| Dancing with the Stars began its tour at | | | | while partners were changed. Tuesday also saw |
| Seattle on Tuesday, but one show favorite | | | | a new dress rehearsal for a made over show. |
| wasn't able to make it to the show. Cheryl | | | | |
| Burke, a two-time winner in the celebrity | | | | "We had a couple of moments when we ran onto |
| dance competition, wasn't present at the | | | | the floor at the wrong time, in the wrong |
| show's opening night and on the Thursday show | | | | place, in the wrong direction," Karina |
| in Sacramento , due to her abdominal pains. | | | | Smirnoff, who filled in to dance with Drew |
| TV Guide went on to interview the 23-year-old | | | | Lachey, Cheryl Burke's celebrity partner and |
| professional dancer, who said that she was | | | | season 2 winner, revealed. |
| "cramping and in pain" during the rehearsals | | | | |
| and "couldn't even stand up straight." She | | | | However, despite the sudden changes, the show |
| then headed to the hospital, where she was | | | | went smoothly with Cheetah Girl and Dancing |
| told that she may have a case of | | | | with the Stars season 5 alum Sabrina Bryan |
| appendicitis. On Wednesday, Burke headed home | | | | giving an impressive performance despite |
| to San Francisco to meet her family physician | | | | having Derek Hough as her new partner. Hough |
| whose diagnosis was good. | | | | was also filling in for another ailing |
| | | | dancer, Mark Ballas, who unfortunately had to |
| "She does not have appendicitis," Susan | | | | cancel out on the show for the rest of the |
| Madore, Burke's publicist, confirmed to the | | | | Christmas season as he dislocated his left |
| Associated Press. "They told her to take it | | | | arm. |
| easy for a couple of days." | | | | |
| | | | "At first it was weird to do the new numbers |
| Burke's absence was indeed felt during the | | | | with someone else," Bryan, who is dating |
| Dancing with the Stars tour, as the program | | | | Ballas, said of her new partner. "And when |
| had to be rearranged. Choreographer Louis van | | | | Derek and I do the cha cha [the most |
| Amstel even deemed her sudden absence as a | | | | memorable number she did with Ballas], it's |
| disaster. In fact, some numbers were removed, | | | | just hard. |