‘Dancing With The Stars’ Week 9: Record Number Of Voters Send Someone Home On Taylor Swift Night
22.11.2023 - 03:15
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Admit it: you started this episode knowing who was going to go home, right?
If you are a true student of Dancing with the Stars, you should be able to predict the order in which the celebs are given the boot. Sure, there is the occasional misstep; many of you thought Barry Williams would be toast long ago, but the chipper senior actually made it to week 8, along with the inexplicably fortunate Harry Jowsey.
Williams is gone now, but Jowsey is not. Will his great luck finally run out tonight?
But wait! I should be saving space for the real star of the ballroom — Taylor Swift! Alas, the recording star didn’t show up in her Danskins. Instead, we got her music, her choregrapher Mandy Moore as a guest judge, and a pre-taped sorry y’all from Tay Tay herself: “I so wish I could be there, but I’m on tour in Brazil. Sending you all my love and best of luck to the contestants.”
Now if only ABC would stop running those gut-wrenching promos for The Golden Bachelor finale so we can stop choking up and enjoy some T. Swizzle, instead!
Actress Alyson Hannigan (American Pie) with partner Sasha Farber. Hannigan was one of the 2 billion people who attended The Eras Tour were her daughters, so she was particularly hyped to dance the cha cha to “You Belong to Me.” But her big toes were achy from all those rehearsals, and it showed on the dance floor. Girlfriend just couldn’t stay on the beat. “Alyson your charisma and joy always lights up this dance floor, you have improved so much from week one,” said judge Derek Hough. “The timing was off, my love, in some of those moments.” Score: 29 out of 40
Reality TV star Harry Jowsey (Too Hot to Handle) with partner Rylee Arnold. “How can I stand out this week?” asks Jowsey. Well, try not to