'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Another Fan Favorite Goes Home
'Dancing with the Stars' contestant Chaz Bono performs with his partner Lacey Schwimmer.Author and activist Chaz Bono, the famous transgender son of Cher and Sonny Bono, was sent home on last night’s episode of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ following weeks of mediocre performances.
Bono struggled with the technical elements of his dances each week, yet managed to stay afloat in the competition despite consistently low judges scores because of a strong following from the audience. He also overcame a knee injury early in the show.
“I came on this show because I wanted to show America a different kind of man,” Bono said. “If there was something like me on TV when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.”
“I dedicate everything I did to the people that are struggling,” he added. “To all the kids and teens out there, you can have a wonderful, great life.”
Bono was the show’s first transgender contestant. To me, he is Chaz, but to my parents’ generation he is Chastity, the blonde hair, blue-eyed little girl they came to know from his parents’ popular television show.
His departure comes this same week the ballroom exploded in fiery remarks between the judges and professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy, U.S. women’s soccer player Hope Solo’s partner in the competition.
Chmerkovskiy offended the judges by accusing them of giving unfair feedback and scores, and in part for that, he and Solo received some of their lowest scores of the competition and were in jeopardy of being sent home.
Tune into ABC next Monday at 8 p.m. for a display of Halloween themed dances and to see what Chmerkovskiy and the judges have to say to one another about this week’s very public argument.
The Contestant’s Scores:
• Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer – 19
• David Arquette and Kym Johnson – 23
• Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy – 20
• J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff – 29
• Nancy Grace and Tristan MacManus – 24
• Ricki Lake and Derek Hough – 29
• Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke – 22
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'Chaz Bono stole my thunder': Pregnant man claims Cher's son took his spot on Dancing With The Stars
By JADE WATKINS
He made headlines around the world after astonishing photos emerged of his baby bump and beard.
Now Thomas Beatie, otherwise known as The Pregnant Man, blames fellow transgender male Chaz Bono after he missed out on being on Dancing With The Stars.
The 37-year-old, who became the world's first pregnant man in 2007, says he applied to be on the show a few months ago, but never heard back from producers.
Disappointed: Thomas Beatie, otherwise known as the pregnant man, right, blames Chaz Bono, left, after he missed out on being on Dancing With The Stars
Bono is the only child of singers Cher and Sonny Bono who recently underwent a female-to-male sex change which was chronicled in the TV documentary Finding Chaz.
Beatie believes that because Chaz, 42, was already selected to be on the reality contest, there merely wasn't enough room for two transgender males.
'Chaz Bono stole my thunder,' he told TMZ.
Beatie recently revealed his toned new figure, just 12 months after giving birth to his third child, one-year-old Jenson.
And he says he is disappointed that he didn't get a chance to flex his new muscles on television.
'I wanted to try my new body out. I’m an athlete and I know I would have excelled,' he said.
Beatie, who now lives in Arizona with his wife Nancy and their three children, garnered international attention when he became the first legally transgender man to become pregnant.
World's first: Beatie, pictured here in 2008 garnered international attention when he became the first legally transgender man to become pregnant
Now he and his wife have completed the family, he appears to have started taking testosterone again, helping him develop his muscular physique.
As well as their one-year-old boy, the couple also have a three-year-old daughter called Susan and a son called Austin, who will be two in September.
Beatie was born as a woman, Tracy Lagondino, in Hawaii in 1974, but says he always felt like he wanted to be a man.
When he was in his twenties, he began having testosterone injections, giving him facial hair, a lower voice and altering his sexual organs.
Ready to rumba: Chaz will be paired with Lacey Schwimmer, the fun-loving DWTS regular and So You Think You Can Dance star, on the show
In 2002 he had a mastectomy and legally became a man - but he chose to keep his vagina, uterus and other female sexual organs so the couple could have children, as his wife had had a hysterectomy.
He told Oprah: 'I wanted to have a child one day. I didn't know how. It was just a dream.'
After more than eight years, he stopped taking testosterone so he could become pregnant, although some of its effects, including facial hair, are permanent.
The couple bought sperm from an anonymous donor and Mr Beatie underwent artificial insemination.
After an ectopic pregnancy which led to emergency surgery, he eventually fell pregnant with Susan in late 2007.
Astonishing photos of Mr Beatie with a baby bump and a beard made headlines all over the world, and he appeared on chat shows explaining how he and Nancy considered themselves like any normal heterosexual family.
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Actress and singer Cher has put her house on brought on sale. This elegant property, which is designed by it itself, is overlooking and enough space for guests. Property is at auction in mid January.
Property is truly stunning in every way and probably many who would like to have such fade with colors. Enough space for guests in the house because there are six bedrooms and six bathrooms. In four of which are suites, but the fifth is block entertainment space with a bar.
The queen cosmetic measures designed this house by her self. She has just managed quite well, but the property is described as over budget and refined with a handful of traditional Bali scum style. On 18 January’s property at auction and calculates sales person with the final purchase price will be between 8-12 million dollars. Icelanders who are interested in participating in the auction need to have beds billion pieces in order to participate.
Cher broke through as a singer in the sixties with her former husband Sonny Bono. That partnership ended in 1974 with let it continued one and has sold over 100 million albums worldwide. She is now 63 years old and in addition, vibrant career as a film actress.
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Interior designer Ron Wilson designed the Bel Air, California, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bono, better known to all as Sonny and Cher. Mrs. Bono developed an eye and a feeling for antique furniture, while Mr. Bono became interested in collecting period paintings and bronze sculpture. The house, therefore, was an actual expression of their personal tastes, wherein the young owners participated actively in the creation of their stylish setting. The resulting home had a young spirit combined with the aura of solidity and permanence that a traditional home can offer. Pictured: A view from the pool area shows the scale and the Mediterranean styling of the house.
The breakfast room was designed with a spring garden atmosphere, using a printed floral fabric in bright green for walls, draperies and table cover.
“I wasn’t going to let it scare the hell out of me,” Ron Wilson said of another Los Angeles home he designed for the young celebrity couple. Built in the 1930s, the house—with more than 40 rooms—made a strong architectural statement. It was one that the designer could not fight or upstage or change in any significant way. The point was to enhance the interiors. “Occasionally Cher would call to say something or other was awful. I always told her to look at it again and ring me in the morning,” said Wilson. Few changes were ever made. Pictured: The foyer.
Muted tones were chosen for the vast living room, although certain massive objects were used with stunning effect: 18th-century Italian architectural paintings, bronze figures wired as lamps and a large buffet de corps on one wall.
“Cher asked me, as she did in 1974 when I decorated her house in Bel Air, to create an environment for her—as I understood her and her particular way of life. I’ve known Cher for many years, and her life has changed greatly. This house is how I see her personality today,” Wilson said of the Malibu, California, home he created for the entertainer in 1979. With the spirit of the owner in mind, Wilson sought to achieve an air of tranquility and simplicity through his design. Pictured: Columns demarcate the mirrored dining area, balanced and highlighted by a pair of late-19th-century Egyptian-motif faïence vases. The dining table, a hexagon of glass mounted on a sculptural mitred oak base, is surrounded by armchairs upholstered in stenciled leather.
“When I first saw the apartment, it was all white,” Cher said of her New York triplex. Wilson used neutral tones and textured faux-stone surfaces throughout to create what Cher calls “a prehistoric/futuristic look.” He once commented, “I’ve done all Cher’s houses for her, one after another, all 11. She stretches me to the limit, and then some. I’ve tried every trick in the book, used every drapery treatment, every floor material. She’s had everything—and she still insists I do something new.” Pictured: The third-floor solarium, which opens onto a garden, has draped gauze on the walls and electric shades on the slanted-glass ceiling.
A contemporary stone-and-glass sculpture stands sentry at the top of the staircase that leads to the dining area. Set against the faux-stone wall at back is a 19th-century French wooden thresher, one of Cher’s favorite pieces. Wilson, who designed most of the furniture, used two stone slabs for the dining table. A stenciled leopard print covers the banquette and shell chairs.
Wilson completed the interiors of Cher’s adobe villa in Aspen, Colorado, in six weeks. She first saw the house in September, bought it in October and insisted that it be decorated and completely furnished in time to spend the Christmas holidays there with her family. “When she told me to do it by December,” recalled Wilson, “I said it couldn’t be done. She said, ‘Well, kick some ass and get it done.’ ” Pictured: In the living room, Wilson used raw silk on the upholstered pieces and kilim fragments on the pillows combined with antique accessories. “I understand how she likes to be surrounded,” Wilson said. “She likes large scale and simple, and she loves texture.”
“The way we work is really strange,” Cher said of her long-standing relationship with Wilson, who designed a 10,000-square-foot home for the singer-actress in Malibu, California. “I’ll tell him that I want something that doesn’t exist—a style that isn’t a style—and then he’ll make it exist for me.” As far as she is concerned, building and redesigning houses is as much a creative act as singing and acting. “I would have loved being a decorator,” she says. “I love looking at fabrics and colors, the way objects take up space.” Pictured: Large vigas were added at the back of her house during renovation to give it a southwestern appearance.
Stone chairs and an ottoman, designed by the late Michael Taylor, complement the capitals used as tables in the master bedroom. Wilson chose the bed fabric because of its resemblance to tree bark.
Cher turned a 1950s house in Miami Beach into a grand villa that reflected her evolving taste, and for the first time, she did not use her longtime friend and mentor, interior designer Ron Wilson. Inspired by Venetian and Moorish design, the house was filled with religious art, richly hued fabrics, carved woods, scrolled ironwork and stone—a dramatic departure from her previous residences, which were marked by sparse furnishings, clean lines and minimal color. Pictured: “I wanted to introduce color that wouldn’t be overwhelming,” Cher said of the living room. Pieces from her former houses joined furnishings from Sanctuary, a mail-order catalogue that she launched. “I’ve always hated clutter, but now I’m surrounded by things I love to look at.”
“My house is so special because it’s my sanctuary, my fortress, really—the only place I have any privacy,” the singer-actress says of her Italian Renaissance-style residence in Malibu, California. “There’s no place else that I would rather be.” Pictured: English bronze chandeliers hang from the dining room’s stamped-copper ceiling. Gothic Revival chairs surround a table dressed in silk taffeta, topped with orchids, candlelit centerpieces and white china with gold trim
The rear façade overlooks a blue-mosaic-tiled pool and the Pacific Ocean. “The infinity-edge pool is where I spend all of my time in the summer,” says Cher. “She’s above the beach—a mile from the water,” adds Wilson. “Her great love is Malibu.”
It is a mix of spirituality and spunk that makes Cher’s spectacular new duplex, perched high above Los Angeles, as gloriously original as its owner. Cher turned to friend and interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard to help her conjure up “something ethnic, spicy and romantic”—albeit in creams, ivories, whites and buttery beiges.
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