Weather Traffic U. Station Info. Newsmakers Our America Localish. Follow Us:. Jericho seemed to be more content with his dancing. Near last was talk show host Wendy Williams and Tony Dovolani with 14 points. Since October , he has appeared in several episodes of the ABC Network television series Ugly Betty as Archie Rodriguez, a local politician, with a semi-regular role as Hilda's love interest on the show.
As of November , Macchio was ranked No. During the video Macchio reacts to seeing a poster for the Karate Kid remake. A recurring joke in the sketch is that Macchio is confused for an adolescent. The short was lauded by TV Guide's Bruce Fretts, who referred to the video as "sidesplitting" and "comic gold".
Macchio portrays Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Nerdcore artist MC Frontalot mentions him in his song "Braggadocio". Macchio's character in the Karate Kid film inspired the "Daniel" song by English singer Bat for Lashes; the front cover of the single shows Bat for Lashes with Daniel LaRusso's face painted on her back.
The song "Ralph Macchio" by Norwegian singer Annie is about her crush on Macchio in her youth over a s-themed pop track. In the 8th-season episode, "The Bro Mitzvah", Macchio is invited to Barney's bachelor party, although Barney is disappointed in the surprise, expecting actor William Zabka, the "real Karate Kid".
For the duration of the episode, the characters note the similarities between Barney and Macchio, by which Barney is disgusted. Still, how could those sweet-natured producers possibly rack up the tension before this information was revealed and the inevitable garments were rent and globules of tears were shed?
Oddly, they got the most obvious piece of information out of the way within nine minutes: they told Hines Ward that he was through to the finals. Before we could digest this cheerily predictable information, we were treated to the sight of Stevie Nicks singing live.
How did we know she was singing live? Some of the notes were entirely original. Then we had some revealing backstage footage.
Chelsea Kane admitted she had hated partner Mark Ballas this week. Yes, really. Before we had time to be numbed all the way into the next edition of "American Idol" by this information, Kane and Ballas were told they would also be in the last three.
Which left 36 minutes, several of which were filled with small talk about what it was like to be in the finals. Well, it's "an honor," "fun," "grateful to be here. Macchio and Smirnoff quickly became fan favorites by wowing the crowd, and the judges, with a lively fox trot and the "wax on, wax off" choreography they weaved into their paso doble, a reference to the actor's former "Karate Kid" days. The duo had led the leader-board as recently as May 2. Yet, Macchio told "GMA," he didn't think the promising start hurt the couple with fans, or made it more difficult to keep their momentum going.
The actor did express his frustration, however, with the show's three judges, particularly the always opinionated Bruno Tonioli , who told Ralph early on in the season, "You've got to get it going. Macchio said, "Bruno loves to hear himself talk.
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