‘Dancing with the Stars’ has been one of the most popular network television reality shows for a few years now, but no season has been quite as popular or as widely talked about as this past season.
Jennifer Grey was certainly quite a superstar, but if you ask many people why they were watching, the answer would be the same: Bristol Palin. Republican or Democrat, it seemed like everyone was tuning in, and as far as the network was concerned, the publicity was certainly welcomed.
Why exactly were people tuning in to see Bristol Palin dance? Anyone who watched the show’s entire season knows that she wasn’t as talented as the majority of other dancers, yet she made it all the way to the show’s finale. The fact is Bristol Palin, like the rest of her family, is a media sensation. Whether people were watching to see her succeed or fail, the point is that Bristol Palin kept people watching.
There has been a lot of discussion that politics were involved in Bristol Palin lasting on the show for as long as she did, but the likely truth is that people were simply fascinated.
Much as the ‘Vote for the Worst’ section helped keep notoriously bad singers on American Idol for far longer than they should have been, many Republicans wanted to keep Bristol Palin on TV as a political statement, and many Democrats simply voted so they could keep watching her try to compete against dancers who were considerably more talented.
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