Posted on 11/12/2010 6:44:22 AM PST by WebFocus
Portia DeGeneres could be the first celebrity to dance with a same-sex partner on "Dancing With the Stars."
The hit competition series is "planning to feature a same-sex couple. You're at the top of the list,"Ryan Seacrest told Portia (who changed her last name from de Rossi to DeGeneres) on his radio show yesterday.
The proclamation seemed to surprise DeGeneres, who is married to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. "Goodness, you really do break news," she said.
Rather than flat out pooh-pooh the notion, DeGeneres said, "I'm not gonna pass, let me think about it. I used to be a ballet dancer. It's not completely a pass. You never know."
While ABC does not comment on casting rumors, the network is said to be keeping an eye on how the same-sex couple fares on Israel's "Dancing With the Stars," before deciding whether to go ahead with its own same-sex pairing here in the US.
Last week, Gili Shem Tov, an openly gay TV sportscaster, and Dorit Milman, a heterosexual professional dancer, became the first same-sex dance duo to ever appear on any of the 30 adaptations of the series airing around the world.
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Oh that will be coming ...soon!
RE: The American people will draw the line here. I suspect DWTS will rue the day they made this decision...
Israel is supposed to be a country where religion is a daily part of life. The article tells us that they have their first same sex dancing couple in their version of the show.
Did it affect the ratings there?
OT, but I can’t believe Cover Girl is using EdeG in their ads. How many women want to look like an over-fifty butch lesbian? I’m sure Cover Girl ran focus groups. Maybe there’s a lot of women who embrace the PC. Maybe there’s a lot of women who say, dang she’s got nice skin for an over-fifty butch lesbian. I’ll get me some of that foundation.*
No matter the positives, the negatives have got to be high, and how many advertisers want to court negatives? It’s suicide, in this case by Kool-aid.
*(peels, Botox, Restylane and Photo shop not included)
The over 60 crowd I golf and play Bocce with watch this show like it was the Patriots on MNF. This will end that.
the lifts ought to be interesting
eeewwww
Keep watching the TV crap folks. ALL TV supports Obama. Prince Al Waleed’s Fox is only marginally better and is sharia compliant.
ABC got fantastic ratings this year for DWTS, mostly because of Bristol Palin.
Maybe that made them think that stirring a little politics in will help ratings.
My prediction: if they do this, they will get high ratings for the first show because of the curiosity factor and then sink to the ocean floor.
They know the idiots sheep will continue to watch TV. ALL TV is garbage. It supports the One.
Israel is a far different society than is ours, even apart from religion.
Some things good, others not
NOW- when will DWTS have the first muslim couple? The burkas ought to make cute tango costumes and it will be interesting to see where the unmarried woman’s chaperone stands during the rhumba
I suspect you are right. Some will tune in the first show so they can recoil in revulsion. Not me, though. Ugh
I don’t think this is the kind of politics that my 80 year old parents, who watch the show often, will tune in for.
They will lose an incredible amount of viewers.
I have to tell you, a lot of America thinks this is all really cool. They may not really, but if they don’t they are afraid to say so.
RE: Iirc, de Rossi wasn’t her real name, either.
Here real name is : Amanda Lee Rogers. De Rossi is her screen name.
Money. The same reason why beautiful young women have been marrying ugly old men for centuries.
And the irony of this is that when Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her sitcom, like it was a surprise to anyone, it quickly went downhill and was eventually cancelled. The Ellen show became only about her being gay and less about being funny.
Now that they’ve milked Bristol Palin for all she’s worth then need a new act to keep people watching.
They could do the famous suction cup dance.
Everybody get a grip. In the junior high Friday noon sock hops the girls always danced together.
Girls are allowed to do that.
Oh please. The kind of dancing done on this show are very sexy. Very hands on.
This ain’t no sock hop.
Damn, another show I won’t watch.
Took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard).
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