Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars: Adam Carolla and Julianne Hough Survive First Round of Eliminations

In last night's first results show of the season, magician Penn Jillette and tennis pro Monica Seles were the first booted off. While Seles's fate was not a surprise -- her second week's Mambo performance was not much better than last week's Foxtrot, making clear she's just not a talented dancer and would have difficulty making much improvement -- many expected syndicated talk show host Adam Carolla to be the first of the men to go. I thought Carolla's first-week performance was fairly average -- he didn't exhibit the natural ability to move or the dance training of some of the other male contestants, but he also gave it a good, solid try and he looked as good as any beginner. The problem was not with his dancing, but with the fact that many people dislike his outspoken personality, and his badmouthing judge Carrie Ann Inaba for giving him low marks showed him to be a disrespectful poor sport. But Monday night, he seemed to intent on "making up" for that earlier behavior, joking lightly with partner ... (link)