DWTS 2011 Finals!
Kirstie Alley too big to fail on Dancing With The Stars or as Celebrity Senior?
[May 24]
Celebrity Senior Kirstie Alley has made a huge hit on Dancing with the Stars this season as an audience favorite, and she’s proud to admit it. Not only has the star celeb lost weight and become more fit, but she generally is feeling positive about herself. Some would say that the actress and former Cheers star celeb is too big to fail. And by big, we mean talented, not her dress size. At age 60, Kirstie Alley is by far the oldest of the competitors on the dance floor, and she still is keeping up with the younger crowd.
In fact, keeping up with the younger crowd was one of the challenges in the freestyle competition for the celebrity senior. Kirstie Alley and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy went all out for the freestyle competition, with Kirstie starting off the routine, surprising the crowd by tearing out of a baggish looking dress into a black leotard and turning a cartwheel. The celebrity senior turned heads. Carrie Ann remarked after the routine: “That dance embodies what you have become – as a poster child for life as it should be lived at 60 years old,” according to USA Today.
Even Bruno and Len gave the star celeb credit for the routine. Bruno remarked that Kirstie Alley seemed to have gone all out, with lifts and gymnastics that she never would have attempted when she started the season. Len, typically the most critical of the bunch, said that she took risks, and he was impressed with the risks she took. In spite of being an audience favorite, the pair scored all nines, leaving them two points behind their competitors by the end of the night.