During a sinister night on Dancing with the Stars, one couple was changed forever.
The Oct. 21 episode featured director Jon M. Chu as a guest judge, and the pair danced to hits from “Wicked,” some playing Elphaba and others Glinda.
This week’s score was combined with last week’s dedication night. Last week, Carrie Ann Inaba received some backlash for criticizing certain pairs, but this week she scored her first 10 points of the season. The points came from quicksteps by Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas. The other judges agreed with Inaba, except for Derek Hough, who gave it a 9. At the end of the night, Jordan Chiles and Ezra Souza also scored three 10s and one 9 with some impressive rumbas. Hough saved his 10-point paddle.
Huff ended up giving him a six after Andy Richter and Emma Slater’s jazz routine, noting that this was their last week so “we’ll see how it goes.” However, other judges were more impressed and the rest awarded him 7 points.
Last week, Inaba told Daniel Fischel and Pasha Pashkov that their dances were starting to look the same. This week, she praised Fishel’s courage and said it was her breakthrough dance. Bruno Tonioli said the song was “the most difficult song to choreograph”, and Hough praised the routine’s difficulty, calling it “amazing”. Four 9’s gave us a huge jump up the leaderboard.
But it was Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten’s contemporary routine, “Defying Gravity,” that had everyone, including Bersten, in tears. “I’m 54 years old, I’m injured, and that’s all I did,” she said through tears after the dance. She hit four 9s in a strong routine.
After combining all the dances and scores from the past two weeks, Richter remains at the bottom of the leaderboard and Levitt returns to the top. Once the votes were added (the show reached 100 million votes in the past two weeks), Scott Hoyne was sent home.
Here is the complete list of Wicked Night scores:
Scott Hoying and partner Riley Arnold
Dance: “The Wizard and I” Contemporary
Score: 28/40
Alix Earle and partner Val Chmerkovskiy
Dance: Jazz “What Is This Feeling?”
Score: 35/40
Robert Irwin and partner Whitney Carson
Dance: “Dancing Through Life” to jazz
Score: 36/40
Whitney Leavitt and partner Mark Ballas
Dance: Quick Steps to “Popular”
Score: 39/40
Dylan Efron and partner Daniela Karagacci
Dance: “I’m Not That Girl” on the Rumba
Score: 32/40
Andy Richter and partner Emma Slater
Dance: “One Short Day” to jazz
Score: 27/40
Elaine Hendricks and partner Alan Bersten
Dance: “Defying Gravity” Contemporary
Score: 36/40
Jen Affleck and partner Jan Ravnik
Dance: Foxtrot “As Long as You’re Mine”
Score: 32/40
Daniel Fischel and partner Pasha Pashkov
Dance: Argentine Tango “No Good Deed”
Score: 36/40
Jordan Chiles and partner Ezra Sosa
Dance: Rumba “For Good”
Score: 39/40
The next “Dancing with the Stars” episode will be on Halloween night and will air on ABC and Disney+ on October 28 at 8pm ET and streamed the next day on Hulu.
