure, who plays DJ Tanner, competed on season 18 of Dancing With the Stars, alongside Mark Ballas. She can’t wait to see her Fuller House co-star compete.

    “I am so ready; I am more than ready,” she told E! News when Sweetin confirmed she was competing. “I am just there. I will try not to take over for her because I might nudge myself back onto that dance floor.”

    Jodie Sweetin has met her dance partner, Keo Motsepe, and thinks they are a good match. The Fuller House star will compete against Good Morning America’s Ginger Zee, The O.C.’s Mischa Barton, Denver Broncos linebacker (and recent Super Bowl MVP) Von Miller, TV news personality Geraldo Rivera, The Facts of Life and The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Fields, UFC Fighter Paige VanZant, Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris, former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, America’s Next Top Model winner Nyle DiMarco, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and actress (and ex-wife of current GOP hopeful Donald Trump) Marla Maples.

    It will be fun to watch Jodie Sweetin compete on season 22 of Dancing With the Stars. It will be fun to see if her Fuller House cast mates show up in the audience from time to time, too.

    The new season of DWTS premieres on March 21.

  • Charlotte McKinney Booted from ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ Talks Bruno Tonioli’s Rude Remark

    Charlotte McKinney was voted off Dancing With the Stars on Monday night, but what seemed to hurt the sexy Carl’s Jr. model more than being sent home was a very rude remark judge Bruno Tonioli made.

    “You’re never going to win the Nobel prize for quantum physics, but you are easy on the eyes and you produce wonderful shapes,” Tonioli said to Charlotte McKinney.

    “To be honest, I just really thought it was uncalled for,” McKinney said on Good Morning America of Bruno’s comment. “Especially the week before, I’ve really been trying to be used as a platform for social media bullying and really just stop any negativity and just talk about being positive, and it just came out of nowhere.”

    Despite being a victim of a type of bullying–in the form of this most unkind remark–Charlotte McKinney put on a brave face for the remainder of her interview with Robin Roberts.

    “It was silly but sometimes on live TV you just forget. I mean, I’ve heard it all. At the end of the day, just shake it off,” she said.

    She added that she wasn’t shocked by her elimination because she wasn’t able to devote as much time to practicing as she would have liked.

    “After shooting all day or any press all day and then going to practice you’re just emotionally, physically drained,” she explained. “I just think I had too much stress during all this and I didn’t get to focus.”

    Both Charlotte McKinney and The Bacherlor Chris Soules were in jeopardy of elimination on Monday night based on last week’s performances. Ultimately it came down to Charlotte having the lowest overall number of points–a combination of viewer votes and judges’ numbers for her cha-cha.

    “I learned so much from this experience and I’m so grateful and it’s been such an amazing ride and it is what it is,” Charlotte McKinney said, adding that her pro dance partner, Keo Motsepe, is now a “great friend that I’ll have for a lifetime.”

    Were you surprise to see Charlotte McKinney eliminated on Monday night from Dancing With the Stars? Did you expect Chris Soules would have been the one to go home instead?

    And what’s your take on the unkind comment Bruno made to Charlotte? Was that not totally uncalled for?

  • Charlotte McKinney, Sexy Carl’s Jr. Model, Joins Cast of ‘Dancing With the Stars’

    Charlotte McKinney, the model known for her sexy appearance the Carl’s Jr. ad aired during this year’s Super Bowl, is headed to the 20th season of Dancing With the Stars. The list of this season’s cast members was announced earlier on Tuesday during the Good Morning America broadcast.

    Charlotte McKinney has made a name for herself in the modeling world. She dropped out of high school at the age of 17 because of bullying, and also had learning challenges because of dyslexia. There is likely no one making fun of the famous model now.

    McKinney claims she had to eat eight burgers while making the Carl’s Jr. ad for the Super Bowl, and jokes that appearing on Dancing With the Stars will allow her to work off the weight she gained.

    Also competing on season 20, which is the show’s 10th year anniversary, are singer Patti LaBelle, actress Suzanne Somers, Robert Herjavec of Shark Tank, singer/rapper Redfoo, actress Rumer Willis, former Glee actor and singer Riker Lynch, Hunger Games actress Willow Shields, Army veteran Noah Galloway, and the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL, Michael Sam.

    Charlotte McKinney is paired with dance pro Keo Motsepe for her run on Dancing With the Stars. She will no doubt give some of these other competitors quite a run–at least in the beauty department.

    If the Carl’s Jr. ad made Charlotte McKinney famous during the Super Bowl, perhaps DWTS will simply add to her fame. And if the girl can dance, then she’ll surely up her fan base during her time on the show.

  • Lolo Jones Is First Person Dropped From New Season Of Dancing With The Stars

    On September 16, the first results show of the new season of hit reality TV series Dancing With The Stars saw its first elimination. Olympic athlete Lolo Jones and partner Keo Motsepe were dropped because of what the judges deemed a stiff performance of the cha cha.

    Jones and Motsepe were one out of two dancing couples threatened with elimination from the show, with designer Betsey Johnson and professional partner Tony Dovolani sharing the stage due to a wardrobe malfunction with a feather boa. However, the way Jones quickly defended herself after her performance might have tipped the scales, since she interrupted the judges and came off as a little rude. Jones and Motsepe ended up being the first pair to be sent home.

    Watch Lolo Jones’ performance on DWTS

    She made a guest appearance on Good Morning America the following morning and explained what happened in her performance. Jones claimed that she missed certain cues, which affected her entire dance routine. “I was waiting for three text message cues, and [Motsepe] was trying to train me saying, ‘Things could happen; you may not have the cue,’ but I felt so rushed. You already have so much anxiety, and it killed me,” she said.

    Interview with Lolo Jones and dance partner Keo Motsepe on GMA

    Jones added that she tried to learn from the experience, even if it was short-lived. “Whenever I go do something tough, I try to take away something. Three Olympics—you have to take away something if you’re not taking away a medal. A lot of people didn’t understand my frustration, but I feel like I let Keo down. He came all the way from South Africa, and I killed our dance,” she said.

    She further explained her ordeal on the show in a Facebook status she posted after the elimination, saying she had flashbacks of “the three Olympics that people constantly tease [her] about.” Jones revealed that she had joined Dancing With the Stars because she wanted to perform well so that haters would stop teasing her, but realized that she didn’t need to work so hard for public validation after she was eliminated.

  • ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 19 Premiere

    ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 19 Premiere

    Dancing With the Stars premieres its 19th season on Monday evening, and the cast members are reportedly ready–and very excited–about their first forays across the dance floor.

    Thirteen ‘stars’ will compete for that coveted mirrorball trophy throughout season 19. This season’s contestants include Jonathan Bennett, Tommy Chong, Randy Couture, Betsey Johnson, Lolo Jones, Bethany Mota, Janel Parrish, Alfonso Ribeiro, Sadie Robertson, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Tavis Smiley, Lea Thompson, and Michael Waltrip. Of course each of these contestants is paired with a dance professional. This season’s pros include Mark Ballas, Cheryl Burke, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani, Allison Holker, Derek Hough, Keo Motsepe, Peta Murgatroyd, Emma Slater, and Karina Smirnoff.

    Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba return to the Dancing With the Stars judges’ desk. They are also joined this season by two-time mirrorball trophy winner and film star Julianne Hough–whose brother Derek is one of the pro dancers.

    USA Today reports that some of these ‘stars‘ are amateurs at best, and that it really is quite a stretch to call them stars. Since the show is called Dancing With the Stars, however, the producers had to do what they could to come up with contestants who could somewhat fit that criteria.

    Duck Dynasty star Korie Robertson is already soliciting votes for daughter Sadie Robertson.

    Will you be tuning in to the season 19 premiere of Dancing With the Stars on Monday evening, September 15th, at 8PM? Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC.

    Which of the ‘stars’ might you be rooting for during season 19?

  • DWTS’ First South African Pro Appears This Season

    The new season of Dancing With the Stars (season 19) begins on Monday. Fans of the show will see some familiar faces like Mark Ballas, Cheryl Burke, Tony Dovolani, Karina Smirnoff, and Derek Hough. But this year a new face enters the professional scene and marks a first for the popular ABC show.

    Keoikantse (Keo) Motsepe, who is paired with Olympian Lolo Jones, comes from South Africa where he began dancing when he was five years old after his best friend talked him into trying it for fun. In his home country he has won every national dance title, including the South African Latin American Champion in which he remains undefeated, and has danced on the “Burn the Floor” world tour since 2012. Now being on DWTS is a dream come true for Motsepe.

    “Me being the first black, non-white dancer in the show, obviously there’s something special about me, there’s something the producers saw,” Motsepe said. “I’m very honored and feel very blessed about that. For me it’s about making history in my life and making history in the world.”

    Even though the show has had African-American contestants in the past, Motsepe is excited to be the first professional.

    “The other day I was in tech [rehearsal] and a guy goes to me, ‘Wait, are you doing ‘Dancing With the Stars?’ He said … ‘Now I’m going to start watching.’ If one non-white person can think like that, the word-of mouth is the biggest tool in the world.”

    So far, Motsepe is pleased with the rehearsals and with Jones, his partner.

    “This competition is very healthy and very strong,” he says. “We just want to have fun for the first day and see how this goes. Everyone has something different about them – there are people who have rhythm, people who are fast, people who have funny ideas or sexy ideas.”

    It appears that Motsepe has also recently started his own Twitter account.

    Some of Motsepe’s dance history is chronicled in the video below. He can also be seen on DWTS starting on Monday, September 15 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

  • Julianne Hough Returns to Her Roots on ‘DWTS,’ This Time as a Permanent Judge

    Julianne Hough is returning to the long-running ABC reality competition series, Dancing With the Stars, where she got her start in Hollywood in 2005. This time, however, she will return as a judge.

    Hough will join returning judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli for the season premiere on Sept. 15.

    This isn’t the first time the two-time DWTS champion has judged. She returned in April to be a guest judge, but this time the position will be permanent.

    The professional dancers for the 19th season have been announced and include Mark Ballas, Witney Carson, Cheryl Burke, Artem Chigvintsev, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani, Allison Holker, Keo Motsepe, Peta Murgatroyd, Emma Slater, Karina Smirnoff, and Julianne’s brother, Derek Hough.

    Hough has had her hand in a variety of different endeavors since leaving the show in 2009, including films like Christina Aguilera‘s Burlesque, Footloose, Rock of Ages and Safe Haven, with Channing Tatum.

    Also during her time away from DWTS, the singer debuted an album, which topped Billboard’s country music chart in 2008.

    Her latest endeavor was a North American dance tour with her brother called Move Live on Tour. The siblings are also developing a series for Starz, Blackpool, which follows the world of international competitive ballroom dancing.

    Fans of DWTS will have to wait until Sept. 4 to learn which celebrities will vie off this year for the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy, when it is announced on Good Morning America.

    The 26-year-old Jackie-of-all-trades seems pretty pumped for the new gig, posting a snap on Instagram Thursday, along with the caption: “Warming up for Dancing With The Stars with @heineken_us! #USopen preparty”