Dancing with the Stars Partners (Video Links to Partner News, Star's Press Conference)

Carol Whyte
The professional dancing partners to the stars they are paired with for Dancing With The Stars Season 11 were announced this morning on Good Morning America and already rumor and innuendo has begun. For example, it's being said that Derek Hough and Jennifer Grey are the couple to beat, and the pair with the best abs appears to be Mike "The Situation" along with his mate, Karina Smirnoff.

However, if you're not ready for the rumors yet and just want to know who is "in" for Dancing With The Stars Season 11, a link to the press conference has been provided below. The much anticipated list of Stars was announced on Monday evening, August 30 with Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke during an episode of ABC's Bachelor Bad.

Click here to watch the Stars Press Conference
and learn a little bit more about this Season's lineup.

And then this morning on ABC's Good Morning America, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulous announced the professional dancing and star pairings for DWTS Season 11.

You can watch part of that clip here.

The full list of partners and their corresponding shining stars is below:

Michael Bolton, Chelsie Hightower

Margaret Cho, Louis Van Amstel

Rick Fox, Cheryl Burke

Jennifer Grey, Derek Hough

David Hasselhoff, Kym Johnson

Florence Henderson, Corky Ballas

Kyle Massey, Lacy Schwimmer

Brandy Norwood, Maxim Chmerkovskiy

Bristol Palin, Mark Ballas

Audrina Patridge, Tony Dovolani

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Karina Smirnoff

Kurt Warner, Anna Trebunskaya

Sources: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/09/01/2010-09-01_dancing_with_the_stars_season_11_pairings_professional_partners_announced_to_rou.html#ixzz0yIFw7rN0, http://abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/press-conference/ThemeGallery/546341?playlistId=PL5582353&clipId=VD5582365&autoStartFirstClip=true

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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