
Last night "DANCING WITH THE STARS" came roaring back for Season Four. Usually I'm right there getting all the backstage action but since I'm getting ready to leave for my exclusive on the set of "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2" in Utah, I picked packing over dishing. So, my bff and Dish of Salt regular fill-in blogger, Bryant Huddleston gave me the scoop via email. Check out what he had to say about night one:
Heather was amazing on her chaotic entrance into America and the paparazzi! She says she is used to it. It's worse in London. The most interesting thing is how she kept her 3-year-old daughter, Beatrice, away from it. She booked her daughter on another flight, "Imagine if she had to go through that craziness. One woman was screaming because she got crushed. It was awful. I mean it's mad. Saturday night when we arrived it was crazy."
Heather said she felt bad for scoring better than TV's "Cliff" He worked hard so she was bummed for him. Talks all about her PHD in nutrition. Where's she's getting it, Why she's doing it. She hasn't had any formal schooling after high school. So she wanted to do it now.
Billy Ray Cyrus... The guy is a big ole block of cheddar cheese but you can't help but love him. He was super, super funny on the wig mishap. YES, it was a mistake. They blamed too many bobby pins. Its always come off in rehearsal. This is the first time it hasn't. Karina looks to camera "If you want a quick face lift, please call Billy Ray."
Billy says their dance was a DISASTER. Super funny on the judges making fun of his hoedown in the swamp. He says Heather gets a bad rap, " Let me tell you something, she's a great lady and she's to be commended. Her heart is a heart of a champion. She does so many things for people around the world. She's a great humanitarian and her performance out here tonight, I just thought was amazing. Billy Ray and his partner, Karina Smirnoff came in dead last with a score of 13. He says his daughter's (Miley Cyrus) friends are calling, crying already because the judges destroyed him.
The best dance of the night Joey FAT ONE! Yeah, I said it.They called him out on the show calling him the nickname we always say. He says that was his nickname growing up
He also talks about losing the microphone pack during the dance, "It's like what are you gonna do, and it's like 'oh my god I just need to get rid of it because I don't want to hit her' and I hit her and it wrapped around and I was just like 'pull it off, pull it off' and that's basically what happened."
Shandi Finnessey. What a knock out! We measured her legs (44 inches). That's two more inches than Stacy Keibler but she had on the heels so don't know if that counts! Fun moment when her dance partner Brian is measuring her. Shandi steps on the measuring tape and thought she broke it yelling out S%$#
Ian Ziering says he definitely sees a trip to the Chippendales dancers as the judges suggested.