Ox Notes: October 30, 2007

Jane Seymour & Tony Dovolani seem to have run out of nice things to say about the judges and their fellow Dancing with the Stars competitors. Yesterday afternoon, People ran a story in which Tony claims to have given Carrie Ann Inaba a book on professional ballroom rules, and that Carrie Ann gave their Rumba a low score in retaliation.

In TV Guide's backstage report from last night's Performance Show, Jane accused the judges of wanting to "get rid of the old one." She went on to criticize Melanie Brown & Maksim Chmerkovskiy's Rumba: "You get higher scores in this competition if you just walk around. Or you go up to the judges and you go pat, pat, on the cheek and you get ‘tens' for that."

So Jane & Tony have accused Carrie Ann of not understanding the rules and retaliating against them in her scoring, and they call claim that the couples with the highest scores don't deserve them.

The pair has chosen to ignore the fact that DwtS doesn't operate under the same rules as professional ballroom dancing so that they can indulge in paranoia and egotism. I hope I speak for many fans of DwtS when I say: Jane and Tony, shut the hell up.

In other DwtS news, Jennie Garth somehow already knows that, if she survives tonight's elimination, she'll be dancing the Rumba and Viennese Waltz next week. Helio Castroneves says of the praise his "Latin booty" earned last night: "This booty is small, but it is strong." He's also postponed his wedding to fashion designer Ali Vazquez until January.

Rapper Coolio is getting his own reality show, on Oxygen of all places.

Fox is importing the British TV show Spaced, which will be reinterpreted for America a la The Office. Since the original was created by Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg, I've got high hopes for the US version.

And a study showed that, if you relied only on mainstream media for coverage of the 2008 presidential race, you'd think there were only five candidates running for the office: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and John McCain. I'll be checking in on the Democratic candidates' debate tonight on MSNBC at 9 ET to see if they're still letting guys like Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, and Dennis Kucinich even stand on the stage.