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Monday, October 25, 2010
Is it Monday already?
You know if they had bound up the levees as tightly as Bristol is strapped in New Orleans would have stayed high and dry.
Did the child live? Good question. When and where did she deliver? Who signed up to adopt the child once it can leave intensive care? I will take bets that Grandma and Grandpa PAYlin will not adopting this one! :)
Who knows who else MIGHT be waiting in line to remove the kid from the line of evidence. :)
Lackluster performance, the special effects were more exciting than their dance. I also thought she had an awfully high slit on that dress as someone who said she'd dress "conservatively." I don't actually watch the show, so if anyone feels like correcting me, go for it. She did like she was wearing a corset.
I'm sorry, but at 51 and 175 pounds, I still look better than Bristol! I don't have as big of a gut either! If she's not pregnant, then I REALLY feel sorry for her and she needs to next go on the Biggest Loser.
Man, it's like watching my grandmother dance, girdle and all.
If she was any good, it would be all about the dancing with no distractions. But they've got lights, flames, smoke, and all kinds of production to distract the audience from noticing how lame Bristol's dancing is.
I think the story is she a spokesperson for women and their right to chose life. She is showing girls all over America that you can do whatever you put your mind to. You can be pregnant and DWTS! How many times now have we heard how she is facing up to her fears, getting outside her comfort zone, stretching her limits. She will come out soon as pregnant and how she didn't let that stop her from reaching her goals, living her dreams. Also, too, she is visible support for her mother and the idea Sarah was able to easily hide her pregnancy with Trig and stay active until shortly before his birth. Like mother like daughter. More's the pity.
Mmm- I still see the pooch under there. Her lower abdomen is VERY round. Mark held her so tight, she couldn't mess up. The air guitar was weak. Good thing they dance was so serious- she got away with her usual scowl this time around. What'd they score?
I still don't thinks she's pregnant. Heavy yes, but not pregnant. I think she's an emotional eater and therefore fights weight issues all the time.
She danced better tonight than in any week past, however that isn't say a lot since she danced so poorly in all the weeks before this. Slight improvement, but she is no where near the dancer any of the others are.
Hey, If Bristol can dance with a hidden pregnancy in front of millions why couldn't Sarah hide a pregnancy in front of everyone? This is Sarah's game of showing everyone - it can be and has been done... Right now it looks like Sarah is up. When is somebody up there going to talk?
Damn is it possible that the C4Pers will put Bristol over the top to win? One commenter said she voted 63 times!! How much do the judges scores actually matter?
At 0:10 it looks like she has a penis. After that it looks like there's stiff fabric below the belly -- perhaps to have the fabric hang away from her body to prevent seeing how far the belly extends. Something is, oh, so strange.
I think this is her best dance yet. She has spunk to keep trying especially as she has to learn so much. Her costume designers are fantastic in their dress offerings the dresses move and add to her effort. Her partner is marvelous. and she is learning. Yes she has a belly and yes her mom is a mess.
For those who think Bristol looks like she has lost weight, I suggest you watch the rehearsal footage when it becomes available. I think that might change your minds.
I think she was fine. They were right that it was her best dance yet. I don't agree with one judge that it was the best one tonight. (If I heard him correctly)
Then again, they basically walked around the floor. You look at Jennifer Grey's dance and compare it to Bristol and there is no compare, even with Jennifer's wobble at the end.
After watching the rehearsal footage, I said "Yup, definitely preggers". She was wearing hoodies (With strategically-placed kangaroo pockets, as usual), cardigans (in a hot dance rehearsal studio?) and self-consciously pulling them over her belly the whole time. And she still looked pregnant.
Oh goodness, I just came from the Palinbot site. They are pretty funny. They sure hate Brandi. I made sure to vote for Kyle. He is the cutest by far! Personally, I want her to go on and on...even win. It would ruin the franchise. Hehehehehehe. They're all into the election and how Bristol in going to ring in the GOP election wave. Seriously demented stuff.
The judges were wacky tonight. Bristol called it in for so long that when she finally made a decent effort (not anything to go wild over), they overdid the praise.
Yet when the others, actual dancers by now, who've been fantastic every week, show the tiniest mistake, they get beaten up. Never mind that their efforts demonstrated greater energy and skill.
she moves like a cow... she clomps and stomps... a dancer is light and airy... the only reason she looked better tonight is that Mark did not let go and he was forcing her moves....
Hey Gryph she does kind of look like a trussed turkey!!! If they got that any tighter she wouldn't be breathing!
To 7:48, and those of you who thought that this was Bristol's finest best dance, I can say one thing for sure. If Bristol was just another unwed teen mother, she wouldn't have gotten anywhere near Los Angeles and Dancing with the Stars. She is only there because of her mother, and her mother's connections.
Bristol is a poor spokesperson for advocating "Just say no," while the message that she sends is to look at the rewards that she has reaped for being the unwed teen mother whose mother just happened to have been a governor and ran for vice president. Most single mothers will not have such an easy time; and there won't be judges giving them inflated votes for an average performance.
Having Bristol remain on that show makes the show look rigged. Bristol delivered an adequate performance while other dancers put much more effort into their dances. Bristol continues to be rewarded for having the name "Palin," and not for any special talent.
And, it is hard to believe that after all of those weeks of practicing and dancing, Bristol has been gaining weight.
Joe may have another disclosure issue. His pink Panties that Sara-NO
IT is about the property- 40 acres and a two story house that he and his wife bought, owned, various children then owned??,then there might have been a trust.. used to own used to declare on state records- it is confusing.
Kind of like that Palin property.
Is there a manual so they all can do similar things? Check for Parnell's next.
See Alaska Dispatch. Read Alaska Dispatch. See Joe hide? Joe explain? Sarah explain? http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/politics/7250-joe-millers-mysterious-mat-su-hideaway
Welcome to Alaska Rachael Maddow. Lots of sights to see, and discoveries to make.
I don't think anyone thinks Bristol did well tonight. Simply better than in weeks past, but again she was so bad in all prior weeks it would have been hard to do worse.
And there is no doubt the show is rigged. Clearly the show is not looking at talent. If it was Bristol would have been long gone or never on the show to begin with. She got on solely because she isa Palin and she has remained on there because all of Sarah's groupies are rigging the votes. But the show itself is rigged.
I do think they will lose a lot of viewers after this season. The other day on huffpost people were discussing just that and a lot of folks who said they loved the show are totally disgusted that bristol is even on the show and more disgusted she hasn't been kicked off.
@Gryphen,
No she definitely hasn't lost any weight. If anything she has gained. But I don't think its pregnancy unless she was pregnant and lost it - and that is doubtful because the show wouldn't have let her stay on after losing the kid (if they knew of course).
Alaska Dispatch reports that condidate Joe Miller and his spokesman Randy DeSoto did not answer questions concerning this property. which Joe did not reporton campaign finance disclosure forms- the ones that Joe did not file because ..the excuses keep getting mixed up.
"Repeated efforts on the part of Dispatch to get the Miller campaign to explain the history and status of the Willow land, along with why it wasn't disclosed on federal forms, proved futile. Campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto, whose telephone voicemail suggests that a "quick way to reach me" is e-mail, did not respond to an e-mail asking, among other questions, whether there really is a Wilmington Trust. DeSoto did, however, respond to some other emails sent about the same time."
And a real Alaskan makes a claim that Joe was- well- read what is claimed to have happened and then supply your own words.
I came to read the comments. There is no way in the world I would watch this. I did watch the BOOS for Sarah clip though:-). And the lame explanations why the Boos for Sarah weren't what they were.
I do check out sea of pee though on occasion. I feel guilty afterwords.
Has anybody seen Bristol? Just like Elvis, Bristol has left the building!She left the dance floor pretty fast during her second dance. Maybe Bristol wanted out early tonight so she can go to McDonalds and grab a few Big Macs, some shakes, some boxes of extra large fries and a couple of apple pies before they close? A girl gotta eat and eat and eat and
“Anonymous said... she moves like a cow... she clomps and stomps... a dancer is light and airy... the only reason she looked better tonight is that Mark did not let go and he was forcing her moves.…” 9:18 PM
How true, her dance was very very simple and she could have been easily guided by Mark. You know just like they steer elephants in the zoo, no commands just steer them.
Another observation, this is week 7 I believe, the other dancers are doing more complicated steps and our girl is still in week 2 learning mode.
As I said, the first dance was simple, her second dance showed us where she is compared to the “Stars” and she was eliminated early. The other dancers were lifting, twirling and throwing their partners, I actually don’t remember seeing Mark lifffffft Bristol. Gotta go back and check it out, but for sure the other couples were going at it.
Not a great tango. You can't tango unless you bend your knees.
And what is with that skirt? It looks like it's an afterthought. Too shiny and the color is off. I wonder if it was a last minute attempt to cover her legs because the intended bottom was too revealing?
The outfit was awful for a tango. He looked like he was dancing with his grandmother.
A tango is a vertical expression of a horizontal intention. It's supposed to be like intercourse, standing up and dancing. There was nothing sexy about that dance whatsoever. The music was inappropriate for a tango as well, also too.
I'm voting not pregnant anymore. I think she arranged the same miscarriage her mother had; D&C.
Anon 8:46 "Oh goodness, I just came from the Palinbot site. They are pretty funny. They sure hate Brandi"
Of course they hate Brandi. Brandi will be another black person the Palin's will lose to, unless the show is rigged; which I strongly believe it is.
Oh btw, I believe Bristol is pregnant and the only reason she’s on DWTS is to prove she's not. It's obvious.
Bristol and some other guy were shacked up in the condo and doing the nasty. Levi caught them in the act. A few months later Bristol told Levi she was pregnant. Levi said he was spilling the beans, but Bristol begged him not to. Levi’s pimped out attorney told him to bribe the bitch. Bristol agreed to pay a large sum of dough,only if Levi goes to the press, announced their engagement and say he lied about her mother. Not long after, they broke off their engagement, because Levi wanted to be the next reality TV star.
Moosekaka mommy dearest evicted Bristol from the condo and told Bristol to join DWST for a little while, because no one would suspect she’s pregnant.
Bristol will stay on DWTS for a little while and then disappear for a few months. Who knows what will happen after the baby is born. Maybe the Palin’s will concoct some story about Bristol pregnancy and say it was a gift from God. Maybe Bristol will be the first re-virgin to give birth to a miracle baby from God and the Palinbots will go wild. The next thing you know we will have another holiday. Works out for me, I love having a day off.
Hopefully the kid wises up, tell her mother to kiss her ass, and live her life as she wants to without Mommy Dearest interfering.
The Palin Family is a " 3 Ring-Circus " Bristle pistol is simply playing the role of a " Dancing Bear ". WGE says when they angry they get up on their hind-legs...See! Give Her a bicycle and let her pedal it around the Ring for her next act. But with a little bit higher score we missed Pistols standard tag line.. " It SUCKS".The Peebots don't even realize Pistol embarrasses herself ( and her Family )more each week..so let them keep voting 200x.Buy a ' personality ' with your earnings Pistol.The Judges keep saying you don't have any...so 'Obey' them.
She looks curvy from extra weight, rather than pregnant ... but still ... I don't know. The clothes are very deceiving, and she does have a round, upward line in her midsection.
That was not really dancing, they were walknig very quickly in circles...Mark held her so closely that she was basically pulled along for the ride. poor guy must be exhausted after hauling her increasingly fat ass around. Stooopid lame costume and story to this dance. Bristol you SUCK!
The second dance was a group Marathon with all the dancers. Bristol & Mark were the second couple to be eliminated by the judges. Brandy & Maksim were the last couple on the floor. The longer the dancers stayed on the floor, the more points they earned for the dance.
Yes, I still think Brisket is pregnant. I noticed she was not on stage for the closing credits. Maybe she had to make a quick potty break, pregnant women do that a lot.
I never watch the show - so thank you for posting the video. I have been voting each week for other dancers - hoping Bristol goes away but oh well.
Are you going to try to get tickets to see Raddow Maddow in Alaska? I think only 200 available.
Getting excited about the rally in DC - are folks from Alaska blogs meeting up some where? I'd love the chance to shake your hand and say thank you for all your hard work in person.
here is the full version of the tango; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKW7w7hG_Lw the dance marathon is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D4UBt643FM imho, in order to decide how bristol is doing, you really have to at this point compare her to the other dancers. comparing her to everyone else reveals that for certain she should be history by today. but sarah's hordes of mordor will vote as many times as they can for their queen so the ice princess can stay afloat as long as possible before the final freeze-up (how 'bout those arctic metaphors;o)?. dancing is all about the joy and beauty of movement, feeling and living the music, displaying grace, strength, and creativity at once. without mark, bristol is devoid of any of the latter, and does not have the temperament or the joi de vivre to entertain people as a dancer. i love dancing and watching dancing, but i couldn't watch the whole program because of how unfairly rigged it is towards bristol. also, too, does she have a teleprompter when she i being interviewed at rehearsal? she is being told what excuses to make to lay aside past bad performances. i wasn't impressed with a tango that included american civil war costumes, bad music, fire and wind effects, and a stupid air guitar solo, as well as "air dancing". three rotten tomatoes and a one way trip back to the arctic.
First, I'll disclose the fact I am no expert--but that is one roundish, low hanging tummy on Le Belle Palin Jr. If she's not pregnant, she's got some really serious issues going on.
Who on earth gets fatter AFTER six weeks of almost constant exercise? I don't mean bigger thighs from more muscle, I mean a bigger gut....
If I were advising her, I'd strongly suggest she take a dive (and soon). The bigger she gets, eventually SOMEONE (even on DWTS) is going to have to say something.....
Then we wouldnt have reality tv. All of television, scripted or not, is for ratings. Law of the land. Esp these talent shows. DWTS is
In the end, DWTS is 70% talent, 30 fan loyalty. The best dancer pretty much always wins. My friends and I hope it's not Brandy but it kind of looking that way. Audrina's boring, Jenny Grey's smug, Kyle's will probably last a bit longer, Kurt and Rick better have strong fan bases, and Bristol has the normal underdog vote. I doubt the producers are keeping her on purposefully. But who knows. I don't trust these shows anymore.
I dont know about the PG rumor. Bristol really wants to stay on though she is shocked she made it this far. I will say I have abdom fat which makes me a size 12 (about B's size) and I'm a runner. I am toned and can run 8 miles without working yet my damn potbelly still hangs on. It's a problem area for a lot of people. THe fact that Bristol can essentially make all her pudge disappear (ND pics) is truly remarkable.
There is a time toward the end, when Mark is "releasing" her, where you can see what looks to be an OUTIE bellybutton - and she pulls the top down to cover it. You can also, again, see her black spanx/girdle as she twirls. The whole "waist area" has been such an issue that's hard not to speculate. For me, though, the outie is a giveaway...
He, he, anyone who doesn't see the gut getting bigger need to get down to the eye doctor for a check up. Hello...my husband, who doesn't watch/pay attention to anything Palin, asked why Bristol was so fat..."Is she pregnant again?"
Good Lord, Mark would not even let her go...her other outfit was a baggy jacket and leggings.
I say keep her on, Bristol bump watch is too much fun!
That tango doesn't rate even a 5 to Jen and Derek's - was there's a 9 or 10. Bristol basically walked around the floor and did a few hoppy steps. Not really dancing at all. UGH, I can't wait till she drops off the floor.
I agree that it was her best dance yet, but like others have said, that's not saying much. But it did not look like a tango at all! It looked like a waltz, and again, Mark held her tight and escorted her around the floor.
I used to like this show but the judges are pissing me off; other dancers put in so much more effort and difficulty and got blasted and Bristol takes the easy route and gets high praise. Bristol continuously gets way higher marks than she deserves.
Let me give her credit where credit is due- what she did, she did pretty well. Outfit, eh. She's had better, she's had worse. Now about the rehearsal footage. When is someone in the media going to drop hints that Tripp might have (another?) brother or sister on the way? As long as no one calls her on it, it's a conspiracy theory, and as someone mentioned earlier- if Bristol can "hide" it, why is it impossible to think her mom could have hidden "her" pregnancy with Trig?
If this was another contestant on this show, or even Carrie Ann Inaba, people (and tabloids) would be asking the question. What IS it about the Palins that makes people shy away from asking something that, at least in the rehearsal footage, seemed quite obvious?
1) Immediately I thought this was her best dance. Lovely. She concentrated, and showed some style and some decent footwork, and for the first time ever it seemed like there were 2 people dancing and not him dragging her around the stage like it was Weekend at Bernie's.
2) Then I thought, what kind of crap show is this DWTS? Who does air guitar in the middle of a tango? I used to watch SYTYCD, which so outstrips this lame production. And while I enjoyed the dance, was it really a tango? And why were they wearing civil war outfits instead of tango outfits? Was this show ALWAYS this bad or did it just evolve into this?
3) I heard from the comments that they received high scores. Really? Now it's obvious to me this is all slanted in her favor. Yes, she did well, but this is the product she should have put out in week one. The bar was lower than Kardashian cleavage.
4) She will win the competition.
5) She may or may not be pregnant. And who cares. Preggers or not, she'll grift her way up the ladder just like her mother.
6) Sidebar note: Hillary Duff has a top 10 best selling book on the NYT list. Let me say that again: Hillary Duff. So it just goes to show you, if they want to promote you and propel you, then upward you will go. Somewhere in California there is a ditzy blonde who thinks she is a novelist, while in another part of town there's a chunky brunette who is convinced she can dance the tango.
Not sure if she's pregnant or not. But what I do know is she is the first contestant on DTWS that has actually gotten bigger each week!! I think because the judges expect so little from her, that when she does perform without a major gaffe, they are shocked and praise her. Kind of like the expectations for her mother during the VP debate. These 2 females alone are setting women back 50 years!!
Would poltically ambitious Sarah allow her still unmarried teen (now 20) to show her again pregnant body on national TV while she is a national spokesperson for abstinence? Really?
Even for Sarah that's amazing, but I believe it is true.
Bristol is overweight. She has the stomach of a woman who has had 2 babies in very quick order. The muscles are stretched out. Pictures of her with huge bags of McD's point to a poor diet. I think she's a binge eater, which would account for the puffy face. I personally think DWTS is playing the "is she pregnant or not" to the hilt. What better way to get viewers?
What was that outfit she was wearing? Sgt. Preggers Lonely Hearts Club Band? She looked like a Purple Porker. Whatever is happening, it is not pretty. Kudos again to the costuming department. Must be a real challenge to cover up the burgeoning Bristol.
There were some very funny unscripted/unchoreographed moments if you caught them: in the footage shown during the show of the dance after last Tuesday's broadcast, in which all the couples danced as they would in the free dance last night, you can see Mark clearly dragging her across the dance floor - he's dancing and she's just sort of lumbering. as she follows him, walking badly. When the bots put her over the top and she wins this thing, the awesomely destructive power of the Palin psychosis will finally be revealed, hah!
Technically executed. She did rather well since she had to hang onto Mark for dear life. But for that one moment where they broke free and did that air guitar part - criiinnnggggeeeee. She quit halfway and had to start up again in order to keep up with Mark.
And they just HAD to bring in the pyrotechnics and shots of steam in order to make the routine exciting. Staging was important to juice of Bristol's appeal.
I must say, yeah, she looked like a stuffed purple sausage, but the slit all the way up her leg made it attractive. And her face, make-up and hair was pretty.
This is the first time I watched one of her performances. In rehearsal, she looked like she could be noticeably pregnant. Not pg enough to have been pg last May, but definitely pg. (I have two neighbors who are 6 and 8 months pg. I didn't know in May/June about the pg, you couldn't notice the bellies then but you can't miss those bellies now.)
Also, too: I am an apple-shaped woman. If I were dancing for even one hour a day every day for weeks, the first thing to go would be my belly. So I don't really buy the emotional eating thing. She's have to be downing Krispie Kremes like the pre-lap band Al Roker (3 dozen a day, I think he ate) to keep her weight up.
What I don't understand is how the belly can be held in by girdles if she is pregnant.
Bristol's weight is low, ab fat. With Tripp, her belly roundness began just below her boobs, which ballooned, and curved perfectly down. That weight in the video is the same placement as those 2007 xmas photos. Bristol was not pregnant in 2007.
One thing that was noticeable, she was quite winded when they were chatting with that lady afterward. Not unreasonable, many times the contestants are winded, but if you listen to her voice it's pitched quite high as if she can't catch a breath at all. I think they have her in the tightest possible girdle and she cannot breathe. In front of the judges they had her partner with his arms crossing her torso at every opportunity again; that's a very static and potentially exposed moment for her in each show. The lighting is very bright out on that dance floor. Also, you'll notice they kept the shot of her high at that point, mostly bust/shoulders and upward.
The clips of the rehearsal process show her tugging at her sweater/hoodie zipper often, trying to pull it away from her body. The oversweaters distract with downward diagonal lines, and most shots of her are extremely fleeting. The few you can catch are very suspicious.
The dance costume yet again is brilliant, and they used similar designs for the other contestants interestingly. That cutaway long skirt has a fullness and lots of movement to distract from her middle. Long diagonal lines make her middle look thinner. The horizontal lines on the bodice are meant to confuse the eye, as well. But, if you really catch her outline at points as she is dancing you can see a high bulge under her chest, to me probably the unnatural result of binding her torso. They are able to make her abdomen look fairly flat, so they are showing it and capitalizing on that as much as possible. Just as they did with the leotard/white shirt number - Bristol even reminded people of it, you'll notice.
One more week will not make or break her in terms of revealing anything. I think they want to make this look like as honest an effort as possible, and I don't know how much extra $$$ she is earning with each round.
One can only wonder how much it cost Sara PAC (in consultant fees of course through Bristol's front company!) for all of the outragiously unwarented, lavish flattery the DWTS judges slathered on Bristols pathetic excuse for a Tango. Do the judges get paid by the word? the score? in cash? other benefits?
What an insult this whole fiasco is to the RILL STARS who not only went to the trouble to actually practice the Tango but wore appropriate costumes as well!
I hope the truth will be exposed soon so that the hard working and hard practicing dancers will be justified and compensated for being cheated!
This was supposed to be a TANGO???? She was wrapped up like a tightrope (above), but the belly bulged out beneath it all anyway - at least a LITTLE bit...
There is a tape of Bristol and that Mark, is it, talking to an interviewer after they do the rock 'n roll thing. You can tell Bristol feels safe in that extra green layer, it's blousy enough to cover up any telling body lines.
In reference to SP above, they make sure to talk about Bristol's mother. She supposedly dropped by their rehearsals earlier that day, Tripp and Trig played together, Sarah told Bristol she'd better "bring it", and Bristol reassured the woman that she thought her mother would be coming to another show.
Sarah Palin will never stop exploiting her children. Never. Someone needs to bring her down...
With the violent behavior of these Tea Party maniacs, it is becoming more urgent than ever that Sarah Palin be discredited as their cheerleader. Get her out of our lives, please!
"You know if they had bound up the levees as tightly as Bristol is strapped in New Orleans would have stayed high and dry." Could Mark Ballas possibly strap himself any tighter to Bristol to conceal her belly??
If you have tivoed and do a slow motion frame by frame look at the costume that Bristol wears for the marathon, you can see that the top and bottom are one piece with a zipper going down the front past the big belt. So the belt hangs a couple of inches below the belly line where the green fabric meets the black fabric. The belt has a big buckle that protrudes.
You can see this at the end when Brandi and Maks are standing in front of Bristol who is standing on the stage while they are on the floor. You really do have to give it to the costumers for their brilliance in trying to make that whole area smaller, baby or not?
Notice too that during the marathon dance we didn't see Mark try to lift her or have her do anything too strenuous. Mark jumped over her at one point but that was it. You would have thought since they could do lifts Mark have done something ambitious but their dance was very "careful".
OK, I wasn't giving the preggers stuff much real consideration, but in the rehearsal vids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8 @ 49, 56, 58, 120-22, holy crap. She's either expecting a baby or a giant quarterpounder - with cheese.
I too think she's pregnant and that the show has to be involved in the cover-up. What I can't fathom is how the Palins arranged this lie/scam with DWTS knowing that they would've had to admit the truth then get the show's buy-in to take Bristol on the show and work around "the problem"! It certainly explains why all the other contestants had to sign a nondisclosure document about any info pertaining to Bristol, which is totally bizarre. And what will be the repercussions to the show when it is all revealed?
Something is definitely up and I'd expect "rumors" to leak by some former castmates/employees of the show. I'm also waiting for some juicy tidbits from the TLC crew and people involved in the show, even though they probably have a "can't tell the truth" agreement too.
from the rehearsal video, she's either pregnant or padded to look pregnant so the whole controversy can continue to build the ratings (and the judges will continue talking her up for the same reason)
Check out the video at 57-59, as she makes a turn. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8) Her belly is huge. In fact, if you slow the video down every time she makes a turn, you can see the belly bulge.
"the show continues to give the bristol "with child" a total dance pass - "
They may be giving her a pass BECAUSE SHE IS "WITH CHILD." If only they would tell us. If you include her claim to fame, her past and also you know that she is pregnant you might give her a dance pass as well. I don't see how DWTS can go on pretending that she is competing with the other dancers. You can see they are not being coddled to such extremes. It would be far more interesting if DWTS would discuss how they try and trick the eye with costume design to hide the belly, the dance routines that cover her and which stage gimmicks they think are most distracting. That was the worst air guitar ever, how can they pretend it was some amazing moment in dance that redeems her as a dancer?
There is no doubt that all reality show genre is rigged and scripted. DWTS goes all out to fake a competition and they are fooling people with that scam as they ruin dance and the pros that are on the show. I would think they would call foul to being used in a televised hoax. DWTS really must be called out. They are worse than other scams because with Bristol they are targeting the youth and promoting the fantasy that Bristol is an activist. The bottom line, this is POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, NOT ENTERTAINMENT. Shame on ABC and all.
The opening clips of Monday's performance are odd - you see Mark and his partner, but not his partners face.
See seconds 35-36 of this video: http://www.hulu.com/watch/188175/dancing-with-the-stars-week-6-part-1
There are full body shots of Mark and his upside down partner, and that woman's face is comptetely, 100% blurred out.
If Mark's partner was Bristol for this demonstration, why would ABC blur out her face? Why not make it 100% clear that it is 'hard working' Bristol practicing this step? Why instead blur out the dancers face and speed up the tape right at the moment?
There is absolutely no reason for this, unless ABC is trying to hide the fact that Mark is not dancing with Bristol in this shot while at the same time wanting it look like it is her.
And that move is absolutely not one that a pregnant woman could perform. Upside down, spread eagled and spun around while being grippped tightly around her waist? Only if she wanted to trigger morning sickness and/or lose the baby.
So why is ABC making it look like Bristol is doing these kinds of moves? Are they try to help out in combatting the pregnancy rumors? Or trying to make her look like a better dancer than she really is in order to justify her continued presence on the show?
One other thing, it looks like his partner for this shot has a whole lot of padding on her torso. Look at the way the padding bulges out above where Mark has cinched her stomach with his arms.
Is anyone able to make screen captures of the 35-36 seconds of this video? They'd be really interesting to see one right after another.
My opinion? She ain't preggers any more.
ReplyDeleteDid the child live? Good question. When and where did she deliver? Who signed up to adopt the child once it can leave intensive care? I will take bets that Grandma and Grandpa PAYlin will not adopting this one! :)
Who knows who else MIGHT be waiting in line to remove the kid from the line of evidence. :)
Lackluster performance, the special effects were more exciting than their dance. I also thought she had an awfully high slit on that dress as someone who said she'd dress "conservatively." I don't actually watch the show, so if anyone feels like correcting me, go for it. She did like she was wearing a corset.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it was her best dance yet. The angry, I'll-show-everybody face works for her. Got it from her mother.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your opinion, Gryphen? Does Bristol have a bun in the oven or is she just eating too many pizzas?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but at 51 and 175 pounds, I still look better than Bristol! I don't have as big of a gut either! If she's not pregnant, then I REALLY feel sorry for her and she needs to next go on the Biggest Loser.
ReplyDeleteShe's definitely got a gut, whether it's too many double cheezes with fries and latte's or not, I don't know. What did the rehersal scenes indicate?
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'm sorry Bristol but my Mom was a dancer and she'd say "I've seen cows more light on their feet".
Man, it's like watching my grandmother dance, girdle and all.
ReplyDeleteIf she was any good, it would be all about the dancing with no distractions. But they've got lights, flames, smoke, and all kinds of production to distract the audience from noticing how lame Bristol's dancing is.
Rick
I think the story is she a spokesperson for women and their right to chose life. She is showing girls all over America that you can do whatever you put your mind to. You can be pregnant and DWTS! How many times now have we heard how she is facing up to her fears, getting outside her comfort zone, stretching her limits. She will come out soon as pregnant and how she didn't let that stop her from reaching her goals, living her dreams. Also, too, she is visible support for her mother and the idea Sarah was able to easily hide her pregnancy with Trig and stay active until shortly before his birth. Like mother like daughter. More's the pity.
ReplyDeleteMmm- I still see the pooch under there. Her lower abdomen is VERY round. Mark held her so tight, she couldn't mess up. The air guitar was weak. Good thing they dance was so serious- she got away with her usual scowl this time around. What'd they score?
ReplyDeleteI'm stupid, I'm useless, I can't do anything right...
ReplyDeleteThat is Mark's critique of Bristhole
Looks like they got a 23. 8-7-8
ReplyDeleteHorrible outfit.
ReplyDeleteI still don't thinks she's pregnant. Heavy yes, but not pregnant. I think she's an emotional eater and therefore fights weight issues all the time.
ReplyDeleteShe danced better tonight than in any week past, however that isn't say a lot since she danced so poorly in all the weeks before this. Slight improvement, but she is no where near the dancer any of the others are.
Hey, If Bristol can dance with a hidden pregnancy in front of millions why couldn't Sarah hide a pregnancy in front of everyone? This is Sarah's game of showing everyone - it can be and has been done... Right now it looks like Sarah is up. When is somebody up there going to talk?
ReplyDelete1) Why was someone in a Civil War costume doing the Tango (or sort of Tango)?
ReplyDelete2) Why did someone wearing a Civil War costume and sort of doing the Tango, break out into a quick air guitar riff?
3) Why was I stupid enough to click and watch this stuff?
Damn is it possible that the C4Pers will put Bristol over the top to win? One commenter said she voted 63 times!! How much do the judges scores actually matter?
ReplyDeleteAt 0:10 it looks like she has a penis. After that it looks like there's stiff fabric below the belly -- perhaps to have the fabric hang away from her body to prevent seeing how far the belly extends. Something is, oh, so strange.
ReplyDeleteI agree she did dance better than previous weeks.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if it was the cut of the jacket - but she does appear to have a bump.
Her belly button is now an outie
ReplyDeleteI think this is her best dance yet. She has spunk to keep trying especially as she has to learn so much. Her costume designers are fantastic in their dress offerings the dresses move and add to her effort. Her partner is marvelous. and she is learning. Yes she has a belly and yes her mom is a mess.
ReplyDeleteFor those who think Bristol looks like she has lost weight, I suggest you watch the rehearsal footage when it becomes available. I think that might change your minds.
ReplyDeleteI think she was fine. They were right that it was her best dance yet. I don't agree with one judge that it was the best one tonight. (If I heard him correctly)
ReplyDeleteThen again, they basically walked around the floor. You look at Jennifer Grey's dance and compare it to Bristol and there is no compare, even with Jennifer's wobble at the end.
was the video in slow motion?
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the rehearsal footage, I said "Yup, definitely preggers".
ReplyDeleteShe was wearing hoodies (With strategically-placed kangaroo pockets, as usual), cardigans (in a hot dance rehearsal studio?) and self-consciously pulling them over her belly the whole time. And she still looked pregnant.
I thought she was really stiff and so was surprised by the judges' scores!
ReplyDeleteOh goodness, I just came from the Palinbot site. They are pretty funny. They sure hate Brandi. I made sure to vote for Kyle. He is the cutest by far! Personally, I want her to go on and on...even win. It would ruin the franchise. Hehehehehehe. They're all into the election and how Bristol in going to ring in the GOP election wave. Seriously demented stuff.
ReplyDeleteIf she wore something like that she would not be a single mother. All this fake modesty is making me sick. She is such a great role model! Oy vey!
ReplyDeleteThe judges were wacky tonight. Bristol called it in for so long that when she finally made a decent effort (not anything to go wild over), they overdid the praise.
ReplyDeleteYet when the others, actual dancers by now, who've been fantastic every week, show the tiniest mistake, they get beaten up. Never mind that their efforts demonstrated greater energy and skill.
I hate the agenda. Would love an honest contest.
Go Bristol you can win this thing. I would sooo love it if Bristol won. Where was mommy tonight?
ReplyDeleteshe moves like a cow... she clomps and stomps... a dancer is light and airy... the only reason she looked better tonight is that Mark did not let go and he was forcing her moves....
ReplyDeleteHey Gryph she does kind of look like a trussed turkey!!! If they got that any tighter she wouldn't be breathing!
wasn't this 2 dances tonight? are you going to post the other too Gryph?
ReplyDeleteTo 7:48, and those of you who thought that this was Bristol's finest best dance, I can say one thing for sure. If Bristol was just another unwed teen mother, she wouldn't have gotten anywhere near Los Angeles and Dancing with the Stars. She is only there because of her mother, and her mother's connections.
ReplyDeleteBristol is a poor spokesperson for advocating "Just say no," while the message that she sends is to look at the rewards that she has reaped for being the unwed teen mother whose mother just happened to have been a governor and ran for vice president. Most single mothers will not have such an easy time; and there won't be judges giving them inflated votes for an average performance.
Having Bristol remain on that show makes the show look rigged. Bristol delivered an adequate performance while other dancers put much more effort into their dances. Bristol continues to be rewarded for having the name "Palin," and not for any special talent.
And, it is hard to believe that after all of those weeks of practicing and dancing, Bristol has been gaining weight.
I definitely think she is pregnant but we won't hear about it until after Nov 2.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend call me tonight and tell me he thought Bristles was preggers! LOL...... hello.
ReplyDeletePhat!
ReplyDeleteJoe may have another disclosure issue. His pink Panties that Sara-NO
ReplyDeleteIT is about the property- 40 acres and a two story house that he and his wife bought, owned, various children then owned??,then there might have been a trust.. used to own used to declare on state records- it is confusing.
Kind of like that Palin property.
Is there a manual so they all can do similar things? Check for Parnell's next.
See Alaska Dispatch.
Read Alaska Dispatch.
See Joe hide? Joe explain? Sarah explain?
http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/politics/7250-joe-millers-mysterious-mat-su-hideaway
Welcome to Alaska Rachael Maddow. Lots of sights to see, and discoveries to make.
@Anon 9:27
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone thinks Bristol did well tonight. Simply better than in weeks past, but again she was so bad in all prior weeks it would have been hard to do worse.
And there is no doubt the show is rigged. Clearly the show is not looking at talent. If it was Bristol would have been long gone or never on the show to begin with. She got on solely because she isa Palin and she has remained on there because all of Sarah's groupies are rigging the votes. But the show itself is rigged.
I do think they will lose a lot of viewers after this season. The other day on huffpost people were discussing just that and a lot of folks who said they loved the show are totally disgusted that bristol is even on the show and more disgusted she hasn't been kicked off.
@Gryphen,
No she definitely hasn't lost any weight. If anything she has gained. But I don't think its pregnancy unless she was pregnant and lost it - and that is doubtful because the show wouldn't have let her stay on after losing the kid (if they knew of course).
Alaska Dispatch reports that condidate Joe Miller and his spokesman Randy DeSoto did not answer questions concerning this property. which Joe did not reporton campaign finance disclosure forms- the ones that Joe did not file because ..the excuses keep getting mixed up.
ReplyDelete"Repeated efforts on the part of Dispatch to get the Miller campaign to explain the history and status of the Willow land, along with why it wasn't disclosed on federal forms, proved futile. Campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto, whose telephone voicemail suggests that a "quick way to reach me" is e-mail, did not respond to an e-mail asking, among other questions, whether there really is a Wilmington Trust. DeSoto did, however, respond to some other emails sent about the same time."
And a real Alaskan makes a claim that Joe was- well- read what is claimed to have happened and then supply your own words.
Go to the store and buy more popcorn now.
where are the rehearsal pictures....
ReplyDeleteI came to read the comments. There is no way in the world I would watch this. I did watch the BOOS for Sarah clip though:-). And the lame explanations why the Boos for Sarah weren't what they were.
ReplyDeleteI do check out sea of pee though on occasion. I feel guilty afterwords.
Has anybody seen Bristol? Just like Elvis, Bristol has left the building!She left the dance floor pretty fast during her second dance.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Bristol wanted out early tonight so she can go to McDonalds and grab a few Big Macs, some shakes, some boxes of extra large fries and a couple of apple pies before they close?
A girl gotta eat and eat and eat and
Well you know the rest.
“Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteshe moves like a cow... she clomps and stomps... a dancer is light and airy... the only reason she looked better tonight is that Mark did not let go and he was forcing her moves.…”
9:18 PM
How true, her dance was very very simple and she could have been easily guided by Mark. You know just like they steer elephants in the zoo, no commands just steer them.
Another observation, this is week 7 I believe, the other dancers are doing more complicated steps and our girl is still in week 2 learning mode.
As I said, the first dance was simple, her second dance showed us where she is compared to the “Stars” and she was eliminated early. The other dancers were lifting, twirling and throwing their partners, I actually don’t remember seeing Mark lifffffft Bristol. Gotta go back and check it out, but for sure the other couples were going at it.
Not a great tango. You can't tango unless you bend your knees.
ReplyDeleteAnd what is with that skirt? It looks like it's an afterthought. Too shiny and the color is off. I wonder if it was a last minute attempt to cover her legs because the intended bottom was too revealing?
The outfit was awful for a tango. He looked like he was dancing with his grandmother.
A tango is a vertical expression of a horizontal intention. It's supposed to be like intercourse, standing up and dancing. There was nothing sexy about that dance whatsoever. The music was inappropriate for a tango as well, also too.
I'm voting not pregnant anymore. I think she arranged the same miscarriage her mother had; D&C.
Anon 8:46 "Oh goodness, I just came from the Palinbot site. They are pretty funny. They sure hate Brandi"
ReplyDeleteOf course they hate Brandi. Brandi will be another black person the Palin's will lose to, unless the show is rigged; which I strongly believe it is.
Oh btw, I believe Bristol is pregnant and the only reason she’s on DWTS is to prove she's not. It's obvious.
Bristol and some other guy were shacked up in the condo and doing the nasty. Levi caught them in the act. A few months later Bristol told Levi she was pregnant. Levi said he was spilling the beans, but Bristol begged him not to. Levi’s pimped out attorney told him to bribe the bitch. Bristol agreed to pay a large sum of dough,only if Levi goes to the press, announced their engagement and say he lied about her mother. Not long after, they broke off their engagement, because Levi wanted to be the next reality TV star.
Moosekaka mommy dearest evicted Bristol from the condo and told Bristol to join DWST for a little while, because no one would suspect she’s pregnant.
Bristol will stay on DWTS for a little while and then disappear for a few months. Who knows what will happen after the baby is born. Maybe the Palin’s will concoct some story about Bristol pregnancy and say it was a gift from God. Maybe Bristol will be the first re-virgin to give birth to a miracle baby from God and the Palinbots will go wild. The next thing you know we will have another holiday. Works out for me, I love having a day off.
Hopefully the kid wises up, tell her mother to kiss her ass, and live her life as she wants to without Mommy Dearest interfering.
The Palin Family is a " 3 Ring-Circus " Bristle pistol is simply playing the role of a " Dancing Bear ". WGE says when they angry they get up on their hind-legs...See!
ReplyDeleteGive Her a bicycle and let her pedal it around the Ring for her next act.
But with a little bit higher score we missed Pistols standard tag line.. " It SUCKS".The Peebots don't even realize Pistol embarrasses herself ( and her Family )more each week..so let them keep voting 200x.Buy a ' personality ' with your earnings Pistol.The Judges keep saying you don't have any...so 'Obey' them.
Lacey had Kyle on her back and Kyle is lifting Lacey.
ReplyDeleteCome on Mark you can do it! Bristol can't weigh more than 2 fifty and some change.
This is not a good night for Sarah.
ReplyDeleteSarah lost the title of Miss Alaska to an African American.
Sarah lost to Team Obama led by another African American. Ohhh that still burns why did I bring that up?
Tonight Sarah's rolly poley lost the dance marathon to Brandy, an African American.
Bristol you are your mommas last White Hope. Git R Done!
She looks curvy from extra weight, rather than pregnant ... but still ... I don't know. The clothes are very deceiving, and she does have a round, upward line in her midsection.
ReplyDeleteThat was not really dancing, they were walknig very quickly in circles...Mark held her so closely that she was basically pulled along for the ride. poor guy must be exhausted after hauling her increasingly fat ass around.
ReplyDeleteStooopid lame costume and story to this dance.
Bristol you SUCK!
The second dance was a group Marathon with all the dancers. Bristol & Mark were the second couple to be eliminated by the judges. Brandy & Maksim were the last couple on the floor. The longer the dancers stayed on the floor, the more points they earned for the dance.
ReplyDeleteYes, I still think Brisket is pregnant. I noticed she was not on stage for the closing credits. Maybe she had to make a quick potty break, pregnant women do that a lot.
I never watch the show - so thank you for posting the video. I have been voting each week for other dancers - hoping Bristol goes away but oh well.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to try to get tickets to see Raddow Maddow in Alaska? I think only 200 available.
Getting excited about the rally in DC - are folks from Alaska blogs meeting up some where? I'd love the chance to shake your hand and say thank you for all your hard work in person.
omg - She's high and inside - that's a boy. Again.
ReplyDeleteGreat costume, babe, but it was cut a little too deep to hide the fundus of the the multipara gravitas.
My bet is she's nearing five months 'cuz she's feeling great and full of vim & vigor - as she should be at this stage of pregnancy.
here is the full version of the tango;
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKW7w7hG_Lw
the dance marathon is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D4UBt643FM
imho, in order to decide how bristol is doing, you really have to at this point compare her to the other dancers. comparing her to everyone else reveals that for certain she should be history by today. but sarah's hordes of mordor will vote as many times as they can for their queen so the ice princess can stay afloat as long as possible before the final freeze-up (how 'bout those arctic metaphors;o)?. dancing is all about the joy and beauty of movement, feeling and living the music, displaying grace, strength, and creativity at once. without mark, bristol is devoid of any of the latter, and does not have the temperament or the joi de vivre to entertain people as a dancer. i love dancing and watching dancing, but i couldn't watch the whole program because of how unfairly rigged it is towards bristol.
also, too, does she have a teleprompter when she i being interviewed at rehearsal? she is being told what excuses to make to lay aside past bad performances.
i wasn't impressed with a tango that included american civil war costumes, bad music, fire and wind effects, and a stupid air guitar solo, as well as "air dancing".
three rotten tomatoes and a one way trip back to the arctic.
Dude--
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'll disclose the fact I am no expert--but that is one roundish, low hanging tummy on Le Belle Palin Jr. If she's not pregnant, she's got some really serious issues going on.
Who on earth gets fatter AFTER six weeks of almost constant exercise? I don't mean bigger thighs from more muscle, I mean a bigger gut....
If I were advising her, I'd strongly suggest she take a dive (and soon). The bigger she gets, eventually SOMEONE (even on DWTS) is going to have to say something.....
the show continues to give the bristol "with child" a total dance pass -
ReplyDeleteso when the palinmafia going to say, "that was so hard for our bristol, out there baby and all"
wonder who the baby daddy is this time around .... is Levi in on this palin family stunt too?
"Would love an honest contest."
ReplyDeleteThen we wouldnt have reality tv. All of television, scripted or not, is for ratings. Law of the land. Esp these talent shows. DWTS is
In the end, DWTS is 70% talent, 30 fan loyalty. The best dancer pretty much always wins. My friends and I hope it's not Brandy but it kind of looking that way. Audrina's boring, Jenny Grey's smug, Kyle's will probably last a bit longer, Kurt and Rick better have strong fan bases, and Bristol has the normal underdog vote. I doubt the producers are keeping her on purposefully. But who knows. I don't trust these shows anymore.
I dont know about the PG rumor. Bristol really wants to stay on though she is shocked she made it this far. I will say I have abdom fat which makes me a size 12 (about B's size) and I'm a runner. I am toned and can run 8 miles without working yet my damn potbelly still hangs on. It's a problem area for a lot of people. THe fact that Bristol can essentially make all her pudge disappear (ND pics) is truly remarkable.
ReplyDeleteThere is a time toward the end, when Mark is "releasing" her, where you can see what looks to be an OUTIE bellybutton - and she pulls the top down to cover it. You can also, again, see her black spanx/girdle as she twirls. The whole "waist area" has been such an issue that's hard not to speculate. For me, though, the outie is a giveaway...
ReplyDeleteGood to hear Sarah dropped by DWTS during preshow.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.accesshollywood.com/dancing-with-the-stars/bristol-palin-is-ready-to-bring-it-on-dancing-october-25-2010_videotab_1256085
He, he, anyone who doesn't see the gut getting bigger need to get down to the eye doctor for a check up. Hello...my husband, who doesn't watch/pay attention to anything Palin, asked why Bristol was so fat..."Is she pregnant again?"
ReplyDeleteGood Lord, Mark would not even let her go...her other outfit was a baggy jacket and leggings.
I say keep her on, Bristol bump watch is too much fun!
That tango doesn't rate even a 5 to Jen and Derek's - was there's a 9 or 10. Bristol basically walked around the floor and did a few hoppy steps. Not really dancing at all. UGH, I can't wait till she drops off the floor.
ReplyDeleteHer best dance yet??? Come on, folks. Mark was practically dragging her around the floor. She looked like she was having trouble keeping up with him.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was her best dance yet, but like others have said, that's not saying much. But it did not look like a tango at all! It looked like a waltz, and again, Mark held her tight and escorted her around the floor.
ReplyDeleteI used to like this show but the judges are pissing me off; other dancers put in so much more effort and difficulty and got blasted and Bristol takes the easy route and gets high praise. Bristol continuously gets way higher marks than she deserves.
Thanks Gryph for all that you do!
Let me give her credit where credit is due- what she did, she did pretty well. Outfit, eh. She's had better, she's had worse. Now about the rehearsal footage. When is someone in the media going to drop hints that Tripp might have (another?) brother or sister on the way? As long as no one calls her on it, it's a conspiracy theory, and as someone mentioned earlier- if Bristol can "hide" it, why is it impossible to think her mom could have hidden "her" pregnancy with Trig?
ReplyDeleteIf this was another contestant on this show, or even Carrie Ann Inaba, people (and tabloids) would be asking the question. What IS it about the Palins that makes people shy away from asking something that, at least in the rehearsal footage, seemed quite obvious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8
ReplyDeleteat 4:37
pregnant!
(kudos to the costume and camera people, however)
I watched most of it.
ReplyDelete1) Immediately I thought this was her best dance. Lovely. She concentrated, and showed some style and some decent footwork, and for the first time ever it seemed like there were 2 people dancing and not him dragging her around the stage like it was Weekend at Bernie's.
2) Then I thought, what kind of crap show is this DWTS? Who does air guitar in the middle of a tango? I used to watch SYTYCD, which so outstrips this lame production. And while I enjoyed the dance, was it really a tango? And why were they wearing civil war outfits instead of tango outfits? Was this show ALWAYS this bad or did it just evolve into this?
3) I heard from the comments that they received high scores. Really? Now it's obvious to me this is all slanted in her favor. Yes, she did well, but this is the product she should have put out in week one. The bar was lower than Kardashian cleavage.
4) She will win the competition.
5) She may or may not be pregnant. And who cares. Preggers or not, she'll grift her way up the ladder just like her mother.
6) Sidebar note: Hillary Duff has a top 10 best selling book on the NYT list. Let me say that again: Hillary Duff. So it just goes to show you, if they want to promote you and propel you, then upward you will go. Somewhere in California there is a ditzy blonde who thinks she is a novelist, while in another part of town there's a chunky brunette who is convinced she can dance the tango.
Not sure if she's pregnant or not. But what I do know is she is the first contestant on DTWS that has actually gotten bigger each week!!
ReplyDeleteI think because the judges expect so little from her, that when she does perform without a major gaffe, they are shocked and praise her. Kind of like the expectations for her mother during the VP debate. These 2 females alone are setting women back 50 years!!
Would poltically ambitious Sarah allow her still unmarried teen (now 20) to show her again pregnant body on national TV while she is a national spokesperson for abstinence? Really?
ReplyDeleteEven for Sarah that's amazing, but I believe it is true.
Bristol is overweight. She has the stomach of a woman who has had 2 babies in very quick order. The muscles are stretched out. Pictures of her with huge bags of McD's point to a poor diet. I think she's a binge eater, which would account for the puffy face. I personally think DWTS is playing the "is she pregnant or not" to the hilt. What better way to get viewers?
ReplyDeleteWhat was that outfit she was wearing? Sgt. Preggers Lonely Hearts Club Band? She looked like a Purple Porker. Whatever is happening, it is not pretty. Kudos again to the costuming department. Must be a real challenge to cover up the burgeoning Bristol.
ReplyDeleteThere were some very funny unscripted/unchoreographed moments if you caught them: in the footage shown during the show of the dance after last Tuesday's broadcast, in which all the couples danced as they would in the free dance last night, you can see Mark clearly dragging her across the dance floor - he's dancing and she's just sort of lumbering. as she follows him, walking badly. When the bots put her over the top and she wins this thing, the awesomely destructive power of the Palin psychosis will finally be revealed, hah!
ReplyDeleteTechnically executed. She did rather well since she had to hang onto Mark for dear life. But for that one moment where they broke free and did that air guitar part - criiinnnggggeeeee. She quit halfway and had to start up again in order to keep up with Mark.
ReplyDeleteAnd they just HAD to bring in the pyrotechnics and shots of steam in order to make the routine exciting. Staging was important to juice of Bristol's appeal.
I must say, yeah, she looked like a stuffed purple sausage, but the slit all the way up her leg made it attractive. And her face, make-up and hair was pretty.
That song was horrible.
ReplyDeleteDWTS is contriving guest artist appearances and forcing incongruous songs for selection.
This is the first time I watched one of her performances. In rehearsal, she looked like she could be noticeably pregnant. Not pg enough to have been pg last May, but definitely pg. (I have two neighbors who are 6 and 8 months pg. I didn't know in May/June about the pg, you couldn't notice the bellies then but you can't miss those bellies now.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, too: I am an apple-shaped woman. If I were dancing for even one hour a day every day for weeks, the first thing to go would be my belly. So I don't really buy the emotional eating thing. She's have to be downing Krispie Kremes like the pre-lap band Al Roker (3 dozen a day, I think he ate) to keep her weight up.
What I don't understand is how the belly can be held in by girdles if she is pregnant.
Bristol's weight is low, ab fat. With Tripp, her belly roundness began just below her boobs, which ballooned, and curved perfectly down. That weight in the video is the same placement as those 2007 xmas photos. Bristol was not pregnant in 2007.
ReplyDeleteAnon 3:25 - you totally nailed it. Outie alert! Sorry folks, you don't get an outie from being overweight. she is definitely pregnant.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that was noticeable, she was quite winded when they were chatting with that lady afterward. Not unreasonable, many times the contestants are winded, but if you listen to her voice it's pitched quite high as if she can't catch a breath at all. I think they have her in the tightest possible girdle and she cannot breathe. In front of the judges they had her partner with his arms crossing her torso at every opportunity again; that's a very static and potentially exposed moment for her in each show. The lighting is very bright out on that dance floor. Also, you'll notice they kept the shot of her high at that point, mostly bust/shoulders and upward.
ReplyDeleteThe clips of the rehearsal process show her tugging at her sweater/hoodie zipper often, trying to pull it away from her body. The oversweaters distract with downward diagonal lines, and most shots of her are extremely fleeting. The few you can catch are very suspicious.
The dance costume yet again is brilliant, and they used similar designs for the other contestants interestingly. That cutaway long skirt has a fullness and lots of movement to distract from her middle. Long diagonal lines make her middle look thinner. The horizontal lines on the bodice are meant to confuse the eye, as well. But, if you really catch her outline at points as she is dancing you can see a high bulge under her chest, to me probably the unnatural result of binding her torso. They are able to make her abdomen look fairly flat, so they are showing it and capitalizing on that as much as possible. Just as they did with the leotard/white shirt number - Bristol even reminded people of it, you'll notice.
One more week will not make or break her in terms of revealing anything. I think they want to make this look like as honest an effort as possible, and I don't know how much extra $$$ she is earning with each round.
Thanks to 3:25
ReplyDeleteBut if you look at 4:36 (side profile, very quick) you see even a bigger belly.
Oh, she WAS thin last spring, so this can't be the whole 2 babies in quick succession thing.
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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8
at 4:37
pregnant!
(kudos to the costume and camera people, however)"
You said it, Anon @7:04. These costume people are freaking geniuses.
ReplyDeleteTHE FIX IS DEFINITELY IN!
ReplyDeleteOne can only wonder how much it cost Sara PAC (in consultant fees of course through Bristol's front company!) for all of the outragiously unwarented, lavish flattery the DWTS judges slathered on Bristols pathetic excuse for a Tango. Do the judges get paid by the word? the score? in cash? other benefits?
What an insult this whole fiasco is to the RILL STARS who not only went to the trouble to actually practice the Tango but wore appropriate costumes as well!
I hope the truth will be exposed soon so that the hard working and hard practicing dancers will be justified and compensated for being cheated!
This was supposed to be a TANGO????
ReplyDeleteShe was wrapped up like a tightrope (above), but the belly bulged out beneath it all anyway - at least a LITTLE bit...
There is a tape of Bristol and that Mark, is it, talking to an interviewer after they do the rock 'n roll thing. You can tell Bristol feels safe in that extra green layer, it's blousy enough to cover up any telling body lines.
ReplyDeleteIn reference to SP above, they make sure to talk about Bristol's mother. She supposedly dropped by their rehearsals earlier that day, Tripp and Trig played together, Sarah told Bristol she'd better "bring it", and Bristol reassured the woman that she thought her mother would be coming to another show.
Sarah Palin will never stop exploiting her children. Never. Someone needs to bring her down...
With the violent behavior of these Tea Party maniacs, it is becoming more urgent than ever that Sarah Palin be discredited as their cheerleader. Get her out of our lives, please!
"You know if they had bound up the levees as tightly as Bristol is strapped in New Orleans would have stayed high and dry."
ReplyDeleteCould Mark Ballas possibly strap himself any tighter to Bristol to conceal her belly??
If you have tivoed and do a slow motion frame by frame look at the costume that Bristol wears for the marathon, you can see that the top and bottom are one piece with a zipper going down the front past the big belt. So the belt hangs a couple of inches below the belly line where the green fabric meets the black fabric. The belt has a big buckle that protrudes.
ReplyDeleteYou can see this at the end when Brandi and Maks are standing in front of Bristol who is standing on the stage while they are on the floor. You really do have to give it to the costumers for their brilliance in trying to make that whole area smaller, baby or not?
Notice too that during the marathon dance we didn't see Mark try to lift her or have her do anything too strenuous. Mark jumped over her at one point but that was it. You would have thought since they could do lifts Mark have done something ambitious but their dance was very "careful".
Completely insane, but I am beginning, at week 7 of DWTS to think she is preggers.
ReplyDeleteAfter 7 weeks of dancing, a young attractive girl with money to spend in one of the glamor capitals of the world should be looking FABULOUS.
The frantic voting of the Pebots to keep the Palin name afloat may backfire, if Grifter Jr. keeps getting rounder and rounder.
This whole family is just unbelievable.
OK, I wasn't giving the preggers stuff much real consideration, but in the rehearsal vids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8
ReplyDelete@ 49, 56, 58, 120-22, holy crap. She's either expecting a baby or a giant quarterpounder - with cheese.
I too think she's pregnant and that the show has to be involved in the cover-up. What I can't fathom is how the Palins arranged this lie/scam with DWTS knowing that they would've had to admit the truth then get the show's buy-in to take Bristol on the show and work around "the problem"! It certainly explains why all the other contestants had to sign a nondisclosure document about any info pertaining to Bristol, which is totally bizarre. And what will be the repercussions to the show when it is all revealed?
ReplyDeleteSomething is definitely up and I'd expect "rumors" to leak by some former castmates/employees of the show. I'm also waiting for some juicy tidbits from the TLC crew and people involved in the show, even though they probably have a "can't tell the truth" agreement too.
from the rehearsal video, she's either pregnant or padded to look pregnant so the whole controversy can continue to build the ratings (and the judges will continue talking her up for the same reason)
ReplyDeleteCheck out the video at 57-59, as she makes a turn. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyNb5TReU8)
ReplyDeleteHer belly is huge. In fact, if you slow the video down every time she makes a turn, you can see the belly bulge.
"the show continues to give the bristol "with child" a total dance pass - "
ReplyDeleteThey may be giving her a pass BECAUSE SHE IS "WITH CHILD." If only they would tell us. If you include her claim to fame, her past and also you know that she is pregnant you might give her a dance pass as well. I don't see how DWTS can go on pretending that she is competing with the other dancers. You can see they are not being coddled to such extremes. It would be far more interesting if DWTS would discuss how they try and trick the eye with costume design to hide the belly, the dance routines that cover her and which stage gimmicks they think are most distracting. That was the worst air guitar ever, how can they pretend it was some amazing moment in dance that redeems her as a dancer?
There is no doubt that all reality show genre is rigged and scripted. DWTS goes all out to fake a competition and they are fooling people with that scam as they ruin dance and the pros that are on the show. I would think they would call foul to being used in a televised hoax. DWTS really must be called out. They are worse than other scams because with Bristol they are targeting the youth and promoting the fantasy that Bristol is an activist. The bottom line, this is POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, NOT ENTERTAINMENT. Shame on ABC and all.
The opening clips of Monday's performance are odd - you see Mark and his partner, but not his partners face.
ReplyDeleteSee seconds 35-36 of this video:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/188175/dancing-with-the-stars-week-6-part-1
There are full body shots of Mark and his upside down partner, and that woman's face is comptetely, 100% blurred out.
If Mark's partner was Bristol for this demonstration, why would ABC blur out her face? Why not make it 100% clear that it is 'hard working' Bristol practicing this step? Why instead blur out the dancers face and speed up the tape right at the moment?
There is absolutely no reason for this, unless ABC is trying to hide the fact that Mark is not dancing with Bristol in this shot while at the same time wanting it look like it is her.
And that move is absolutely not one that a pregnant woman could perform. Upside down, spread eagled and spun around while being grippped tightly around her waist? Only if she wanted to trigger morning sickness and/or lose the baby.
So why is ABC making it look like Bristol is doing these kinds of moves? Are they try to help out in combatting the pregnancy rumors? Or trying to make her look like a better dancer than she really is in order to justify her continued presence on the show?
One other thing, it looks like his partner for this shot has a whole lot of padding on her torso. Look at the way the padding bulges out above where Mark has cinched her stomach with his arms.
Is anyone able to make screen captures of the 35-36 seconds of this video? They'd be really interesting to see one right after another.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/188175/dancing-with-the-stars-week-6-part-1