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(S04E01) Another season of Dancing With The Stars is upon us, and I could not be more excited. Some important changes have been made this time around. Contestants were given four weeks to practice for the premiere instead of six, and there will be two weeks of dancing before the first elimination. The premiere was entertaining and surprising, as always. Let's get right to it!

Ian Ziering and Cheryl Burke (Cha Cha Cha) - It's tough to be the first dancers of the night, but Ian and Cheryl did a tremendous job. Their energetic performance included some decent footwork; those two definitely know how to have fun and work the crowd. Cheryl's hair was gorgeous, as usual, but I wasn't a fan of the Ziering facial hair. The judges gave Ian some technical criticism, but the pair walked away with a fair score of 21 (Carrie: 7, Len: 7, Bruno: 7).

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Today on TV Squad Daily:

• When did Heather Mills become all pesty and paranoid?
  
• Rumor is that Bobby Brown is planning his own reality dating show.
  
• Sanjaya Malakar now has Howard Stern's support in addition to the backing of Vote for the Worst. What will happen if he actually wins?
  

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Hey, Brigitte here with TV Squad Daily. I'll be covering the TV stories I find interesting each day, Monday through Friday, in this video blog.

Today on TV Squad Daily:

• Heather Mills is hoping her leg doesn't fly off while performing on Dancing with the Stars.
• The set of Grey's Anatomy is not a very friendly place right now - hence the great portrayals of frustration and tension.
  
• Residents of Santa Monica say America's Next Top Model is too disrespectful of women to advertise on their buses.
  

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Today on TV Squad Daily:

• The Oscars went overtime this year, despite those thank-you cams that were supposed to shorten acceptance speeches.
  
• Rumor has it that Jennifer Aniston is dating a camera man she met while filming her guest role on Dirt.
  
• One group is insisting that Heather Mills is not disabled even though she only has one leg. Their reasoning? She's competing on Dancing with the Stars.

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Today on TV Squad Daily:

• The official list of celebrity contestants on the new season Dancing with the Stars contains a couple surprises. I'm not sure why, but I'm on team Billy Ray.
  
• Shocker: I ended up with more questions than answers from last night's episode of Lost.

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It just gets stranger and stranger...

This morning, ABC announced the new slate of celebrities that will be participating in this upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars, which starts on Monday, March 19.

Some of the rumored selections, like Ian Ziering of 90210, and Billy Ray Cyrus of Hanna Montana, and Paul McCartney's bitter one-legged ex, Heather Mills, were right on the money. The other participants? Well, how would you like to see Big Pussy cutting a rug? Thaaat's right, Vincent Pastore is on board. So is basketball great Clyde Drexler, Olympic gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno, former Entertainment Tonight host Leeza Gibbons, former supermodel Paulina Porizkova, former *NSYNCer Joey Fatone, Miss USA 2004 Shandi Finnessey, and boxer Laila Ali (yes, she's Muhammad Ali's daughter).

The full press release is after the jump. And the full story and photos are on the Good Morning America web site.

That's what the court papers filed in Britain by Heather Mills say. Seems that Mills was upset that one of Rupert Murdoch's papers in Britain was going to say some nasty things about her, and she asked hubby Paul to back out of his Super Bowl halftime show appearance, which aired on FOX (also owned by Murdoch). When McCartney refused to back out of the show, that caused friction between the two (even though McCartney publicly denounced the article), leading to the divorce. Though there are more things in the divorce papers than that, as we've heard this week.

The most interesting part of the article isn't this story, but the fact that McCartney was paid $3.4 million for his halftime performance. How long did that performance last? I don't remember anything about it.