Dancing with the Stars: The Real Celebrity Rehab Gets D-Listers' Careers Back in the Swing

amp160On the real amp8220celebrity rehabamp8221 the Dlist stars arenamp8217t addicted to drugs and boozeamp8212theyamp8217re high on the tango chacha and paso doble ABCamp8217s toprated Dancing with the Stars is proving to be the best kind of career rehab for singers actors radio and talk show hosts and Broadway performers whose careers have stalledamp160Would Marie Osmond be prepping a new talk show if she hadnamp8217t pared off 40 pounds while pussyfooting around the dance floor on the show last season For that matter would her brother Donnie be cohosting infotainment shows if he hadnamp8217t attached himself to Marieamp8217s sparkly hemline and inserted his smiley mug on each of her appearances on DWTSamp160By fainting after a strenuous trot around the dancefloor Marie actually revived her singing hosting and whateverelseing career Besides the talk show plans she also landed a diet system commercial pageant hosting job and a couple of TV specials with her doddering brothersamp160Marlee Matlin owns an Oscar but as an over40 actress whoamp8217d taken some time off to have four kids sheamp8217d been reduced to Lifetime movies and guest gigs on crime shows before she signed on to DWTS amp160Adam Carolla has been a radio star for years but heamp8217d been a bust on TV after a failed talk show a blipanditwasgone cable DIY series and the nowdefunct puppetprank show Crank Yankers on Comedy Central Then he slimmed down and partnered with twotime DWTS winner Julianne Hough to dance He lasted about six weeks on the showamp8212the only contestant ever to incorporate a unicycle into a routineamp8212but it was long enough to promote his first feature film The Hammer due out on DVD in June and to snag a national Taco Bell campaignamp160Marissa Jaret Winokur was known to Broadway fans for her Tonywinning role as Tracy Turnblad in the original cast of the musical Hairspray But by making it to the top four on this seasonamp8217s DWTS sheamp8217s gotten her name in the headlines of the TV columns and probably reminded Broadway producers and sitcom creators of her considerable talent amp160Christian de la Fuente Mario Jason Taylor Shannon Elizabethamp8212all had their fans before DWTS But they were niche performers Now their names are known to a much wider audience And if the surprisingly graceful Taylor a player for the Miami Dolphins follows fellow NFL star Emmitt Smith into the winnersamp8217 circle on DWTS watch for him to be launch side careers that involve talk shows commercials fashion lines and maybe even movie roles amp160Almost every star who does well on Dancing with the Stars sees a healthy boost in public profile Jane Seymour and Priscilla Presley used their appearances to prove that being over 50 or in Presleyamp8217s case 60 can still be cougarrific Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova may have been voted out first on last seasonamp8217s DWTS but right after that she quickly landed a job as a panel judge at Americaamp8217s Next Top Modelamp160Jerry Springer arguably one of the leastliked daytime talk hosts in TV history showed a sweetly sentimental vulnerability when he learned to dance for his daughteramp8217s weddingamp8212and used that to propel himself through many rounds of DWTS In doing so Springer waltzed into a whole new much more likable public personaamp160Then there are the amp8220starsamp8221 whose DWTS stints havenamp8217t rehabbed their images as much as they probably would have liked George Hamilton Heather Mills Wayne Newton Penn Jillette to name a fewamp160Now there are celebs champing at the bit to get their careers back in gear by lacing up some dancing shoes Look for Marilu Henner and Paula Abdul to vie for the disco ball trophy next season And if they really want to rehab their tarnished images maybe Michael amp8220Krameramp8221 Richards Danny Bonaduce and Star Jones should put a foxtrot in their futuresamp160amp160

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