Thu 2 Apr 2009 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
TV's Dancing with the Stars gay professional dancer Stefano Olivieri has told Women's Day magazine about the relationship he sacrificed for his career. "Let's get outta here!" Geraldine Brophy success on the popular Kiwi dancing show meant he was offered work on the Aussie version, meaning he had to try to make his partnership with an Auckland-based man work long-distance. "When I came back we would renew and re-bond, but then he would really get upset when he had to drop me at the airport," the two-series winning dancer told the magazine. Their relationship had to end because the trans-Tasman travelling became too much for the busy couple, he explained. Olivieri is now shortlisted for the American version of the show later this year. Meanwhile, the dancer's appearance on the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars courted controversy when he made a comment which one judge labeled "inappropriate" and the TVNZ website says "simply cannot be repeated." Transmitted live, viewers heard his dancing partner Geraldine Brophy explain she had "come as a bumblebee" in a black and yellow frock. Then Olivieri quipped: "if you've come as a bumblebee, I've come in my pants!"
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News Staff
First published: Thursday, 2nd April 2009 - 9:27pm