There is a curious,nearly parental response to seeing former child stars become adults – especially when so few manage to do so unscathedWhen it comes to sudden bursts of sobbing, I tend to cry mostly where I’m meant to: a unhappy commercial approximately a lonely pensioner; anything to do with baby animals in crisis; the entire back catalogue of Joni Mitchell.
So it was a surprise when I felt tears stinging my eyes as I watched Bindi Irwin and Derek Hough remove on the rumba – complete with “that lift” from Dirty Dancing – on the US Dancing With the Stars. What was I, or a grown woman without the slightest interest in the Irwin dynasty or celebrity dance contests (I’m more of a So You contemplate You Can Dance type),with a well-developed distaste for anything Society of the Spectacle-esque, doing frantically scouring the net each week for the news of Bindi’s latest Dancing triumph? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com