Dancing With the Stars and the One-Armed Man
That boom us reality TV viewers had over the winter and early spring is finally coming to a close. With TV execs panicking in the midst of the writers’ strike, they turned to game shows and reality TV, aka non-scripted TV. Now it’s all ending within the same time frame, and Dancing With the Stars is down to its final five. What fans are talking about, though, isn’t the fantastic dancing we’re seeing at this point, but Christian de la Fuente’s decision to stay in the competition despite suffering an injury last week that needs surgery.
Hey, my reality TV is really important to me, and probably more more than it should be, but even I can’t see putting off needed surgery to win the disco ball trophy at the end, especially when he isn’t a frontrunner. Kristi Yamaguchi was given that title in the first week, or at least it seemed so. Okay, so a friend of mine is currently suffering from a case of Rock Star Shoulder after three straight hours playing the game, but she’s on the mend, and I like to think she’d get surgery if she needed it, instead of insisting on continuing to pursue her lofty goal as a rock star.
And while the judges were fawning all over Christian’s one-armed dancing last night and his professional partner Cheryl Burke,s choreography, audiences were only noticing how odd it looked to have him executing multiple spins with only one arm, while the other is dangling at his side. They scored a 29 for that dance, one point away from perfection. Granted, if anyone would be able to pull off a Latin dance with one arm, it would be this Chilean-born actor. Yet, it was odd.
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