Tonight’s the night. Liiiiiiiiiiiiive! From Hollywood. THIS is the Dancing With the Stars performance finale. Be sure to check out my updated Crazy Costume Watch photo gallery, which features 31 (a perfect score +1) of the most ridiculous costumes of season 8. Tomorrow, we’ll have another DWTS fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion treat: Head costume designer Randall Christensen will discuss his 10 favorite looks of the season. I asked him whether he’d prefer to be covered in sequins or fringe for eternity and he said "Swarovski crystals." That seems about right. Looking ahead to tonight’s performance round, which will undoubtedly feature Len Goodman’s once-a-season DANCMSTR vanity license plate, here are my…
FANTASY FREESTYLES FOR THE FINAL 3
Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas (pictured) Mark returns to his trademark Mark Ballas Fish Face for an underwater-themed quickstep. Gurgle gurgle gurgle…Shawn somehow ends up on Bela Karolyi’s lap in the front row. The audience isn’t sure if this is as cute as they thought it would be. Had he just been hanging out in the coral reef? Weird. Panic at the disco! Shawn executes full-twisting double back off the judges’ desk to save the day. Standing O!
Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke build the entire dance — a combination of rumba (Smooth) and exotic pole work in the Gallic tradition (Standard) — around Gilles’ finely sculpted ass. Standing O! But wait, no one can find Bruno Tonioli. Search party quickly becomes dance party thanks to a rousing series of whoops and hollers from PopWatch blogger Carrie Ann Inaba. It turns out Bruno had followed Lil’ Kim’s lead from last week and climbed into Zheeeeeeeeeel’s pants.
Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani dress in overalls. It’s so unlikely! Suddenly, a drumroll. What’s that? A Super Mario Bros.-esque animated vine sprouts from beneath the sparkly decal covering Melissa’s classy lower back tattoo. Tony hops on, scurries up until he can touch the disco ball suspended from the ceiling. He wants it so bad. Standing O!
Who do you think deserves to win? (I’m going with Gilles.) Post your own fantasy freestyles below, and see you tomorrow morning for the second-to-last TV Watch!
My votes are for Melissa & Tony.
Melissa wins!!
Melissa and Tony!
I want Melissa and Tony to win…. All three contestants are even with talent, each with their own strengths and weaknesses so I am basing my vote on the Pro dancer and Tony is the only one who has never won! He has been on the show almost every season and paid his dues…It is his turn!! Go Tony and Melissa!!!
My votes are going to Melissa and Tony. Tony deserves to win.
Gilles and Cheryl to win. They are great. No one can touch them.
Vote for Gilles! He DESERVES the win.
Annie called it last week when she compared Brooke Burke and Melissa. We already had a snooze inducing hot girl last season, it’s Gilles turn to avenge fellow hot guy Mario Lopez’ loss in Season 3!
Gilles for sure. Good job on the others.
I agree with Annie. Gilles is the best of the three which is really saying something since the French can be pretty terrible dancers. They still like Michael Jackson over there! Anyway…I really hope he wins. He’s too cute.
SHAWN IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!! she really knows what perfection is!!!! I give her a 31 (that’s a perfect score +1)
Shawn is acrobatic, but definitely NOT a dancer.
Giles deserves the win.
Tony=gayest shirt EVER!!!
Shawn can blame that French maid costume if she loses. WTF was that??
For me, it’s between Shawn and Gilles, but I gave Shawn more votes. Shawn and Mark make me smile; they give great performances. I loved Gilles’ paso, but his freestyle was only OK.