Ballroom dancing apparently isn't the only thing Josie Maran is bad at. Making jokes is another.
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Maran's comment -- an apparent reference to Heather Mills, the former Dancing with the Stars participant who, despite losing her left leg in a 1993 traffic accident, managed to outlast all but one of her female fourth-season celebrity competitors -- drew loud gasps and groans from the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio audience.
"Well, if you had gone for two [legs], that would have been amazing... [losing] one would have been fine," Kimmel replied after Maran's comment.
Maran and professional partner Alec Mazo had performed a foxtrot during Monday night's broadcast of Dancing with the Stars 5's first performance episode. They were eliminated based on a combination of the judges' scores -- a 16 out of a possible 30 points, the lowest score of any of the 12 couples who performed -- and home viewer votes cast following the broadcast.
But Maran said she had a feeling she'd be the first one to go based on some of the judges' comments. Len Goodman said "the one constant throughout the whole thing was that your footwork was bad" and Bruno Tonioli added Maran looked like "a beautiful sailing ship stranded on a sand bank."
Josie Maran and Alec Mazo perform the foxtrot on Monday night's Dancing with the Stars performance show (Photo credit ABC/Carol Kaelson) |
"I knew that from the beginning, but I thought maybe... [I could change that]," Maran told Kimmel after he explained his Dancing with the Stars viewer voting theory to her. "I tried to talk about my daughter, being a mom... they just didn't get it."
Despite her early exit from the competition, Maran said she still has a favorite to take home the show's fifth-season mirror ball trophy.
"I think Cameron...," Maran began before stumbling All My Children actor Cameron Mathison's last name. "The soap guy."
"He would be next on my list," Maran replied when Kimmel commented that he considered professional race-car driver Helio Castroneves to be the competition's favorite.
Since her Dancing with the Stars' journey was so brief, Maran said she doesn't foresee another reality show in her future.
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"No, I don't think so," she said. "But you know, I'm usually wrong with these predictions."