Is inherently unsexy. And “Dancing with the Stars” just encourages him in his inherently unsexy gyrations. It makes me angry. And the more he learns, the worse it gets because he simply gyrates more and more and more. It’s like being on the Tilt-a-Whirl where someone makes you do it and you hate it while it’s happening and throw up once it’s over. Plus, afterwards, you’re kinda mad that so little enjoyment ended up in so very much barfing.
I really need him to please please sit down or something. I mean, he just stands still and is unsexy. He moves around and BLAAAAAAFFFFFFFFFPPPP!!
Wow, that’s a strange reaction. I do find something about him odd, but I can’t quite put my finger on what it is. Did anyone else get the urge to cover your eyes when Apollo danced? Like you were looking at something you shouldn’t see? I think Len felt the same way!
I think the thing about IZ is that he played an obviously 30-something teenager on 90210 for several years. It stains him like tie-dye on a t-shirt. The second his photo hits a casting desk, it’s Way Too Old-ager from 90210. He gyrates, and it’s Way Too Old-ager from 90210. Jerry Seinfeld looked younger on TV than Ian Ziering.
Nobody wants to get it on with Way Too Old-ager, not even the other Secretly Too Old-ager characters. The thought of him shaking his moneymaker is simply too bitter to contemplate.
hahahaha
He was always inherently unsexy to me (thanks for the great phrase, tracey). I loved 90210 and he always just kinda … skeezed me out. He seemed like a dirty old man trapped in a 21 year old’s body. I know guys like that. They project a weirdness, a perv-y energy that girls can pick up on …
The feeling of boredom on the series when his “storylines” took over was palpable.
I believe (and yes, I have thought about this extensively) that this really hurt his ego – and instead of being honest with himself, and maybe going the humble route … he went the other way. Married a va-va-voom Playboy playmate … divorced her quickly … and is still trying to show us how “sexy” he is.
Give it up, bro.
I don’t know – I always felt that the guy had too much to prove.
Guys who are naturally sexy never have too much to prove. That’s the whole POINT of their sexiness. But he never had it – and it can’t be manufactured (especially if you’re as bad an actor as he is).
It’s almost like – I woudl cringe watching him on 90210 … Luke Perry and Jason Priestley and Jennie Garth all managed to project a certain naturalness in the middle of that soap opera … and they did it without seeming to break a sweat.
I always got the feeling that Zieiring felt like stardom was OWED to him, just because he was on a hit show.
Sorry, dude, don’t work that way.
wow.
Look how long my comment is.
I obviously have a lot to say about Ian Zieiring – and I am just now realizing it.
To rework a Sheila-ism: Don’t even try, Ian Zieiring.
Exactly!!!
Sheila “skeezed me out”. that’s it exactly! For some reason it reminds me of the character Matthew McConaughey played in Dazed and Confused. Skeezy!
Why is blaaaaafppping at Ian Ziering a strange reaction? Seems perfectly normal to me. 😉
sheila — /I obviously have a lot to say about Ian Zieiring – and I am just now realizing it./
Hahahahahaha! Our latent IZ hostility is finally surfacing.
Plus, look. He pronounces his name EYE-AN. Please. Like, what is that? What? I’m always waiting for him to burst forth, Godlike, with “I AN THE GREAT I AN!!”
i hate that i missed monday night. i did download abc’s viewer yesterday so i can watch the episode, and i did vote online for joey 5 times to make sure eye-an didn’t get through.
oh, that’s so funny, i read your last comment, tracey, but i didn’t notice how you spelled eye-an. i just saw that you wrote out and made fun of the pronunciation. so then i wrote out how i would spell the pronunciation and then looked up to see how you spelled it, and we spelled it the same. it’s like we’re sisters or something.
so when eye-an and cheryl got kicked off last night, that great rattling of my house was the collective sigh of all the DWTS fans who read your blog, trace? i almost felt bad pumping my fist and shouting “YES!” but come on.
and am i the only one confused about the finale having three teams? they have not explained this before, right? or have i just missed it? it will definitely make things more exciting.
sarahk — Yes, EYE-AN is gone! Boodiddlyhoo. And I don’t know how the three team thing will work either. Will someone get booted of early on in the finale or something? I dunno. I don’t even know who I’m rooting for, really; they’re all so good!
as an ‘NSYNC girl, i’m for Joey. but just barely over Apolo. it’s been a close race. i just can’t get past Laila’s spaghetti arms.