Dancing with the Stars Bristol Finals Bound, Brandy Brokenhearted
Perhaps the shock of Brandy's elimination was best expressed by Brandy herself who was only able to utter, "I don't know how to feel right now, it hasn't processed yet for me" upon being asked by Brooke Burke how she felt.
Thank God for Tom Bergeron who had the good sense to realize that Brandy was really shell-shocked into silence as he turned to Maks with a question to fill in the potentially awkward moment.
Asking the outspoken professional dancer how he felt about the elimination prompted a usually cocky and confident Maks into saying something about why he and his family came to America in the first place, because people could vote and their votes mattered.
Talk about dancing around the elephant in the room, or on the stage in this case as cameras shied away from Mark Ballas' and Bristol Palins' reactions to the news and kept us at home wondering what expressions they donned. (Were they shocked? Were they self-righteous?)
No one sitting outside the television box knows for sure how Bristol and Mark reacted, but we do know that Brandy was brokenhearted. As the show looked "back at Maks and Brandy's journey" we also saw Brandy bury her head into Maks' shoulder as she cried.
Brandy's elimination also means that Kyle Massey of Disney fame will go to the Finals next week along with Bristol and Jennifer Grey. The fact that Kyle has made it to the last round is not a huge surprise especially with his dancing ability, overall improvement, and uncanny and charismatic likeability.
Bristol's jaunt into the finals and her entire DWTS stint for that matter has left us facing a conundrum. That is, are talent, technique and ability rendered feckless against popularity?
Published by Carol Whyte
Previous freelance writer for two business magazines, on-line contributor for Yahoo! Contributor Network, and National Examiner. Consistently awarded YCN's Top 100/500 and listed as Top 1000 for 2009 and 2010. View profile
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I don't agree -- voters don't have to vote for the best dancer, per se, but who they think should win. If it was only about technical dance ability, they should just have the expert judges pick a winner. Other DWTS winners in the past have not been the technically best dancers; Americans like underdogs and improvement. As a matter of fact, out of the top 10 celebrity scorers all-time, only 4 (Kristi, Apolo, Drew, Nicole) went on to win.
It's sad that a good show now has a black mark. The spanish show also has a dancing with the stars. The judges place the two worst on the bottom and the public can only vote to save one of the bottom two.
Voters need to remember this is a contest for the BEST dancer--not who we like, feel sorry for, feel has improved,or share their family's political views. I think we all know, though she has improved, she hardly compares to most of the other dancers in style and technique. I have nothing against Bristol, but if she wins I'm done with the show because it has only become a forum for particular agendas-not a real contest.