What Are the Odds Of A Bye To The Second Leg?
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Mills, 39, the estranged wife of Beatle Paul McCartney, lost her left leg below the knee in a traffic accident in 1993. She is the first contestant on the hit ABC television show to compete with an artificial limb.
A week before Mills' March 19 debut, Antigua-based gaming site bodog.com opened bets on whether her prosthetic leg would fly off during a dance routine -- and made "no" a heavy favourite.
The site added that Mill's leg "must fall off, not be purposely taken off, during a dance routine for all Yes wagers to be graded a win."
Two things spring to mind here...
1, The sheer callousness of someone opening a book on a disabled person losing their prosthetic limb on TV.
2, The fact that they had to state that the leg "...must fall off, not be purposely taken off, during a dance routine...".
Now I've never seen the American version but I have watched the British one and I have yet to see a dance where the removal of a leg played any real part and if there was wouldn't this give Heather an unfair advantage?
Now the Strictly Come Dancing of 2004 was a classic only marred by the fact that the sublime Aled Jones was robbed and ended up in 4th place. At the time I commented on the resemblance between Aled and my brother, something he strenuously, to the point of obscenity, denied. I think it's time the matter was settled by the massed opinion of the cleverthingies populace. Take a look at the pictures and vote.
Oh, comments below as usual.
Gareth Aled Jones
subscribe to these comments64% - Lauri Ylonen
63% - Annika Sorenstam
57% - Ben Stiller
56% - John Ritter
55% - Javier Solana
54% - Jared Padalecki
52% - Jim Carrey
50% - Ian McKellen
50% - Fidel Castro
48% - Farrah Fawcett (!!)
99% - Dilbert (ok, so that one was my contribution!)
For balance, I also used another image to see what that came up with and the list is as follows(this particular facsimile produced no results):
73% - Elton John
63% - Sean Bean
62% - Henry Miller
62% - Bob Hope
60% - Kirk Douglas
60% - Rachel Stevens (!)
58% - Jeff Bridges
56% - Jan Peter Balkenende
54% - Kian Egan
54% - Jean-Pierre Raffarin
98% - Dilbert (ok, so this was still my addition, but you have to agree I have a point?)
The second photo was more of a 'distance' one, which probably explains the higher percentace of good looking people in the list ;-)
Troublesome (13-03-2007 18:16:25)
garethwi (13-03-2007 15:49:17)
Pater Familis (13-03-2007 15:26:42)
revrobuk (13-03-2007 14:59:48)
garethwi (13-03-2007 13:07:59)
Now if you had said George Clooney...
Well... (15-03-2007 17:40:49)