2024 Dancing with the Stars Rankdown

[Alex95]

12 hours down, 12 to go @jarmon @totes4totes

Adam Carolla
Jake Pavelka
Ian Ziering
Steve-O

[Elliott]

On 1/5/2024 at 11:58 AM, totes4totes said:

Cut candace

save carol

 

[Elliott]

On 1/5/2024 at 12:03 PM, totes4totes said:

She left Hallmark once they started making gay movies and started with what is now known as "Great American Family." They are behind the streaming site "Pureflix" if you need to know anything more about them.

I was so disappointed when I saw that she dragged Danica McKellar to the dark side.

[Elliott]

22 hours ago, jarmon said:

SAVE: Sadie Robertson.

 

[totes4totes]

cut adam carolla

save steve-o

[totes4totes]

Adam Carolla

 

I am YOUNG so Adam Carolla and his time on DWTS and bevvy of controversies really predates me. But I did go to his Wikipedia page and it was enough to get him eliminated now! He was on Season 6 of DWTS and partnered with Julianne and they were eliminated in 9th place which is the worst that Julianne ever placed on her surprisingly brief stint as a pro (only 5 seasons!). His real life profession is "comedian" (????), radio personality, and podcaster. I don't even need to go through his wiki to know that he is in the school of "you can't go to college campuses these days because kids gets so offended and political correctness is bad blah blah blah." I'm almost certain if I googled "Adam Carolla pronouns" he'd have one of those stupid jokes in his back pocket (I was RIGHT). He associates with incredibly shitty people (like the PragerU guy!), he probably isn't vaccinated (I think I'm right on that as well with a google search). He's so easily predictably awful it's like why even bother. Men like him are a dime a dozen. Men on the internet with a podcast like him. Well it might as well not even be shooting fish in a barrel. There are so many of them you can just reach your hand in and pull one out no problem. And I made all of these correct predictions from his intro paragraphs on Wikipedia. That's how unoriginal he is.

 

Saving: Steve-O

[jarmon]

IAN ZIERING

Ian Ziering is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Sanders on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, which he played from 1990 to 2000. He was on Season 4 of DWTS partnered with Cheryl Burke. They placed 4th respectively. He was a decent dancer, scoring 24 for 4 weeks in a row, lol, love to see it. He was never in the bottom 2 until his elimination. Anyways, I've never heard of Ian before his time on Dancing with the Stars but then again, he was on it when I was like 8 when this season aired so I don't I should've known about Beverly Hills, 90210. Anyways, out the Rankdown he goes! Goodbye!

 

SAVE: Jake Pavelka.

[Alex95]

@Solaris is up next to nominate 12 dancers.

[Alex95]

About 7 hours left for @Solaris

[Solaris]

 

Paulina Porizkova

Macy Gray

Kate Gosselin

Wendy Williams

Elisabetta Canalis

Valerie Harper

Diana Nyad

Sasha Pieterse
Jennie Finch Daigle

Jamie Anderson

Danelle Umstead

Jamie Lynn Spears

[jarmon]

Cut Macy

Save Elisabetta

[jarmon]

MACY GRAY

Macy Gray is an American R&B and soul singer and actress. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday.

Macy Gray was on Season 9 of DWTS and was partnered with Jonathan Roberts. She was eliminated on Night 2 of Week 1 when the Women took to the stage. She was a horrible dancer and she is a horrible person so it's making this cut even easier. She made some transphobic comments and is trying so hard to stay relevant but she ain't. She appeared on American Song Contest and even got the closing slot, just to not even qualify for the Final, embarrassing. She then recently competed on Season 10 of The Masked Singer as "Sea Queen" and made it to the Finale to get 4th place. Anyway, good riddance. Buh, bye. 

 

 

SAVE: ELISABETTA CANALIS

[totes4totes]

Cut Jennie

save Diana 

[totes4totes]

Jennie Finch Daigle

 

Jennie Finch Daigle was on the all-sports season of DWTS (aka the season that was made just for me!). She was partnered with Keo and lasted 3 weeks on the show before being eliminated in the same week as Chris and Mirai. It's probably good she wasn't on a real season because I think her like faith and family values schtick would have gotten her much further.

 

I mentioned earlier that I saved Jennie Finch because I wanted to be the one to do her write-up. And that's because as a kid I used to be a HUGE fan of Jennie! She was a legendary athlete in my favorite sport for my favorite team. First for Arizona Softball (under the legendary years of Coach Candrea) and then for USA Softball in the olympics. As a (blonde, white, straight) pitcher, she was one of the faces for those teams. In softball she's still considered a legend and one of the greatest to ever play the sport. And this was like a 10-year fandom between when she started at Arizona in 1999 to the silver medal Olympics in 2008. This was also really before the internet and social media made it easy to broadcast your views.

 

It was pretty crushing when I learned that in a sport full of so many queer women and women of color that Jennie would turn out to be a Republican Evangelical Christian. The best I can really say about her is that she isn't quite as loud or out there about her views as some of the people that we've already cut and will cut. But it didn't take me that long on her twitter to find her liking TERF-y tweets about trans athletes in sports. Or to find her liking and supporting Clayton Kershaw's straight white Christian male breakdown over the Dodgers inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night. And the subtleties of that are really kind of more insidious than just being loudly terrible. And maybe then we could finally separate softball from Jennie Finch.

 

Saving: Diana Nyad who as I said walked back her comments on trans athletes and is now supportive of trans women in sports. So I can continue my LESBIAN AGENDA.

[Elliott]

Obviously not nearly as problematic as her other stuff, but she also ~allegedly~ had a meltdown when Keo wanted them to dance to a song /r/popheads moderator Janelle Monae.

[FrogLenzen]

Janelle: “sexual bender” 

Jennie:

[*Diana]

Cutting Jamie Lynn Spears
Saving Sasha Pieterse

[*Diana]

Jamie Lynn Spears

 

The Fact that Jamie Lynn Spears only real fame is being her sister's sister is one thing. For the show to have a whole episode as a Britney Spears Tribute, only to cast her problematic sister the next season was absolutely horrific to me. But these producers have literally no shame so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

 

Jamie Lynn Spears was a part of the disgusting conservatorship of her sister Britney Spears so for her to continue to play the victim afterwords and continue to get casted and flop on all these reality shows is kinda funny. I felt bad for Alan to be partnered with trash. 

Saving Sasha Pieterse

[FrogLenzen]

cut Wendy

save Valerie

[FrogLenzen]

Wendy Williams

 

Wendy was paired with Tony on the 12th season of DWTS and placed 10th out of 11. So not great. I'm surprised I haven't cut her before that I can find, I think my M.O. is to just nominated her a lot to save myself the trouble of looking up and finding exact reasons why I'd like her out sooner than later. I put her in a similar category as like Perez Hilton who are a bit shameless in the way they try to air out celeb news and gossip and are super judgy. But there's more specific stuff out there like with Whitney and Kesha but ugh her wikipedia doesn't even have a "Controversies" section so maybe she's not actually that terrible and I've been tainted by random reddit opinions over the years. Let's just say she's messy in life and in dance and cut her and move on. 

 

Save Valerie Harper

[*Lily]

Kate Gosselin

 

If you look at Tony's track record at this time on the show, he had a few contenders (Stacy, Melissa) and for those who maybe weren't the best of dancers, you best believe he was gonna be ride or die for them. Tony had the patience of a saint and was willing to push his partners while also being their biggest supporter and defender in rehearsals. Enter his partner for the tenth season, Kate Gosselin.

 

Kate Gosselin was infamous for having a bunch of kids, a reality show and a messy break-up. I guess she came in wanting to redeem herself or make herself popular in the eyes of the public but she failed. Not only was she an incredibly wooden and awkward dancer, but she questioned Tony's training methods and almost drove him to quit. Four weeks of Kate Gosselin on DWTS was simply too much.

 

Save Paulina Porizkova

 

[totes4totes]

3 hours ago, Elliott said:

Obviously not nearly as problematic as her other stuff, but she also ~allegedly~ had a meltdown when Keo wanted them to dance to a song /r/popheads moderator Janelle Monae.

lol I thought I mentioned that!!!!

[Alex95]

That leaves @*Chris with Jamie Anderson vs. Danelle Umstead

[*Chris]

JAMIE ANDERSON

 

SEASON + PLACEMENT: SEASON 26 || 9TH PLACE

BEST DANCE: VIENNESE WALTZ  || 19 out of 30

WORST DANCE: N/A

FAVOURITE DANCE: N/A

 

Jamie Anderson is one of the world's most successful and legendary snowboarders.  At the 2014 Olympics, which introduced the Slopestyle competition, she won the inaugural gold medal in the field. At the 2018 Olympics, she not only defended her gold in Slopestyle but also won Silver in the inaugural Big Air Snowboarding event. She made history by becoming the first female snowboarder to earn two gold medals and the first to win two medals at a single Olympics.
 

Given her remarkable achievements at the 2018 Olympics, it was not surprising to see her as one of the 2018 Olympians featured on the Athlete season of Dancing With The Stars. She was paired with Artem Chigvintsev. Their first dance was a Viennese Waltz to "Feeling Good," scoring 19 out of 30. Although her posture wasn't flawless, she was far from being one of the worst dancers that night.  After the first night, she became one of the first two contestants eliminated, finishing in 9th place, with Johnny Damon as the 10th place finisher.

 

SAVING: DANELLE UMSTEAD

[Alex95]

@jarmon can now close out the cycle with his 12 nominations!