Dancing With the Stars - Heather Mills’ Pogo Feet
IS Heather Mills Playing Fair On Dancing With The Stars?
THREE weeks into Dancing With The Stars, the American version of Strictly Come Dancing, and Heather Mills is mired in controversy.
According to Tabloid Baby, “many are saying that the combination of judges’ sympathy and state-of-the-art bionic prosthetics…are giving Heather Mills an unfair leg up on the competition.”
Can Dancing With The Stars enable Mills help Mills settle in The United States. Many in Britain hope so.
“From the beginning, she’s played along with the producers’ crass promotion, expressing fears that her fake leg will fly off on live television, and playing up her disability by walking down the stage stairway like Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella,” says TB.
But see those backflips. Heather lands hard on the prosthetic limb. No splintering. No flying leg. How does she do it?
TB says the “controversial secret was revealed in the video package that preceded her dance”.
Mills was having a hard time of it in rehearsals. She complained that she’d be unable to dance the Jive because, “You try and hop on a leg that’s like concrete and the other leg bounces up and down like a trampoline.” Pro-celebrity ballroom continues to push at the television envelope.
Heather needed help. So she decided to go and see the prosthestist for relief.
Cameras followed Heather to the leg shop. Heather was seen being fitted with a new, “special” leg. There were adjustments and tightening. This leg would now allow her to dance and bounce with ease.
Now see Heather cartwheel like a besequinned Long John Silver. And hear Judge Bruno Tonioli called her “the incredible Heather Mills”: “One, two, three legs, I don’t care how many - you did a fantastic job”, says he.
Like TB, we wonder if Heather’s legs are playing within the rules. Can other dancers on the show get refitted for limbs? Can a pogo stick be used?
Can you get a replacement for two left feet…
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April 17th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I have no opinion of H. Mills as a person but I take my hat off to her in her dancing. I’ve watched the UK comps and 1 or 2 competitors struggled on 2 legs, giving them a false leg no matter how special would not have helped. Heather was probably a good mover before her accident, can’t we just say well done.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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April 4th, 2007 at 10:14 am
[...] is “thrilling America”. So says the Express on its cover page. And reading on we learn: “Heather thrills America.” “She’s been called a gold-digger, compulsive liar and fantasist,” says the paper. She [...]
April 4th, 2007 at 1:18 am
During a recnt trip to the USA, I found the show to lack any real lustre that the UK version offered. The fact that a controversal person such as her is in the spotlight there only strengthens the fact that she is playing the sympathy vote and in the end she will have her 15 minutes of fame and once done, she will disappear into nothingness.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Heather is not being treated the same as everyone else. Twice not she has done a stupid flip and last year a dancer did one and was penalized for it. IT NOT FAIR, and “Changing of the leg” is not right either. The other dancers can not change something to suit their needs. You go in with what you got.