"Dancing With the Stars" Cast Announced

The cast for the new season of "Dancing With the Stars" has been announced! The show will air on March 22, featuring this star-studded lineup:

Kate Gosselin (mother of 8)
Nicole Scherzinger (Pussycat Doll)
Aiden Turner ("All My Children" soap star)
Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver)
Buzz Aldrin (the second person to walk on the moon)
Erin Andrew (ESPN sportscaster)
Neicy Nash ("Reno 911" comedian)
Evan Lysacek (figure skating gold medalist)
Jake Pavelka (the latest "Bachelor")
Pamela Anderson ("Baywatch" babe and home-movie star)
Shannen Doherty ("Beverly Hills 90210" star and world-famous bad girl)

Paula Abdul Is A Hot Commodity

PCM Reported this week that in Paula Abdul's departure from American Idol that both NBC and CBS were interested in Paula. In stand up interviews with Paula by Entertainment TV Paula said she was overwhelmed by the attention of who wanted her and she apparently was not kidding. Paula has added ABC to the list of networks wanting her onboard.

In the case of ABC, they want her for Dancing With The Stars, and if course that is a good fit for Paula as she was a choreographer for music videos before her own singing career took off in the 1980's.

ABC's Entertainment President Steve McPherson has put out there that ABC wants Paula for Dancing with the Stars saying, "We would love to have her on 'Dancing' (with the Stars) whether its as an contestant, or particpant , judge etc...," Continuing her praise, "There's a lot made about who she is."

Even Paula's own Fox rounds out the Network interest as they too want her for So You Think You Can Dance with producer Nigel Lythgoe even if was just as a guest judge. Paula has a lot to think about as she needs to strike while the iron is hot and cash in on her celebrity appeal.

'Dancing with the Stars' Judge Secretly Battles Cancer

65-year-old Len Goodman, best known for his position on the judging panel on 'Dancing with the Stars,' has revealed that he recently underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his prostate. Despite being diagnosed in March, Goodman decided to wait to get treatment until after filming was finished and declined to inform fellow judges or the show's producers.

Luckily, doctors felt that immediate surgery wasn't necessary, as Goodman's cancer was not yet advanced to a life-or-death situation. Therefore, he decided to stick it out as the show wrapped up and went in for treatment as soon as he returned home. Following his release from the hospital, the judge announced that he felt "right as rain." See you next season!

'Dancing With The Stars' Recap!

Have you missed what's going on with ABC's Dancing With The Stars lately? Former 'Bachelor' cast-off Melissa Rycroft seems to be the favorite to win. Who have you enjoyed watching on the dance floor? Here's a rundown of this week's scores:

Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani, Argentine Tango : 29

Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas, Cha Cha: 28

Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough, Samba: 27

Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke, Viennese Waltz: 27

Lil' Kim and Derek Hough, Rumba: 26

Ty Murray and Chelsie Hightower, Waltz: 24

Lawrence Taylor and Edyta Sliwinska, Waltz: 21

Vote for our friend Mike Rossi, and support a great cause!

Mike Rossi, on-air personality for 93.7 WSTW-FM, Music Director, and great friend to PopCultureMadness is competing in a local version of Dancing With The Stars, called Variety Ballroom Blitz! The competition is raising money for Variety, The Children's Charity! (click here to learn more)

Please take a moment of your time to check out the site, and if possible send a few votes Mike's way!

Check out Mike's Foxtrot video below:

The Ballroom Blitz: Mike, Week 4 from delawareonline on Vimeo.

Lookin' good Mike! We wish you the best of luck with the competition!

Daryl Hall And John Oates Will Sing On ABC's Dancing With The Stars The Results Show This Week!

The Stars will be Dancing to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates this week. The best-selling pop-rock duo of all time will perform their #1 hit single, “Maneater,” on this Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s hit series Dancing with the Stars The Results Show, March 24 at 9 p.m. (ET).

The song, from their 1982 album H2O, which has been certified double-platinum by the R.I.A.A. for selling more than two million copies in the U.S., is one of seven Daryl Hall and John Oates albums to go platinum, along with the duo’s six gold albums and total of 29 Top 40 hits.

Daryl Hall and John Oates’ live rendition of “Maneater” will be accompanied by performances from professional dancers Karina Smirnoff, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Tony Dovolani and Dmitry Chaplin on the show, which will feature the samba and the fox trot, as well as the elimination of a second couple from the competition. Daryl Hall and John Oates have previously appeared on prime-time network television in 2006 for an episode of Will and Grace, appeared with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and had their music featured on American Idol. Daryl is currently host of his own critically acclaimed monthly web performance series, Live From Daryl's House, at http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/.

Over the course of their record-breaking career, which began when they met in the early ‘70s in their hometown of Philadelphia, Daryl Hall and John Oates have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, been honored as BMI Icons, sold more than 60 million albums and chalked up eight #1 hits, including such classics as “Rich Girl,” “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),” “Sara Smile,” “She’s Gone” and “One on One,” as well as “Maneater.” Their latest album is a two-CD/DVD set, Live at the Troubadour, which they recorded during a historic set at the L.A. club in May, 2008, marking a return to the days when they first played there at the time of their first album, Abandoned Luncheonette.

Bad News For Jewel

Uh, oh! This doesn't sound good. Singer/poet Jewel may be out of 'Dancing With The Stars' before it even starts on March 9th! She recently revealed in her blog that tendonitis in both knees may be the demise of her 'Dancing' career. "I guess I really over did it on the rehearsal front!" the 34-year-old singer said. Bummer - we thought it would be fun to see Jewel on 'Dancing With The Stars,' wonder what will happen to her!

"My knees have been hurting so badly that I finally broke down and talked to Ty's (her husband) knee doctor yesterday. He said I have tendonitis in my knees and that I have to start a course of medicine to try and bring the swelling down. Yuck! It's mainly my left knee, and I can't believe I hurt it so badly," she wrote.