Maximum Security Surrounds Bristol at 'Dancing' Tonight

By Rob Shuter Posted Nov 22nd 2010 05:27PM

'Dancing With the Stars' will be in full lock-down mode Monday night when Bristol Palin takes the dance floor after a threatening letter containing suspicious white powder was received at the production office Friday.

"Everyone is on high alert," an insider tells me. "It's like a scene from 'The Bodyguard,' with Bristol playing the leading lady."

The ABC show confirmed that measures were taken to ensure everyone's safety before it was determined that the substance was talcum powder, but would not comment on the additional measures insiders tell me will be in place for Monday's live show.

"Nowhere in the world is going to be more secure than the 'Dancing' set on Monday," an insider tells me. "The audience will all go through extreme security checks and not even the president of the United States could get backstage without the appropriate credentials that evening."

Staff at the show have never seen anything like this before, with unprecedented security costing the producers hundred of thousands of dollars.

"This is a dancing competition, for god's sake," an ABC source tells me. "None of us signed up for this. We should just be worrying about getting the best shots and making sure all our lighting cues are tight, now we are all worrying about our safety. It's just not right."

Good luck Monday, Bristol. You are showing amazing grace under pressure that no one should have to deal with.

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Steven Cowan, left, stands next to Public Defender Jonas Bednarek at his initial court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, in Madison, Wis. Cowan, of Vermont, Wis., blasted his television set with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine Monday night, saying he was fed up with politics and Palin wasn't a very good dancer, according to court documents. Authorities said Cowan then pointed the gun at his wife who escaped and called police. A SWAT team surrounded the couple's Vermont farmhouse and officers were able to talk Cowan out Tuesday, after an all-night standoff. Cowan is charged with second-degree reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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Comments

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Monday 22 November

By Barbara

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Good luck, Bristol.....hope you win that big mirror ball!

By see ya later

If Obama can win with electoral votes (per region) instead of popular votes (people's votes), why can't Brstol win with popular votes (people voting), instead of electoral votes (judges voting)?????

gooooooooooooo BRISTOL!!! and SARAH!!

By Sanstylezs

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Such a shame Bristol's appereance on DWTS is causing a hostile environment.

By victoryou8

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT MOOSE CAN NOT DANCE!

By Rob

With all the blogs and hateful remarks the family have encountered, I hope she wins too. Many say she got pregnant and was not married, well, the ones that degrade Bristol just never got caught.

By S

What a world we live in, that a young mother, a young woman has to have security for her safety.

By Ray

A threat on anyone is totally uncalled for! Though this girl should've been voted out weeks ago, she cannot dance, period!

Tuesday 23 November

By MB

@seeyalater ...umm...hey dummie, Obama did win the popular vote. Just wow at the stupidity.

By georgie

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I voted for Bristol even though I only watched last nights performance, because of the stupidity of some of these people. By the way, the ones causing the hostile environment are the negative idiots.

By Lisa Green

*Rediculous*, people are crazy....

By J.B.W.

That's an understatement!

By ajschrod

I'm trying to understand why she needs added protection-- did she receive some threats? Why would anyone have something against her--she's performing in an amateur DANCE contest for heavens sake, and her political mother is not involved at all!

By jebby1

Threatening letter?

With all the hateful rhetoric about the Palins dished out by the liberal media I'm sure there's no lacking of suspects.

Meanwhile Mom and the Palin family are all delivering a refreshing series in Sarah Palin's Alaska. It's a good series made even better when you think about how liberals just cringe at the very thought of the Palins roaming around Alaska enjoying themselves. Liberals feed on misery rather than joy and happiness. Of course they deserve it all for inflicting Obama on the rest of America.

God bless Bristol. She's got my vote!

By steve

Palins Alaska is the worst show I have ever seen. The whole show is a sham. Hope she runs for President she will get her but wipped then maybe we won't have to hear or see her again

My vote too.

By No Prez Palin

Did you notice that Lowest Rank score?
That's because You Are A Nut case to believe the hot air you're blowing. No one wants to kill this little girl because she's blobbing around the stage trying to win a materialistic item.

Go back into your mother's womb and start over because she must have cracked an ovary. I bet that one of the palin's supporters did this, it is what republicans do don't they?

We voted in President Obama because America didn't want that other nut in the White House then and we d@#% well don't want her there in 2012.

By AshCags

Really jebby1? All that hateful rhetoric is going toward the Palin family? Really? How about those profanity-laced, homophobic cyber-bullying dished out by members of the Palin family themselves about people who express disinterest in their pandering TV show?

That's not to mention the fake-folksy, bully tactics that Sarah Palin herself has been using since the day she crawled out of the Alaskan wilderness to leverage ill-gained dominion over the ignorant.

Just because the so-called "liberal media" as you call it, expresses opinion and speculation, based on information and instructions on ultra-conservative and tea-party websites, does not constitute hateful rhetoric.

The bottom line is, yes, she has improved drastically since week one, but she still SUCKS!! She should not have been on the show in the first place. She's not a star. She's some teenager that got herself knocked up in high school, whose mother just happens to be in the public eye. If a famous relative and bad decisions constitutes stardom and the validity to appear as such, I guess that means we should call up Billy Carter or Roger Clinton or one of the Bush twins for next year's show.

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Wow, jebby--where did you get that nonsense? Please don't tell me Fox news!

By swimjunkie22z

Yes the show her showing her true self. Now we know how Bristol got knocked up cuz her mother allowed boys to go in her room. Now her younger sister soon will announce that she is also knocked up while MOm is downstairs and doesnt do a thing exccept put a stupid baby fence on the stairs. Sarah is a joke along with her "I follow the rule of Abstinence " daughter. Wake up people this woman is brainwashinga all you idiots.

By Carol Rowley

Oh brother!!!!! Anything to give more attention to this girl. Maybe they should check to see if her mother's finger prints are on the envelope!!!!!!

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