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 arent 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 Im 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. Whos next? O.J? Lol.
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$10 say she can take him.
Whos this Tony Harding guy?
Man, those are some big lift shoes.
My sense is the most athletic thing she’s done lately is elbow-bending.
if I had to pick a dark horse it would probably be Mira Nagasu, Adam Rippon or Jenny Finch.. Tonya is too old to go head to head with Olympians in their primes
....and fork lifting.............
As I watch the show, I see the following ex-stars usually winning:
1) Members of Boy or Gilr Bands (e.g. Donny Osmond, Nicole Scherzinger )
2) Gymnasts ( e.g. Laurie Hernandez and Shawn Johnson ).
3) Figure Skaters ( e.g. Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Davis )
They have the advantage of past experience.
So will Rippon dance with a man?
I figured it would only be a matter of time before they had same-sex dancing on the show.
Emmitt Smith won.
Who can blame them? Harding is a low life piece of thug trash. I would not want to be around her either.
Im not sure what the point is sending Kareem Abudul Jabbar, Johnny Damon and Tonya out there
She should just come out of the closet as a lesbian.
Watch the Twitter U-Turn.
And Jerry Rice....................
They want the older folks demographics.............
Oh man...how many will be taken out with a crowbar? This is gonna get ugly real fast.
Tonya was into boxing and MMA lately for her anger issues...at least she doesn’t have to get beat up for money this time
If the Left doesn’t like what Tonya Harding is doing, there must be something good about it.
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