Cover your eyes!

While watching Dancing with the Stars, one can expect some of the celebrity dancers to be less than amazing because they haven't trained all their lives to be dancers, and they are not known as dancers. But wouldn't you expect someone who is featured as a guest professional dancer on the show to be pretty good?

I would think so, but last night's Macy's Stars of Dance performance of The Pussycat Dolls featuring Carmen Electra was anything but amazing. The actual Dolls did great, and I could tell they were trained dancers. Miss Electra [Tara Leigh Patrick is her human name] was not. This highly disappoints me. She's known for being naked being an actor and dancer. But it disappoints me that what she's known for, she's not very good at.

Allow me to be the snobby ballet dancer I've been brainwashed trained to be. Sure, she has rhythm and can keep the beat, but she doesn't have the fundamentals. She didn't turn out her legs and feet; she didn't finish her movements; she doesn't have nice lines; she doesn't even have the stage presence of a great dancer - I found myself watching the other Dolls more than "the feature." Take a ballet class, Carmen!

The routine, choreographed by Lindsley Allen, was actually very cute. It was entertaining and fitting of the Vegas-esque nature of the PCDs. I just think that Electra didn't add much flare. It makes me sad that she's known for dance more than most professional dancers. She does not have the talent and natural abilities that it takes to be a professional dancer. I guarantee that if she walked into a professional dance company to audition as Tara Leigh Patrick, she would not make it through the first cut.


Gilles Marini is my pick to win it all! He is fantastic - and yummy too!