3 actors and an athlete aim for 'Dancing' finals

Kirstie Alley, Ralph Macchio, Chelsea Kane and Hines Ward have cha-cha'd, tangoed, waltzed and jived their way through 10 weeks of competition on "Dancing With the Stars," but one of them will fall short of the finals.

One celebrity hoofer will be dismissed during today's episode. The remaining three will compete for the mirrorball trophy next week on the hit ABC show.

Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine who is eliminated from the competition each week, and Kane scored a coup in the points department Monday: The actress and her professional partner, Mark Ballas, won the show's first "winner-take-all cha-cha," boosting their night's total by 15 points.

They come into today's episode with a leaderboard-topping 73 points.

Football star Ward and partner Kym Johnson have the second highest score, and it's a perfect one. They earned a flawless 60 points Monday for their spunky salsa and emotional Argentine tango.

Alley and her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, come into the results show in third place with 54 points, after collecting 27 points for each of their two dances Monday. Macchio and partner Karina Smirnoff are heading into the semifinal showdown in last place with 48 points.

A new "Dancing" champ will be crowned on May 24.

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Mike Tyson struts his stuff on the dance floor

He may have once bitten off an opponent's ear, but former boxing champion Mike Tyson is now shaking his hips on a reality television dance show.

Tyson, once the heavyweight world champion, looked like he was having lots of fun as he boogied to the music with his wife Lakiha Spicer on the Argentinian version of Dancing with the Stars, Bailando 2011.

And the audience in the studio appeared to enjoy the salsa routine, cheering and clapping loudly as the boxer once known as the "Baddest Man on the Planet" kissed Spicer at the end of the dance.

Mike Tyson struts his stuff on the dance floor


Busting the moves ... Mike Tyson dances with his wife.

Busting the moves ... Mike Tyson dances with his wife. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Ideas Del Sur

He may have once bitten off an opponent's ear, but former boxing champion Mike Tyson is now shaking his hips on a reality television dance show.

Tyson, once the heavyweight world champion, looked like he was having lots of fun as he boogied to the music with his wife Lakiha Spicer on the Argentinian version of Dancing with the Stars, Bailando 2011.

And the audience in the studio appeared to enjoy the salsa routine, cheering and clapping loudly as the boxer once known as the "Baddest Man on the Planet" kissed Spicer at the end of the dance.




"My wife & I are in Argentina. I'm on Argentina's version of Dancing w/ the Stars tonight," Tyson tweeted yesterday.

The 44-year-old pigeon lover is no stranger to dancing in front of the camera, having taken part in the Italian version of the Dancing with the Stars last year.

Bailando 2011 will showcase the dancing talents of about 30 celebrities, including former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, Fox News reported.

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