Posted on 11/12/2015 6:08:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
ABC reportedly won't allow two men to dance as a couple together on "Dancing with the Stars."
An openly gay singer, Who Is Fancy (yes, that is what he calls himself), is set to perform his new song, "Boys Like You," with Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor on the reality competition show's November 23 episode.
The song is about a man falling in love with another man, so the singer's choreographer wanted to have two men dancing with each other in the performance. But TMZ reported that ABC wasn't having it.
According to the site's sources, a "DWTS" producer responded to the choreographer's request via email: "Apologies all but this is a definitive no from the network."
ABC reportedly said it would allow "near dancing," such as the performance earlier this week in which pro dancers Alek Skarlatos and Carlos PenaVega basically toss each other around to Queen's "We Will Rock You."
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The demographic for DWTS must skew older.
You know, it was okay. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I enjoyed it.
Honestly, the last two shows have been dedicated to dance to your heroes and something like your most painful memory (probably not accurate on the second, but something equally likely to pull the tears out of a porcupine).
Gag me.
I have a different take on gay marriage than most Freepers. Apart from the moral issue, to me it is also in bad taste, i.e., men marrying men looks STUPID! It is like wearing a business suit with clown shoes, or - to use the old feminist gibe - like a fish riding a bicycle.
I already did that with the lesbians-adopting-the-deaf-girl treacle from earlier this year.
It will happen anyway and that will be the end of the show...
ABC is finally made to care.
I dont watch the show,. I tuned into see Bristol Palin and only came across it a couple times since, but I thought they had at least one possibly 2 gay judges, I would have thought their audience would have embraced it, but what do I know?
My tv is basically on Fox News, Turner Classic Movies and METV and less and less of Fox these days
Trial balloon. Ban the act, then concede due to overwhelming “public” pressure to let homos dance together. Then they will announce two homos as a team on the next season. Watch it happen.
Fear Factor never had anything on this!
“Market research probably told them their rating would tank if they did it.”
Two things:
- Dancing With The Stars is a huge money maker for ABC. With 13 million viewers, it is ABC’s most watched show.
-The audience of DWTS is the most politically conservative of any entertainment series on television.
I think that’s what they call a “clue”.
I have yet to see a jewelry commercial like Zales or Kaye use two men to promote their product . . . or a sexual dysfunction commercial.
Homophobia is rampant! /sarc
I think you're onto something. That must be what they're all doing - Starbucks, now DWTS/ABC. All these "controversies" are all about bringing in money.
Good news. We don’t need another mentally ill exhibitionist freakshow on TV.
This is crazy.
Who wants to watch sad couples dancing?...
They’ll cave by morning.
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