Dancing With the Stars

IT'S BACK! Season 19 of Dancing with the Stars kicked off on Monday, September 15th. It airs on Mondays and Tuesdays on ABC. For those of you who don't know this popular show, 13 stars were picked, with no dance experience, to dance with a professional dancer picked by the show. All of these stars are competing for the big, bad mirror ball trophy. Each week, one couple is voted off because they have the lowest combined total of points earned for their dance and number of votes received. The show is judged by four judges this year, Julianne Hough, Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli. Each of the judges rate the dances on a scale from 1 being the worst to 10 being the highest. I don't know what kind of judge Julianne will be because she is new this season but each judge has a different personality. Len is the strict judge. If anyone gives a lower score, it's usually him. One thing I noticed about him is that he loves to rhyme! Whenever he gives a 10 to anyone, he always says "From Len, the 10!". Carrie Ann is the nice judge. She's always crying and happy and giving high scores to people who don't deserve it! Bruno is the crazy one. Literally every single time he is talking to a star, he stands up and has these crazy hand gestures! It also helps that he's gay and always hits on the famous men! 



This year, our stars are Sadie Robinson (I'm rooting for her because I have been told on many occasions that I look like her!) from Duck Dynasty, Tommy Chong, a comedian, Randy Couture, a MMA fighter, Alfonso Ribeiro (OMG IT'S CARLTON!), an actor, Jonathan Bennett, which pretty much everyone knows from the wonderful Mean Girls, Lolo Jones only the fastest hurdler of ever, Betsy Johnson, a fashion designer, Bethany Mota, a famous youtuber (first time that's ever happened!), Antonio Sabato, a very attractive model, Tavis Smiley, talk show host, Janel Parish (Mona don't hurt anyone (only PLL fans would get that one...)) from my FAVORITE television show Pretty Little Liars, Lea Thompson, an actress, and Michael Waltrip, a former racecar driver.


Our pros this year are Whitney Carson (she's only 18 and she's a professional dancer...), Mark Ballas, Emma Slater, Keo Motsepe (he's new!), Allison Holker (also new), Artem Chigvintsev (It's okay I can't pronounce his last name either), Cheryl Burke, Karina Smirnoff, Val Chmerkovskiy (he's one of my favorite people ever), Peta Murgatroyd (just for clarification she is a girl), Derek Hough (he's won way too many times), Tony Dovolani, and Sharna Burgess (she's probably the most beautiful girl I've ever seen).

Each week, the couples are given dances ranging from Contemporary to Argentine Tango. A different couple goes home every week until there is a champion! This is one of my favorite shows to watch on television and I highly recommend this to pretty much anyone! Just because I love Val and his brother Maks a lot click HERE to watch one of The dances!  (516 words)