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'Dancing With the Stars': The Show's Worst Celebs Ever

By Mindy Monez, TWoP | Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:10 PM


Cloris Leachman and Corky Ballas
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Every season of "Dancing With the Stars" brings us a few lovely surprises in celebrities and athletes who are more graceful than we imagined, but with that comes the requisite catastrophes who should never have even been invited in the first place. Here's the best of the worst of the latter category from throughout the show's history:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Macy Gray
This singer had a history of behaving oddly in public, from wearing her album's release date as a dress back in the '90s to preferring to speak in a sort of a heavy smoker aby voice at all times, so it was really no surprise she was eliminated first this season.

 

 

Tom DeLay
In addition to being a generally disgraced politician, he is one of the creepiest old white dudes with a t-shirt tucked into his sweatpants we have ever seen. Everything about him on this show makes us uncomfortable.

 

 

 

Cloris Leachman
This was a novelty choice that was funny for the first one or maybe two times she jiggled her cleavage and danced all granny-suggestively, but each subsequent performance just devolved so much further and further into absurdity.

 

 

Marie Osmond
We'll forgive her for passing out in the middle of an episode, because things happen during live broadcasts, but we're never forgiving her for dressing up like her terrifying doll collection.

 

 

 

Master P
A replacement for his injured son Romeo, Master P made it clear that he did not care about being on the show. He even refused to wear proper dancing shoes! Yet, it took a mind-blowing four weeks for voters to boot him.

 

 

 

Wayne Newton
Despite being a seasoned entertainer, this singer was just awful, with surprisingly zero rhythm. He was eliminated after only three episodes when even donning a hilarious ponytail wig and a fake pencil mustache during a tango couldn't save him.

 

 

Steve Wozniak
He's lovable, he did the worm, and we probably wouldn't have iPods were it not for him, but this show is supposed to be a dancing competition. Contestants like the Woz threaten to render the whole premise moot.

 

 

 

Heather Mills
She was actually a decent dancer, but her nasty divorce with Paul McCartney made her one of the most detested tabloid figures in the world, so voters said "good bye" almost as quickly as she said "hello."

 

 

 

Talk About It: Which "DWTS" celebrity contestant was a dancing catastrophe?

 

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