Friday 29 August 2008

Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton set for ABC's `Dancing'

NEW YORK �

Susan Lucci, Toni Braxton and Lance Bass will come to the floor on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."


They are among 13 celebrities slated to compete on the new season of the top-rated dance contest, premiering Sept. 22.


The other contestants are Cloris Leachman, Kim Kardashian, Ted McGinley, Brooke Burke, NFL champ Warren Sapp and deuce Olympic athletes: Misty May-Treanor, who north Korean won her second gold palm for beach volleyball at this year's summer games in Beijing, and Maurice Greene, wHO won deuce gold medals in trail at the 2000 games in Sydney.


Rounding out the cast ar chef Rocco DiSpirito, Cody Linley of "Hannah Montana" and comedian Jeffrey Ross.


The names were announced Monday on ABC News' "Good Morning America."


Kardashian, who co-stars with her family on the E! reality series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," checkered into a New York City hospital Sunday subsequently cutting her foot on a glass table in her hotel room.


"I cut my foot pretty bad. ... It looked like a murder scene with all the descent everywhere," Kardashian said in a telephone call to "GMA."


"I testament be able to dance. I went to the hospital. I'll be fine," she said.


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