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'Dancing' Scores Itself an Olympic Star

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NEW YORK (Aug. 25) - 'Dancing With the Stars' wins itself a gold medal in relevancy, scoring a major Olympics star that will be tearing up the dancefloor on this season. Who else hopes to cut a rug to glory?

Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton and Lance Bass will hit the floor on ABC's 'Dancing With the Stars' along with Beijing Olympics women's beach volleyball gold medal winner Misty May-Treanor.

Whos 'Dancing'?

Eliminated: Comedian Jeffrey Ross
Strength: One of the Only Contestants (see comic counterpart Cloris Leachman) That Can Tell You the Aristocrats Joke
Weakness: Funny Men Rarely Rock the Waltz

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Famous-For-Something Kim Kardashian
Strength: Has Had Plenty of Practice in Nightclubs
Weaknesses: An Injured Foot; Paparazzi and Bloggers Are Distracted By Her Rump. Will Len Goodman Be As Well?

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Comic Icon Cloris Leachman
Strength: Probably the Only Cast Member Old Enough to Remember When the Tango Was the "It" Dance
Weakness: May Find Herself Distracted With the Comic Possibilities of Making Fun of Kim Kardashian

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Olympic Beach Volleyball Champion Misty May-Treanor
Strength: None of the Competitors Likely To Be As Tough as the Chinese Beach Volleyball Team
Weakness: Doesn't Have Her Partner Kerri Walsh To Dance With

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'Hanna Montana' Star Cody Linley
Strengths: Hanging Around Miley's Got To Rub Off on the Dance Moves; Has Teen Vote Locked Up
Weakness: Those Miley Teen Moves Don't Really Scream "PASO DOBLE Champion!"

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*NSYNC's Lance Bass
Strength: Anyone Who Saw the 'No Strings Attached' Tour Can Tell You Lance Can Own the Stage
Weakness: Is He As Strong a Dancer Without JC, Joey, Chris and Justin?

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'All My Children' Star Susan Lucci
Strength: Saved Her Energy All of Those Times She Didn't Have To Walk Up to the Daytime Emmy Podium
Weakness: Will Her Age Work Against Her?

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Olympic Sprinting Champion Maurice Green
Strengths: Relies on Fancy Footwork
Weakness: Can This Speed Demon Excel with Slow Moves?

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Super Bowl Champion Warren Sapp
Strengths: A Natural-Born Competitor
Weakness: He's Anything But Light on His Feet

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Celebrity Chef Rocco DiSpirito
Strength: That Smile
Weakness: His First Venture into Reality TV -- 'The Restaurant' -- Showed He's Capable of a Major Misstep

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They are among 13 celebrities slated to compete on the new season of the top-rated dance contest, premiering Sept. 22.

The other contestants are Cloris Leachman, Kim Kardashian, Ted McGinley, Brooke Burke, NFL champ Warren Sapp and two Olympic athletes: May-Treanor, who won her second gold medal for beach volleyball at this year's summer games in Beijing, and Maurice Greene, who won two gold medals in track at the 2000 games in Sydney.

Rounding out the cast are chef Rocco DiSpirito, Cody Linley of "Hannah Montana" and comedian Jeffrey Ross.

The names were announced Monday on ABC News' "Good Morning America."

Kardashian, who co-stars with her family on the E! reality series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," checked into a New York City hospital Sunday after cutting her foot on a glass table in her hotel room.

"I will be able to dance. I went to the hospital. I'll be fine," she said in a phone call to "GMA."

Kim K. Fights Rumors

Kim Kardashian posted this photo to her Web site to defend herself againsts whispers of platic surgery. ''This is a picture of me when I was about 14 years old in a bikini," she writes. ''I hope after seeing this you guys will never ask me a plastic surgery question again! I have had a size C since I was 11 years old!''

KimKardashian.com

2008-08-25 09:18:01

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