Willa's out, Emmitt returns, Mike on ice
10/18/06 03:03 AM
By ED BARK
Sorry, Emmitt, but you'll have to share this Dancing with the Stars update with a Dallas Star and Wednesday night's surprise evictee.
Pop tart Willa Ford, rumored to be seeing Mike Modano while flirting with dance partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, got jilted by the voting public after tying for first with three other pairs in the judges' earlier estimations.
Emmitt Smith, whose only close personal relationship on the show is with his chiropractor, will be disco-ing next Tuesday with partner Cheryl Burke. Their "booty-licious samba," in ringmaster Tom Bergeron's view, was more than enough to deliver them from the weekly bottom two. Instead, Willa and Jerry Springer occupied the show's climactic red light district until she went thataway while the audience jeered.
"Don't be sad!" said Willa, whose every move now will be dogged by Entertainment Tonight, Extra! and Access Hollywood among others. Will she or won't she pick Maksim over Mike? Or might she give him the old slapshot and let Mike score instead? Oh, Uncle Barky, aren't there more important things to write about? Yes, for sure. But this is all part of a well-balanced diet.
Male celebs now dominate the show's Final 6, by a 4 to 2 margin. But Wednesday night's results showed that truly no one has the competition in the bag. Brainiac here thought Joey Lawrence would be calling it a night. Maybe that'll happen next week -- or the week after -- or not at all.
Whatever the outcomes, these results shows now have more padding than Emmitt wore in his entire NFL career. But the ratings are still boffo, so ABC will keep dancing the night away.