2012: Dancing With The Stars

2012: Dancing With The Stars, Maria Menounos has said that being a ‘tough Greek’ helped her battle through her Dancing With The Stars routine last night with a broken rib. The Extra presenter, 33, insisted that she would ‘power through’ the pain, and her determination paid off when she and partner Derek Hough achieved a score of 25 out of 30 for their Bonnie and Clyde-inspired performance.

Maria is said to be in ‘excruciating’ pain, and was forced to wear a rib brace under her dress.

Miss Menounos suffered the injury during rehearsals, according to reports.
‘Injury or not, I’m going to be a tough Greek and I’m going to kick some [butt]!’ she told host Brooke Burke.

‘I feel great. I did my best. We powered through!’ Maria and Derek’s quickstep was dubbed ‘nearly spotless’ by the judges.

The was a significant improvement from last week’s routine, which failed to impress judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli.

The duo placed just behind Katherine Jenkins and Mark Balls, and Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower – who tied for first with scores of 26.

Dancing With The Star

Dancing With The Star, Dancing With the Stars judges may have given Monday’s dancers the best performance scores ever for a premiere, but fans gave the show its lowest Nielsen ratings ever for a debut episode.

The ratings drop is not really a surprise. The veteran reality show returned up against NBC’s fresher reality hit The Voice, and lacked buzz-worthy tabloid names this spring (Katherine Jenkins, William Levy, Melissa Gilbert, yawn… the secret to casting Dancing is having hot-button names like Bristol Palin, The Situation, Nancy Grace and Chaz Bono, celebrities that a large number of Americans have strong feelings about, positive or negative).

Dancing delivered 18.5 million viewers and a 3.5 rating in the adult demo, down 34 percent from last spring and off 13 percent from last fall. At least the two-hour Dancing helped boost Castle (16.3 million, 2.4) up 14 percent, but that wasn’t quite enough to win 10 p.m.

The big winner last night was The Voice (11.8 million, 4.5 — and, yes, as always, we’re going off the adult demo here because that’s what advertisers and networks, whether we like it or not, base their decisions on; obviously among viewers of a certain age, Dancing was more popular). The Voice has held up strong overall during its battle rounds so far and easily crushed Dancing, though last night’s episode slipped 13 percent. Smash (6.7 million, 2.3) was down 4 percent.

CBS tied ABC for second place, its comedy block rising slightly in the first hour, declining a bit in the second hour: HIMYM (8.2 million, 3.4), 2 Broke Girls (9.2 million, 3.4), Two and a Half Men (11.3 million, 3.8), and Mike & Molly (9.8 million, 3.2). Hawaii Five-0 (9.1 million, 2.5) was steady.

Dancing With The Stars

Dancing With The Stars, Forget the rumors, forget the speculation and definitely forget all that Tim Tebow talk. The cast list for the 14th season of “Dancing With the Stars” is now known.

Here are the names of the 12 stars who will soon vie for the competition’s coveted mirror-ball trophy and their pro partner matches:

Gladys Knight, 67 – The eight-time Grammy winner is paired with pro hoofer Tristan MacManus.
Melissa Gilbert, 47 — The actress-writer-producer, best known for her role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on “Little House on the Prairie,” will dance alongside the bad boy of the ballroom Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
Jack Wagner, 52 — The soap star had memorable roles in daytime and primetime with “General Hospital” and “Melrose Place,” and he’s hoping to have memorable moves with partner Anna Trebunskaya.
Gavin DeGraw, 35 — Singer-songwriter DeGraw, who sang the theme song to “One Tree Hill,” is paired with last season’s pro champ, Karina Smirnoff.
Donald Driver, 37 — The Green Bay Packers wide receiver will have a shot at ballroom glory with pro Peta Murgatroyd.
Roshon Fegan, 20 — This Disney Channel star will waltz alongside Chelsie Hightower.
Katherine Jenkins, 31 — Jenkins, an operatic pop star from Wales, is set to dance with pro Mark Ballas.
William Levy, 31 — Actor and former model Levy made his mark in Jennifer Lopez’s steamy video, “I’m Into You,” and he’ll have a chance to make a mark on the “Dancing” stage with partner Cheryl Burke
Maria Menounos, 33 — The actress and “Extra” host has three-time “Dancing” champ Derek Hough on her side.
Martina Navratilova, 55 — Former tennis pro and sports commentator Navratilova will learn her steps from Tony Dovolani.
Sherri Shepherd, 44 — “The View” cohost and actress will dance with the ballrooms other Chmerkovskiy — Val.
Jaleel White, 35 — He’s best known for his role as Steve Urkel on the ’90s hit “Family Matters,” and TV audiences might soon know him for his fancy footwork beside partner Kym Johnson.