Dancing With the Stars’ “All-Stars” Season Premieres

This past Monday, ABC launched season 15 of one of America’s top-watched shows, Dancing With the Stars; however, with this season was not filled with any new celebrities, but returning champions...
Dancing With the Stars’ “All-Stars” Season Premieres
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  • This past Monday, ABC launched season 15 of one of America’s top-watched shows, Dancing With the Stars; however, with this season was not filled with any new celebrities, but returning champions and fan favorites to re-earn and re-defend their titles. The partnerships for this season were comprised mostly of new pairings, although, there were some old partnerships brought back together as well. I have provided the cast list below:

    • Apolo Anton Ohno (partnered with Karina Smirnoff)
    • Bristol Palin (partnered with Mark Ballas)
    • Drew Lachey (partnered with Anna Trebunskaya)
    • Emmitt Smith (partnered with Cheryl Burke)
    • Gilles Marini (partnered with Peta Murgatroyd)
    • Helio Castroneves (partnered with Chelsie Hightower)
    • Joey Fatone (partnered with Kym Johnson)
    • Kelly Monaco (partnered with Valentin “Val” Chmerkovskiy)
    • Kirstey Alley (partnered with Maksim “Maks” Chmerkovskiy)
    • Melissa Rycroft (partnered with Tony Dovolani)
    • Pamela Anderson (partnered with Tristan MacManus)
    • Sabrina Bryan (partnered with Louis Van Amstel)
    • Shawn Johnson (partnered with Derek Hough)

    Even though these contestants are not new to the season, a new scoring system is. The judges now have “.5” decimal paddles, giving the ability to the score to not be a whole number, but closer to a certain whole number. This certainly took me by surprise the first time I saw a score with a .5 in it.

    What do you think of the new scoring system on DWTS? Let us know in this posts’s comments section.

    There were a lot of break-out routines during the course of the show; however, one of the routines that received excellent praise and was awarded was Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke’s cha-cha (shown below):

    As the season goes, someone has to go home. For the first “All-Stars” season results show, the first celebrity dancer who was eliminated was Pamela Anderson, who received a low score of 17 the night before. Anderson’s elimination sure stirred up some mixed reaction on Twitter:





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