Shane’s Still Dancin…
Last month, Hearsay first discovered Shane "Sweet Feet" Mercado, the original male hoofer-spoofer of Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" video. Remember him, dancing around almost naked in a tattered leotard? Since then, there's been at least two mash-ups of his original video on YouTube. (And then of course SNL did its own hot making-of-the-video spoof starring Justin Timberlake and Beyonce.) Now, Mercado, the YouTube sensation, has since been interviewed on New York's CW1, and last Tuesday he was a guest on The Bonnie Hunt Show — yep, she's still talking — dancing in front of Beyonce's original video, before a studio audience. (He's wearing a bit more clothing for national TV, of course.) Check it out — it's more polished than his original, and he comes off like a total charmer….
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