Most of the viewing audience, as well as Carrie Ann Inaba, had to ask Len Goodman for an explanation on what it meant when he called Pamela Anderson “titivating” on tonight’s Dancing With the Stars. That’s a word I’ve never heard, and it’s just a really ironic first half of word when speaking about Pam Anderson.

Judge Len Goodman called Anderson “titivating” after her performance with Damian Whitewood. After being questioned about his word choice, he told us all to google it, so here we are doing just that. So what does it mean? It means to spruce up or make more beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Anderson not being beautiful. And with her turn as Marilyn Monroe she was nothing less than gorgeous. It seems Len was trying to say putting all that aside, her dancing was still good. He’s right, but it’s hard to put that aside with her. It just so … “right there.”

What Damian has figured out is the same as what many of the dancing partners of the actors have figured out. If you can have them play a character, it’s easier for them to dance. They dance to a character. If he would have told her to be elegant and sexy, it would have had less affect on her than telling her to be Marilyn Monroe. She soaked it up and did well. However, at some point, that’s when the actors fail, as they have a hard time doing it without a character.

Kate Gosselin is having a hard time doing it without her own character. We see her as a certain way on her reality show. And she really didn’t do anything to change that tonight. I felt horrible thinking it, but all I could think watching her and Tony Dovolani fight, was that’s what Jon Gosselin was putting up with before he left. Tony was right, that what she was doing was telling him it’s his fault she wasn’t picking it up and telling him he needed to teach her differently.

As he said, it was like she was telling him how to teach, and it’s what he does for a living. He teaches people to dance, and he teaches people how to teach people to dance. Any good teacher knows the different styles of learning, that some people are visual, some people are verbal, etc. And while we just saw the edited version, it seemed he was getting frustrated as he was trying to show her and tell her, but she wasn’t paying attention.

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