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DWTS Horror Movie Night Sees Double Elimination and Perfect Scores
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In Short: DWTS' Horror Movie Night featured perfect scores and a double elimination, with Shirley Ballas joining the judging panel.
On Tuesday, October 27, Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) celebrated Horror Movie Night, a theme that brought out the best and worst in the remaining 10 celebrity contestants.
The episode, which was the seventh of the season, featured performances inspired by legendary horror films, with each couple receiving scores from the judges.
Shirley Ballas, the head judge from the UK version of the show, Strictly Come Dancing, joined regular judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli.
Despite the high stakes, some contestants delivered standout performances. Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy, who returned after a one-week suspension, earned a perfect score of 37 out of 40 for their Argentine tango, bringing their total score to 74 out of 80.
Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess also received a perfect score of 37/40 for their contemporary dance to 'Toxic' by 2WEI, inspired by the Saw franchise.
However, not all contestants fared well. Conner Leavitt and Adele Zaikman were eliminated after receiving the lowest combined scores and votes.
The episode also saw a double elimination, with the elimination of Conner Leavitt and Adele Zaikman.
Fans and judges alike were impressed by the performances, with Hough praising her own performance as 'one of the best Argentine tangoes I’ve ever seen on this floor.'
Despite the high scores, the judges remained critical, with Ballas noting that she had 'never seen anything quite like that.'
The voting process was also a topic of discussion, with host Julianne Hough revealing that voting was down on ABC’s website and encouraging viewers to send in their votes via text.
DWTS' Horror Movie Night featured perfect scores and a double elimination, with Shirley Ballas joining the judging panel.
What this adds
The episode's high scores and eliminations marked a significant shift from the previous week's lack of eliminations.
What's confirmed
- For the third week in a row, DWTS judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli were joined by a fourth guest judge, Shirley Ballas, who is the head judge on the original UK version of the show, Strictly Come Dancing.
- 27, episode brought out killer choreography for Horror Movie Night, where the remaining 10 couples performed routines inspired by legendary horror films.
What's still developing
- Season 35 has been off-kilter from the start: an unusually high starting number of celebrity contestants (16); a two-night premiere that saw two eliminations; and last week’s Dedication Night closing without an elimination at all.
- Days ahead of Halloween, the appropriately themed Horror Movie Night saw 10 competitors enter the ballroom, with fans leaning heavily toward the inkling that last week’s lack of eliminations may lead to a double elimination on Tuesday.
- Wood was called “the most improved” last week, but still, he and pro partner Rylee Arnold tied for last with 32.
- A longtime judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the British forerunner to DWTS, and a Latin dance pro so legendary she earned the nickname “The Queen of Latin,” Ballas warned everyone at the top of the show that she intended to take no prisoners: “Neglect the technique at your own peril. Don’t make me bring my little friend out,” she said, as she forebodingly held up the “2” paddle.
- Though he called his live gender reveal during Dedication Night “one of the best nights of my life,” Horror Movie Night might prove one of the worst.
- More often than not, when a guest judge joins the DWTS dancing panel, their lack of technical dance knowledge leads to good-hearted, across-the-board score inflation.
- Things got blood-curdling on week 7, as a no-elimination week gave way to a double elimination preceded by wildly high and low scores.
- As a full moon set on Horror Movie Night, the air was filled with an unnameable dread that something big was about to happen.
- Jenna and Val Chmerkovskiy and Connor and Rylee Arnold trailed Harry’s high score, both scoring a 37/40, leaving the Grey’s Anatomy actor as the sole top of the leaderboard for the spooky episode.
- “I have not spoken about what happened because of professional courtesy for those who are still competing, and we actually have standards and practices that keep us separated,” Inaba explained in an Oct. 25 Instagram comment.
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