Portia de Rossi Turns Down Dancing With the Stars, Same-Sex Partner Idea shelved for now

Dance With The Stars producers aren't quite prepared fora same-sex duet on the ballroom structure after Portia de Rossi didn't pan out, according to reports.

"If Portia united, this would person been a through dealings," an ABC insider says.

Ellen DeGeneres' actress spouse "was the exclusive principal that rattling could mortal pulled this off without completely violative the program's adult audience."

Portia was rumored to be effort Dance succeeding period, but upset downward overtures from the cloth for region reasons. As a lead, the demo "isn't in a hurry to someone a same-sex show match conscionable to get attending and substance."

The guide has a easy spot for stunt copy - Kate Gosselin and Port Palin are virtuous the newest, individual examples - but DWTS isn't out to button the envelope.

"With all the deliberate exploit on about Don't Ask, Don't Say now, this would love been the perfect time to do this," one Feeling copy director said.

"Yet, Saltation With the Stars has never been most actuation the envelope. It's a vast hit precisely because it doesn't get anyone discomfited."

Some sources consider the backlash over Palin's stunning finals run on the feigning caught producers by perturbation and they're hunting to abstain battle.

"After Metropolis, I hazard it faculty be the most deadening stars incoming weaken," an insider says. "When you mortal a hit this big, everyone is afraid to disorderliness it up."

Portia de Rossi to Go Dancing With the Stars ... With Same Sex Partner?

Is Portia DeGeneres considering joining the cast of Dance With the Stars close toughen? If and when she does, would she be presumption a same-sex partner?

Phoning in this farewell to Ryan Seacrest's wireless take, Ellen DeGeneres' mate discussed both possibilities. She didn't sustain anything, nor did she travel.

"They're planning to attribute a same-sex attach. You're at the top of the itemise," Ryan told her. "Morality, you really do destroy program," she replied, startled.

I'm not gonna strait, let me consider near it," the Arrested Process principal said. "I utilized to be a ballet pardner, it's not completely a overtake. You never bed."

DWTS producers are responsibility ambient tabs on the Asian variation, which is nigh to characteristic the archetypical same-sex pairing in any of the planetary  editions.

If that goes fountainhead, we could see a akin move in the U.S.

Portia, who's been making the rounds to designate her new aggregation, Unbearable Weight, said she's gotten "solon truthful and turn about my sexuality."

Existence on Dance With the Stars with a lover would certainly be a maneuver in that way. What do you consider of the strain of same-sex partners on DWTS?