Posted on 04/13/2018 1:33:06 PM PDT by ethom
Tonya Harding is trading ice skates for dancing shoes — and many Dancing with the Stars fans aren’t too happy about it.
On Friday morning, ABC revealed the 10 former athletes who will compete on the Athletes edition of the reality dance competition series, premiering April 30.
After audiences learned that 47-year-old Harding, a former professional ice skater, was signed on to compete with pro dancer Sasha Farber on season 26, they took to Twitter to express their thoughts — many of which were not in favor of the controversial Olympian.
Why is tonya Harding on DWTS. no one likes her,” one Twitter user wrote. •Want to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox.
“This might be the fist time since DWTS has been on that i refuse to watch. I will never watch anything that promotes Tonya Harding…and I’m really bummed because i like so many of the other athletes that will be in this season,” tweeted another.
“Instead of the show being called called #DWTS, it should be called ‘Dancing with the criminals.’ They choose Tonya Harding for the lineup,” tweeted another. “Who’s next? O.J? Lol.”
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Reality... Tonya Harding was 15 when Jeff Gillooly approached her at the rink she was practicing at. She had never had a boyfriend and was smitten. The evidence that she knew of the attack beforehand is scant. The fact that a wife learns of a husband’s misdeed and conceals it is hardly unusual. Most people think that Harding herself was the one who kneecapped Kerrigan. She may have that Gillooly was trying to intimidate Kerrigan with threatening letters, but that she most likely had no idea that the idiots who were surrounding would actually attack her. Harding didn’t cheat, but the entire skating establishment did. In 1990 she should have won the national championship but was low-balled by the judges. Don’t believe me? Watch for yourself on YT.
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I don’t disagree with your surmisals.
Skaters in general have no social lives, because their time is dedicated to their sport, much like other young athletes.
They’re not socially adept.
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