Will 'Dancing' With Pain Help Kym Johnson Win?

By Rob Shuter Posted May 16th 2011 08:54AM

After being rushed to the hospital on Friday following a dance-floor mishap, Kym Johnson returned to 'Dancing With the Stars' practice on Sunday with a huge neck brace in place, showing her determination to take the floor on Monday. However, insiders and former contestants are now wondering if the dramatic accident will help her win.

"There is no doubt that Kym really hurt herself Friday after a fall," an insider tells me. "But to be back at work two days later and going ahead in the competition despite being in pain is obviously going to help her get votes. I'm sorry but I'm just saying what everyone is thinking."

Kym suffered a neck injury while practicing with her partner, Pittsburgh Steelers Hines Ward.

"After several tests, she was cleared by the medical staff, though she is bruised, sore and currently wearing a neck brace," a publicist for the show said in a statement. "Kym plans to continue with Hines Ward in the competition and resume rehearsals as soon as possible."

The blonde beauty took to Twitter shortly after the accident to thank well-wishers. "I'm a little shaken up, sore but I will be fine. I want to give a special thanks to everyone at Cedar Sinai. The Doctors, Nurses and Staff were so amazing."

Kym and Hines are scheduled to perform the salsa, the Argentine tango and a cha-cha on Monday's broadcast, so you can only imagine the pair were practicing HARD on Friday.

If you watched any of the entertainment news shows on Friday, you saw the dramatic images of Kim leaving the rehearsals on a gurney with her neck in a brace and being loaded into the ambulance.

An ex-competitor explains that, "We were worried that she might not walk again let alone dance. And how did these camera crews get to the set so fast to capture it all?"

No one is suggesting it was staged, but after Marie Osmond fainted and Ralph Macchio hobbled through his waltz after a ruptured cyst and Karina Smirnoff ook all her cloths off for Playboy, one wonders what Kirstie Alley has to do to get some attention!

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Tags: Dancing With the Stars, Kym Johnson

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Monday 16 May

By snlmel

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Get a proofreader Rob. She "ook all her cloths"?? Sheesh.

By kska

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And Kirstie has already fallen twice and then her weight made Maks fall.

By jim

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sheesh, typo catchers suck, get a life

By bigD

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It's called professionalism and I totally agree with you. How can one consider himself a journalist while publishing ridiculous spelling errors DAY AFTER DAY? Rob is apparently as dumb as he looks.

By Ewww

Kirsty Alley is literally the "ELEPHANT" on the dance floor. I don't when she went south upstairs but she's a nut case to boot!

By moudsie

Give Kirstie a break -- she's 60--she's overweight (but losing) and dances great -- she's a unique personality -- she will do just fine.

As for Kim and Hines -- well, the judges will have to vote on dance performance -- just like they had to on Ralph Macchio -- I hope either he or Kirstie win.

By Owen

I'd love to see how much YOU weigh. Maybe that's what the "Ewww" is all about.

By Leesy

What are you rambling about??

By Anita

Sounds to me like you might be a little jealous? My God she's 60 yrs old. I hope to look that good and move like that at 60. I think she's beautiful with a personality to match. She is who she is and is proud of it. She's losing weight and looking better everyday. Is it so hard to be happy for someone who seems to have it all together? For being such a "nut case" she sure has made a name for herself not to mention all the money she could possibly want.

By KS.

Hope KIm doesnt regret this "dancing anyway,thru pain" down the road. A neck ingury is not to be taken lightly.

By handiestguy

It would be so cool IF after they win, she takes that neck brace off, flings it high into the crowd, and busts a breakdance move by doing a head spinner on the floor, and then flips off the camera...Sweet.

lol..now thats funny

By Hamrick4

NO, that's not funny, that's very childish!!!

By charlotte

Now thats just down right stupid and so childish
you need to grow up

By mickey

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Now that's downright stupid, childish, and VERY funny.

By Toniann Harris

I really don't think that Kym is dancing with her dance parnater because she can get sympathetic votes but because she doesn't want to let Hines down. People can be so mean and rude! Really give the girl some credit she has a neck injury and is going to perform this evening. That shows dedication, not a way to get sympathetic votes.

By Tyrone

Too much head-bobbing action with her partner.

By kniki678

Hines will win it on his own merit thank you very much. you think kirstie hasn't skated by on sympathy votes when she was dropped or when her shoe fell off? i thought as a journalist you were supposed to keep your own opinion out of it when after reading this you can clearly tell who you're rooting for.

By Karen

AMEN to that!!

By Georgia

AGREED! Hines and Kim have been favorites of mine from the beginning.

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