Monday October 27, 2008
Cloris Leachman attends the 2009 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Grand Marshal announcement held at the Pasadena Tournament House on October 10, 2008 in Pasadena, CA.
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Cloris Leachman has gotten more attention for her wacky on-stage antics than her dance moves on this season's Dancing With the Stars.
But she insists her feistiness -- hoisting her leg up on the judges' desk; cursing out fellow contestants; referring to herself as a "skanky ho" -- is all in good nature.
"Something comes over me — I don't know what it is," the 82-year-old tells USA Today. "If I've made people mad, I'm sorry. All my life, I've been a cut-up. I'm just having fun."
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This season, she has consistently ranked in the bottom but has won enough viewer votes to survive six eliminations.
"The fact that I'm still on is a [expletive] miracle," she admits. "I suppose [viewers] see fun and hope and happiness."
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DWTS executive producer Conrad Green denies a recent Chicago Sun-Times story that host Samantha Harris and contestant Susan Lucci are fed up with Leachman's behavior
Says Green: "She's 82, but she's mischievous and has this uncanny ability to make people laugh. We never know what to expect with her. But that's what live TV is about."
Teaching Leachman ballroom moves was tough at first, says her partner Corky Ballas.
"There are days we haven't danced because of her blood pressure. She's had some knee, rib and foot problems," Ballas says. "But she never complains — even when I tried to get her to do a cartwheel."
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