Michael Bolton Dancing with the Stars

The ambient booing heard by home viewers of Monday's "Dancing With the Stars" -- right before the camera cut to host Tom Bergeron next to Sarah Palin -- caused such a "major imbroglio" that the show's producers decided to address it on Tuesday's results show.
Viewers are about to be treated to footage "that was never intended to air," "Dancing" co-host Brooke Burke confides to celebrity dancer Jennifer Grey and her partner, Derek Hough, who were at the center of Monday night's maelstrom.
The never-before-seen footage will bolster the producers' position that booing erupted over the score the judges had bestowed upon Grey for her performance rather than at Palin.
"Thank God we had a camera on the grassy knoll," Bergeron told Entertainment Weekly late Tuesday afternoon.
Oh, yes -- he really did.
"I want to talk to both of you because there was quite a buzz in the press and there was a little bit of controversy in the ballroom last night," Burke pretend-chats with Grey and Hough, but we all know she is talking to us, watching at home.
"When you got your scores from the judges, everyone was booing. Now, the press reported that they were booing for Sarah Palin," ravishing Brooke continues, oozing incredulity from all her gorgeous pores."No, no!" says Grey, shaking her head to indicate that is not possible.
"I've got a clip I want to show you that was never intended to air, so it's raw and unedited, but I think it's going to show us what actually happened," Burke tells the duo, as though speaking to much-loved pet peahens who had been dropped on their heads as chicks.
"Let's look at the video tape," suggests Grey.
"Yes," agrees Brooke.
The kerfuffle had erupted during Monday's competition episode, when viewers watched Grey, Hough and Burke as they were hangin' in the Postmortem Chamber, trying to figure out what all the booing was about out in the ballroom.
The raspberry ruckus could be heard shortly after Grey and Hough were awarded the night's highest score from the judges.
"There's booing in the ballroom. We don't know why," a perplexed Burke reported that night to viewers, who also could not see what was happening in the ballroom."Why is there booing?" wondered Grey, who had just finished hugging Hough after hearing the good news about their score.
"I don't know," Burke responded helpfully. Then she threw it to Bergeron and suddenly viewers could see him, in the ballroom, sitting next to former Alaska Gov./TLC reality show star/Fox News Channel contributor Palin, whom he was about to interview. She was in the audience because daughter Bristol is one of the competitors.
Tuesday night, the show's producers cough up the footage that, as Bergeron put it, will nail shut the coffin on Boo-Gate.Judge Carrie Ann Inaba is seen giving Grey a score of 8. Len Goodman gives her an 8. Bruno Tonioli gives her an 8. The audience applauds. But then, some begin to boo. The booing grows louder. "They're booing," Bruno says to his colleagues while the camera stays glued to the judges. "They're booing an 8," he says while, about that time, Bergeron's voice can be heard in the ballroom, introducing Palin.
The producers do not show any footage from the camera that had been trained on Bergeron and Palin, sticking to the footage of the camera trained on the judges. On the other hand, this is not "Nightline." It's "Dancing with the Stars."
"Now, it seems to me, based on that footage, the audience was booing because they thought you deserved higher scores. How do you guys feel?" Burke asks Grey and Hough.
"I'm thrilled with the 8's," Grey says.
"Maybe the audience was hoping for 9's," Burke adds, in case they are having trouble following the storyline.
"Just to drive the final nail in the coffin of Boo-Gate, Sarah Palin told me before the show, she was surprised by all the controversy, because she was booing you guys, too," Bergeron jokes to the judges.
But Tuesday night's show was not all Boo-Gate.
It was also about pop singers trying to sell albums. Like Janelle Monae, who sang "Tightrope" with too many changeups for her backup dancers who seemed to be in desperate search of a groove.
And Seal, who delivers a forgettable performance even he doesn't seem impressed with, while the "Dancing" professional chick dancers come and go, dressed in what look like nighties from the Valentine's gift packs their boyfriends ordered for them online.The Macy's Halftime Entertainment dancing troupe takes the floor in a number choreographed by celebrity choreographer brothers Rich and Tone Talauega. It looks like a stab at Cirque du Soleil on a too-small stage and the dancers more concerned about personal safety than expressive movement, but they swing in and out on trapezes, whetting our appetite for adding some kind of aerial challenge to the competition. Florence Henderson would wipe out the rest of them on the flying trapeze.
When the dust settles on Tuesday's results show:
Michael Bolton and his partner Chelsie Hightower perform a quickstep that apparently wasn't good enough to keep him on the show another week. (AP)
- Len and Bruno have fought - again - over Bruno's having told celebrity dancer Michael Bolton on Monday that his quickstep was the worst he'd seen in the show's history, and then given Bolton only three points for his effort. - Celebrity dancer Florence Henderson has promised to "lock thighs" with someone, but we'd covered our ears and so did not hear the name of her intended victim.
- Rick Fox's professional dance partner Cheryl Burke has told America she uses hand sanitizer under her armpits before every performance, while Grey's partner Hough has revealed he keeps his socks in a fridge, and Florence's partner Corky Ballas confessed he kneels on the dance floor and smells it carefully on competition nights.
- Michael Bolton has told Bergeron it was "inappropriate and disrespectful" of Bruno to have told him his quickstep was the worst he's ever seen on the competition. Bolton does not explain why he feels that way, but we're guessing that, if pressed, he'd answer, "because I'm Michael Bolton."