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January 11, 2007
returns in March and between now and then there will surely be a litany of speculation regarding who will be cast. The show is coming off its highest rated season yet, and has firmly established itself as a ratings giant, a force to be reckoned with in the realm of reality TV.
As a result, the casting rumors will have the show's producers striving for bigger names, now blessed with the extra clout that massive success brings. Who will be cast?
have both turned down offers to appear.
The fact that the producers even asked a big name like Aniston proves that they are indeed aiming high this time around. However, my theory is this: they will assume that the diversity and the cast dynamic of last season is what propelled the show into the troposphere and the producers will, therefore, attempt to cast a veritable clone of last season's cast.
Would Dancing with the Stars really have the audacity to do such a thing?
I wouldn't put it past ABC. I'm going to put together what I would consider to be a clone of last year's cast, using each member of last season and implanting a new celebrity with a similar social stigma. Why not?
We still have a few months till the premiere. Here's my proposed cast:
= Charles Barkley - Elite, immensely likable, Hall of Fame athletes. It would be hysterically funny to see Charles out on the dance floor.
= Alfonso Ribeiro - Both are minority teen stars who played silly characters on TV shows I watched when I was 12.
= Kirk Cameron - Teen heartthrobs both, and who didn't like Growing Pains more than Blossom?
= Anybody from the Disney Channel - Um, I don't consider Monique all that famous, so choosing someone I've never heard of in her spot would work just fine.
= Regis Philbin - Old talk show hosts. The only problem is that Regis is about 130 years old.
= Shania Twain - It's not like she's doing anything of note these days.
If you're going to get a female country singer, you may as well get a really hot one.
= Britney Spears A former teen pop singer who fell onto hard times and wants to make a comeback? Sounds about right.
= Nia Long - Like Vivica, Nia has had a long and overlooked career.
= Corbin Bernsen - Both were on L.A.
Law, but Corbin is way cooler. Less tan, though.
= Ali Landry - Ex-Beauty Queens.
No one will complain about the inclusion of Beauty Queens.
= Sean Hannity - The show could always use an idiot political pundit to get voted off in the first week. Doesn't really matter who.
And that's my list. What's yours?
Of course the producers would love to get a huge name like SHANIA but Shania lives in Switzerand and is very private and a huge star like her doesn't need to appear on a cheesy show.
You won't see a Shania,Maddona or Elton John on this show anytime soon. Shania is the biggest selling country female of alltime and the only artist in history with 3 diamond albums. She is worth over 500 million dollars and only makes appearances when she has a new music out.
She is writing and recording for her next mega selling album hopefully out later this year. I think everyone around here knows that I have been awfull critical of Dahl for quite some time. Even I have to give him some credit on the Bernson suggestion, this would be a dynamite move.
What about one of the old Rocky boxers, Drago,Weathers, or dare a mention Mr. T?
Although I would love SHANIA TWAIN to appear on this show, Shania is too big a star and too private a megastar to need to appear on such a show.
She is an icon worldwide and she lives a secluded and private life with estates in New Zealand,Switzerland and the Carribean. Posted by: Bill (L.A.
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