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- Louis van Amstel and Kendra Wilkinson
Black, fringe and a remix of Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” kicked off Tuesday’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Team Chelsea and Team Mark Cha-cha-ed across the dance floor.
Hines and Kim were “definitely safe” according to host Tom Bergeron and the first couple announced as so. “It’s a mental grind to learn two dances in one week,” the football star told Brooke Burke backstage.
Next up was Grammy-nominated Nicki Minaj in a green and blonde wig and bright periwinkle eye shadow. She sang “Moment for Life” and was followed by 17-year-old Patricia Zhou, a ballerina with the Royal Ballet of London. According to one of her trainers, she’s going to be the “next Michael Jordan of ballet.”
The next couple safe was Ralph and Karina as the camera headed backstage to Romeo and Kendra. “Right now my heart is bumping outside of my chest, I’m ready to take it on,” Kendra said as an exhausted Romeo, who went from first place to last, made sure to promote his upcoming film, which caused him to miss a day of practice last week. To which Tom remarked Romeo is “never too imperiled to plug.”
Then came Wayne Brady in a tribute to James Brown. With a host of dancers gyrating on white cubes, Brady sang a medley of Brown songs.
Outfitted in a t-shirt James Blunt then took the stage with a guitar hanging from his neck to sing, “I’ll be your Man.”
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I love this show. That's the glamorous world we all dream about. It never stops to amaze me how people can progress in dancing week after week.
