{"id":11610,"date":"2011-03-21T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:12:34","slug":"alley-to-appear-in-dancing-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/03\/alley-to-appear-in-dancing-with-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Alley To Appear In Dancing With The Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Kirstie Alley <\/strong>is nervous about tonight&#8217;s appearance in <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alley will be taking to the ballroom floor tonight in the season premiere of <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>. Her dancing partner will be Ukrainian Latin ballroom dance champion <strong>Maksim Chmerkovskiy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AlleyKirstieDWTS-032111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11611\" title=\"AlleyKirstieDWTS-032111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AlleyKirstieDWTS-032111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Yikes&#8230;only seven days away from DWTS&#8230;feels a little like that dream of being in high school taking finals u forgot to study for&#8230;naked,&#8221; said Alley via Twitter last week. &#8220;I&#8217;m at once terrified and exhilarated to do DWTS&#8230;intermittent bouts of convulsions&#8230;and late night crying jags.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DWTS insiders are worried that Alley might be too scared to dance. &#8220;You have no idea how nerve-wracking that first dance can be in front of a live audience in the ballroom the judges and millions and viewers that are watching from home,&#8221; said one insider. &#8220;Rehearsals help you make all the right moves, but dancing on an empty stage and blocking out your routine with the cameras is very different from going live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If her performance in practice sessions is any indication, Alley might do well after all. &#8220;In practice, she has been amazing and is a front-runner,&#8221; said another insider. &#8220;The amount of curiosity over Kirstie and the amount of work she is putting into doing this means she could go all the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With the Stars <\/em>airs tonight at 8 PM EDT on ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan&#8216;s Kirstie Alley is nervous about tonight&#8217;s appearance in Dancing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[3568,3567],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-kirstie-alley"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}