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Betty White

Come Dancing With Betty White?

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Hot on the heels of Betty White’s hosting appearance on Saturday Night Live, it appears that she’s in demand, and that Dancing With the Stars (DWtS) wants her to come dancing.

Am I overreacting or are they crazy? Ms Betty is 88 1/2 years old (her joke from SNL). Do the producers at DWtS know anything about bone loss as people age, or are they only seeing audience numbers and the resulting dollar signs from sponsorships? Some of the dance sequences are far too vigorous, and even the party-happy Ms Betty might not be able to handle the workouts or keep up with younger contestants.

Excuse the morbidity, but I’d like to see her alive for her role in the new Hot in Cleveland sitcom. Some things just aren’t meant to be, and for her sake, I hope that she won’t do Dancing With the Stars next season, except maybe as a special guest host? That could work, and she could do one dance.

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Betty White Parties it up After Hosting SNL

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At 88 1/2, as she put it, Betty White is the oldest host Saturday Night Live has ever had. Her appearance this past Saturday night as guest host of SNL is all thanks to fans who spearheaded a campaign on Facebook. White thanked her fans and had some funny quips about Facebook that she tied in with her age. Particularly funny was her comment that her generation had “phonebook” but wouldn’t spend the entire day looking through it. Other skits that White was worked into included MacGruber, a spoof of the old MacGyver TV series, and which will transcend the boob tube onto the big screen for a May 21st release date.

A lot of past female cast returned for the special episode, which had them reprising some of their classic roles, into which White was integrated. (However, not all of these skits aired.) White and musical guest Jay-Z seemed to hit it off, and she apaprently she went to the afterparty and hung around until 3 am — though apparently her beverage of choice was H2O.

If you missed Betty White’s appearance on SNL, you can see it and some unaired skits at the NBC.com and Hulu. She’ll also be on a new TV series, Hot in Cleveland, starring a slew of other well-known actresses incuding Wendy Malick (Just Shoot Me, Herman’s Head), Jane Leeves (Frasier), and Valerie Bertinelli (Touched By Angel). The first video clip below is a trailer, and the second is a behind-the-scenes of the show, which begins production May 10 and airs Jun 16 on TV Land.