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On Monday night, Latin and the ballroom came together in one big explosion of fringe and ruffles and male shirtlessness. But who didn’t share their respective bon-bons quite hard enough?

Rock Week continued on Tuesday’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ elimination, when Kiss did yet another live performance and one contestant hung up their dancing shoes for good. Whose bare feet pitter-pattered out of the ballroom?

It’s Rock Week on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and with two performances from 70s kabuki-rockers Kiss planned for Monday and Tuesday, the whole ballroom is abuzz. Even the ‘DWTS’ logo has been Kiss-ified. Host Tom Bergeron says we’re gonna “rock out with our lockstep out,” which isn’t at all how that saying goes but hey, kids are watching so we’ll let it go.

We lost Martina Navratilova from the competition last week, which we hope means she’s relaxing at home with all of her Wimbledon trophies and reveling in the fact that she’ll never have to wear high heels again. This week? The competitors do a personal dance that tells a story about their lives. Break out the Kleenex — you know none of these will start with, “So the funniest thing happened to me …

‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant Jaleel White, who once played nerdy Steve Urkel on the sitcom ‘Family Matters,’ is dealing with some rather sticky family matters of his own after his ex-girlfriend went public with allegations that the actor was once abusive to her. White, though, isn’t taking the matter lying down.

Tuesday nights bring doom for the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestants, because one has to turn in their sequins and watch the rest of the competition from home (or at least from a chair in the audience). Who was this season’s first casualty?

After last week’s revelation that none of this season’s performers on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ are mock-worthy, about all we can do now is cheer for our favorites (or, for the snarkier among us, at least hope someone has an off-week).

Gavin DeGraw made his ‘Dancing With the Stars’ debut last night. As a musician, you’d assume he already has some rhythm — and he does! But he lacks the confidence in his moves that would earn him rave reviews from the judges.

In preparation for tonight’s premiere of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ Jaleel “Urkel” White, Gladys Knight, William Levy, and the rest of the contestants have been seriously breaking a sweat in preparation for their first performances.

That date with Mark Ballas sure seems to have paid off for Idol castoff, Pia Toscano. She has been doing the media circuit since getting kicked off and next week she will perform on Dancing with the Stars! And get this, she will be singing for Mark Ballas’ performance! Mark claims that he had nothing to do with the gig and says that he learned of the news when Tom Bergeron announced it on last nig

The cast of 'Dancing With the Stars' season 12 showed their American pride this week, as each couple performed routines that honored our nation's stars and stripes. With the competition now at the halfway mark, the stakes have