Ballroom may not have been her “calling,” and her Viennese waltz was more bizarre than beautiful, but ousted Dancing with the Stars Macy Gray did manage to make a few fans along the way off the parquet.“I think Macy should have stayed around,” pro Lacey Schwimmer said at the Surrogates world premiere in Hollywood on Thursday. “I thought that she was a breath of fresh air for the show. She was the new and improved Cloris Leachman.”
Fans, especially Dancing with the Stars purists, may not see comparisons to the dance-challenged Leachman as the highest form of praise, but then again, Schwimmer has always been one that has “danced” outside of the ballroom box.
“Cloris was entertaining beyond belief,” she said, “and I feel like Macy Gray had that potential to be that entertaining thing for the show.”
With the immensely colorful Grammy winner gone, the question now is, who will step up and carry the Leachman torch for the rest of the season?
“Tom Delay,” Schwimmer said without hesitating. “Backstage he’s hilarious and a lot of people don’t get to see that side of him.”
As for the more pressing needs of her own partner, Iron Chef America host Mark Dacascos, Lacey’s lesson plan is a bluntly simple one: “Hurry up and get the choreography!” Though the duo placed third on the men’s side, Schwimmer feels far from safe and no closer to a disco ball on her mantel.
“He’s the cutest thing in the entire world,” she said, catching a quick breath before listing her partner’s Dancing with the Stars flaws. “But he’s such a slow learner! The main problem is, he’s never really preformed before. You have to entertain the audience and then entertain through a camera to millions of people … Mark needs to smile and breathe.”
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