Dancing With the Stars is my guilty obsession. It's gotten so bad, that this year, I did not even bother tuning into
Idol.
However, the season, that wrapped up on Tuesday, was actually pretty lame. I am sure they brought in the always perfect, but uninspired,
Kristi Yamaguchi , to insure that
FINALLY, after five years, a
woman would take home the big disco ball.
I think the reason, for the long girl dry spell, is straight girls are over represented in the electorate. Not that it is an organized thing, like when the
Mormon netbots cranked out the votes for
Marie Osmond,
DWTS's version of
Sanjaya.
Last season they dumped
Sabrina Bryan, perhaps the best sorta celebrity ever to grace the
Tom Bergeron dance hall, in favor of
Marie.
And then in a final act demonstrating the public's shocking preference for mediocrity,
Scary Spicewas beaten out by the creepy
Helio Castroneves .
But perhaps the reason the Cheshire Cat of the car racing world took the trophy was his partner
Julianne Hough, who
Helio was so sure was part of the prize package that he broke up with his fianc