"Dancing With The Stars" lineup...

[Archae]

Show starts again September 14th.

Alek Skarlatos partnered with Lindsay Arnold
• Alexa PenaVega partnered with Mark Ballas
• Andy Grammer partnered with Allison Holker
• Bindi Irwin partnered with Derek Hough
• Carlos PenaVega partnered with Witney Carson
• Chaka Khan partnered with Keo Motsepe
• Gary Busey partnered with Anna Trebunskaya
• Hayes Grier partnered with Emma Slater
• Kim Zolciak Biermann partnered with Tony Dovolani
• Nick Carter partnered with Sharna Burgess
• Paula Deen partnered with Louis van Amstel
• Tamar Braxton partnered with Valentin Chmerkovskiy
• Victor Espinoza partnered with Karina Smirnoff

[Hoyt]

1. Not familiar with very many. Paula Deen, Jeezus. Who do you have to tick off

to get paired with her? Guess you could say the same for Gary Busey.

My lady friend likes the show, but I think I'll wait to watch it with her when the contestants have been pared down.

[AngryOldDem]

4. The same pros get the tough projects.

Van Amstel in particular. Tony Dovolani is another (he was stuck with Kate Gosslin, if I recall).

Folks like Derek Hough....not so much.

I'm pretty much reduced to checking the day after eliminations to see who got kicked off rather than sitting through the show.

[femmocrat]

2. Huh??? Who????

I recognize Paula Deen, Gary Busey, and Chaka Khan.

[AngryOldDem]

3. DWTS is slowly circling the drain.

And Gary Busey. <<sigh>>. I think the last time I saw him on a reality TV show was "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" on VH1. I think it was Busey's second go-around in treatment, and the poor man kept laboring under the delusion that he was one of the counselors. So sad and tragic to see what's happened to him.

I don't know; maybe he's been further physically and mentally rehabilitated since then (although I thought he had permanent brain damage)...but to me he is this season's spectacle, the one who has zero talent and can't compete with the able- and nimble-bodied 20-year-olds but somehow manages to hang around at least until the week before the semis. I really can't watch such exploitation, even if he's opening himself up to it.

Not watching this season -- not that I've really followed it for the past two seasons. But I will say I'm glad to see that Anna is back (she was my favorite pro).

(It will be Bindi Irwin FTW...I'll check back in November.)

[a kennedy]

5. Not watching this season at all......Paula Deen?? you have got to be kidding me....

nope not watching. It's so long and drawn out.....2 hours of it?? I've got better things to watch. Ugh......

[hamsterjill]

6. I'm voting for Victor!

He's a cool dude who gives ten percent of any of his earnings to City of Hope.