Dancing with the Stars

Is this a weight watchers meeting or another episode of Dancing with the Stars? These dancers are shrinking down to nothing! Slim, slim, and slimmer as they slink and glide across the floor. Beyond the sharpened dance skills and weight loss, they seem to be turning into golden bronzed tanning statues. Someone backstage needs to lighten up on the spray tan. The dancers are clearly becoming more and more invested in the show. They simply don't want to leave. You can see it on their faces: the desperation, the fear, and the intense desire for one more chance to win the crown.

Who would have guessed that a dance competition could be ridden with such intrigue, fight, and drama? The heads of ABC Studios, that's who. This week of Dancing with the Stars proved that unexpected moments, comebacks, and passion does truly thrive on prime time television. If we didn't watch it live, we watched it online: the collapse of Marie Osmond. In between her cheesy jokes, she hit the floor hard. Tom Bergeron kneeled over her like Mel Gibson in Braveheart and demanded that the show go to break. Audience members stood in their seats and gasped aloud. Marie's earth-shattering thud rang all over the world (or at least all over the studio). Between her eyes rolling into the back of her head and Cameron's smoldering eyes making me weak in the knees, Dancing with the Stars kept me entertained.