DWTS Week 2 Results

Last week on Dancing with the Stars we said goodbye to David Hasselhoff.  The producers had high hopes for David's ratings potential, and were disappointed he left so early.  Will someone rise up and give them the ratings they want to see?

This week the couples dance either the jive or the quickstep - both quite tricky in their own way.  Here are their scores:

• Rick Fox and Cheryl Burke 21 - I can't get over the fact that Rick and Cheryl deal so well with his height.  When someone is that tall they can tend to stoop - but he doesn't do that.
• Florence Henderson and Corky Ballas 19 - Florence is looking pretty good ignoring her age. I guess it'll catch up with her but at the moment she is very entertaining
• Brandy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy 21 - solid jive, nothing more.
• Michael Bolton and Chelsie Hightower 12 - bad concept, bad dancing, bad Bruno.  The judges hated this, no more so than Bruno who said it was the worst jive he'd seen in all eleven seasons.  Len then told him off for saying things he shouldn't.  You know a celebrity is going to be bad when their partner tweets "Been a bit of a rough week for michael but we worked hard to get this jive ready and proud of him!".  Translation: "He's going to stink but he worked hard".
• Audrina Patridge and Tony Dovolani 23 - Audrina improved markedly and is starting to look like a contender.  However, this dance will always be remembered for the "hidden" camera that picked up Tony saying "If we don't get three eights I'll wax my legs."  I guess he's waxing his legs...
• Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough 24 - A well danced and exciting jive, Jennifer and Derek demonstrated why they are the favorites.
• Margaret Cho and Louis van Amstel 18 - The comedy was limited to the occasional funny face and slapping of buttocks.  Margaret seemed to have an epiphany in rehearsal when she realized she was dancing and she got all emo.  A much better dance this week - as well as the advice from the judges I think she also needs to try and remember the steps.
• Kyle Massey and Lacey Schwimmer 22 - Kyle seems like a really nice guy - and very poised for 19.  Their quickstep was more like a jive with some quickstep bits thrown in, but Len was relatively kind to them.
• Kurt Warner and Anna Trebunskaya 21 - I honestly don't get Kurt's scores - to me he seems very stiff although he seemed to enjoy it more this week, which is very important.
• The Situation and Karina Smirnoff 18 - based on the judges' comments I expected a worse score.  He seems to have worked really hard at this.  I still think one week he might surprise us all - if he stays around long enough of course
• Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas 22 - Wow.  I thought she did really well this week.  It was a pretty well executed quickstep and I felt she deserved more technical points for it.  She was a little over-dressed and had the thickest gloves I've ever seen on the dance floor!

So Michael Bolton is six, count 'em, six points behinf The Sitch and Cho-cho.  I don't think he has a chance. What do you think?