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Gilles Marini: "I Feel Like I'm A Bad Dad"
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Leave it to Gilles Marini to be thinking about someone else after last night's stunning upset that left him in second place on Dancing With the Stars.
When I tell him how, well, shocked I am that he didn't win, he assures me it's all right. "Don't worry, man," he said after the show on his way to catch a red-eye flight to NYC for an appearance this morning on Good Morning America. "It's OK."
He's hoping his 10-year-old son, Georges, will be OK, too...
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Dancing's Gilles: Some Sex With Brothers & Sisters
Gilles Marini may not have scored a perfect 60 last night on Dancing With the Stars like he did last week, but that's OK.
"I'm grateful," the Sex and the City hottie told me this morning. "That's the word of the day. I went all the way, man."
In just a few hours, we will find out who takes home that disco-ball trophy. "No matter what happens, it's all good," Gilles says.
Not so good is the surgery he will undergo very soon for his separated shoulder. Read on for more about going under the knife, dancing with the show's resident cranky judge Len Goodman and the text he received from Sex and the City's director-writer Michael Patrick King after his freestyle finale.
Dancing With the Stars: Alums Cast Their Votes
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The pressure is on. Gilles Marini, Melissa Rycroft and Shawn Johnson will dance for the last time tonight for season eight of Dancing With the Stars.
Who will win? Most bets seem to be on Gilles. But that doesn't mean everyone is rooting for him. We caught up with some DWTS veterans and asked them to weigh in on the finale...
Vote for Gilles Marini!
Who should take home the disco-ball trophy from this season's Dancing With the Stars?
Gilles Marini, of course!
And I’m not just saying that because he’s my favorite DWTS contestant of all time.
Even if Gilles doesn’t win, this definitely ain’t the last we’ll be seeing of him. He just signed on to guest star next season on Brothers & Sisters. He’s playing a new love interest for Rachel Griffiths’ character, Sarah. Yup, Rachel just became one of the most envied women in Hollywood.
For more on the final dance-floor showdown between the sexy Frenchman, Melissa Rycroft and Shawn Johnson, click my videoblog above.
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Bachelor's Jason & Molly: Life's A Beach
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We all know what Melissa Rycroft has been up to since Bachelor Jason Melnick dumped her on national television for Molly Malaney: winning fans—and mucho votes—on Dancing With the Stars.
So where in the world is Jason? Living it up in the Caribbean.
DWTS' Karina: Why I Want Melissa and Tony to Win!
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Lil' Kim had been Dancing With the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff's favorite to win. But once the hip-hop diva was given the boot, Smirnoff began rooting for Tony Dovolani and Melissa Rycroft.
"I think Tony really deserves it," Smirnoff told us last night at the one-year anniversary party for L.A.'s celebrity steakhouse STK. "He's been so close in seven seasons."
Even so, Smirnoff admitted, "I have a feeling Gilles will win."
Smirnoff also talked wedding and baby plans, including fiancé Maksim Chmerkovskiy's big wish to have a baby like right...now!
Jennie Garth's Twilight Hunger Pains
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Peter Facinelli best head to the kitchen as soon as he gets home after completing his work as vampire patriarch Dr. Carlisle Cullen in New Moon.
His wifey, Jennie Garth, tells me she was shocked to learn that Facinelli cooked a pasta dinner for the cast of the Twilight sequel when they reunited last month to start shooting with new director Chris Weitz.