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.

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:

Just a few, very short little videos – some with Mark and Chelsie also.

Sounds to me like Derek and Chelsie were told they were going to be on the show, but were told not to say.

Whoo Hoo!! Cutie pie. But – this puts a different spin on his participation. He says he will “probably” be on. Eeep. I’m not too worried – I think they told him and Chelsie both that they had partners for them but were working on contracts.

From the Emmys – good job Katie Krause, you got a good, sweet answer out of Derek.  Radar Online doesn’t allow embedding – but I think I just figured out how to do it- I recommend watching it in full screen. Yum.  Let me know if this doesn’t work.  OH, and keep watching after Derek’s first comment. He comes back at least once – they alternate him and Chelsie.

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….deja vu, with the key difference of a WIN (or two).

This is from near the end of DWTS – just a cute little call out to GoTV.

You had to know this was going to come up, right??

Lil’ Kim and Derek TV Guide Interview – this is the video that got the votes, but I had to dig up the longer ones too.

Ahhhh….The Derek/Joanna Interview. No one can convince me that he didn’t have a rather large crush on Joanna.