Dancing with the Stars Spreads In the course of Season Four

By Aaron B. Baker


With all the latest season of Dancing with the Stars starting on March 19, 2007, the show hit the bottom running and never looked back. Several adjustments were designed to the show though to further improve the overall flow. The first change that was in store was the shift in timeslots. This was actually done to accommodate a larger audience that would otherwise potentially be ended watching American Idol on Fox, rather than tuning into Dancing with the Stars. Additional changes included as well waiting until the end of week 2 to start actually eliminating contestants. A final change was airing the show in england, which had not been done previously.

Extracting the contestants for season four would have been a lot of enjoyment, with a variety of athletes, singers, and even actors used together it created a really enjoyable show.

Paulina Porizkova a supermodel was associated with Alec Mazo and was the first contestant that was sent home. Paulina and Alec departed the show on March 26, 2007 for only two weeks on the show.

Shandi Finnessey has enjoyed a profession as a former Miss USA plus a game show host. Partnered track of Brian Fortuna she was also struck through the show extremely quickly and found herself removed on April 3, 2007.

Leeza Gibbons a talk show host was merged with professional Tony Dovolani and only stayed for 4 episodes before being eliminated from the show on April 10, 2007.

Clyde Drexler a retired NBA player was partnered with professional Elena Grinenko and was eliminated on April 17, 2007 after holding on for several weeks.

The former wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, Heather Mills was on the show for season four also. Her official job was listed as Charity Campaigner; however, it is not been verified while there is some difficulty locating her actual job. It was rumored that her stay on the show was dragged out due to publicity surrounding her extremely public divorce to Paul McCartney. Since the only contestant with a prosthetic leg, she only had one incident where her leg made a problem. She was partnered with Jonathan Roberts and was eliminated finally on April 24, 2007.

John Ratzenberger an actress with credits including the hit tv program Cheers was partnered with professional Edyta Sliwinska but was eliminated on May 1, 2007.

Billy Ray Cyrus the main one hit wonder of the 1990's was partnered on top of Karina Smirnoff. Presently best known as the father of Hannah Montana star, Miley Cyrus he was eliminated in the show on May 8, 2007.

Ian Ziering an actress with credits that include the most popular show Beverly Hills, 90210 was partnered with professional Cheryl Burke for his remain on the show. After an elimination on May 15, 2007, they finished in fourth place.

Laila Ali the daughter of Mohammad Ali in addition to a professional Boxing World Champion. Partnered with professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy she brought out a third place finish on May 22, 2007 in the season finale.

Joey Fatone from the 90's boy band 'N Sync was partnered with Kym Johnson and pulled out a second place finish. Despite an exceptionally limited career outside of music before his appearance on the program, he was extremely popular while using audience and received a lot of votes.

Apolo Anton Ohno is a five time Olympic Medalist in Short Track Speed skating. After winning two gold, one silver plus two bronze medals in the Olympics Apolo appeared on season four of Dancing with the Stars and was partnered as well as professional Julianne Hough and danced his way to victory yet again by winning the title and first instance in the season finale on May 22, 2007.

While using wide range of celebrities involved, it was only natural for a little bit of controversy to follow as well. The most important controversies included Vincent Pastore an actor pulling out in the show right before it began. Originally partnered with Edyta Sliwinska he was replaced by John Ratzenberger. There have been two professionals who pulled out with this season as well, Ashly DelGrosso pulled out because of a pregnancy and Louis van Amstel removed due to personal reasons but nonetheless appeared as a professional dancer for performances and assisted with choreography.




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