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Celerity

(42,632 posts)
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 12:26 PM Aug 2021

Dancing with the Stars will feature a same-sex dancing pair for the first time. History, made.

JoJo Siwa Makes History As First Competitor With a Same-Sex Dance Partner on DWTS

https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/jojo-siwa-first-same-sex-couple-on-dwts.html



Grab your gold medals and glitter bows: The first stars have been announced to hit the dance floor. ABC announced pop star JoJo Siwa and Olympian Suni Lee as the first contestants for the 30th season of Dancing With the Stars, and they’re already making waves. For the first time ever, there will be a same-sex couple competing for the mirror ball trophy. During the Dancing With the Stars TCA panel, executive producer Andrew Llinares revealed that Siwa will be paired with another female dancer for the competition.



Upon revealing the news, Siwa said, “I think it’s cool. I think it breaks a wall that’s never been done before. I think it’s really special that I get to share with the world that you can love who you love, but now you can dance with who you want to dance with.” Siwa came out earlier this year through an Instagram Story post of her wearing a “Best Gay Cousin Ever” T-shirt.

Suni Lee won gold for the all-around gymnastics during this year’s Tokyo Olympics and made history as the first Hmong American Olympian to win. The dancing competition is judged by ballroom experts Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough, who was a former dancer on the show.

Hosted by Tyra Banks of Top Model fame, the series will premiere on Monday, September 20, at 8 p.m. ET, but the remaining celebrity contestants will be announced on Good Morning America on September 8. The series has featured a number of newsworthy stars, including Carole Baskin, cast member of everyone’s quarantine binge-watch Tiger King. As Siwa and Lee practice their dance moves for the competition, they probably won’t need to practice continuing to make history.

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Dancing with the Stars will feature a same-sex dancing pair for the first time. History, made. (Original Post) Celerity Aug 2021 OP
k& r -- this is important news obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #1
Tyra Banks sucks as the host. 3catwoman3 Aug 2021 #2
Oh, man, I'd forgotten about that horror of the last season. tanyev Aug 2021 #4
Additionally, her choice of outfits/costumes was truly hideous. 3catwoman3 Aug 2021 #5
I know, right? So weird. tanyev Aug 2021 #6
JoJo is a highly trained dancer blm Aug 2021 #3
Message Further Amplified... ProfessorGAC Aug 2021 #7

tanyev

(42,354 posts)
4. Oh, man, I'd forgotten about that horror of the last season.
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 01:34 PM
Aug 2021

She really was bad. I usually record it so I can watch it later and ff through anything obnoxious.

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
5. Additionally, her choice of outfits/costumes was truly hideous.
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 01:59 PM
Aug 2021

Last edited Fri Aug 27, 2021, 08:13 PM - Edit history (1)

I would expect better from someone who used to be a high fashion model.

Every week, I would say to myself, “Who the hell is dressing her? They must not like her.”

tanyev

(42,354 posts)
6. I know, right? So weird.
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 08:00 PM
Aug 2021

She’s bigger than she was in her modeling days, but she still looks great and DWTS has plenty of experience costuming mature curvy women, so why were her outfits that bad? There’s a chance she pulled rank as an executive producer and insisted on those looks herself.

blm

(112,919 posts)
3. JoJo is a highly trained dancer
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 01:26 PM
Aug 2021

so, I don’t really think it’s fair she is in this type of competition.

Perhaps the message is enough, though.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
7. Message Further Amplified...
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 08:21 PM
Aug 2021

...by going all the way to the win?
Just getting all the way to the finals means more episodes for them to appear.
If they got whacked in one round, the message might be diluted.
So, if they're going to do this, might be best to bring in a ringer.

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