Gilles Marini Talks About 'Dancing With The Stars'

Actor Gilles Marini stopped by this morning to talk about his run on the TV series Dancing With The Stars. He came close to becoming the season's winner with his partner Cheryl Burke and took second place. Yesterday, we had winnersShawn Johnson and her dance partner Mark Ballas stopped and judge Carrie Ann Inaba. Host of the show Tom Bergeron and contestant Ty Murray also stopped by last week to talk about the series.

In the show's eighth season, an all new cast of celebrities hit the dance floor. This season, in an exciting new twist, the bottom two couples facing elimination "Dance Off" to determine who is dismissed in the first weeks of competition. In the "Dance-Off," the judges scores from the first 2 weeks are wiped out and the judges scores from the "Dance-Off" performance will replace them. The new judges scores from the "Dance-Off" and the viewers votes from the first two weeks will be combined to determine the eliminated couple.

The cast of those stars who have competed or are currently still on the show includes the likes of Belinda Carlisle, David Alan Grier, Lil' Kim, Denise Richards and Holly Madison.

Marini is a French actor who worked as a baker and was enlisted in the French army. He then went into modeling when he met photographer Fred Goudon. Marini has been in Sex and the City: The Movie, Ugly Betty, Dirty Sexy Money, Criminal Minds and Windfall among others.

For more on Marini, visit www.gillesmarini.com.