“Every season, the producers [of “Dancing With The Stars”] tend to include a number of unexpected personalities (a nice way of saying freaks). For example, a couple of seasons back, they hired the ex-Mrs. Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, mostly because she’s got one leg. It was supposed to be an inspiration for the limbless everywhere, but many viewers tuned in for the potential horror of watching an artificial limb pop off,” Barbara Lippert writes for Adweek.
“This year’s Heather, I’m sad to say, is that master of all geeks, The Woz. The co-founder of Apple, Wozniak is a true genius and personal computer pioneer who left the company early on (and let the other Steve do the marketing) so that he could live quietly and do good works,” Lippert writes. “So what could have possessed him to do this?”
Lippert writes, “I guess it started with ‘dating’ Kathy Griffin on her reality show, My Life on the D-List (the popularity of which has vaulted her from the D-list to the B-list, at least.) On D-List, Woz escorted Griffin to a couple of functions while she made fun of his nerdiness. (She called him ‘The Billionaire with the backpack.’) Next thing she knew, he got married. (To someone else.) All I can say is, what is this current wife (the third, I believe) thinking? How divorced from reality is she?”
“Despite the fact that he tries hard, meticulously counting out steps in that hard-drive he has for a head, the reality is that he’s 58, overweight, very sweaty and egg-shaped. He also doesn’t look particularly good in satin or tulle,” Lippert writes. “On the first night, judge Bruno Toniolo said his performance was like ‘watching a Teletubby going mad,’ and that was apt.”
“Certainly, he’ll get the geek vote. (Word has it he requested a special “Vote for Steve” iPhone app.) And he’s dancing for geeks everywhere,” Lippert writes. “But at what price?”
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