Jesco White has crooned from a doghouse roof, boogied across a swaying footbridge and tapped down the center of a two-lane mountain road.

Now the Appalachian tap dancer from the Boone County coalfields will entertain millions as a guest on ABC's "Rose-anne.""He definitely will be on the show, but we don't know what his role will be," said Diann Shaw, a spokeswoman for Carsey-Werner Productions, the show's producer.

"Tom Arnold called me at home," White said Wednesday. "I thought it was someone pulling a joke, but then Tom said, `I'm Roseanne's husband and producer and we would like to have you on the show.' I told him I would be thrilled to be on the show."

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White, 38, of Peytona, was the subject of a 1991 half-hour television documentary, "Dancing Outlaw."

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