Will Dancing With The Stars Resurrect A Career?

Can Dancing With The Stars Resurrect A Career?

Numerous celebrities have said that they did not appear on Dancing with the Stars for the money, but that they did it for the fun of it. This might be true, but it is typical celebrity speak. At least one 'star' went on record and said that she was promised $125,000 only to tun up and more if she progressed through the show. This is not chicken feed to ordinary people.

However, taking into account the huge salaries that celebrities pick up, it might not be a lot of money to them. After all, film stars frequently earn millions of dollars a film plus royalties. So why are they lining up to go on Dancing with the Stars? Well, close inspection of the 'celebrity cast' frequently reveals that the stars are a bit dim. Not stupid, merely a bit off their peak.

So perhaps they are hoping to earn a bit of pocket money and kick start their career at the same time. If we look at the contestants from the first series, we can see that an appearance on the programme did not benefit anyone's career: Trista Rehn, Evander Holyfield, Rachel Hunter, Joey McIntyre, John O"Hurley and Kelly Monaco are still doing roughly the same now as they were before their appearance on the programme .

The second series was a mixed bag. Tatum O'Neal got arrested for drugs and Master P is still producing albums, but Lisa Rinna landed a new job as a TV host on the Soap Opera network. From the third series Mario Lopez went on to star in 'A Chorus Line' on Broadway and Monique Coleman has had several lucrative contracts with Disney, although she was working for them beforehand.

Dancing with the Stars did not seem to have a lot of beneficial effect on the careers of any of its contestants which included Billy Ray Cyrus, Laila Ali and Heather Mills.

The results on participants from the fifth series was also rather lacklustre although Melanie Brown and the Spice Girls began a reunion world tour and Floyd Mayweather made a extraordinary appearance on WWE for a fat pay cheque.

The sixth series featured such oldies as Steve Guttenberg and Priscilla Presley as well as Penn Jillette and Shannon Elizabeth, none of whom saw a significant increase in popularity after the end of the series. If it goes on like this, old celebrities with failing careers will ask for more than promises and pin money to appear on Dancing with the Stars in the future.

Still, some individuals simply are not able to resist the limelight and for them it is worth being paid just $125,000 to be under the spotlight and on TV again and if their career is kick started as well, well, that is a welcome, added bonus that none of them would refuse.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on fairly a number of topics, but is currently concerned with the host of Dancing with the Stars. If you would like to know more go to our website at DWTS Pictures..