tangodancer208 wrote:

I stopped reading People after all the CFO crap, but I just went to their site now.   I knew they'd post an article about Julianne, and I wanted to read the comments.   All I can say is, WOW!   Overwhelmingly negative.   My favorite comment: "The shark has officially jumped, DWTS!"    Obviously, a few posters were shippers, but if you just read the comments from those who are not displaying their axe to grind, it is still seen as a huge mistake.   As is the decision in include Alison who is not a ballroom dancer.   The ballroom dancers can choreograph jazz or hiphop if they have to, but how's someone who's not a BRD gonna choreograph ballroom dances?  Has anyone seen comments in other places?

Of course, DWTS is stuck now with Alison and Julianne.  Maybe a movie will come along and she'll have to leave early!   Why don't they try replacing her for one episode with Maks and see what happens!  

 

 
LOL  DWTS will get what it deserves.....

tangodancer208 wrote:

Just a few random thoughts while on a break at work!

If I do watch Season 19 at all (doubtful), I will go back to the way I did it before last season, mute everything but the dances.   I also believe that Derek/Julianne was a twofer deal.   I think they may have a change of heart when they see they ratings, maybe not so much Week 1, but I bet Week 2.   I think there will have to be a noticeable drop  which would not have been the case if Maks were the 4th judge.   I think they will really try to woo Maks & Meryl back sometime during the season, and I hope they play it for everything they can get.   In response to someone's question last night, I don't think either of them would really agree to dance with anyone else.   Maks might agree to do a pro number and/or Meryl might agree to dance with Val (under Maks' strict supervision), but not in lieu of dancing together.  

I think Maks was always the star of that show.  Some might want to say Derek, and I'm sure he has a lot of fans, but with a couple of very rare exceptions, he wasn't interesting.  No drama.   No conflict.  Willing to swallow whatever s**t the judges dished out (although he never got that much) and say whatever was necessary.   I think he was a much better choreographer when he tried to be really creative within the rules of what the judges wanted.   Julianne will be the same way.   For her, coming back to DWTS has to be a come down.   Her singing/acting career has fizzled, and she needs to get some more visibility.   Maks is on his way up.  

I hope with his new management, they'll find something really creative and great for him to do.   Certainly like the idea of him and Sharna with Meryl and Charlie doing something.  I would love to see them set up someday in Vegas.   Can you imagine one of the big hotels setting up an ice rink/dance floor in a theater and have the four of them in residency?   I think people would flock to see them.  There's already a thriving ballroom dance community in Vegas.   And it would allow them all to have some kind of relatively normal life.  

I firmly believe that was Meryl in Hawaii.   I also believe that they're both, not even testing the waters, but starting to come out.   All the SM activity, shout outs, hidden hands (as she gets more used to wearing a ring, she will be more and more forgetful about hiding it)...let's see if he shows up in Sun Valley.

Now that BWAT's over and no more Q&As, Maks will have fewer opportunities to talk about  her to big audiences.   I think they might now throw caution to the wind.   In New York and/or Michigan they could go more unnoticed by the paps and be out together.   I think it's hard for them to hide it.  If I was in love the way he is and the way we think she is (she is more reserved), I'd want to shout it from the rooftops, or at least display it from time to time, even if I refused to talk about it.  They're already getting the questions at every appearance.   It couldn't get worse if they actually did step out together.
Loved the bustle.com article, but she has been a shipper all along.  

I think 3 months is time enough to figure our where you're headed, even if it takes you a while to get there.

Wonderful post!   
 

Danica is such a shipper! She just tweeted the Bustle article from yesterday with the caption: "this article is just too cute" AND she tagged Meryl!

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KeepOnSinging wrote:

annieahoy wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

I wonder the same thing too!!!  I think that Sharna, Maks and even Jenna got the short end of the stick on this deal...and I hate to tell DWTS but Maks was a BIG part of that show...I hope with all the negative feelings they do something for Maks and Sharna....Jenna will most likely make Pro in the next season or so...but the other two are BIG in the Pros....I hope they do something WONDERFUL  with either BWAT or SWAY or even something bigger and better.....
Unless Maks gets something wonderful with DWTS or turned the offer down, he got pooped on...as did Sharna!!!

All we can do now is hope that this old saying is true: " When one door closes, another door opens." ( or something like that -- not sure I got it right). 
 

Just a thought, but it seems to me that we stopped hearing Maks talk so much about being willing to be a judge after he got new representation.  Lizzie is still his publicist but, from my understanding about how things work, is not his agent any longer.  ICM is now in the mix.  Or maybe we quit hearing Maks talk about it because, of all people JH, was also being considered as the fourth judge. 
 

That's what agents are for.   To make your desires known to TPTB so you don't have to do it publicly.   I always cringed a bit when Maks said that he'd like to be a judge unless he was directly asked the question.   Either TPTB don't like to be pushed into doing something publicly or you look awkward when it doesn't happen.   Because now, either Maks was offered and he refused, further alienating TPTB, or he was never offered it and it looks like he was screwed.   We all know Lizzie was certainly not up to the job.  

You almost never find out immediately when a famous actor was offered a part and turned it down.   They sometimes say later or the director says it, but almost never when it happens.   There's a reason.

I think Maks will be fine because he's still a gorgeous human being and people want to see him (and touch him), he's got lots of creative irons in the fire, and I believe in his good karma.   The Houghs, not so much.