EXCLUSIVE: Lou Ferrigno Fuming Over DWTS Snub
Posted on Aug 20, 2009 @ 06:04PM - 6 comments
Is he green with envy? The Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno’s manager wife Carla has blasted producers of Dancing With The Stars for not picking her famous husband for the new series. In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, she claims the producers of the ABC hit show did not even call Ferrigno back despite courting him (for the second time!) to be a contestant.
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“They never even had the class to give Lou a call and tell him that he was not going to be chosen – this is the second time they haven’t selected him but it will be the last,” Carla said. “Lou is an American icon and we had a lot of fans contacting us who were excited about him appearing on Dancing With The Stars.
“The producers told us he would have made an excellent contestant and when you compare him to some of the ‘so-called’ celebrities they picked it just does not make any sense at all.”
Ferrigno, 57, had held promising talks with the producers just a week before the final decision was made for the ninth series of DWTS which premieres on Sept 21, 2009. The massive 6’4 inch body builder and actor had lost around twenty five pounds in preparation for the tight costumes and strenuous routines. He even brushed up on his dance moves with his wife.
But, mysteriously, his name was not on the final 16 which is the largest number of first round contestants ever to be selected.
“We couldn’t believe some of the people they picked and Lou was more surprised than upset that he wasn’t chosen because we know he would have been great,” she added. “I mean Tom Delay, a corrupt politician, a skateboarder (Louie Vito) who nobody has ever heard of and what exactly has Ashley Hamilton ever done?”
She does admit that Donny Osmond and Kathy Ireland “were good picks.” Despite the DWTS setback the husband and wife team have another project in the pipeline which they hope will get the green-lit within the coming days.
EXCLUSIVE: Lou Ferrigno Hasn’t joined Dancing With The Stars...Yet
Posted on Aug 04, 2009 @ 05:35PM - Add a comment
The original Hulk Lou Ferrigno is still a little green from envy of Dancing With the Stars alums. Despite rumors he has been signed on for the next season, his wife and manager tell RadarOnline.com that it isn’t so...at least not yet.
“Lou absolutely wants to do the show but we haven’t signed any papers yet, so, I don’t know how that story got out,” Carla Ferrigno said. “We’ve been told by other contestants that they were presented with contracts only a few days before Dancing With The Stars actually started, so, we’ll have to wait and see.”
The famous body builder turned actor is so excited by the prospect of hitting the dance floor that he’s even started to get himself in shimmying shape. Both he and Carla love to dance at weddings and have been going to nightclubs to practice in case he does get the official call from ABC.
“People love it when they see us dance in public and whenever we take to the floor at parties at The Playboy mansion everybody goes wild,” she added. “The official announcement is on August 17, so, we will probably know if he is taking part a few days before then.”
Ferrigno - who had been training Michael Jackson before he died – held ‘successful talks’ with the show’s producers several months ago.
“Lou is a fantastic dancer and he really wants to win the competition as he has an athlete’s mentality and the producer’s really love that,” Carla added. “He had a hip-replacement operation a few months ago but he has fully recovered from that and he has lost around 25 lbs so he would look great in his costumes.”
The massive 6’4 star now weighs around 255 lbs and got in shape by regulating his diet and doing plenty of cardio exercises.
