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From the Good News/Bad News File

It seems Indie Race Car driver Helio Castroneves’ life is in overdrive this week. On Tuesday night, he and professional ballroom dancing partner Julianne Hough won season five of the ABC reality TV show, Dancing With the Stars. Just one day later, the news breaks that Helio’s engagement to Aliette (Ali) Vazquez is off, and there are way too many questions, and not enough answers regarding a certain kiss at the end of the quickstep dance.

Hello admitted today that his engagement to Ali was off, and had been so for the last week or two. He, of course, had nothing but good things to say about her. There seems to always be Dancing With the Stars romances starting up, the most recent of which was Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas, who admitted after they were eliminated that they were in a relationship, so it’s entirely possible that there could be a Helio/Julianne thing going.

It’s hard to miss the timeframe of all this. A few weeks back, Helio and Julianne performed a quickstep routine that included a kiss at the end. It was widely known that Ali was not happy with this kiss. They ended up doing the same dance as an encore the following night, and the second time around, the kiss was mysteriously missing. At the time, the dancers explained it away, saying they just wanted to keep surprising the audience, not knowing if the kiss was coming or not.

When it came time to pick a favorite dance for the finale, Helio chose the quickstep again, and this time the kiss wasn’t only included, it was prolonged. It’s almost as if the kiss was included the first time, and Ail got mad, and it was dropped for the encore. Now after the broken engagement, it no longer matters, so it was back in and longer. The two videos below illustrate this. The first shows the kiss/no kiss from the first two performances, and the second shows the full dance with the prolonged kiss from the finale.

It should be noted that after he talked about Ali not being happy with the kiss after the first time, Helio then told Access Hollywood he could only think, “Yea! I got a kiss! Yea!” Yet, Julianne still staunchly denies any romantic involvement with the race car driver. If it wasn’t for the timing, I think it could all be easily explained away, but once you put it together and see

1. Kiss
2. Ali upset
3. No Kiss
4. Broken Engagement
5. Longer Kiss

I think it pretty much explains the whole thing.

You decide. Which is the good news, and which is the bad news?

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Dancing With the Stars Ends Predictably After an Unpredictable Season

After what seemed to be the most unpredictable season with many twists and turns and the best dancing so far of all five seasons of the ABC reality show, tonight the winner of Dancing With the Stars was crowned. Predictably, the Disco Ball Trophy went to Indie Race Car Driver Helio Castroneves and his professional partner Julianne Hough, winning now for her second year in a row in just her second season on the show.

Whenever ABC announces the lineup of upcoming seasons of Dancing With the Stars, I’m never very thrilled, thinking it sounds like an unexciting cast, and this season was no different. Yet, after watching the entire season, I can’t imagine ity being any more exciting. Usually the first to be eliminated is a middle-aged man or beautiful model with no rhythm, and this season that chore fell to Josie Moran. The second week fell to unpredictability, as one of the more talented men in the competition, Albert Reed, was voted out, and already we were seeing better dancing than in any other season on the show.

Another three men fell to votes, Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton , boxer Floyd Mayweather, and entrepreneur Mark Cuban. None were very surprising. The big shock came the following week when Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan was voted out over some much more deserving folk. This news was so shocking that it had judge Carrie Ann Inaba in tears. The big talk had been who would be in the final two, and basically what everyone was asking was who was going to be dancing alongside Sabrina and here she was the one cut. As frequent guest on the show Jimmy Kimmel noted, the show seems to have something against the more beautiful women on the show, as they get voted out before their time often.

After more drama than we saw out of her on Dr. Quinn, Jane Seymour was voted out next after seemingly doing the same dance week after week, and after suffering through the death of her mother and food poisoning, of all things. Soap star Cameron Mathison left the following week after making huge weekly improvements, and he was followed out the door by Jennie Garth, another to improve dramatically on the show after falling during her first week on the show.

This left us with a final three of wholesome Marie Osmond, Spice Girl Melanie Brown, and race car driver Helio Castroneves. None were one hundred percent solid during their performances on the finale, but if one was to shine, it would have to be Helio, as it was pointed out that Marie was the ultimate entertainer, Mel B brought the technical aspect, and Helio somehow managed to combine the two. The first to hear her results and leave was Marie who had similar struggles to Jane during the season, with another parental death with that of her father and a bout of fainting live on the air while she was getting her critiques from the judges.

The final two then standing before us were Mel B and her professional partner Maxsim Chmerkovskiy, and Helio and his partner Julianne Hough, the youngest dancer ever on the show, just 18 when she started last season. After all those twists and turns in this crazy season, after two parental deaths, after food poisoning and a fainting spell, and after one huge early dismissal, Helio and Julianne because the winners of season five of Dancing With the Stars, as he joined the ranks of winners such as Kelly Monaco, Drew Lachey, Emmitt Smith, and Apolo Anton Oho. Julianne joined some ranks as well, with herself and Cheryl Burke the only professionals on the show to win back to back seasons.

ABC will have to struggle to come up with another season as exciting as this one, but first up is a spinoff series, Dance War, with judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba both heading up teams of people that both sing and dance, with the two teams competing against each other. The host will be the season two winner of Dancing With the Stars, Drew Lachey. After he filled in for Samantha Harris for a few weeks this season while she ended her maternity leave, I have to say I’m looking forward to this new show.

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