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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:
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.
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:
GO TEAM!! Just had to get that out there. I also have to say – don’t get too cocky folks, we’re still going to have to work hard and vote like crazy. And don’t tell me you aren’t getting too confident – I see many of you on Twitter. We are up against a hot dude who won an Olympic Gold Medal less than two weeks ago!! Among other potential hot dancers. That said – this is an awesome team!! I worked a 12 hour day today, so I’ll try to be brief.
PopTV is at it again! I think they missed the DWTS peeps. Nicole is near the beginning in this one and Derek is near the end.
Here is similar video of Derek only from another Photog
Derek and Nicole, from Nicole’s Twitter – GORGEOUS team. Derek is a lucky guy, for sure.
There is already a lot of press, but I’ve been working since 8 am – yes, that’s right. Working. Boo. In any case, I’ll do a wrap up of some sort tomorrow and start ramping up the cheerleading!!!
This is a really good one – I’m really getting excited for the new season now. Thanks to DJ for pointing me to this video by alleyi03!
Love the song, and I didn’t even recognize Adam Lambert’s voice, which isn’t surprising since RCA group has a tendency to render their artists unrecognizable. Still a great song though.
Created by Crisnicka on YouTube, I saw this yesterday and thought it was a really nice video about Lil’ Kim’s time on DWTS with Derek – I think that she and Joanna tie for my favorite Derek partners, for different reasons. They both brought out interesting sides to him and he was much more relaxed these last two seasons than he had been previously. Or that’s the way it seemed to me.
I like the song too. And I’m not normally a JT fan.
Yeah, this pro dance doesn’t have enough Derek dancing, generally, for my taste, but it does show one of my favorite bits of all pro dances. At 2:22 Derek and Julianne – very striking. All that blond hair – and Derek looks about a foot taller than he actually is. Something about the way he dances – very big, very masculine. He always is, but something about this dance I love – I can’t really explain it.
Huge thanks to everyone who’s been tweeting me pics or leaving links in the comments, I’m not going to name you all for fear of forgetting someone. I REALLY appreciate it, since I am still working longer hours – which leaves me not as much time to search for everything. Special thanks to Donamadrina – she was my partner in crime last night trying to pull all the stuff together. Makes it easier – and more enjoyable. I have more time to LOOK at stuff. If you know what I mean, and I think you do.
First is this one – Derek and Cheryl are only at the very beginning. Lance and Lacey are later in the video if you’re interested.
An interview with Maximo TV – yep, cuter every day. And on his way to London as I type. :::sigh::: He better not leave us in the dark for too much longer. I’m not the patient type. Derek, Mark, Lacey, Gilles, Jonathan, Anna T., and Cheryl (and Kenny Ortega) are in this one, in addition to lots of other people. You can hear Derek talking in the background at the end.
…and possibly the series, in my not so humble opinion. ABC put up the high definition version of Joanna and Derek’s futuristic paso doble, so I figured I would post it here for our viewing pleasure. Side note – I was out last night with some friends who have watched DWTS since the first season and they also said they thought it might have been the best dance they’d seen on this show.
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. 
