Florence Henderson Flashes Audience on 'Dancing With the Stars'

By PopEater Staff Posted Sep 21st 2010 07:00AM

The Season 11 premiere of 'Dancing With the Stars' was a situation, all right. Florence Henderson took a page from Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's playbook during Monday's premiere, lifting her shirt to reveal a white bra (and matching abs) to viewers during a taped segment on the show. "Mama Brady flashed her boobies on our show tonight!" judge Carrie Ann Inaba said after the two-hour premiere.

"So, what do you give me?" Henderson, 76, asked the judge.

Judges didn't hand out any perfect 10s during Monday's show, but they did give three 8s to 'Dirty Dancing' star Jennifer Grey, making her the night's top scorer with 24 points out of 30. The actress and her professional partner, Derek Hough, performed a Viennese waltz to a song featured in 'Dirty Dancing' that moved Inaba to tears.

The pair was pleased with their performance, but Hough said scores weren't on their minds. "Tonight we don't think about scores, first or front-runner," he said. "Tonight was just special. We got to dance to a song that is so iconic."

There was another tie at the bottom of the judges' leaderboard: Comedian Margaret Cho, reality star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and actor-singer David Hasselhoff all landed in last place with 15 points each.

Sorrentino had only five days to practice the cha-cha with professional partner Karina Smirnoff, and judges said the performance lacked polish. Tonioli said he saw in the dance "a very, very faint thing that may or may not be talent." But head judge Len Goodman told the famously muscular 'Jersey Shore' star: "You've got the guns, but not the ammunition."

Sarah Palin wasn't on hand to cheer for daughter Bristol, who danced a cha-cha to Three Dog Night's 'Mama Told Me (Not To Come).' But the former vice-presidential candidate did give her some advice before the show, Palin said: "She just told me to be confident, smile and have fun."

Here's how the leaderboard stacked up:

Jennifer & Derek: 24
Brandy & Maks: 23
Kyle & Lacey: 23
Rick & Cheryl: 22
Audrina & Tony: 19
Kurt & Anna: 19
Bristol & Mark: 18
Florence & Corky: 18
Michael & Chelsie: 16
David & Kym: 15
Margaret & Louis: 15
The Situation & Karina: 15

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'Dancing With the Stars' Contestants

Joining Bristol Palin will be David Hasselhoff, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Audrina Patridge, Michael Bolton, 'Dirty Dancing' star Jennifer Grey, 'Brady Bunch' mom Florence Henderson and former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner. The show premieres Sept. 20. See more rehearsal photos >>

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Bristol Palin teams up with two-time champ Mark Ballas in rehearsals.

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Bristol Palin and dance pro Mark Ballas goof off during rehearsals for 'Dancing With the Stars.'

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Michael Bolton learns a new routine with Chelsie Hightower.

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Florence Henderson joins Corky Ballas for his second season on the show.

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'The Hills' star Audrina Patridge puts on her dancing shoes with dance pro Tony Dovolani, who is back for his tenth season.

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Jennifer Grey, who is best known for her starring roles in the iconic movies 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' joins two-time mirror ball champion Derek Hough.

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Brandy, the platinum-selling R&B and pop singer, actress, songwriter and record/television producer, joins Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who is back for his ninth season.

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Margaret Cho partners with Louis Van Amstel, who returns for his seventh season. The Season 11 star-studded cast and their professional partners get ready to break in their dancing shoes on ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars' for the long awaited two-hour season premiere, Sept. 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC.

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Comments

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Tuesday 21 September

By Creid

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I would be interested in what the rating for DWTS was last night. The pressure on Bristol must have been horrendous. It showed great courage to step out of the box and take this chance knowing that many of her Mother's detractors were just waiting for her to fail. She didn't, and she made her Mom proud!

By Apostate

Sure picked a helluva time to flaunt it,Florence...Good for you.

By lilloric

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wow i didn't think bristolm palin was that chunky till i saw her on tv.......she's got some thunder thighs on her

By kittyfriskywhiskers

Well, Meeeeeow! She's a lovely girl. I don't watch DWTS, but I've seen pictures and a few clip in the past. She's not any "chunkier" than some of the others I've seen. Who says you have to be pencil thin to dance, anyway? She's very brave, knowing that every Palin-hater is just waiting for her to fail so that they can bash her and her mother for everything under the sun, as usual. I would be tickled pink if she won. But, *as usual*, it would get turned around on her to reflect negatively, in some way......@@ You go, Bristol!

By Diana

I didn't even watch DWTS but please! I didn't hear you say anything about any of the guys being "chunky". This is why so many women have eating disorders. Bristol Palin is nowhere near chunky and even if she was....SO WHAT!

By judifem

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What are you talking about. Where is she chunky? She looked like an average size 6. It is people like you who undermine all the young girls in this country to be stick thin, to vomit after they eat, or to starve themselves to live up to your idiotic idea of the perfect size female.

By PONU

lilloric:
But the thighs are very much in porportion with the rest of the body! Everyone cannot be petite!!! I'd like to see how perfectly your body is (fully clothed of course).

Wednesday 22 September

By mungo

she still has some baby fat, you can see it under her chin. and her legs.

By Peggy

BRISTOL YOU WAS GREAT

By divabrighton

*From one of your more obviously higher educated fans.* LOL

By tony

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PALIN FOR PREZ IN 2012!

By vickie

lololololo....yeah,you was....lolololo(redneck)

BRISTOL YOU MAKE YOUR MOM PROUD YOU GO GIRL
AND AS FOR BRISTOL BODY SHE HAS A VERY GOOD LOOKING BODY AND LEGS TOO GO WITH IT .YOU KEEPS SHAKING THOSE HIPS OF YOUR ON THAT DANCE FLOOR

AND FOR FLORENCE AT THE AGE OF 76 YOU GO GIRL SHAKING THOSE HIPS LAST NIGHT LIKE YOU WAS A TEENAGER YOU GO MOM

By J

I'm in my mid fifties and I think Florence is still hot. Give me a call.

By betty

I was pleased with DWTS last night. My heart went out to Jennifer Gray. I loved her on DD and she was fantastic last night. I know Patrick is smiling down on her. God bless all of you.

By jebby1

You have to imagine how many letterman type liberals were hoping for Bristol to slip and fall so they could spew nasty things about the Palin family.

She did very well, but I'm sure the hateful left will still say nasty things :)

you are the one that is hateful......

By Janet

Right - just like you just trashed "letterman type liberals".

By Barbara

I may not care for Sarah Palin's political ideology, but that has nothing to do with her daughter. Give Bristol a break and let her achieve or fail on her own merits, as we all do in life. She may use her mother's fame to get on the show, but her mother's not dancing and rehearsing!

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