'Dancing With the Stars': The Hoff flub

I'm thinking right now that this is not a good morning at "Dancing With the Stars." No way was the Hoff - David Hasselhoff - expected to go last night. No way. In fact, producers are probably shocked.

The Hoff was supposed to be a keeper.

An audience draw.

One of the fun contestants, as opposed to one of the dull ones.

One of the contestants that the press - and bloggers like moi - were supposed to write about.

Instead, this.

What happened? "DWTS" put him in this post position Monday night that is traditionally the position to be in. (Pamela Anderson was there last year, I recall.) This is the draw position - the contestant viewers are supposed to wait for through the last commercial break. The Hoff's dancing wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible either. He needed a big voter turnout to overcome the judges' scores, but that should have been no big deal.

What happened? Theories:

1) The bluehairs who would have traditionally voted for the Hoff all turned out the lights and went to bed by a quarter of 11.

2) No one in the viewing audience remembers "Baywatch" - actually, a possibility.

3) Everyone in the viewing audience remembers the time he sang and danced on "America's Got Talent" last season - and the memory was simply too troubling. 

4) The TMZ factor. This is what I think really happened. TMZ and all those other salacious websites constantly fed the public those sad stories - and pictures - of a bibulous Hoff. They turned the guy into LiLo - almost - and a certain point that may have turned off the bluehairs who would have voted for him. 

Anyway, too bad. He's an entertainer. He would have been fun. I think he would have been good, too. Check out the performance again. Come on! Why didn't people vote for this?!