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Post by number1fan on Oct 15, 2007 19:45:16 GMT -5
Re: Mark Ballas and reports of a 'young love' romance years ago with Julianne and rumors that he 'broke her heart'... ...does anybody know when serious negotiations started for the new pros for Season 5? Might it have coincidentally been around the time that Julianne broke off her engagement? A woman's memories of her 'first love' can be pretty powerful, ya' know, and maybe we're all missing the 'real' story...  I dunno... just a thought... not that I care one way or the other... no harm in throwing out new talking points... just for fun... Do I need to *duck*? BTW: Where was Marky born? He doesn't have a British accent...
his parents. i believe after julianne won last season, corky ballas (marky's
dad) went to the producers of the show and told them i have 2 more just
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Post by angelina on Oct 19, 2007 5:17:25 GMT -5
www.tvguide.com/news/dancing-stars-hough/071018-02Thursday, October 18, 2007 Dancing with the Stars' Brother-Sister Act by Deborah Starr Seibel A petite blonde woman sits spellbound in the Dancing with the Stars studio audience as the couples make their entrances. Last season, Marriann Nelson screamed herself hoarse cheering for her daughter, the sensational young ballroom pro Julianne Hough. "This season," she says, "I thought, 'I'll be calm.' But when they both came out — my daughter on one side and my son on the other — I just lost it."
Mom isn't the only one wild about Julianne, 19, and her equally talented big brother, Derek, 22. Julianne danced her way into the winner's circle last season with Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno and poses a serious threat once again with her new partner, two-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves. And newcomer Derek has shown remarkable grace under pressure by regaining his footing with Beverly Hills, 90210 star Jennie Garth after the two slipped and fell at the end of the second week's performance. "It's good when things like that happen sometimes," he says, "just to remind people that this is real, this is live."
If these two show unusual maturity for such young performers, it's because they've been rehearsing all their lives. "At one time, I thought we would be the blonde Osmonds," says Nelson, who raised her five children in Salt Lake City with her first husband, Bruce Hough. Marriann enrolled her brood in a variety of performing-arts classes beginning at age 3. "I always wanted my kids to be independent and self-sufficient," Nelson says. "Not afraid of the world."
The first tough life lesson came when Julianne was 9 and her parents divorced. Marriann, looking for "one-stop shopping" for her children's varied classes, enrolled them in West Orem's Center Stage Performing Arts Studio. Derek was inspired by British dance teachers who came to visit and asked to study with them in London. Julianne, only 10, followed him abroad six months later. They lived with their teachers, Corky and Shirley Ballas, world champion ballroom dancers and the parents of Mark Ballas, the other new Dancing pro this season. "Mark's parents are still really powerful in the competition world," Derek says. "We'd go to competitions — Julianne with Mark and me with my partner — and everyone would go, 'Oh, man. The brat pack has arrived.'"
Julianne, Derek and Mark all became youth world champions. "I wasn't homesick until I was 15," says Julianne, who returned to the U.S. that year. "I felt that I was really just focusing on dance, and I wanted to experience high school — which I ended up hating, by the way."
But she graduated (as did Derek) and decided to move to Los Angeles in hopes of launching a singing and dancing career. Dancing pro Louis van Amstel put her name forward as a company dancer for the DWTS winter tour in 2006. And when Julianne heard that tour producers were searching for more male dancers, she said, "My brother's home for six weeks on vacation. You want him?" The rest is Dancing history.
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Post by tdav on Oct 25, 2007 17:55:02 GMT -5
I found some pictures of Julianne in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone":   |
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Post by jennaceeta25 on Oct 25, 2007 18:10:39 GMT -5
I found some pictures of Julianne in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone": Oh my! I didn't know she was in that movie. Awesome!  |
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Post by lisam on Oct 26, 2007 0:41:05 GMT -5
I found some pictures of Julianne in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone": Thanks for finding this tdavis! After hearing her say that she was in the first Harry Potter movie I wanted to pop my dvd in to try and find her but I never got around to it. Wow she looks so young! How awesome for her to experience that. |
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Post by angelina on Oct 26, 2007 5:42:45 GMT -5
Cool pic, tdavis. I think Derek (her brother) was in that one, too - carrying an owl in a cage down a hallway, if I recall correctly.
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Post by linmiste on Oct 26, 2007 8:06:04 GMT -5
Wow! I wonder how old she was? She looks beautiful for one so young. I love her spirit, too. Thanks, tdavis!
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Post by number1fan on Oct 26, 2007 16:19:37 GMT -5
tdavis...thanks for posting this pic of julianne...she's adorable!
oh! (thanks angelina) and if someone can find a pic of derek from this movie,
i'd love to see that more! 
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Post by angelina on Oct 28, 2007 6:34:14 GMT -5
oh! (thanks angelina) and if someone can find a pic of derek from this movie,
i'd love to see that more! Here's the youtube clip (see approx 1:34). It's soooo fast - don't blink!  youtube.com/watch?v=FHOX15ivLd4 |
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Post by number1fan on Oct 28, 2007 15:44:43 GMT -5
oh! (thanks angelina) and if someone can find a pic of derek from this movie,
i'd love to see that more! Here's the youtube clip (see approx 1:34). It's soooo fast - don't blink! youtube.com/watch?v=FHOX15ivLd4 |
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Post by angelina on Nov 5, 2007 6:44:54 GMT -5
Helio and Julianne performing their cha cha at the Pacers game this past weekend. Sorry, it was taken from pretty far away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L2ldY3A4wI love that song! |
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Post by ohnoagain on Nov 5, 2007 10:51:34 GMT -5
Helio and Julianne performing their cha cha at the Pacers game this past weekend. Sorry, it was taken from pretty far away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L2ldY3A4wI love that song! Thanks Angelina for the video. Wasn't that the song they did it too on the show?? Or the way the band was suposed to sound? |
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Post by special guest on Nov 5, 2007 21:53:00 GMT -5
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Post by number1fan on Nov 5, 2007 22:26:49 GMT -5
special guest...i seriously doubt it.
it's just for publicity, albeit the wrong kind.
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Post by tdav on Nov 7, 2007 0:15:12 GMT -5
Julianne and Derek are going to be on "20/20" Friday.
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