"Dancing with the Stars" Season of Drama

By Jessica Caswell

“Dancing with the Stars” is only half way through the season and it already has enough drama to fill seasons to come.

So far this season there has been six injuries.

• Model Brooke Burke and soap opera legend Susan Lucci both have foot injuries.

• Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor dropped out of the competition because she ruptured her Achilles tendon. 

• Comedian Jeffrey Ross suffered a corneal abrasion when his partner Edyta Slwinka poked his eye out during a rehearsal for the live show.

• Professional dancer Derek Hough was rushed to hospital when he fell causing him to black out during a rehearsal.

• Last but not least, his sister Julianne Hough was also taken to the emergency room for stomach pains last week.

With so many injuries you would think this was an injury list for a professional football team and not a ballroom dancing competition.

There's  other drama for the show surrounding the 82-year-old fireball Cloris Leachman. 

People are surprised that Leachman has lasted this long because she’s not as skilled as the other celebrities.

''We thought it would be fun to have Cloris on and expected her to maybe make it through one or two weeks. But now it's gone from people being amused- similar to the way it was with Jerry Springer- to being downright concerned,'' said a staffer to the Chicago Sun Times.

She did the tango two weeks ago and that was the first time the judges thought they actually saw the elements of a ballroom dance from her.

Leachman is also unpredictable during the live show saying things like, “skanky hoe” and “bitch” for the entire world to hear.

People from the show are a tired of her kooky antics too according to the Chicago Sun Times.

A source who’s been working for the show since the beginning told the Chicago Sun Times that Lucci and host Samantha Harris are tired of her obnoxious shtick.

Last week, Harris snapped at Leachman for interrupting an interview she was trying to conduct with kids competing to win the junior competition of “Dancing with the Stars.”

“Stay away from the kids,” Harris told Leachman while on the air.

“After we were off the air, Samantha, Susan and a lot of others were saying they had had it with Cloris,” the source said.

With an anonymous source telling the Chicago Sun Times these rumors we’ll never truly know if the accusations from Harris and Lucci are true but, it’s no secret that the competition is about ballroom dancing and Leachman is not at level of the other celebrities.

She’s great at entertaining but, not at ballroom dancing. People shouldn’t really be surprised though, knowing that she’s 82-years-old.

Maybe America should give Leachman a break. We should applaud her for joining the competition and lasting this long. 

With the competition only half way through we’ll have to wait and see what other drama is in store. Surely, Leachman will have more in-your-face humor for us to see Monday night when the final seven celebrities compete in a group routine, as well as learning a new dance.

UPDATE: Julianne Hough will be going into surgery to treat endometriosis. She'll have her appendix removed tomorrow and hopes to back to dance next week. While gone, Edyta Silwinska will take her place with her partner, Cody Linley.