Mario Lopez, the front-runner on ABC's
Dancing With the Stars, suggested on the show's season premiere last week that he had no dance training.
The Internet Movie Database (
http://imdb.com/name/nm0530249/bio) says "Before being cast in 'Saved by the Bell' (1989), Lopez was a dancer…his true passion in life is dancing. He has aspirations of one day dancing at Radio City music hall in New York City." Of course, IMBD is not exactly a bastion of truth and accuracy.
Neither is the New York Post, which reports that Lopez's rep told them Lopez had done hip-hop dancing but had no "formal ballroom training" and that a former dance partner of Lopez from the San Diego's School of Creative & Performing Arts said Lopez had "been in dance training since he was about 5 years old."
Mario Lopez is best known for his role as A.C. Slater from TV series Saved by the Bell.