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Dancing Champs Bringing High-Energy Show To Tampa

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 11, 2007

The winners of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" are coming to Tampa on tour.

Race car driver Helio Castroneves and his partner Julianne Hough will be appearing with the "Dancing With the Stars" tour when it plays Tampa in January, according to officials at the St. Pete Times Forum.

Castroneves' and his professional partner, two-time "Dancing" champ Hough, confirmed the specific dates this past weekend, according to TVGuide .com.

They will be with the tour in the following cities: Indianapolis (Jan. 18), Nashville (Jan. 19), Tampa (Jan. 21), Jacksonville (Jan. 22), Fort Lauderdale (Jan. 23), Providence, R.I. (Feb. 9) and Philadelphia (Feb. 10).

Tickets for the tour are on sale at Ticketmaster.com.

Famed Drummer's Son Opens Led Zeppelin Set

The newest member of Led Zeppelin was given the honor of kicking off the band's reunion Monday night, pounding out the beat before the surviving founders joined in on a near-perfect "Good Times Bad Times."

After the lights went down at London's O2 Arena, newsreel footage of the band arriving in Tampa for a 1973 performance was projected onstage. With thousands of fans worked into a frenzy, drummer Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham, began thumping the skittering beat, soon to be joined by guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones and singer Robert Plant.

The song, rarely played live in the band's heyday, proved a perfect starting point for this performance.

Zeppelin returned for the benefit show to play its first full set since 1980, the year John Bonham died. Robbed of "Bonzo's" pulsing drums, the band decided it couldn't go on and split up on Dec. 4, 1980.

Now, with an estimated 20 million fans vying for tickets pared down to a lucky 18,000 or so - including one who paid more than $168,000 for his pair - most of the rest are hoping for more tour dates.

But Plant - with his screeching, often unintelligible lyrics leading the way during the band's 12 years and eight studio albums - may be the toughest of the three to be convinced that it's a good idea to go on tour.

VH1 Star Single No More

VH1 is going to have to change the title of its reality show starring Scott Baio.

The former "Charles in Charge" and subject of VH1's "Scott Baio Is 45 ... and Single" removed the "Single" part over the weekend, marrying longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan. (He's also 46 now.) The couple said their vows in a small ceremony on the roof of a high-rise in Los Angeles, People reports.

Those who weren't able to attend the ceremony need not feel left out: VH1 crews filmed the wedding for the second season of the show, which is due in 2008.

The first season of "Scott Baio Is 45" dealt with the actor and well-known bachelor's commitment issues. At the urging of his life coach, Baio stepped away from Sloan for several weeks and met with a number of his ex-girlfriends to discern just why he had trouble being in a long-term relationship. He decided to take the plunge in the season finale, only to find out that Sloan was pregnant.

The couple's child was born last month and reportedly attended the wedding Saturday.

Today's Birthdays

Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is 89. Actress Rita Moreno is 76. Pop singer David Gates is 67. Actress Teri Garr is 59. Singer Jermaine Jackson is 53. Rock musician Darryl Jones is 46. Rapper-actor Mos Def is 34. Actor Rider Strong is 28.

Sources: Walt Belcher, The Associated Press

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