Sean Spicer flashed across the screen in a neon green puffy shirt for his debut on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars — at least he chose a blinding lime over Trump orange. He danced a salsa …
He danced a salsa with professional Lindsay Arnold to the Spice Girls “Spice Up Your Life,” and while he earned some respect for the judges for being game to doing the show, they scored near the bottom of all of the contestants, scoring 12 out of 30.
“I started off at minus ten,” Spicer said afterward, standing next to Arnold. “She has been a phenomenal coach.” In appearing on the show, he’s following in the footsteps of his former boss’s ex-wife, Marla Maples, the current Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and Trump Fox News favorite Tucker Carlson.'Dancing With The Stars': Christie Brinkley Replaced By Model Daughter After Breaking Arm During Rehearsals
The show is known for casting the fleetingly famous, but Spicer’s selection is in a new genre for the show — former Trump administration figure. As such, it generated an extra dose of controversy due to his tenure as Trump’s loyal flack, in which he sparred with the press over crowd sizes and defended his boss’s attacks on the “fake news media.
Political figures — are contestants with a degree or two of separation from divisive figures — have a pretty spotty record when it comes to the show. Carlson, Maples and Perry were eliminated fairly early. The only contender with a political connection to place wasSpicer appeared in the opening of the show, when a question was posed to contestants to describe their biggest weakness.
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