Conservative news show host:
From Wikpidia:
"Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969 in San Francisco, California) is a pundit who currently hosts Tucker, a national television news show, which is broadcast weekdays at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
Carlson is generally considered one of the most recognizable conservative media personalties on American television."
My personal notes: On the air, he presented a very laid back personality. He was the one who spent 1/2 of his dance sitting in a chair, and the judges commented that the sitting was the best part of his dance!
PS Just discovered additional notes on Wikipedia specifically related to Dancing With the Stars and Tucker:
"August 14, 2006, the ABC television network announced that Carlson would be a participant in its Fall 2006 Dancing with the Stars reality show. Carlson reportedly took four-hour-a-day ballroom dance classes in preparation for the competition, and mourned of "missed classes" during an MSNBC assignment in Lebanon. "It's hard for me to remember the moves," he stated. When asked why he accepted ABC's invitation to perform, Carlson responded, "I'm not defending it as the smartest choice, but I think it's the most interesting. I think if you sat back and tried to plan my career, you might not choose this. But my only criterion is the interest level. I want to lead an interesting life." He concluded, "I'm 37. I've got four kids. I have a steady job. I don't do things that I'm not good at very often. I'm psyched to get to do that."
The gambling site BetBet placed Carlson's odds of winning the competition at 15:1. Jerry Springer was ranked as having the longest odds of winning, at 30:1.
Carlson was voted off on September 13. His performance on the previous night was the lowest ranked among the judges; the low score resulted from him spending much of the performance sitting down in a chair. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, at the end of his show that night, said of Carlson's performance: "Any dance a man spends part of which in a chair is, by definition, a lap dance!"
At the close of the show Carlson said: “Teaching me (to dance) is like Einstein teaching a slow child math.”
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DANCING WITH THE STARS....
Season 3
Season three (premiered September 12, 2006) expanded from ten couples to eleven. Celebrity participants were:
* Tucker Carlson, political pundit/MSNBC news anchor – partner Elena Grinenko (eliminated first)
* Shanna Moakler, beauty queen/reality television star - partner Jesse DeSoto (eliminated second)
* Harry Hamlin, actor – partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated third)
* Vivica A. Fox, actress – partner Nick Kosovich (eliminated fourth)
* Willa Ford, singer - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy (eliminated fifth)
* Sara Evans, singer - partner Tony Dovolani (withdrew during sixth week)
* Jerry Springer, talk show host/former politician – partner Kym Johnson (former champion of Australian version of Dancing with the Stars) (eliminated sixth)
* Monique Coleman, actress - partner Louis van Amstel (eliminated seventh)
* Joey Lawrence, actor – partner Edyta Sliwinska (eliminated eighth)
* Mario Lopez, actor/TV host – partner Karina Smirnoff (runners-up)
* Emmitt Smith, NFL running back – partner Cheryl Burke (winners)
* As part of Slim Fast Dance Challenge: Tysonia Sichinga and Christian Perry
2006-12-09 18:42:37
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answered by Anonymous
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