Let’s start with the losers…
When Penn Jillette got the boot from “Dancing with the Stars” last week he wasn’t the only one who went home a loser.
His comedy-and-magic partner Teller lost $5,000 betting on his big-footed buddy.
After the live results show aired Teller told reporters (yes, he actually talked) that he had placed a bet on Jillette in Vegas with the hopes that the loud-mouthed magician would go all the way on the sixth season of the mega-popular ABC dance competition.
According to Vegas bookies, as of last week the odds against Jillette were 30-1 so Teller stood to win $150,000. Only that didn’t happen. Instead Jillette, who was not exactly embraced by his fellow dancers (pro dancer and two-time “DWTS” winner Julianne Hough told TV’s “Access Hollywood” that Jillette’s nickname backstage was “butthead” and she didn’t use the term affectionately), was given his walking papers mid-way through last Tuesday’s show.
Regardless, Teller says he doesn’t regret losing cash on his professional pal.
“I have paid that kind of money for ringside seats for famous events, you know, and I think paying five grand to have a prime ringside seat to the dance of the century was a good deal,” Teller told reporters.
If you watched the show then you’ve seen the cameras cut to shots (multiple times) of Teller sitting in the front row cheering on his 53-year-old friend who he says “danced amazingly.”
According to Teller, Penn “was perfectly in time, his footwork was amazing. I think the judges just have a blind spot for grace in men with size 14 shoes.”
Frankly, after hearing Penn call Kristi Yamaguchi a cheat (he claimed because she was a figure skater she had an unfair advantage in the competition) I’m glad he was sent packing.
Okay, on to the person Tom Cruise considers the biggest winner of all—-his wife Katie Holmes.
Britain’s Daily Mail is reporting that Suri’s mom is headed for the Great White Way.
The paper claims Holmes is “in final negotiations” to make her Broadway debut in a revival of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s tear-jerking, post-World War II family drama.
But according to Holmes’ rep, “Nothing is set.”