DWTS GALLERY - Geraldo & Edyta - S22 Wk01

DWTS - SEASON 22, Week 01
GALLERY:  Geraldo & Edyta

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Geraldo & Edyta - Review of DWTS Season 21, Week 01 
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Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

See video (below) to watch Geraldo & Edyta's Cha-cha on Week 01 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!

DWTS Elimination: Geraldo & Edyta – Season 22, Week 02

Geraldo Rivera and Edyta Sliwinska ELIMINATED

on Dancing With The Stars

 

So beloved Talk Show Host and Television Personality, Geraldo Rivera, will officially mark the very first Contestant to be sent away from Dancing With The Stars Season 22’s Ballroom, along with his professional dance partner, Returning Pro, Edyta Sliwinska, in tow.

Geraldo & Edyta

Eliminated,

DWTS Season 22, Week 02.

I must say, I’m very sorry to see Geraldo be the first to hang up his barely-scuffed Dance Shoes.

Personally, I’m of the (what I am sure must be) widely shared mindset that DWTS’ very own Doleful Dancing Despondent, Mischa Barton, should have been the first to go!

(After all, folks, and let’s face it … Does “Bitter Ballroom Blues” Barton even WANT to be here???  … I believe this particular situation would very easily qualify as one that is commonly referred to as, “A Mercy Killing”.)

Not that an ever-polite, sincere Class Act (of a “Don’t kid yourself”, bygone Era) such as Mr. Rivera would ever see it that way …

Upon being Eliminated, the always affable Geraldo noted that, despite having a beautiful, talented, and indeed WONDERFUL Partner such as Edyta, if he hadn’t been the first to receive the Ballroom’s Boot, he would have “demanded a recount”!

Well, if that doesn’t just about beat all, folks!  …
Geraldo Rivera, Waltzing away and Watering Up our eyes, all without hardly adding a scratch to the Glitter Dome’s Dance Floor!

Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo & Edyta – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 02

DWTS Season 22, Week 02

REVIEW:  Geraldo & Edyta

Performing a less than perfect “Salsa”, beloved Talk Show Host, Geraldo Rivera, and his Professional dancing partner, Edyta Sliwinska, danced (Well, moved around, at least!) to “Ran Kan Kan” by Tito Puente.

Weeeell, at this point in a Review, folks, I might take a paragraph or two and declare just how much Geraldo’s dancing lacked when it came to Musicality, Footwork, Lines, and Frame; but, such ceremony and tradition would seem hardly appropriate at this particular juncture, as, in reality, Geraldo’s dancing included positively NONE of the above!

I will say this for Geraldo’s Performance, however, it was extremely enjoyable to watch (Well, once anyway, let’s not kid ourselves!) being full of fun and a for-better-or-worse-HERE-it-is, good attitude!

And the show’s Panel Judges seemed to have the right take on this Routine (for once!), with Bruno Tonioli noting that it was “Impressive for all the wrong reasons” and Carrie Ann Inaba quipping, “You did not make dance great again, but you did make me laugh! …”

See video (below) to watch Geraldo & Edyta's Salsa on Week 02 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!  

Geraldo & Edyta – Review of DWTS Season 22, Week 01

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

REVIEW:  Geraldo & Edyta

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Dancing … (Weeell, sorta!) a Cha-Cha … (Oh, is THAT what that was?!) to “Treasure” … (As in, “National”?  No argument!  But, as in “Dance”??  Hmmm …) by the one and only Bruno Mars, … (who would have flipped in his grave … were he in one.  … Although, and come to think of it, Geraldo just may have inadvertently put him in one ;) …), Geraldo Rivera and his Returning Pro partner, Edyta Sliwinska, submitted their Week 01 Routine.

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Well, I’ll say this for Geraldo, he’s got guts; and, you gotta hand it to him for just coming out there on Monday and throwing himself into the Performance like that!

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Unfortunately, however, it seems no amount of Stage Charisma (or Golden Sparkles!) could serve to cover up for the lack of Musicality, Footwork, and (Oh, heck!) General and/or ANY amount of Fluid Movement displayed within this “Dance”!

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

Still, one can’t help but enjoy Geraldo, with or without the dancing aspect; and, should he continue on in the Competition, it seems worth noting that, historically, there is always room for improvement on the show, so who knows?  Maybe Geraldo will come back and do better for Week 02!

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

And anyway, the entire Routine wasn’t a COMPLETE waste as Head Judge, Len Goodman, so aptly phrased it in the end, “Well done!  Good fun!” 

Geraldo & Edyta

DWTS Season 22, Week 01

See video (below) to watch Geraldo & Edyta's Cha-cha on Week 01 of DWTS, Courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!

A Brief Look at Our DWTS, Season 22 Cast! – Geraldo Rivera

Some More Information

re: the Members of DWTS,

Season 22’s Cast!!

World-famous News Reporter and Talk Show Host, Geraldo Rivera, is joining up with Dancing With The Stars’ all-new Cast for Season 22!

Geraldo & Edyta

A well-known Reporter, Attorney, and former Investigator for the N.Y.P.D, Rivera is also a highly publicized Author, penning no less than 7 published works, and is additionally (and primarily) known for being the Host of his self-entitled Series, Geraldo (1987-1998), a widely popular, CBS Tabloid Talk Show series famous (and infamous) for exposing society’s seedy underbelly, often “tearing into” and openly discussing what some might consider to be “Sensitive Subjects”.

At age 72, Geraldo enters this Spring’s exciting Competition with the distinct honor of being the Season’s oldest, competing Celebrity.

“I’m the only Puerto Rican in America who can’t dance!” Geraldo has quipped of his joining DWTS and his current Rehearsal progression, “… but I really am very enthusiastic about it.  It’s way out of my comfort-zone, it was on my Bucket List, this is the third time they have asked [and] I finally said ‘Yes!’ before it was too late.”

Having been partnered with DWTS’ Returning Pro, Edyta Sliwinska, Rivera reveals that the almost-overwhelming Ballroom task ahead will certainly present its challenges!

“In many ways, it’s scarier than being in Afghanistan [where Rivera has worked as a War Correspondent], where I have been 11 times, or being in Iraq, where I have been 11 times … that’s my comfort-zone - being a War Correspondent or interviewing Politicians - … that kind of thing.  But to be in this world [of Ballroom Dance] … to have a Pro like this lovely, young lady <motioning to Edyta, who was seated next to him> on my arm is pretty ego boosting!”

Geraldo & Edyta

“I think we’re gonna have a blast together,” exclaimed Sliwinska of her pairing up with Geraldo.

 “… so here’s the thing,” noted the 34-year-old Dancer, “since I’ve been gone for so many Seasons, I’m known to be the really patient one, but things really have changed, and now I’m the most demanding person on here,” smiled Edyta, “so watch out!”, she added with a laugh.

 Still, it seems that Geraldo will have absolutely zero issues with Sliwinska’s self-proclaimed, strict work ethic, observing, “It is one thing to walk, it’s another thing to dance! …”