Jerry Springer improved immensely during his stint and was a good natured as anyone could be. It's the only show I've ever saw him on that didn't make me wretch.
John O'Hurley got robbed the first season. From the beginning, it was clear he was the best. Kelly Monaco won on skin and rabid soap opera fans.
The people on Season 2 didn't capture my fancy.
On Season 3, Mario Lopez was clearly the best dancer, but Emmitt Smith worked so far above everyone's expectations that it was hard not to vote for him. I can't disagree with the way it turned out.
I'm looking forward to Season 4.
As for Heather Mills, while handicap jokes are almost always in poor taste, I find them less objectionable in this situation for the simple reason that she is on the show for 2 reasons: her failed marriage to Paul McCartney and her prosthetic limb. It is obvious that she would not even be known in the U.S. if she had not been married to McCartney, and even that would probably not be enough to get her on a dancing show. She is there because people want to see how she will perform.
Though patently improper, I'm sure someone at ABC uttered the term "freak show"...and if you think they did not, you ascribe higher ideals to the TV industry than anyone who has ever been exposed to it. Heather Mills is capitalizing on her condition, something she has a right to do, certainly, but to act as if she can advance her cause based on the loss of her leg and then no one can find humor in any aspect of that, shows hypersensitivity.