Pure Derek Hough

Please, everybody, vote. Don’t make me choose because there are too many good ones.   To vote, put the picture name of your selection in the comments, or email me at heidi@purederekhough.com – whichever you prefer.

ETA: Voting Deadline is Saturday at 7 pm Central time.  :-)

Cute Audio Interview with Brooke Burke – Access Hollywood Thanks to Corinna_Iowa on Twitter!

Maybe this is a good sign??  Maybe?? Get it out of the way early? Nothing too serious. Thank god. Be safe, kids!! From Access Hollywood:

LOS ANGELES, Calif. –

Derek Hough got a little more than he bargained for with his new “Dancing with the Stars” partner Nicole Scherzinger.

The Pussycat Dolls singer left Derek with a cut on his face after accidentally kicking him during rehearsal for the show’s Season 10 premiere on ABC on March 22.

Derek told Billy Bush, who stopped by the studio for an interview with the ballroom pair on Thursday, that Nicole’s kick barely missed his eye.

It’s that time of the year, gang – time to get organized. Now, Nicole has 50 plus thousand followers on twitter and I have no idea how many of them are clued in to voting on DWTS. So this is for them and for any new DWTS/Derek fans. There is a page on the Official DWTS Web page that explains voting, but they leave a few things out. Now, provided they haven’t changed anything (and I couldn’t find the voting page to check) here’s how it goes:

1. Vote by Phone, number of votes per phone is usually equivalent to the number of dancers.  So, on the first night (if they do voting on the first night) you get 11 votes per phone.  PER PHONE, people. Your cell phone, your boyfriend’s cell phone, your home phone….you get the picture. You only have until 30 minutes until after the show ends to get your phone votes in – but you can start as soon as the show starts. Hopefully either Derek or Nicole will tweet their number BEFORE the show starts. Start early because it’s impossible once the show ends.
2. Vote On-line during and after the show….and till noon eastern time the next morning.  Now, you only get as many votes online as there are dancers… PER EMAIL address!!  So, what do we do? We make more email addresses.  Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever.  Guess what else – you can vote again using the same email addresses the next morning, or even after a period of time that night.

Did I leave anything out, Derek fans??  If you have problems voting by phone – like they say you’ve already voted all your votes using that phone and you know it’s not true – KEEP TRYING because there is a glitch in the system that makes that message says you’ve already voted play if the phone lines are overloaded. On-line issues? Close your browser and clear your cookies. If that doesn’t work, try a different browser, like Firefox or Google chrome or some such thing.  Don’t give up!!

A little more than a week before the show starts – begin organizing your email addresses (and creating new ones, and registering them with DWTS.com).

MOST OF ALL – don’t ASSume that Derek and Nicole will be safe due to a high score.  That is more true right at the beginning, but it’s not fool proof. I did a big write up on scores on PDWTS. Read it. Remember it.  Why? Because we don’t want to see THIS again before the final:

We want to see LOTS OF THIS:

Just a bit on them – it’s on the casting process on the show which I thought was interesting.  :-)

You’ve heard of Design a Dance, now we have Design a Tee (shirt).  One that says Team HoughZinger.  If you want, you can steal Derek’s earlier tweet and do one that says Vote Team D-Zing as well. You saw that Derek and Joanna wore team shirts last season and I would like to see Derek and Nicole do the same. I think it fosters the old team spirit.

Here’s how it will work:

1. Do a SIMPLE design and submit it to heidi@purederekhough.com by Thursday at 7 pm Central time. Keep in mind that it will go on a tee shirt and that to keep the cost down while still looking cool it has to be relatively simple and in only two colors.  See the existing shirts at zazzle.com DO NOT TWEET IT TO ME. Email is your friend. Yes, you can do more than one if you so desire.
2. Once I get the designs I will post them on the site and you get to VOTE on your favorite. Keep an eye on the site because you will have 24 hours to vote.
3. The winning design will be submitted to zazzle.
4. I will do my very best to make sure Derek gets the tee shirts with a little note saying who designed them.  Keep in mind that I will be relying on others to make sure he gets them in a timely manner, so I can’t promise.

Now, get to work.

Two things – I DID read that Lacey got a correspondent job for E!  Congrats, girl! And – I complained too soon about having to wait for Derek/Nicole press!  Now, off to set the Tivo – The Daily 10 is one show I don’t have programed.

This is all I got. The boy is, for some strange reason, laying low.  Boo. He even had a chance to go to the E! Oscar After party and passed it up.  I would have too, I guess.

That’s what I thought when I saw this picture from mrpoplife.

Love this picture!

The Nashville Predators WON!! Yay!! But now I have a sore throat and I just want to go to bed. Of course I missed some stuff while I was out having fun.

First – Derek’s picture.  Were people maligning this picture on twitter? What the hell is wrong with them?? I love it. He is really maturing beautifully.

Then there are a bunch of photos of he and Nicole out to lunch today, from WENN. Click the link. He really looks fabulous when he’s had a chance to rest a bit.

A few more lovely pictures: