Saturday, November 6, 2010
I'm not sure how I feel about the dissonance of having this on a show that's basically about traditional ballroom dance. It doesn't really work for me. It would be interesting to get a candid take from Len Goodman, the stuffy judge from the American version of the show. Aw crap, who am I kidding? Like I give a crap about the sanctity of traditional ballroom dance. Pfft. Who cares? I admit, I watch Dancing With The Stars, but I usually get bored about four or five episodes in. Besides, the dance is beside the point. This is a political blog (mostly). May the surrounding Arab nations look on in mortified impotent jealous rage...Same-sex partners perform on 'Dancing with the Stars'
It might be the only time Pamela Anderson is ever going to be upstaged.
The flamboyant ex-Baywatch star and pinup girl is arriving in Israel this week as a guest performer on Channel 2's Dancing With The Stars, but, on last week's episode, all eyes were on contestants Gili Shem Tov and Dorit Milman.
They became the first same-sex dance partners in the history of the show, since the format was launched in 2004 as the British program Strictly Come Dancing.
Since then, some 30 countries have spun off their own versions of the show, including Israel in 2005. But none of the formats - from Albania to Vietnam - have ever featured same-sex partners.
Shem Tov, an openly gay TV sportscaster who has a son and lives with a female partner, and Milman, a professional dancer, performed a cha-cha dressed in matching, semi-transparent outfits with fishnet tights on the show's premier telecast this week, as they competed against 11 other couples...
Video and pics: First same-sex couple compete on Israel's Strictly Come Dancing as lesbian TV anchor insists on female partner and here Israeli Dancing with the Stars makes a gay statement
I dig shorty, BTW.
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"...although a few people had said a program watched by children should not show two women dancing together."
That's an odd comment to make considering that in ultra orthodox celebrations, where the sexes are segregated, women dance with women, and men dance with men, all the time.
Noga, You seem to be misinformed. I don't think Orthodox Jews ballroom/tango dance with each other as the same sex couples did in this video.
I believe they do a circle dance, a Hora, like the one depicted in Fiddler on the Roof.