Dancing with the marginally famous?

So my mother-in-law is over the moon about the television show "Dancing with the Stars" - of course, being a red-blooded American male I can't stand the show. I was, however, watching the finale and saw that Brook Burke won this year's competition. But who, you might ask, is Brook Burke? Very good question. She is most famous for hosting a show about famous people on the E! network. In fact, other than having a very hot body I'm not even sure how she got that gig. All that aside, I wonder how a show like "Dancing with the Stars" can continue to be successful when most of the people on the show are not stars. I mean, Warren Sapp was probably the most famous person this year. Warren Sapp!

Anyway, I think the whole premise of the show couldn't be more boring... "let's take 6 or 7 former celebrities and pair them up with totally unfamiliar (and publicly unknown) dancing partners and then have them perform in front of a studio audience." Wow... so I get to watch uncoordinated people try to dance? Wow, pass the popcorn and local anesthetic.

Wasn't the runner-up this year a guy from a "boy-band"? How did he lose? Doesn't he already know how to dance?

To top it all off, I just saw a commercial for a new show about "professional dancers" who compete to see who is the best dancer in the world . I can't wait. My DVR is already set.