DWTS Season 23 Cast - My Thoughts

In just about every season of DWTS, there are contestants that I don't like, and ones that I don't know. I still love the show, and of course I will watch. This season it seems there are even more contestants that I don't know, and two in particular that I wish were not going to be on the show.

Here's the list of celebrities and their professional dance partners:
Maksim Chmerkovskiy & Amber Rose
Valentin Chmerkovskiy & Laurie Hernandez
Artem Chigvintsev & Maureen McCormick
Sasha Farber & Terra Jole
Derek Hough & Marilu Henner
Witney Carson & Vanilla Ice
Lindsay Arnold & Calvin Johnson
Jenna Johnson & Jake T. Austin
Allison Holker & Babyface
Sharna Burgess & James Hinchcliffe
Emma Slater & Rick Perry
Cheryl Burke & Ryan Lochte
Gleb Savchenko & Jana Kramer

Who did I have to look up on Wikipedia?
Terra Jole
Jake T Austin
James Hinchcliffe
Jana Kramer

I guess four isn't too bad, but it is rather high for one season. I have heard of the Little Women of LA so I sort of know who Terra Jole is, but I've never watched the show. They have paired her with the shortest male dancer, but I think this will still be quite a challenge for Sasha. Still, I'm all about DWTS featuring differently-abled contestants, so I'm all for this. From what I know of the show, Little Women of LA has a cast of strong, sassy, independent females, so I say bring it Terra!

I think you can guess which two contestants I'm upset about: Rick Perry and Ryan Lochte.
Rick Perry - really? Poor Emma. Is she ever going to get a decent partner? I know, I haven't seen him dance. I don't need to. I know he will be terrible. Sorry, but he will. I have lived under his governorship for years. I don't want to see him on my favorite television show. End of rant.

And Ryan Lochte? The Ryan Lochte who disgraced our country at the summer Olympics? "Lyin" Ryan is going to be on my favorite show? Do I know what actually happened in that gas station in Rio? No, I don't. But he has admitted wrongdoing. Even if he didn't lie about being held up at gunpoint, he still vandalized a bathroom in a foreign country, then fled back to the United States and let his teammates take the blame and get detained. I understand that he probably signed a contract before all of this came to light, and DWTS doesn't want to deal with a lawsuit. But he does not belong on this show. It will be very interesting to see how the live audience reacts to him. And if anyone decides to vote for him.

As for the professional dancers, I'm very happy to see Cheryl Burke back on DTWS. And Maks too - as a dancer. I did not enjoy Maks as a judge.

So, I'm ambivalent about some of the contestants, and supremely irritated about a few others. But its my favorite show, and I'm going to enjoy it. Season 23 - here I come!

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Sugar rush

It has been the week of sugar at work. A dizzying amount of the white stuff. A donut AND a brownie on Tuesday. A chocolate chip cookie on Wednesday. Chocolate ice cream on Thursday (swoon). And this morning - carrot cake with very sweet frosting AND another scoop of chocolate ice cream. I'm surprised I'm not hopping around the office like a kangaroo. OMG, it was all SO good, but I'm also feeling very guilty. I have seriously fallen off the sugar wagon. More than fallen. I've rolled off and been run over repeatedly. I need to get back on track. Even when I was eating sugar daily I RARELY consumed two sugary snacks in one day. I have now done that TWICE in one week. And I just found out that there is an ice cream festival in town tomorrow.

No. Absolutely NOT.

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