Who was eliminated from the ‘Dancing With the Stars’ music video night?
Dancing with the stars participants relived some of pop culture’s most iconic moments during Music Video Night.
The Tuesday, November 7 episode started with a guest judge Paula Abdul came in as her 1989 hit “Forever Your Girl” was played. Cohost Julianne Hough pointed out that Abdul, 61, was the perfect person to help judge the theme night.
“You are one of the world’s biggest music video icons,” Hough, 35, told the “Straight Up” singer. One of the participants who impressed Abdul the most was Vanderpump Rules star Ariana Madix.
“You were a dazzling mix of finesse and anger and you channeled Britney Spears seamlessly,” Abdul told Madix, 38, after she and DWTS pro Pasha Pashkov played a Cha Cha to Spears’ 2001 song “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Madix got nines from Bruno Tonioli, Derek Hough And Carrie Ann Inababut Abdul gave her a perfect 10.
Other contestants didn’t fare as well during the episode. Inaba, 55, shared Harry Jowsey that his performance suffered after his backup dancers left him on stage. “When the boys were no longer in front of you, it wasn’t so good,” she told 26-year-old Jowsey as the crowd booed.
Jowsey and his partner, Rylee Arnoldwas visited by Lance Bass themselves during rehearsal before dancing to ‘NSync’s ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’. However, Bass’s advice to Jowsey to “get out of your head and just perform” did not stop Jowsey and Arnold, 18, from being disappointed with their score: six from all four judges.
At the end of the night, Barry Williams And Peta Murgatroyd and Jowsey and Arnold had the lowest scores of the evening. But it was Lele Pons and her partner, Brandon Armstrong, which were eventually eliminated. Pons, 27, said she was “so, so grateful” for the experience, while Armstrong, 29, said: “This one burns.”
The couple with the highest score of the evening, Madix and Pashkov, 37, do not have to participate in the dance-off next week.
While they may not have been at the top of the leaderboard, Alyson Hannigan and her partner, Sasha Farber, were perhaps the most improved duo of the evening. Inaba told Hannigan, 49, that her Quickstep to Christina Aguilera‘Candyman’ was ‘by far [her] best dance” and said she was “like a whole new girl” during the performance.
Tonioli, 67, told the actress that she “even had a little bit of resilience,” which he said she previously lacked. “Problem solved!” Tonioli has decided. Hannigan also received her first nine of the competition from Abdul.
In addition to the evening’s partner dances, participants also took part in a team dance-off. Jowsey, Pons, Xochitl Gomez, Charity Lawson and their professional partners danced to “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” by the Backstreet Boys as Hannigan, Jason MrazMadix, Williams, 69, and their partners performed “Gangnam Style” by PSY.
After struggling during his jazz routine with Arnold, Jowsey redeemed himself during the group dance. Derek, 38, was so impressed by Jowsey’s performance during the group number that he stood up and hugged him.
Derek then told Jowsey that he had ‘invented’ his power. “You are not a soloist, you are a team player,” he said. Jowsey’s team received a perfect score of 40 from the judges, while the other team received a 37.
Keep scrolling to see all the scores from Music Video Night’s artists: