Helio and Julianne

Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves and his partner Julianne Hough won Season Five of Dancing With the Stars Tuesday night, and we couldn't be happier.

Time out. What? "Dancing With the Stars"? The television show? Seriously? Have you gone mad?

Yes (to the "seriously" question; but No to the "mad" query). Chris and Kimberly had a 10-week obsession with the series, and loved every second of it. Every Monday (for the competition) and Tuesday (for the results) had episodes recorded for later viewing once our work schedules allowed a mutual block of time to watch them. Dancing With the Stars? Come on. How in the name of Tom Bergeron did THAT occur?



It all started back on September 18, 2007 when our blogging hosts attended a lecture through their Guilford College Bryan Lecture Series season tickets. Kathleen Turner, Louis Gossett Jr., and Jane Seymour comprised the panel for an evening entitled "Leveraging Star Power for Social Change". Ahhh, liberals. Chris happened to become quite smitten with 56-year old hottie Jane Seymour. And when she mentioned her appearance on Dancing With the Stars, it was decided that the ABC show would indeed become a Season Pass recording on the Gordon DVR. The joys of Mayfield Hts., OH with 1995's "Let's take ballroom dancing classes so we kinda look like we know what we're doing at our wedding reception" were pleasantly brought back to the forefront of our memories. And lo, because of hottie Jane's appearance at a modestly liberal lecture, the Gordons finally hopped on the Dancing With the Stars bandwagon.

And what a fun bandwagon ride it was.

Season Six of Dancing With the Stars cannot arrive soon enough.

By the way, Julianne wasn't bad eye candy either. And I'm allowed to say that since Kimberly herself said she was beautiful.