Abby Lee Miller was on Entertainment Tonight this week and had extensive segments where she gave us a lot of information the behind the scenes war on Dance Moms. She says that she lost her weight because her mother died of colon cancer and would not eat toward the end. So when she was with her mother she did not want to eat in front of her. Which is a great theory, but her mother died in 2014, and production has made a point of her binge eating throughout season four and five. She also blame new diabetes medication for making her violently ill. Yet clearly, production has been going after her during filming showing all of her breakdowns in the car with bags of fast food. So, I am not believing she just suddenly dropped four or more dress sizes without some surgery. Why do people lie about weight loss surgery? Abby says she no longer is limited to plus sized stores to do her shopping.
Abby says that production threw her out of a competition later this season when the mothers kept going after her about their kids getting back to their regular classes. She said she left and didn’t return for a week or so. She says if they think they can do the show without her, she will let them. I have a feeling that is what was going on in LA when she disappeared as well. Either she was fighting production, or she was getting her gastric by-pass. Maybe the stuff down in the car was her last meal before the surgery?
Abby says for the first three seasons she fought with production about keeping the girls in their regular dance classes. She says production was more focused on the moms but the girls and the dancing took over. Abby says she has no creative input on the show and wants it for season six. If there is a season six. She says that Lifetime is behind on her paychecks and all of that will need to be up to speed before she entertains a contract for season six. 
Abby also blames production for her lack of students at the Pittsburgh studio. She say many of her regular students left during the first few seasons when the crew would step all over the kids back packs and push them out of the way to film. They have never been respectful of her studio or her students. So while people may think she has more students than ever, she actually has fewer than she began with.
Abby said that she wants creative control because production doesn’t understand that their audience is young girls who tune in for the dancing and she wants less drama between the mothers and between the mothers and Abby. She implies that is what production wants to promote, while she wants to promote the dances.
Abby says she is not sure that all the girls will be returning for season six. She says she doubts they all will. Nia has responded to fans saying that she will always be part of ALDC and has no plans to leave. I don’t see any of the current crew deciding not to return, except possibly for Kalani. Kira just got married and may not want to be away from her husband (and her forgotten son) in LA all season. Unless she already lives there. I forget where she lives, I think it is Colorado.
They second part of Dance Moms Season 5 returns this Tuesday, June 9th at 9 p.m. on Lifetime.
Abby wants production control to supplement her paycheck as a Producer, but will hand off doing the work much like she does with choreography.
I can’t wait to see the edit for the rest of Season Five now, cuz you KNOW production is able to re-edit up until day of airing.
She is not a paid producer. I keep trying to explain this to y’all. These reality folks who are “producers” on the show are not producers. It’s like Kanye getting an honorary doctorate. It’s just a vanity title.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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In my stumbly little way that’s what I was trying to say – by trying to take over creative and/or production control, she can try to levy that into more money. It may work, it may not. It depends on whether the cost of keeping and paying Abby is worth it – both creatively and financially. Lot of shows that stillmdrew ratings and ad revenue were canceled simply because production costs (usually salaries rising after an initial contract renegotiation) made it easier to cease production. One can only hope this is the case with Abby.
Drew Carey wrote a great book while his sitcom was on entitled “Dirty Jokes and Beer.”. In one chapter he explained how TV credits are doled out and he said it’s like candy – titles are given out in lieu of money. There’s also a chapter called 101 Big Dick Jokes and they still make me laugh, but I digress…
Anyone buying ANY of this? Especially Lifetime being behind on paychecks?
And please, let’s make ” Abby bites the hand that feeds her” jokes.
xanadude, “In one chapter he explained how TV credits are doled out and he said it’s like candy – titles are given out in lieu of money. ” They do that in corporate America too, have you ever noticed that bank tellers and mortgage folks are all Vice Presidents these days? Ha! didn’t realize that applied to Hollywood too! suckers!
If it is not broke don’t fix it. The only thing needs to change is Abby’s stank attitude. I really would like to see a lot less of the arguements in front of the kids. I agree with Abby that I’d like to see more dancing but only if it’s going to be fair competitions. The girls are good but from what I’ve seen it’s been nothing that should be winning every thing they attend. While Maddie is a great dancer i’d also like to see some competition for her. She can’t be the best there is to offer in young competition dancers. I just don’t see it and no one is coming close to her? I know this is a show but wouldn’t production want to make it interesting by having some type of rivalry for Maddie. Maybe it’s in the contract that Abby will not allow Maddie to look bad?
I honestly think production pays the judges to make sure maddie & the group dances always wins. I also think some of the competitions are staged because sometimes when the girls are dancing & they pan to the moms, there isnt hardly any spectaters or dancers on the stage waiting for trophies. Also now that maddie is so well known, dont yall think these judges dont want to be the ones to not let maddie win. When i first started watching, it was so different than what it is now. When chloe left, i quit watching. I couldnt bare to continue watching abby playing favorites to maddie, melissas lips stuck to abbys big fat butt, jill trying to knock off melissa so her lips are stuck to her big butt so kendall will get attention, when we all know she is wasting her time. Its just not the same without chloe, because she was such a pretty dancer with a nice attitude, her head wasnt growing too big where she cant get thru the door like maddie. I no longer wanted to watch the maddie show. Wow too winded too much
Abby’s really trying to throw her weight around here. Accusing Lifetime of being behind on her paychecks? I’m guessing that doesn’t go over well.
Why lie about the weight loss? So weird and so common on these shows. When I get my tummy tuck, I’m not going to pretend it’s some miracle stomach flattening.
And Abby, production doesn’t make you rage like a crazy caged animal. Don’t behave like an ass and you won’t look like one on tv.
I’m just throwing it out there if any reputable dr would like to give me a free by pass surgery I would be glad to tell everyone about my weight loss and what a fine job you did.
I can’t help but wonder if Abby has fewer kids taking dance because of ABBY and not necessarily because of production.
This Riley is exactly what I thought, who would take their daughter to Abby for dance and it has nothing to do with kicked backpacks or filming, that is just good common sense and proper parenting.
I can’t judge quality of her training because I’m not a dancer but my hypothetical child would not be treated like that by even a great teacher, her emotional development would concern me more than her dance training.
That was a handful. Appreciate the update.
I still think that her tantrums and anger outbursts are a reflection of her and not necessarily productions. She was cray since season one. She may be in peril with production but her conscious hash out on the children and their dance education is outrageous
Is Abby trying to pull a NeNe and get production fired? Why bash your network?
Sounds like Abby is trying to set up some kind of lawsuit. But that’s just plain garbage. Just the fact that her studeo is on tv would have people dying to get their kids in her studio. It couldn’t have something to do with the way she treats people or the fact she is probably never at her home studio doesn’t help any either.
Perhaps Abby is losing students because her television persona and new LA studio is more important than her original Pittsburgh studio and students.
Who cares if she had weight loss surgery. I view it as somthing positive for her health.
You would be amazed how many people have very strong feelings about gastric bypass. I had it done 15 yrs ago, there are people who still have a problem with it. It’s not “easy” so the easy way out doesn’t apply. Back then it took years to go through the process and required a shrink to approve your readiness. People said hateful things including the ones who previously had been so concerned with my health.
I think many people view weight problems as a moral failure. So in order to loose it you have to suffer. Yeah, like one just needs will power. Gastric by-pass means you have to change your whole way of eating or else horrid things like “dumping syndrome” occur. It’s not the easy way out. Good for you for being brave enough to go through major surgery and improving your health. I say to all the fat and thin shamers: it sounds like a personal problem to me.
It seems that lipo and tummy tucks are all fine and good, but health related bypass surgeries are as you say some sort of moral failure worthy of ridicule. What odd judgments some people make.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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This photo scares me. On a level I can’t explain. That haircut and eyeliner makes me think of white go-go boots and Burt Reynolds on a rug in Playgirl.