{"id":4657,"date":"2010-11-21T22:38:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2017-09-03T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:55:07","slug":"skating-with-the-stars-to-debut-on-november-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/2010\/11\/21\/skating-with-the-stars-to-debut-on-november-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating with the Stars to debut on November 22"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Katrina Burch
\nSpecial to Figure Skaters Online<\/em><\/h5>\n
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Ballroom dancer and figure skating enthusiast Katrina Burch has covered Dancing with the Stars for Figure Skaters Online and returns to cover the first season of Skating with the Stars. Here are her initial thoughts on the couples before the show debuts on November 22.
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Celebrity<\/strong>: Bethenny Frankel
\nFame: <\/strong>Reality television star from “Real Housewives of New York” and “Bethenny Getting Married”
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Ethan Burgess
\nAccomplishments: <\/strong>Five-time competitor at the U.S. Championships and three time medalist in pair skating
\nThoughts:<\/em> I don\u2019t know her professional partner well but its going to take me a lot to not want to strangle this women. She is so annoying and her voice irritates me.<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong>: Jonny Moseley
\nFame: <\/strong>Freestyle skier who won moguls gold at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Brooke Castile
\nAccomplishments: <\/strong>2007 U.S. Champion, 2010 U.S. Championship bronze medalist and a two-time World team member in pair skating
\nThoughts:<\/em> I\u2019m sooo excited for him! Not only is he good looking but he\u2019s an athlete and he\u2019s got a great partner!<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong>: Rebecca Budig
\nFame: <\/strong>Soap star from ABC’s All My Children
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Fred Palascak
\nAccomplishments: <\/strong>Fourth in junior pairs at 1995 U.S. Championships
\nThoughts:<\/em> Again I don\u2019t know her professional partner but she\u2019s attractive and I think she may be the underdog<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong>: Brandon Mychal Smith
\nFame: <\/strong>Star of Disney Channel’s Sonny with a Chance
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Keauna McLaughlin
\nFame: <\/strong>Two-time U.S. Champion, 2010 Four Continents Championship silver medalist and 2007 World Junior Champion in pair skating
\nThoughts:<\/em> I don\u2019t know who the celebrity is but he looks young. That may help him and I think he may be like Kyle Massey on Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong>: Sean Young
\nFame: <\/strong>Actress from Blade Runner and Young and the Restless
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Denis Petukhov
\nAccomplishments: <\/strong>Member of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team in ice dance
\nThoughts:<\/em> I have no idea who this celebrity is. If they\u2019re an icon should I know who they are? Oh well, she has a great partner!<\/p>\n

Celebrity<\/strong>: Vince Neil
\nFame: <\/strong>Rock star
\nProfessional Partner:<\/strong> Jennifer Wester
\nAccomplishments: <\/strong>U.S. Championship competitor and 2007 Nebelhorn Trophy Champion in ice dance
\nThoughts:<\/em> Vince is the huge long shot of the season and I frankly think he\u2019ll be the first to go.<\/p>\n

My finals predictions<\/strong>
\n1st: Jonny Mosely
\n2nd: Rebecca Budig
\n3rd: Brandon Mychal Smith<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of ABC<\/h5>\n

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Katrina Burch looks at the couples before the debut of ABC’s new reality show competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9685,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/figureskatersonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}