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Jun 12, 2009 8:13 pm US/Central
Gina "Dances With The Stars" For Animal Charity
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
If Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith and Shawn Johnson can do it, so can Gina Miller.
Saturday night, TXA 21's glamorous sports anchor is competing in Dallas' version of "Dancing with the Stars." It's all to benefit a local animal rescue shelter.
The
Second Annual Top Hat & Tail event benefits the
Paws in the City Animal Shelter. Tickets to Saturday's event cost $125. It starts at 6:30 p.m. and will be held at the Frontier of Flight Museum, located at 6911 Lemmon Ave. in Dallas.
Friday, our cameras caught up with Gina at her final rehearsal before their big competition.
Can some fancy shoes, a little music and some crafty choreography transform a sports-casting former basketball player into a booty-shaking star?
Heck yeah!
In just twelve lessons in three and a half action-packed weeks, Miller has officially become a fringe-flailing dancing queen.
Saturday night judges like Cowboy great Tony Dorsett will render their own verdicts in the second annual Paws in the City Top Hat & Tails event at Frontiers of Flight Museum.
"So how far do you think I've come from when we took our first lesson to where we are now," Miller asked her instructor as our cameras were rolling at her final rehearsal before Saturday's competition.
"You've gotten much more flexible," dance partner Ian Kelley replied. "You seem much more confident now that you've learned the routine. You're showing more personality in our dance."
Miller said her biggest fear is getting lost and missing the steps of Kelley's choreographed routine. But for a girl who has never had a dance lesson in her life, Kelley isn't worried.
"So how blank was my slate starting out?" Miller asked.
"Having a sports background, being a former basketball player, you're used to using your limbs and having control of your body," Kelley replied. "It was actually easier than if had you not played sports. I promise!"
"I still can't Roger Rabbit," she confessed.
"It's okay...a lot of people can't Roger Rabbit. It's hard!" Kelly assured her.
Miller said training for the competition at Arthur Murray Dance Studios has been more fun than she ever imagined.
"Am I the best student you've ever had?" she asked.
"Of course," Kelley answered.
One thing's for sure, she's certainly the most beautiful. Knock 'em dead, Gina!
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