The Steves are cursed: Dancing with the Stars' tough breaks

By April MacIntyre Mar 24, 2009, 14:23 GMT

Dancing with the Stars contestant Steve-O.

Watching Dancing with the Stars is turning out to be my biggest guilty pleasure ever. The show took time to sink its hooks into me, but now I'm a Marlin.

The two contestants I have been rooting for the most, Steve-O and Steve Wozniak, are unfortunately plagued by injuries.

Amazing that all the years Steve-O threw himself into a "Jackass" blender-full of danger - bare buttocks-first - he seemed made of rubber and impervious to any injury. 

Lacey and Steve-O

Now, ballroom dancing is poised to cause him a potential lifetime back injury.

It was last week's backflip which landed Steve dead square onto a microphone pack that sent him to the hospital. 

This week an already injured Wozniak ruptured his hamstring, sending him off in an ambulance too.

Wozniak is affable, and nimble with his mind, if not his feet. He scored the best remark of the night. Woz quipped:  “I learned if you mix a little dancing with a little Smirnoff, you might end up in the hospital.”

The couple tried and did their best.  Carrie Ann Inaba likes Woz, saying "at some point the novelty wears off" to which a pained Bruno and a stern looking Len delivered the lowest scores of the night to the couple. They got a "10."

Wozniak is such a kind man, and so cheerful to boot despite all the mishap, he just may be saved by sympathetic viewer votes.

Steve-O and Lacey Schwimmer got a 15 for their foxtrot.

Len said the “O” in Steve-O's name was for ovation, simply because Steve-O stuck it out and showed up.  Steve-O has a big fan base too. It may come down to a dance-off between the two Steves, and I am sad to see either go. 

But in the face of the dominating talent of French actor Gilles Marini, I think anyone watching this show knows who will take the top prize.

There are natural dancers in the world, and then there are those who have no innate dancing mojo. Holly Madison - you are the Kim Kardashian of this season.

The B-roll showed a peeved Dmitry Chaplin haranguing the Bunny over her lack of focus and work ethic.

Tiny dancer and Olympian Shawn Johnson did a good turn, as did David Alan Grier who is putting his all into the competition.  He will be Gilles' biggest foe.

Unlike Madison, “Bachelor star” Melissa Rycroft is a natural born dancer; like Gilles, she will make this contest a three-way horse race.

So, if you are watching, who do you think should be eliminated?