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I don’t have the patience to sit through “Dancing with the Stars,” but I do appreciate the show’s willingness to put attractive women in skimpy outfits. Well, it turns out that those stars’ attractiveness is LIES, ALL LIES! A Wall Street Journal article yesterday examined the use of spray tanner on television:

“Dancing With the Stars” producers advise contestants to get sprayed down the Sunday before each televised competition. A recent Sunday afternoon, backstage at the McCadden rehearsal space here, [Fiona] Locke spritzed half a dozen contestants, naked or in string bikinis, to chestnut-colored skin. She changed the settings on her gun to paint in the shadows of muscles. Six-pack abs, defined cheekbones and sculpted arms appeared almost instantly. Each 10-week season, the cast goes through more than six gallons of spray-tan liquid, or juice as it is known in the industry…

Fun fact: six gallons of spray tan juice is almost enough to fit in at the Jersey shore. Which reminds me:

MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” Trailer #2. These are real people who actually exist on our planet.

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