Tom Delay

Tom Delay was advised by doctors and the show’s producers not to perform last night, but he did and he paid the price afterwards.  He suffers from stress fractures to both feet.  Delay told People magazine today that he will make an official announcement on tonight’s Dancing with the Stars show that he will quit the show. 

“They’re starting to tell me I shouldn’t have done this,” he said of his feet, which were dressed in orthopedic booties after the show. “I ice them. I’ve got a bone stimulator machine that I put on them.”

Tom Delay is a republican from Texas, and a former Republican House Majority Leader and was born in 1947 in Laredo, Texas.  delay has been heavily involved in politics in Texas since the early 1970s.  DeLay married Christine Furrh in 1967, and they have a daughter, Danielle.  For a complete bio on Tom Delay, click here.