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November 16, 2011
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And apparently, she's not handling the rejection very well. It can't feel good to get beat out by a Kardashian.
When it was announced Solo would be going home, she told Tom Bergeron she was thankful she had the opportunity to be a part of the ABC talent show.
"This competition is one of the toughest competitions I've ever been a part of," Solo said.
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October 29, 2011
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He also managed to pick on Derek Hough claiming that he always gets paired with good partners hence why he’s won three times. Hollyscoop spoke to Derek last night at the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles event honoring outstanding members of the Los Angeles community and he told us that he doesn’t care about what people say and all he is worried about is winning.
October 26, 2011
So in an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, Chmerkovskiy slammed his dancing pro costar.
“Derek Hough has been very supportive of his personal career on the show,” Maksim said. "When you say judges have been generous, with all due respect, if I had Nicole Scherzinger followed by Jennifer Grey followed by Ricki Lake, I probably would not be very upset with the judges either."
October 25, 2011
After Maksim and his dance partner Hope Solo performed a rumba on last night’s episode, he went nuts when Len Goodman called their performance the “worst dance of the season.”
Maksim shot back that the Len’s comments were “disrespectful” and that “The judges have their favorites. They always have.”
“I’ve been in this business for 50 years,” Len argued.
To which Maksim responded, “Then maybe it’s time to go!” Oh snap! If that wasn’t staged by the producers, then that was some Jerry Springer quality TV insults.
August 31, 2011
And we now know who is going to be paired up with who. Get ready to make your bets!
Soccer star Hope Solo will be dancing with Maksim Chmerjovskiy, who was partnered with Kirstie Alley last season.
Chaz Bono will dance with Lacey Schwimmer. Schwimmer has been paired with Lance Bass and Steve-O in the past.
Soap star and Iraqi war veteran J.R. Martinez got lucky. He's been paired with Karina Smirnoff. We're sure Smirnoff will enjoy dancing with Martinez, but he wasn't her first choice. Smirnoff told Hollyscoop who her dream partner is:
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"It takes a lot out of you. When you invest that much of you into something that's supposed to be just work you [can] get misinterpreted. I don't know [if I'm coming back]. We'll see. Right now, I'm drained.”
There are going to be some really upset Midwestern soccer moms if this is true...
Not only are the fans talking about it, two professional dancers from the show—Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Tony Dovolani—told Hollyscoop at the AMAs that they’re over her big time. And—no surprise here—they think Sarah Palin has a lot to do with her making it this far.
Bristol Palin Addresses Her Haters
Maks didn’t sugarcoat when we asked why people are voting for Bristol. “I highly doubt its anything about her,” he said. “It’s more her mom but you know, it is what it is.”
He added, “I totally think it’s the association…obviously.”
Maks seemed a little butt hurt about himself and Brandy getting the boot last week. “Honestly I don’t really care at this point who takes it and who doesn’t. My winner got voted off last week and that is my opinion.”
Bristol Palin Makes Man Shoot TV Set
Sore subject! Tony Dovolani agrees with Maks that Bristol’s popularity has nothing to do with her skills on the dance floor.
“It’s because of her mom,” Tony quipped, adding quickly, “It doesn’t take away that she has worked her tail off, she doesn’t take it for granted she goes out there and puts an effort, what are you going to do.”
Despite remaining neutral, Tony confessed he doesn’t think Bristol is going to take home the trophy in the end. “I’m actually rooting for Kyle,” Dovolani told us. “I think he is the one that has got the right attitude, right from the beginning and has carried it on throughout the entire thing.”
As for Maks, he simply said he “doesn’t really care” who wins at this point.
Wow, who knew DWTS would cause such controversy! Love her or hate her, Bristol is giving the show a ton of publicity. But in the end, I agree that Bristol doesn’t deserve to win.
There are three couples left—who are you rooting for?
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Seems like ghosts like to haunt celebrities as much as regular folks! Here are the top ten celebrity paranormal encounters.
10. Maksim Chmerkovskiy will never cheat on a girlfriend after this experience!
Dancing With the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy told Hollyscoop, "There is a Hotel in North Carolina--and the room has a ghost of a lady whose husband cheated on her so she jumped out of the window. I stayed in the room next door and heard a lot of noises, and when I called room service to tell them to tell them to quiet down and they told me it was a ghost. Before he finished the story I was already downstairs trying to change my room."
9. Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen may sometimes look demonic, but a past experience may be influencing her current goth look!
“My mom grew up in Devil’s Lake, N.D., and her next door neighbor died. She was wealthy and her belongings got put in a museum… So I went ghost hunting and took pictures and talked to her and all this stuff. And there are actually two images that I took, one of a hand on a typewriter and one of her entire body in a window.”
8. Anna Nicole Smith
Leave it to the late Anna Nicole Smith to have had a kinky ghost experience!
“Well … a ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn’t. It was, like, a spirit and it—woo! [miming a ghost flying from under her sheets]—went up! I was freaked out about it, but then I was like, ‘Well, you know what? He’s never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex so I have no problem.’”
7. Keanu Reeves
Actor Keanu Reeves is traumatized for life after seeing this vision as a child…
“I was living in New Jersey when I saw and felt this ghost. I remember just staring at this suit which had no body or legs in it as it came into the room before disappearing… It was a double-breasted suit in white, and I looked at my nanny who was just as shocked as me. I just couldn’t get back to sleep afterward, and I still see the figure in my dreams and nightmares.”
6. Shayne Lamas
Reality show star Shayne Lamas told Hollyscoop, "I woke up one day and someone was writing on my wall & another time my mirror shattered."
5. Ke$ha
Ke$ha's hit song “TiK Tok” was inspired by some pretty freaky deaky stuff going on at home!
“I’d always try to convince my friends to spend the night, ‘cause I wouldn’t get haunted on if they were there. I woke up one morning, surrounded by all my girlfriends. I woke up feeling like P. Diddy!”
We always wondered what that line meant!
4. Lisa Rinna
Lisa Rinna did an episode of “Celebrity Ghost Stories” on the Biography Channel where she talked about the ghost that lives in her husband’s (and now her) home.
According to Lisa, when her first daughter was 6 weeks old, she started laughing and seemed to be talking to someone who wasn’t there. When her second daughter, Emilia, was a baby, she heard loud giggling on their baby monitor between spaces of silence. When she went into her daughter’s room, she saw a woman standing over the crib. Now that’s freaky!
3. Lady Gaga
Who knew Lady Gaga was a ghostbuster!
The singer dropped $5K for a Ghostbuster machine to do a “spirit-seeking sweep” of one of the London venues on her Monster’s Ball tour.
One of her aides had to buy the kit, which includes an electro-magnetic field reader. Owner of the “ghost-busting firm,” Dan Webb, told the Sunday Mirror, “Her aide said the gear had to be robust as they were taking it on the road, so they must be doing this every where Lady Gaga is performing.”
Maybe the ghost wanted to check out Lady Gaga's show….
2. Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey’s ghost madame like to scare him in the buff!
The actor once said in an interview, “When I first moved in, I had a tent and I put it up on the floor of the upstairs bedroom with my sleeping bag and my dog. That’s when I first saw Madame Blue. The first night I’m hearing noises, I’m hearing bass sounds, wood moving and coyotes ... So, I get up out of the tent with my dog Miss Hud and I’m running around buck naked and I’ve got a bat so I’m gonna go and investigate. I go downstairs and there’s nothing there. I now know it was here because I have seen her since. She has no qualms with me. She’s a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along!”
We’re soooo jealous of that ghost right now!
1. Michelle Williams
The freakiest ghost stor goes to Michelle Williams, who claims she has been visited by ex-fiancé Heath Ledger‘s ghost on several occasions.
According to Michelle, Heath visited her three months after his death at 3 a.m. and she awoke to her bedroom furniture being moved before seeing a shadowy figure that looked like Heath. The second time he visited, Williams said that he apologized for not helping her to raise their daughter Matilda.
Now that's a tear jerker!
Hollyscoop spoke with the ESPN reporter-turned-dancer last night at Wednesday's Drai's Hollywood grand opening event in West Hollywood, where told us how she really feels about the stalker’s sentencing. “It should have been more years,” she told us.
But Erin admits she’s learned a lot about the price celebrities pay living in the spotlight. And unfortunately in the world we live it, that territory usually comes with a stalker! Erin continued, “It’s been a life changing experience.”
Her Dancing With the Stars partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy isn’t taking any chances though! Like a good man, he’s ready strike if any creeper gets too close to Erin. He told Hollyscoop, “I’m carrying a baseball bat with me.”
Erin’s a lucky woman! Her stalker is in prison, and now she’s teamed up with one of the hottest bachelors in Hollywood, on one of the highest-publicized shows on TV! That’s definitely the silver lining!
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy is set to do the mambo with ESPN hottie Erin Andrews on this season of Dancing With the Stars, and Erin's so smoking hot, she's even making Maksim blush!
When asked about his dance partner Maksim blushed and said, "I think she is pretty good looking." But the single pro dancer isn't planning on making a move on her...just yet.
"I'm a professional," Maksim told Hollyscoop EXCLUSIVELY. "I focus on the show, but we did have to take two or three takes at our first meeting because I kept messing up." With a smile on his face he added, "the last time I blushed was when I was in high school."
So what was their first encounter like? "I walk in and BAM, she is my height and all gorgeous, seriously who would not get uncomfortable?"
Now that Maksim's ex girlfriend Karina Smirnoff is off the show, there won't be any tension between Maksim and his new partner. "She is not on the cast this season," Maksim confirmed to Hollyscoop, adding that he's not in charge of "hiring people."
Maksim and Erin are both gorgeous and there seems to be a rumored hookup every season on Dancing With the Stars, so maybe this season they'll be our golden dancing couple!
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