Spoilers Ahead!
After long weeks of dancing his heart out, propped up on his busted up legs by only his resolve, courage and legions of SMS-voting geeks, Steve “ThunderToes” Wozniac is booted from Dancing With the Stars.
For some, he was hard to watch dancing. OK, maybe for most. But not to me.
To me he was a giant (but rapidly decreasing in weight, mind you) bundle of circuit board, segway riding, love bouncing around with the enthusiasm of a child on two barely-functioning legs. The man who could out design professional mainframe builders in his early teens found dancing impossible, but here he was trying, bucking what fate handed him (genius, riches) for what nearly everyone else took for granted (having fewer than two left feet). Woz is a deep geek—ours—with the accompanying social awkwardness. And he lost, and lost perhaps more badly than any contestant in the history of the show. But I don’t think anyone else faced such overwhelming odds. And who can resist cheering for the underdog?
Lets see if we can get Woz on Survivor or American Gladiators. [Newsday]
*Sorry for spoiling the ending, ladies and dudes. I figured it was not so much a “spoiler” as a “save-you-from-having-to-watch-bad-TV-ler”.
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