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Former Republican congressman Tom DeLay has dropped out of Dancing With the Stars.  At Wednesday’s results show, the politician, 62, announced that he would no longer compete on the hit ABC series due to stress fractures in both of his feet. Although he and partner Cheryl Burke were safe from elimination, DeLay said that he won’t continue with the competition because he “can’t practice.” “If you can’t practice, you’ll make a fool out of yourself out there, and I don’t want to do that to Cheryl,” the Texas-born congressman said on the show.

“The Biggest Loser”’s Abby Rike is on a mission to lose enough weight to fit into size 10 jeans. She knows the road back to health from her 247-pound starting weight will be a hard one, but not harder than the personal tragedy she has had to overcome.  In October 2006 Rike lost her husband, her 5-1/2-year-old daughter and her 2-1/2-week-old son in a fatal car collision. The 34-year-old widow from Mabank, TX decided to forge ahead with her life, but used food as a way of coping with her loss. Now, “The Biggest Loser” is helping her to get her life back on a healthy track.

Dancing with the Stars ninth season brings a couple changes. This season will have 16 celebs taking the dance floor. With this new twist also means there will be double eliminations every week. The cast of the new season which starts September 21st includes:

Mya, singer
Melissa Joan Hart, actress
Michael Irvin, former Dallas Cowboy
Ashley Hamilton, actor, comedian, singer-songwriter
Aaron Carter, singer
Kathy Ireland, former supermodel-turned-businesswoman
Debi Mazar, actress
Natalie Coughlin, U.S. Olympic swimmer
Louie Vito, snowboarder
Chuck Liddell, ultimate fighting champ
Donny Osmond, singer
Tom DeLay, former Republican congressman
Macy Gray, singer
Joanna Krupa, model and actress
Mark Dacascos, Iron Chef personality
Kelly Osbourne, reality star