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This always the toughest week on “Project Runway” – the final challenge before Fashion Week. The contestants were taken to the Getty Center in Los Angeles and told to find inspiration for their final piece. Gordana and Irina took their inspiration from paintings, Carol Hannah took her’s from an ornate French bed, Althea took her’s from the architecture of the center, and Christopher took his from the algae in a water fountain. Sounds weird, but he was so sincere about it, it almost brought tears to my eyes.

I loved it that Tim told he finalists that he wanted them to blow Nina Garcia’s shoes off her feet and have them shoot right across the runway. Unfortunately no one did that – the judges all seemed less than impressed with all the designs.
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This week on “Survivor,” the few left in Foa Foa was hoping for a merge week. The merge occurred and what followed was whole lot of game play.

The new tribe is called Aiga, Samoan for “extended family” but they should have chosen whatever is Samoan for “dysfunctional family.” Oh everything started out nicely enough. Russell started schmoozing with Galu people, showing off his idol and saying no one else knew he had it. He and Shambo became instant BFFs and he convinced everyone to vote Laura out.
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“So You Think You Can Dance” is still a bit messed up due to the World Series, so this week, two more would leave the show based on the judge’s decision.

Noelle (yes, for now she is staying on the show) and Russell did a hip hop number that Adam said left them a bit overwhelmed. Mary agreed, saying it was labored. Next up was Ashleigh and Jakob with the Viennese Waltz. Never one of my favorite dances, but these two did well, with the judges praising them.
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The results show for week 7 of Dancing With The Stars began with an encore performance of the Tango performed last night by Donny and Kym, Joanna and Derek and Kelly and Louis. I was afraid that there wouldn’t be an encore performance because of the dance off and was thrilled to see this routine again. I loved it last night and loved it again tonight. After a recap of last night’s show we get the first elimination announcements. Kelly and Louis are safe while Mark and Lacey are in the bottom three.

After the commercial break Colby Caillat performs “Falling for You” while Edyta and Alec danced. Both performances were really good. I love to see the professional dancers perform in the results show. While they make their money dancing with the celebrities it must feel really great to dance with someone equally as talented as they are. It’s followed by another elimination announcement. We find out that Donny and Kym are safe while Michael and Anna are in the bottom three.

Mark Ballas and Derek Hough performed for the first time as Ballas Hough on the show, a musical group. One thing I want to say to these two very talented ballroom dancers – don’t quit your day jobs. It was a really bad 90’s techno thing that I just didn’t enjoy. It’s followed by a repeat of the segment that is played each week – it’s week X in the competition and I don’t want to go home. It’s followed by elimination announcements. Mya and Dmitry and Joanna and Derek are safe, while Aaron and Karina are in the bottom three.

To sum up: in the bottom 3 are Mark and Lacey, Michael and Anna and Aaron and Karina. No one from Team Tango ended up in this group. Coincidence, or not?

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Week 7 of Dancing With The Stars has each of the couples performing two dances again this week – an individual dance and then a team Tango or Paso Doble. This is the third week in a row that the couples have had to have two dances prepared, and let’s not forget about the double elimination tomorrow night. I’m sure having to learn three dances is going to play on the celebrities this week.

The show began with a performance by six of the show’s professional dancers, demonstrating what a team dance should be. If the dances later tonight are half as good as this one – or even one-quarter as good – they should be getting very high scores.

Oh, yeah, and one other thing – the celebrities designed the pro costumes tonight. This could be interesting.

Here’s what I thought about the individual dances tonight, in the order of the performances.

Michael and Anna. This week they were performing a Foxtrot. Her costume was really lovely, a purple dress with a pink scarf off the shoulder. When asked about his inspiration for the costume he said Barney the Dinosaur. Actually, he said that he really had fun when he watched that show with his kids so he wanted to bring that fun to the costume. The dance itself was really nice. Michael shows himself as a gentleman on the dance floor. Len called the routine brilliant and well done. Bruno said that it was an improvement and his musicality has improved too. Carrie Ann said it was gracious and fluid with great content. He got his highest individual score of the season so far, 23 out of 30.

Donny and Kym. Their individual dance tonight was the Quickstep. Let me begin by saying I hated the costume he designed for Kym. What the heck was he thinking? That costume was more appropriate for a Latin dance in my opinion. That being said, no one else on this show this season can touch Donny in terms of performance. He was right on tonight. Bruno said that no other performer could cover up the mistakes as well as he did tonight. Carrie Ann said that it was pretty good and that he was light on his feet but there were mistakes tonight. Len said it was full of attack and when you don’t play it safe you sometimes do make mistakes. They got a score of 24 out of 30.

Continue Reading DWTS: Individual dances plus Team Tango and Team Paso in week 7

Kelly Osbourne has proven she is a trouper as she has outlasted many of the other female contestants on this season’s “Dancing with the Stars.” A thinner, more mature Kelly and partner Louis Van Amstel are not only lasting on the show, but often find themselves at the top of the scoreboard.

Kelly was born on October 27 in London, England, 1984, the second child of rocker Ozzy and his wife, manager/”America’s Got Talent” judge Sharon Osbourne. She has an older sister (Aimee), a younger brother (Jack), and an “adopted” brother (Robert Marcato). Home life was rarely stable for Kelly as the family moved around with Ozzy as he toured. She was thrust into the limelight at age 16 when her family starred in the popular reality series “The Osbournes” for MTV. The show followed the family’s day to day life and portrayed Kelly as a “wickedly funny, brutally honest, pint-size, potty-mouthed spitfire” according to Rolling Stone.
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This has been a weird “Amazing Race” season for me. Last week, Mika was paralyzed by her fear of the water and height at the resort, so she and Canaan had to give up. This week, it was the poker girls that gave up.

The teams left Dubai for Amsterdam. Because the first flight was at midnight and everyone was on that one, Meghan and Cheyne lost their huge lead. While everyone waited, Sam and Dan came out to them. I thought it was hilarious when Gary asked if this was the time for him to tell Matt he was adopted!
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There were only two guys left on “Project Runway” – Christopher and Logan. That is a bit unusual and in my opinion, both were a bit weaker than at least three of the remaining girls. The elimination challenge this week was for the contestants to create a companion piece for one of their previous outfits that had won a challenge.

Some of the girls are getting a bit catty, but Althea saying that she thinks Carol Hannah is a one trick pony because she only does dresses. Then Althea took offense that Logan was doing a collar out of zippers – something she had previously done. She and Irina sat and talked about him, but at the judge’s table, it was Irina that went after Althea. Irina did an oversized sweater and so did Althea. When Heidi asked who did it first, the claws came out as Irina said there had been a lot of resemblance in the workroom lately. Althea was upset by that – especially in front of the judges.
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Foa Foa boasted last week that they were ready to take on Galu on “Survivor,” but apparently talk is cheap. Once again, Foa Foa lost both challenges. The Galu guys decided to gang up and vote Shambo as the leader to gain her support. The other girls were shell-shocked by the vote. Of course, they plan to ditch her as long as she ceases to be useful to them.

The reward challenge was to match up survival items located under huts. The team that matched something up could take a point or the item. To make it interesting, there were four items that didn’t match. Galu won again and enjoyed the reward of riding on a sailboat and having a great dinner.
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This week, Robin once again managed to remain in the bottom yet still survive on “Top Chef.” The quick fire challenge was to cook a TV dinner inspired by a show for chef Paul Bartolotta. Kevin lucked out getting “The Sopranos” and won the challenge. Not that Kevin isn’t a great chef (and my predicted winner of the show – has been for weeks now), but come on. How much easier is it to cook inspired by “The Sopranos” as say “Gilligan’s Island” or “Sesame Street.” The bottom was Jen (who seems to be losing it) and Robin while Bryan lost out to Kevin, who will have his dish featured on the Schwan’s menu.

The elimination challenge was to cook at Tom’s Craftsteak at the MGM Grand. The only problem was they were cooking for Natalie Portman and she is a vegetarian. After all the groans, the chefs sucked it up and started their dishes. Robin didn’t put her chick peas on three of the plates and that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. The girls had an odd conversation about having a little prick in their mouth that got bigger – that was a bit…um, risqué.
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