Update: Annie’s recap is live! We’re back, DANCMSTRs, for Week 8 of Planet Mirrorballus madness. Tonight, the remaining five couples must dance TWICE. Let’s all cross our impossibly bejeweled fingers that Dopey Italiano‘s multifaceted eyes don’t pop out of his well-tanned noggin! As always, nominate your Hidden Gems of the Week in the comments.
If you missed it Wednesday, my Week 7 podcast with Tom Bergeron was chock full o’ gems:
- On his hair: “I don’t mind if it’s graying, as long as it’s staying.”
- Tom and the DWTS production staff have nothing better to do than stand around and talk about the brilliance of EW.com’s Hidden Gems. How awful!
- When throwing to Diane Sawyer — with whom he has a strictly flirtatious professional relationship thanks to a Good Morning America stint — Tom had to make a conscious effort to tone down the jauntiness and “maintain a certain level of ballroom gravitas.”
- Tom believes Mark Ballas’s explanation of Monday’s “wanker” hand gesture: It was intended for his dad, Corky, as a “You gotta roll the dice with the choreography” inside joke. But as Tom counseled Mark after the show, “If that was a gesture of self-gratification, you’re really bragging about your size, because that was WAY off to the side.”
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Press the “play” triangle above to hear my imaginary friend in all his alternate-universe glory!
ALSO: Big news! EW.com’s Fringe Fairy will be IN THE BALLROOM….liiiiiiiive….for next Monday’s semifinals performance show! Here’s a reminder of what I look like.
Do you guys like my new business cards?
Someone’s gonna need a spray tan before Monday….
More on ‘Dancing With the Stars’:
Last week: Tom on Hanson, ‘bitch’-y Bruno
‘DWTS’: Your Hidden Gems of the Week!
All of Annie’s ‘DWTS’ episode recaps
Good evening, fellow Gemhunters!!!
Hello!
Good evening! I’m ready to hunt!
Me, too! Let’s hunt!
Hello duranmom!
Good evening! This is my first night gemhunting of this season — I have a bad habit of coming in to these late in the season =P
Here!!!!!
Hi all
Ralphs rocking the guyliner…
I agree. He was like a cleaned up Johnny Cade. He has massive guyliner in The Outsiders.
Did anyone else spot a solemn looking Jonas brother in the audience at the end of Ralph’s insta-dance?
…and was he actually wearing a sheer turtle neck under his jacket???? ugh.
Mark is dressed like Captain Jack…
Hi everyone! Already it’s been quite the mix of “Oh, I love that dress!” and “What in the blue blazes is she wearing??”
Of course we think this almost every week
…and in some cases, “what in blazes is she NOT wearing”
Hi guys!!!
glad to see Ralph in costume…according to his tweets, he’s been injured most of this week with something in his knee.
Something to do with a cyst that burst behind his knee, according to Access Hollywood.
Is Chelsie trying to dress like a woman Dr. Strange?
Oh lord! Ralph looks like Liza Manelli! Too much guy liner!!
You weren’t the only one thinking that.
Or its an homage to Adam Lambert!
Let him have it, Chels!
Yay for Chelsea calling out Mark and his cockiness! About time!
Did Ralph look a little limpy with the burst-cyst-behind-the-knee injury? Hope not!
-Random person behind Chelsea and Mark before their intro package wearing really big, really dark sunglasses
-Hey, Brooke, I think your dress has a random piece of unnecessary fabric attached to it.
I kept wondering about that spare piece of material on her arm too. On the bright side, I loved the color of her dress.
that dress looks like a high school home-ec project… oooh, i feel mean now…
I second that. Brooke looked like she had two dresses in one.
Oooooh, water!
Thank god Chelsea finally called Mark out on how he’s tanking her with his attitude