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Did you think that Misty May-Treanor would have the courage and strength to continue on “Dancing with the Stars”.

After a foot injury during dance rehearsal with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy on October 3, the Olympic volleyball gold medalist was forced to step out of the dance show.

The announcement came from the beautiful May-Treanor herself live on the Monday night show on October 6, 2008.

Well! She had the courage but not enough strength to return.

At the end of the show, May-Treanor talked to PEOPLE magazine, “I ruptured my Achilles tendon and from that point on I knew I couldn’t continue. I’m out and I’m really bummed.”

She further added, “We don’t know why these things happen. They could happen to anyone. I feel like I was only just beginning here.”

Every dark cloud has a silver lining and the good news is that the injured Misty has decided to start her family with husband Matt Treanor, a professional baseball player, as she will be requiring nine months for the rehabilitation after her surgery.

She said, “Having nine months off? That could happen. I was planning to take a little time off next year anyway, so this solidifies that.”

May God give her strength to return to the volleyball court and even to the ballroom.

It is a dream for any athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, where as for a performer, her best moment is to win a dancing competition.

There are a few persons who want to achieve both. Misty May-Treanor wanted to strive for both but it seems unlikely for her to succeed.

The beautiful athlete, who happens to be an Olympic gold medalist in Volleyball, is also a contestant at “Dancing With The Stars” TV show.

She was injured on October 3 while dancing. Although the initial reports depicted that she broke her ankle but it is denied by ABC Network.

Even the Judge Bruno Tonioli had praising words for the volleyball champion. He said, “I love your energy, I love what you put into it. You forget the finesse - you put so much power [that] sometimes you stumble a little bit. But you do a good job.”

We can all pray that she gets well soon and we get to see her again on the show.

C’mon Misty, you can do it!

Carly Smithson was the latest American Idol contestant to get the boot but before the elimination even happened, Idol message boards were abuzz that the castoff was going to be Jason Castro. Who would leak such a thing? Allegedly, it was Ryan Seacrest. An email exchange posted on a fan site points at Ryan saying that he blabbed that it was going to be Jason who’s leaving the show. While Ryan once said that he finds out who gets to go home the morning of the show, the truth is that only the two executive producers know who’s voted off.

We all know that celebrities can be just like regular people and love some karaoke. A couple of stars proved just that for Ellen DeGeneres’ 50th birthday celebration on Friday. The talk show host’s birthday was actually on Saturday, so, Happy Birthday Ellen!.

Stars on the video sang to the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’. Jake Gyllenhaal did a little lip synching and booty-shaking to it. Other celebrities who joined in on the fun were Victoria Beckham, Queen Latifah, Kate Walsh, Jamie Foxx, Paris Hilton, Sharon Osbourne, David Spade, Heidi Klum, Masi Oka and Celine Dion. It’s quite a funny clip.

I remember sitting up, watching reruns, and dreaming about marrying the hunky Scott Baio. Of course, that was before I realized that he was more my mom’s age than my own.

For those of you who watch reality TV, you may have seen VH1’s reality show featuring Scott. It was called, simply, Scott Baio is 45…and Single. Sad life.

Well, now he’s not quite so single anymore. (Not to mention the fact that he’s now 46!). Scott finally married longtime sweethear Renee Sloan. They had small, private ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday.

At the wedding were close friends and family, including Renee’s 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and Scott and Renee’s newborn daughter, whose name is still unknown by the media.

Scott and Renee met years ago at the Playboy Mansion and dated off and on throughout the late 1990s. They remained friends and became romantically involved again about two years ago. In the past Scott didn’t think he was marriage material. Now, however, he’s in for life.

It isn’t every day that you can get the President of the United States on the line. But that’s just what Ellen did when she had Jenna Bush as a guest on her Wednesday show. The show was actually taped on Tuesday.Ellen prodded Jenna into calling her parents live from the show taping. She asked if Jenna could get her parents on the phone at any time. Jenna responded that she usually called in the morning or evening when she knew they would both be home.

Carefully covering the phone so no one can see the private number, Jenna finally agrees to call her parents. She jokingly says, “I’m not going to get anything I asked for for Christmas.”

Jenna finally gets through to First Lady Laura Bush. After talking to her for a moment, Jenna gets to talk to her father. The President comes to the phone, and his daughter says, “This is the Ellen Degeneres Show”.

Though surprised, he willingly talks to them both.

After Marie Osmond’s dollface was given the boot, the competition on Dancing with the Stars came down to race car driver Helio Castroneves and his partner Julianne Hough and Spice Girl Melanie Brown and her partnerMaksim Chmerkovskiy.

At the start of the final showdown, Castroneves was in second place, a mere one point behind Scary Spice. However, his quickstep on Tuesday night earned him a perfect score of 30.

After combining the scores from the judges with votes from viewers, it was determined that Castroneves had earned the mirroball trophy as the winner of this fifth season of DWTS.

His response? “It will look so good between my two Indy 500 trophies.”

It was a first place finish for him once again.