Skaters on "Thin Ice", Evan Explains His Diabolic Schedule on "Bonnie Hunt"

NOW I get why ABC is running Thin Ice this weekend.

It’s why the 2006 4CCs was on at the same time as the Super Bowl. It’s why ESPN used to run its Grand Prix coverage on Monday nights while ESPN-owned ABC aired Monday Night Football. The NCAA tournament is on CBS for the next few days… it’s counter-programming, baby! No one wants to watch both at the same time! (Except maybe… me? Hey, I called some of the evening’s biggest NCAA upsets Thursday night! But I’ll manage…)

Anyway… THIN ICE, on ABC Friday night @ 8PM Eastern. Kurt Browning is co-hosting, and Tweeted this tonight:

This will be great, tomorrow night on ABC a competition called Thin Ice will be really fun for skating fans. Do not expect the normal.

I’ll post more about it after it airs.

Remember when I posted about Johnny Weir turning up at The Bonnie Hunt Show a couple weeks ago? Apparently it was the start of a trend…

+ Earlier this week, Brian Boitano went to visit Bonnie to promote Season 2 of What Would Brian Boitano Make?, demonstrate pizza-making with Bonnie… and participate in a whole lotta hilarious innuendo and double entendres when Bonnie acted instantly tipsy with a cocktail he made her. Funniest moment for me: when Boitano, after kind of playing dumb about the innuendo for a while, started talking to Bonnie while “handling” his rolling pin in, shall we say, a special way(!!). Quite the riot.

+ Then on Thursday’s show came “golden boy” Evan Lysacek. It was pretty priceless (Evan seemed a little nervous and a little cool at the same time; viewers posting about his appearance were prone to calling him ADORABLE)… so I’ll just list some of the highlights (though as with Weir’s and probably Boitano’s appearances, you can probably see the clip at the Bonnie Hunt Show website…)

--Talks about passing the gold medal around at parties and getting champagne on it

-- Talks about Plushy…still very classy about it all, saying he can’t imagine how hard it’d be to focus for an entire year on coming back JUST to get another gold, and then not getting it… hopes he’ll soon be able to see what an achievement coming back for silver was… luckily no one discussed either one’s hair this time…(Evan’s was looking fairly normal on the show; not over-slicked as in competition and not…um… whatever they did to it when he did Leno’s show pre-Olympics

--Talks about his stress fracture and how it related to his decision not to quad…

--Dancing with The Stars and how everyone said it would be easy for him as a skater, but it isn’t…

-- RE: His schedule this spring…He’ll be in L.A. Mon/Tues and with SOI the rest of the week…”Yeah, I know… “ he says as Bonnie & audience gasp. He insists he wasn’t too worried about the schedule insanity…until he saw how many red-eye flights it’ll require. Then he said “OK, so I’ll just work everyday without sleep! I can do that!” So, um… we’ll see how this goes. With all the injuries incurred by DWTS vets, could his stress fracture be re-agggravated?

-- He describes his partner Anna as a “red-headed Ruskie”… as I figured, she’ll be on the road with him training his dances…

--Talks about his mom not being able to watch him skate live, and the room Procter & Gamble set up for her to watch him in Vancouver

--Talks about his doing things 3 times, to “trick all his senses” into knowing it’s competition time (putting on costume, skates, etc.)

--Bonnie gave him a prop can of “use it or lose it” spray tan they played with for a while… she took note of the HUGE ring he apparently got from his parents as a b-day gift…

--Then he took the spray can and put some on his arms “for a little glow”…

--Offhandedly, as she sets up a family photo of his she’s about to show, says “you’re pretty cute” to Evan… to the delight of a semi-squealing audience (I think they were a little too old on average to squeal like teenagers)…

-- Evan smiles and almost just as offhandedly says “I love you” to Bonnie…

-- After the pic talk comes her asking if he’s dating anyone… then she backpedals saying “should I not ask that?”
--“You can ask whatever you want… ‘I don’t have to answer it…” he replies. “Well, I feel like you’re flirting with me and I want to know if you’re on the market” (audience freaks again)…

-- “I am flirting w/you, correct… and on the market, correct… correct on all counts…” (Gotta wonder what happened with Nastia Liukin, then... ah, but I digress…)

-- Then she “lets him know she’s willing to take her nightie off three times”… have I mentioned she’s literally twice as old as him, and she does stuff like this all the time on the show? (It comes out of her self-deprecating style of humor and, I suppose, the concept that none of her guest would ever seriously consider her for a date.)

-- Nonetheless, he makes sure she knows that he knows the Viennese Waltz now... “So I’m not messing around,” he assures.

OK, so THAT’s cleared up!

Here’s the little clip of his DWTS rehearsal that’s making the rounds… Clip of the Day!