Sarah Palin Updates

Sarah Palin booed on Dancing With The Stars.

Sarah Palin News Updates! Controversial Republican leader Sarah Palin was booed on live television when she appeared on Dancing With The Stars to cheer her daughter Bristol Palin.

The former governor of Alaska was in the audience for the second week of the show, as her 19-year-old daughter took on the quick step.

But just as Palin was being seated for an onscreen interview on the sidelines of the stage, there was booing from the crowd, according to Hollywood Reporter.

"There's booing in the ballroom... I don't know why," said hostess Brooke Burke.

The show then cut to host Tom Bergeron sat next to Palin, who had a stunned look on her face and her youngest daughter, Piper.

The 46-year-old, who was John McCain's running mate in 2008 US Presidential elections, brought out her usual spiel in the interview, calling her daughter 'Bristol the pistol'.

Almost as if to mark her famous mother's appearance, Bristol's dance was the main event, the final performance of the night. It was introduced with a clip showing her visiting the family's home in Wasilla with dancing partner Mark Ballas.

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Bristol Palin Parodies Mom on "Dancing With Stars".

Dancing With Stars News Updates! Stripping off an office power suit, the daughter of conservative politician Sarah Palin performed a short parody of her mother in launching her bid to win television's "Dancing with the Stars" on Monday.

Bristol Palin shimmied across the dance floor as the dancing contest launched its 11th cycle, accompanied by a version of Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me Not to Come."

The 19-year-old single mother explained she had not always taken the advice of her mother, a Republican political powerbroker who ran for vice president in 2008.

"My life has been told and spread out in the tabloids. But I am just a regular girl and this is definitely the most frightening thing I have ever done in my life," Palin said.

Her sparkling grey office suit imitated the style worn by her mother, but it was soon stripped off to reveal a short, red dress with tassels.

Sarah Palin did not attend the taping on a Los Angeles soundstage. Instead, she hosted a viewing party at her home in Alaska, and declared on Twitter that she was "over-the-moon excited and happy" for her daughter.

Bristol Palin is following in the reality TV footsteps of her former fiance, Levi Johnston, who has publicly criticized her mother in U.S. tabloids. She said on the show if she brought "some sexy to the cha cha and don't embarrass my mom, I will be thrilled," she said.

The judges rated her performance as promising, but far less impressive than "Dirty Dancing" actress Jennifer Grey's Viennese waltz to Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine." The soul ballad appeared on the soundtrack to "Dirty Dancing," the smash movie in which Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze.

Clips were shown of Grey breaking down crying in rehearsal as she recalled Swayze dying of cancer last year. The 50-year-old actress has physically changed since "Dirty Dancing" after a botched nose job left her less recognizable.