Chaz Bono's DWTS Partner Lacey Schwimmer: 'He's A Full Man, In Every Shape Or Form'
Posted on Sep 01, 2011 @ 03:00PM
Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer are easily the most talked-about pairing for the upcoming 13th season of Dancing with the Stars, as Chaz is the first transgender contestant to appear on the ABC hit since it began six years ago.
Schwimmer, speaking with Phoenix radio show "Johnjay and Rich" (104.7 KIIS FM) Thursday, said she considers Bono all man.
"The fact of the matter is, he's a full man, in every shape or form," she said of her partner. "Everybody should just get over it and accept him and accept him as a human being ... he's so brave and its really good to be a part of it with him!”
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Schwimmer said some of the portmanteau nicknames people have suggested for the team are "Schwimbomo, Team Schwaz and Team Boner.”
"I think he's gonna shock people with his performance," Schwimmer said. "I've seen progress and potential, and for me, that's exciting as a teacher."
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Schwimmer said she thinks Chaz is "gonna touch a lot of people's hearts.”
Earlier this week, Bono told GMA he “wouldn't have even felt comfortable dancing with a male dance partner."
Hear the audio on RadarOnline.com
The other pairings are: David Arquette and Kym Johnson; Ron Artest and Peta Murgatroyd; Elisabetta Canalis and Val Chmerkovskiy; Kristen Cavallari and Mark Ballas; Nancy Grace and Tristan McManus; Robert Kardashian and Cheryl Burke; Ricki Lake and Derek Hough; J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff; Chynna Phillips and Tony Dovolani; Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy; and Carson Kressley and Anna Trebunskaya.
Dancing with the Stars' 13th season begins on ABC Monday, September 19.
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Chastity hates her mother Cher's successful career. That's why she wants to be a man.
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 3:15pm
"He's" all man? strip those manly clothes off "him". you'll find hacked off breasts & a VAGINA! chaz still has ovaries & a uterus for goodness sakes!! thats kinda what bein a woman is all about. cut off our hair etc. but u cant change the inside
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:56am
Lots of ignorance on here. Some of you aren't even making sense. You don't have to accept it. Get over it!
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:52am
so your opinion reigns supreme? hmmm...you sound like cher. you may express your opinions but no one else can...unless they're the same as yours of course?
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:25am
When my daughter was in school she was so upset that she got in trouble for coping a story out of a book and pretending it was hers.....sometimes you just have to tell them the truth...maybe people dont want to hurt chazs feelings either
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:08am
Stop saying people don't understand and are haters. Most people clearly understand because it's been completely explained in the MEDIA over and over. It's a mental illness. Treatment would be better.
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 7:00am
I am decent..so are a lot of people and if this sort of thing didnt bother us that would be way worse...since when did we have to accept everything out there? this bi-sexual and transgender stuff is so foreign to me and I like it that way.
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 6:48am
gays and lesbians never upset me before..its not my thing but it didnt make me upset...its the mutilation thing that really gets me..if she wanted to be a man I can see but she isnt and cant be and I hate pretending just so she is happy.
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 6:46am
Lacey says, "I've seen progress and potential, and for me, that's exciting as a teacher." Means she knows Bono can't dance. Judges will treat CB special, keep CB around many weeks til it becomes obvious what they are doing.
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 5:00am
years ago they would have put someone like her in the circus and that is a fact..if she wants to go on DWTS and provide entertainment for those who love this kind of stuff it is her life...What do we expect with screwed up mothers like cher ?
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 4:57am