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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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