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TV News Update: 'Dancing With The Stars' Injury Curse Strikes Again

Kym Johnson and Warren SappKym Johnson and Warren SappE! reports that Kym Johnson has joined the long line of injured cast members on Dancing with the Stars . Kym reportedly has a shoulder injury that will require surgery. She is the partner of NFL player Warren Sapp, who reportedly has been suffering from a stiff knee. Johnson joins Lance Bass, Lacey Schwimmer, Misty May-Treanor, Julianne Hough, and others who have been injured this season. Both May-Treanor and Hough had to bow out of the show due to a ruptured Achilles tendon and appendix surgery respectively.

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's Morning Joe dropped the "f-bomb" live on the air this morning. Here is the clip courtesy of TV Guide. (warning: contains profanity). When split-screen commentator Mike Barnicle brought the slip to his attention, Scarborough apologized profusely. "If I actually said the word ...great apologies!" he said. "I am so sorry."

TV Guide reports that NBC has ordered an additional nine episode of quirky cop drama Life , which brings their sophmore season to a standard 22. The show, about police detective Charlie Crews (Damien Lewis) who shared 12 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, in now airing Wednesdays at 9 PM.

Us reports that Isaiah Washington, himself ousted from ABC's Grey's Anatomy after making homophobic remarks towards castmate T.R. Knight in 2007, is calling actress Brooke Smith's firing "disgusting." "Now that I see what they're doing to a show that I love and I care about, I think it's disgusting," Washington said to TV Guide. "The fact that Shonda [Rhimes, the executive producer] has been put in this position is extremely unfair.??  It's unfortunate because it was probably, at the time, the most progressive show on television," he says. "Now I see it [being] systematically torn apart."?? Smith's character, lesbian "Dr. Erica Hahn", will exit this month after a controversial relationship with Sara Ramirez's "Callie" character. Rhimes has stated that the exit has nothing to do with the gay storyline.