Melissa After the Bachelor

What do you do after you have been dumped by the bachelor on national TV? Why "Dancing With The Stars" of course! That's where you'll see Melissa Rycroft teaming with Tony Dovolani after Nancy O'Dell bowed out with a torn meniscus. With 48 hours to prepare, she and Tony waltzed their way to a 23 (out of 30!). Grace under pressure and as Bruno said, the bachelor he's a loser, L on the forehead. Go Melissa, you looked beautiful, elegant and graceful. Jason eat your heart out!

PROFESSION:Bachelor star PARTNER:Tony Dovolani

-Single D

Amazing Race-U Turn, Bad Turn For Amanda & Kris

10:49-Mel & Mike

10:53-Kris & Amanda

10:55- Jen & Kisha

11:06-Margie & Luke

11:07-Mike & Mark

11:08-Jodi & Christi

11:29-Jamie & Cara

1:30-Tammy & Victor

This season there has been no clear cut leaders, with different teams stepping on the mat first which is always my kind of race. Clearly anyone could win this thing. The teams leave Bram Romania, bye to Dracula and head for Siberia. Ok way too cold for me. Just the name Siberia conjures up cold, red chapped wind cheeks and icicles hanging off the nose images. The roadblock is to construct shutters or stack wood. All the teams do the stack task but only to be confronted with piles and piles of wood pieces. Enough wood to build a small village. Kisha said it was like the Jenga game. I was wondering how the dwarf stunt guys would be able to stack the pile since the wood piles were taller than them. No matter, their stack fell anyway so they go to the construct shutters task to be joined by Jodi & Christi, Mel & Mike, and Kris & Amanda whose wood piles also fall. I guess Victor's last humbling leg made him more subdue this leg, kept his mouth shut and was an obedient puppy. After Margie and Luke completed the stacking, surprise, surprise, they decide to do a blind (since they don't have to reveal who did the dirty deed) U turn on Kris and Amanda, who will have to go back and do the stack wood task as well, yikes! I think that was a smart move on their part. Who knew they had it in them? Never trust those silent types! The Roadblock was to ride a bobsled, find the letters along the way and then spell the name of the Russian writer, CHEKHOV. Poor Luke, how was he going to figure that one out, he's never even heard Russian, let alone sound. Hey if Kisha could figure it out, I'm thinking Luke can. After 4 tries and much frustration he got it. At the pit stop it is Christi and Jodi the blonds, in first, see it's any body's game. Guess the blind u-turn did the job as Amanda and Kris are eliminated.-Single D

Celebrity Apprentice-Ice Champ Takes a Fall

In this episode the teams have to come up with a creative comic book figure to depict the philosophy behind the Internet sensation of Zappos.com or as the sour CEO of Zappos says create an iconic costume character to promote Zappos. PM for the women, Chloe Karadashian, I think I called her Athena on my last post, Chloe, Athena close. Scott Hamilton is chosen for the Kotu team. Now why would anyone want to manage this task is beyond me because it involved using the brain muscle and creativity which is always harder than pounding the street and begging for money. The girls start out sounding like a room full of clucking hens. Melissa looked like she was taking credit for Claudia Jordan's idea, but that could have been clever editing although in the boardroom, the Donald asked the girls who idea it was and Melissa didn't hesitate one beat. Come on girl, give credit where credit is due! Joan was ticked that Annie Duke wouldn't let her write the script even though Joan protested by saying that she has written two Broadway plays and stuff. Who knew Joan a playwright? Everyone was talking over each while the men didn't fare any better only there it was more of a battle of who was the more dominate alpha male with a little Tom Green thrown in for comic or in this case annoying relief. Poor Scott, it was like a guppies swimming amongst the barracudas. Scott couldn't control anyone nor make any decisions. Clint Black showed his macho, I know everything side of him. Who knew, I always thought he was soft spoken, not! Tom Green was so annoying, no wonder Drew Barrymore dumped him! Scott was so distracted with all the male antics he finally at the eleventh hour when all sanity had left the building, he decides that he is going to make one decision by god! He calls Jesse James at the costume store and tell him that the character's name is EEE. Jesse says Z? No EEE! The costume designer said it sounded more like EEEK! Ok, I didn't get it either, why do E when the moniker is Z for Zappos? I guess Scott wanted to make the one original decision on his own which in the end, no matter how much pleading with the Donald, that he was the good guy here, even bringing in Hershal to plead his case against Tom Green, who was brought into the boardroom with Scott, the decision to use EEE made Scott Hamilton, champion of the ice, fall EEEks!-Single D