Edyta Sliwinska News

As we inch closer to season nine of Dancing with the Stars, almost off of the celebrity/professional pairings have been announced.

One of them, Ashley Hamilton and Edyta Sliwinska, have given fans a glimpse of their early training routine.

Considering how random of a star Hamilton must be considered - he's pretty much only known for having been married to Shannen Doherty - these two better impress on the dance floor...

The following pairs have also been confirmed so far:

• Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke
• Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson
• Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff
• Mya and Dmitry Chaplin
• Debi Mazar and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
• Chuck Liddell and Anna Trebunskaya
• Melissa Joan Hart and Mark Ballas

TV Guide recently spoke with Edyta Sliwinska on her current stint during the Dancing with the Stars tour...

TVGuide.com: What's the difference between training for the show and rehearsing for the tour?
Edyta Sliwinska: Rehearsing for the tour is more mentally tiring, because you have to be here many, many hours. When you're competing on the show, you train physically very hard for three hours, for example, but then you are done. Here, we have to spend the whole day in rehearsals, eight hours, and maybe it's not so intense, but it's eight hours of being on your feet.

TVGuide.com: When you're on the road with [former partner Joey Lawrence], do you two fall right back into step, or do you have to teach him all over again?
Sliwinska: Oh, no, I do have to teach Joey. We have all new routines. He's in great shape. He's a freak about his body. So I'm not worried about that. But I am worried that he's going to forget stuff.

TVGuide.com: The celebrities find that their bodies change very quickly when they stop dancing. Does that happen to you, too?
Sliwinska: What's changing is that I'm going up and down in weight very quickly. If I have a couple of days off, I can gain quickly. But when I'm dancing, I can lose five or ten pounds in a week.

TVGuide.com: When do you find out if you'll be dancing Season 6, which starts on March 17?
Sliwinska: We only find out two weeks before the training starts. We're released from our contract if we're not picked up for the show. But I love the show. It's kind of comfortable to have [dancers] who know what they're doing, and then once in a while, to bring in a new [pro] dancer.

Edyta Sliwinska has never won Dancing with the Stars.

But she'll still alive this season, partnered with All My Children actor Cameron Mathison. Our pals at BuddyTV recently spoke with the beauty...

The big news so far is that Sabrina Bryan was eliminated, and a lot of our readers were really shocked when that happened. What was your reaction?
Yeah, I was really shocked, standing there in the bottom two next to Sabrina, I was sure it was going to be us. And I think that was really unfortunate because Sabrina was probably one of the best female dancer celebrities that has ever been on.

So, it's been very shocking, very weird. I don't really know how that happened. I guess people thought that she's so safe that they don't need to vote for her. I guess that's what happened. That's the only explanation that I can give.

What do you think your chances of winning this season are?
Well, after last week, I'm a little bit scared because, apparently, no one is safe and I know that Cameron is maybe not the best dancer there, but he's really improving. And who knows? Maybe if the viewers are gonna give us enough time, he can improve and he can be as good as Melanie Brown, who's getting triple tens.

So, I really believe that he can win it if the viewers will support him. I think he is good enough, dance abilities and drive and work ethic, to do it.

Click here to read the full interview.