Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars
Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars ABC

He’s all healed. Earlier this season, former U.S. House Minority Leader Tom DeLay was forced out of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars competition due to stress fractures in his foot, but he returned to the dance floor last night to do the Texas Two-Step with Texas pride. He and partner Cheryl Burke gyrated, shook and sometimes two-stepped to George Strait’s “I Can See Texas From Here”.

As the Star-Telegram puts it, he performed but [it] did not erase the image of him, dancing, to use the term loosely, to the Trog’s ‘Wild Thing’ [earlier this season].

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Elise Hu was a political reporter at the Tribune, focusing on multimedia projects, from 2009 to 2011. She previously worked as the state political reporter for Austin's ABC affiliate, KVUE-TV, from 2006...