Shannon Elizabeth Report: Week 1

March 21, 2008

The sixth season of Dancing with the Stars got under way this week with actress and poker player Shannon Elizabeth stepping away from the card table and onto the dance floor. Stay tuned to PokerListings.com each week to see how she fares in the competition against fellow celebrities.

Dancing with the Stars made its season debut Monday night with the six male celebrities taking to the dance floor first and the women watching and waiting for their turn on Tuesday.

Though the first night was all “Muscle Monday” with the men, that doesn’t mean Shannon Elizabeth didn’t make her presence known. During a little quick question-and-answer session with the ladies, it was revealed that, in true poker-player fashion, Elizabeth was making bets with some of the male dance partners about what the male celebrities’ scores would be.

By her own admission, she was winning the bets. Hopefully she’ll be just as talented at figuring out the dances themselves and not just the scores. She got her opportunity to show what she can do as the first woman to perform on Tuesday.

Usually being the first to perform puts a performer at an automatic disadvantage. Even if you do well, there’s still the possibility that the judges are going to want to give a more moderate score to leave room for better or worse performers after you.

In this case, the judges may have been a bit generous for Elizabeth’s first performance. She performed the cha-cha, and probably the best thing going for her in the dance was that she had rhythm and knew how to work the sex-appeal angle.

There were some issues with her footwork and while her long legs and arms should eventually be an advantage (especially if she continues to wear micro-minis whenever possible), on her first night out they appeared to be flailing about at times, as if she didn’t have complete control of them.

As one judge put it, if she’s going to wear something that makes her legs the center of attention, she’s going to need to work on making them very straight and ensuring that they look right.

Overall, Elizabeth had a decent first dance on the show and it’s to be hoped she’ll demonstrate more practice, a little refinement and more ease on the dance floor in her next appearance. As it was, at times she looked like she was really concentrating on the moves rather than enjoying the dance.

Her panic over her mistakes once the dance was over could also make her more endearing to viewers, perhaps getting them to vote for her. She may need any help she can get in that area since her main fan base is the young males who salivated over her in American Pie, and those aren’t exactly the type of viewers Dancing with the Stars gets.

Shannon Elizabeth Report: Week 1

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