Bristol Palin can't wait to whip herself into shape for Season 11 of Dancing with the Stars.
“I’m looking forward to this,” Bristol, 19, told Access Hollywood. “It’s like I’m going to be working out as my job right now and that’s going to be my main focus and I’m so excited to get into shape,” she continued.
SARAH PALIN MAY APPEAR
Indeed, most former contestants have lost significant amounts of weight while competing on DWTS, including ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and Kate Gosselin.
Palin, who has no experience dancing, says her son Tripp, 20 months old, might even drop by during dance rehearsals.
“I think he’ll come in for a rehearsal or two. He’ll love it,” says Bristol, who adds that her mom Sarah Palin may even make a brief appearance. "I’m sure she’ll be down for a show or two,” she says.
PAIRINGS ANNOUNCED
Meanwhile, Dancing With the Stars just announced its celebrity pairings for Season 11, and they are:
- Audrina Patridge and Tony Dovolani
- Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino and Karina Smirnoff
- Michael Bolton and Chelsie Hightower
- Brandy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
- Margaret Cho and Louis Van Amstel
- Rick Fox and Cheryl Burke
- Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough
- David Hasselhoff and Kym Johnson
- Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas
- Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer
- Kurt Warner and Anna Trebunskaya
- Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas
While some celebs compete on Dancing with the Stars to jump-start a flagging career, there’s actually a lot of money at stake: Each contestant can earn up to $345,000 during the course of the 10-week show.
Each contestant gets a $125,000 for signing bonus, and then earn $10,000 an episode for Weeks 3 and 4, $20,000 an episode for Weeks 5 and 6, $30,000 an episode for Weeks 7 and 8, and $50,000 an episode for the final two weeks.
Season 11 of DWTS premieres September 20 on ABC.
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Comments
I don't expect her to do well, and I don't expect her to take the failure well either. She wants to dance but she's afraid of moving her hips? I guess that's no surprise, given that she's been taught that libido is evil (and conceiving the son she never wanted involved hip thrusting and a whole lot of headache for her mom's VP run). It will be interesting to see how she pulls off "asexual" dancing. She really cannot believably pull off the whole "no sex" thing and pull off the dancing thing, while projecting no sex appeal. I'm guessing she abandons the "good girl" facade in order to score points . . . the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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