By AMY CHOZICK
WSJ
LOS ANGELES -- In the world of television, Fiona Locke is a special-effects expert. She doesn't blow up buildings or choreograph car crashes. Ms. Locke wields an airbrush gun filled with a brown liquid. She makes people tan and fit-looking.
She's the secret behind the ABC-TV hit "Dancing With the Stars," the competition series that pairs celebrities like former GOP leader Tom DeLay and singer Donny Osmond with professional dancers. Ms. Locke and a team of body makeup artists prepare them for the show's scanty outfits and an audience of 18 million viewers eager to see which couple will be crowned champion on Tuesday.
The hit TV show 'Dancing With the Stars' takes the spray tan to a new level. WSJ's Amy Chozick goes behind the scenes to find the answer to the burning question: Did Tom DeLay spray?
"Dancing With the Stars" producers advise contestants to get sprayed down the Sunday before each televised competition. A recent Sunday afternoon, backstage at the McCadden rehearsal space here, Ms. Locke spritzed half a dozen contestants, naked or in string bikinis, to chestnut-colored skin. She changed the settings on her gun to paint in the shadows of muscles. Six-pack abs, defined cheekbones and sculpted arms appeared almost instantly. Each 10-week season, the cast goes through more than six gallons of spray-tan liquid, or juice as it is known in the industry.
"You go in feeling fat and frumpy, and you come out feeling skinny and hot," said 20-year-old dancer Chelsie Hightower as she took a break from practicing the hustle to get her weekly tan.
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