Pure Derek Hough

From Access Hollywood:

LOS ANGELES, Calif. –

On this season’s “Dancing with the Stars,” Brandy and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be the champs… at least, according to a popular oddsmaker.

The folks at Bodog.com have tapped Brandy and Maksim as the early favorites to waltz away with the mirrorball trophy this season, giving them 3:1 odds to win it all.

But don’t engrave Brandy and Maks’ names on the trophy just yet.

Former “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey and two-time “DWTS” champ Derek Hough not only were given the second best odds, at 7:2, but the duo trumped the field as the AH Nation’s pick as the early favorite to two-step their way to victory, claiming 38 percent of the vote in our recent poll.

This cracks me up, also from Access Hollywood:

Unfair advantage?

The Insider:

via The Insider

Some paparazzi video with quite a few different people – warning, it’s long. Hasselhoff = HAM. Derek and Jennifer are in this in a few different places.

There’s some of everyone at Entertainment Tonight! The second one is from TeamDerekHough on Twitter.

Lookin’ pretty good. There are a bunch at Getty, I’ve posted a couple, below.

Whoo Hoo! I’m getting excited about this season – looks like it could be fun! I’ve been working pretty hard on PureDWTS, where you can read more about the show as a whole.

If you want to follow Jennifer on twitter, she is @therealjgrey – show her some love. Plus, she’s hilarious.

There’s a picture of Derek and Jennifer together in the UK Tabloid crud (at least they’re good for something, eh?).

Here’s Jennifer from the other night

Seriously. First, here is a paparazzi video that has Derek in it (hood and all) early on and at the 8 minute mark – and the boy does not seem happy. I miss happy jokey Derek, frankly. I’m sure he’s in there somewhere, but he’s gotten too cautious. Poor baby.

Thanks to @BewitchBallas for a few new pictures from Extreme Makeover Home Edition:

Another gorgeous shot from the ET Emmy After Party:

Nice hoodie, babe. Very cute.

Thanks to Emscott on twitter for finding this one and tweeting it. It’s lovely.

He went to the party and he looks fab.  Thanks to Dee for sending me the picture. Hopefully there will be more later.

ETA: Swooon!!

Saw this some time ago, but I’ve been spending much of my time on PureDWTS – for obvious reasons – so I kind of forgot about it. Not to mention that Derek ain’t giving me anything to work with right now.

From Life:

….Jennifer Grey. We think. And E! News thinks so too. Jennifer is only following her husband and Derek on Twitter and E! News says she’s got the D-man. Thanks to everyone who sent me this – I’ve been so busy with PureDWTS that I’ve been neglecting the boy just a bit. That’s okay, he’s been neglecting us for MONTHS.

Dancing With the Stars Sources Confirm Margaret Cho and Jennifer Grey—Guess Which One Gets Derek Hough?

I broke the news yesterday that teen mom Bristol Palin will be a Dancing With the Stars contestant, and now a source confirms to me that comedian Margaret Cho and actress Jennifer Grey are also among the celebrities who will be tangoing across the DWTS floor this year.

Plus, fan-favorite pro dancer Derek Hough is back and paired with one of the girls above. So, who is the lucky lady?

Nobody puts her in a corner!

Yes, after first learning to cha-cha from the late Patrick Swayze onscreen in Dirty Dancing, now she gets hooked up with dreamboat Derek Hough on DWTS. What a lucky lady.

Lucky lady indeed!!! The picture they used of Derek was from when he was sick on his 24th birthday. Remember? He still looked hot, IMO.