Sideshow: Will we watch that witch wiggle?

November 26, 2010|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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Is Delaware's beloved witchy woman, Christine O'Donnell, poised to become a TV star? PopEater.com's Rob Shuter says the tea partier's pal, Sarah Palin, whose daughter Bristol helped goose Dancing With the Stars' ratings into the stratosphere, is pushing show suits to cast O'Donnell.

O'D., if you remember, made an unsuccessful run for the Senate. She made headlines for her powerful slogan, "I'm not a witch." (OK, it wasn't her slogan, just an affirmation that although she'd dabbled in witchcraft as a teen, she'd given it up as a grown-up.)

"Christine is not a bad idea at all," Anon ABC exec tells Shuter. "After Kate Gosselin and Cloris Leachman, O'Donnell would fit right in." The world is free to take that as a compliment.

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