She Coulda Been a Contenda

Well, this didn't take long. Perez Hilton is reporting Jewel has sustained a knee injury during rehearsals and may not be able to continue in the competition.

On her official blog, Jewel wrote:

I guess I really over did it on the rehearsal front! My knees have been hurting so badly that I finally broke down and talked to Ty's knee doctor yesterday. He said I have tendonitis in my knees and that I have to start a course of medicine to try and bring the swelling down. Yuck! It's mainly my left knee, and I can't believe I hurt it so badly... Ty warned me I was over doing it, and now he got a big ol' 'I told you so' in. The worst part is that I can't rehearse for the next couple days. It was just so fun to dance 8 hours a day- especially considering I only had 3 weeks to cram not only for my first dance- cha cha, but to learn the fundamentals of about 6 other dances that I will have to know. But now I'm just worried I won't even be able to dance! Hopefully these steroids will really do the trick and I can keep bad flare ups
at a bay in the future.

The Disney Chicklette speculated that Jewel may have realized she is too famous for this show and is copping out. I think Jewel just doesn't get it. You have to save the injuries for that halfway point in the competition when you need the sympathy votes to take out your competitors! You can't create this dramz before the show even starts! Amateurs, sheesh. What's next? There was no one filming the rehearsal? No footage of this catastrophic incident for DWTS to replay over and over (and over)? At this rate, they'll have to superimpose Jewel's head on Misty May's body and just keep replaying that disaster footage (as if it wasn't already burned into our corneas).

This season is already off to a rocky start - can't wait to see what's in store for March 9!