Insiders: If Bristol Palin Wins, 'Dancing' Is Ruined

By Rob Shuter Posted Nov 18th 2010 09:20PM

At first, having Bristol Palin participate in 'Dancing With The Stars' seemed like a brilliant idea. Just like Kate Gosselin before her, casting an admittedly bad dancer who was shrouded in controversy has raked in big ratings and tons of press. But now the joke is on the show's producers, as they fear Bristol is actually going to win this thing.

"This will be a disaster for the show if Bristol wins," one TV insider tells me. "Any creditability the show had will be over. It will go from being a dancing competition to a popularity competition where whoever has the most rabid fan base will always win no matter how little talent they have."

And while it's true Bristol's dancing has dramatically improved since the season began, no one with working eyes would put her in the same league as the other remaining stars, Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey.

"Another problem the producers foresee is that after Bristol wins no one in Hollywood will ever want to be on the show again," a well-placed ABC source tells me. "Why would a real star want to compete and lose against someone like [former U.S. Senate candidate] Christine O'Donnell or Levi Johnston. It's humiliating. The producers know they are in big trouble for sure."

And it's not just future contestants and viewers that the show needs to worry about. A friend of one of the judges tells me Bristol has made a fool out of all of them. It's now painfully obvious that the judge's scores and opinions mean nothing.

Let's hope they are all wrong and next season the show gets back to what it does best, dancing.

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Thursday 18 November

By Diana

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For the record, she did finish high school, just not college, get your facts straight

By fedup

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high school or college...it made no difference with those genes, honey.

Sunday 21 November

By angel03564

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i total agree, but like mother like daughter. During the campaign she had her poor children in front of all america now that she cant expliot them anymore "WHERE ARE THEY". Momma grizzly is sick and has raised a sick talentless daughter. But apples don't fall that far from their Alaskian trees.

Saturday 20 November

By Stephanie

Your remarks are harsh, mean spirited, and hate-filled.

By Chief

Who cares about any of these losers.

By Connie

Now is the time to use our VOICES...DO NOT WATCH DANCING WITH THE STARS MONDAY NIGHT!! THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT BRISTOL WILL WIN...BUT IT PROVES THE POINT CHEATERS DON'T GET AHEAD. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST BRISTOL...IS THE POLITICS GOING ON THAT HAS RUINED THE SHOW!

Friday 19 November

By tommy252

How are they cheating?

What facts do you have?

If you know something then you need to go to the press with your evidence because this would be big news. Just like the cheating scandal on that quiz show years ago.

If you don't have any facts and your just mouthing off because of your hatred for her mother then shut up and stay in your parents basement.

By letdothis

You don't have to watch to vote. Find out what time the show starts in your area, go on line and get the numbers for each contestant and call in (cell phone and home phone) text, and email. I will not watch but I will be voting and not for Bristol, she is not the best dancer. I don't know any one who should win because they have improved. For all of you who say because Brandi is a singer she is a dancer as well, look at how Michael Bolton was treated and made fun of by the judges for his dancing and presentation. So, don't pull that sympathy card on us. Bristol needs to go and should have left a long time ago.

By damien

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Boy,This Palin derangement syndrome is wicked stuff.....The funny part is the guy who says "real stars" wouldnt wanna be on it.....I didnt know Margie Cho and Donny Osmond were real stars...That Mario Lopez casting was a coup...and Brandy...A lister....LOL...Palin derangement syndrome....

By John

Well then, lets vote for Bristol!!!! Get this crap off TV!!!!

By JCM

Put an even cap on the number household votes so that if they all max out it defaults back to judges. Set cap according to anomolies that only the vote counters know about. For this year against past years.

By AudreyLee

Alot of hateful people on this web site.

A lot of hateful people on this site.
I AGREE TOTALLY. How MEAN-SPIRITED and BITTER. And to bring up her out of wedlock pregnancy...(Oh wait....I know, she should have aborted it...)is just below par.

And whoever referred to Sarah Palin as a "Mouth and a Hole:" Does your mother know you talk like that? How FREAKING demeaning of WOMEN, you PIG!

By nbaked

I think she looks pregnant again. Everyone always seems to lose weight on this show, but her. Does she have another bun in that oven? She certainly can't dance and her mother can't govern, so let's send them back to Alaska and get on with it.

By Digi

The double chin never lies!

She's prepping for after DWTS. Shes gotta find some way to get attention again.

By jen

the show is called "dancing with the stars", not "americas best dancer"....of course its gonna be bias, its about popularity not talent..thats why the show stars celebrities not REAL people!

By Ann

"Poor Babies" I think its funny. I like "Dancing with the Stars". At least Bristol's got the guts to be on the show. If the Producers want to make it different, then when it got down to five or four, Viewer voting should have been stopped and from then on it should have been the judges decision.

And if Hollywood people refuse to dance after this, then what a bunch of wooses.

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I'm so incredibly glad you're such a unique person...Cause any more of you and I'd have to kill myself from paranoia that STUPIDITY is contagious.

By salmo60

So is anyone suprised that, as in the word of the Mob boys "the fix is in"? Bristol Palin will win because Mama Palin will see to it. After all, what's the use of having money and power and not using it? However Bristol's winning will kill the show because of the polariazing effect of outside influences. The show is simply a modern version of Chuck Barris' "Gong Show" of the late 1970's. The concept was moronic then and now.

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