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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Stevie Wonder is in talks to become the first blind contestant on "Dancing With the Stars," the legend confirmed.
"It'd be fun," he told Los Angeles 104.3 MYFM radio jock Valentine. "It's not impossible."
Wonder, 58, who signed to Motown as a pre-teen, said nothing is set in stone yet, but the dialogue to get him to show off his fancy footwork in the ballroom is open.
"Right now, it's just a thought," he said.
Though the crooner is known for his soulful pop hits like "Superstition," and "For Once In My Life," he told Valentine that he certainly has some dance moves too.
"Come on... If I have seven children, I've got to be able to dance right?" he added.
And like many "Dancing" contenders before him, Stevie said he'd be happy to use the show as a weight loss regimen.
"I think it'd be fun - working on my little stomach thing here and losing some more weight," he said.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.