What To Know
- Dancing With the Stars will include a dance-off competition for bonus points on November 10.
- Harry Shum Jr. earned immunity for this round, while the other six teams will be paired up for head-to-head dances.
- Many fans are upset by Tatyana Ali having to go against Jenna Dewan, who came into the show with prior dance experience.
Dancing With the Stars continues with Grammy Night on November 10. In addition to performing a new, unlearned dance to Grammy-winning hits, the remaining couples will also pair up with another team for dance-offs, which will give the winners extra points.
Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson earned immunity from the dance-offs after last week’s performances, but the other six teams are going head-to-head. For the dance-offs, Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach will face-off against Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov with a rumba to “The Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica. Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik are doing a cha-cha to “The Middle” by Maren Morris and Zedd against Jenna Dewan and Valentin Chmerkovskiy. Finally, Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold are against Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas, performing a cha-cha- to “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow.
After the pairings were revealed, fans began weighing in on social media, with many upset that Ali has to go against Dewan, who has been scoring significantly higher than her on the leaderboard and has past dance experience. Many felt that Ali would’ve had a fairer match-up against Wood or Higgins, who have also don’t have previous dance experience, while Dewan should be competing against someone who’s been scoring higher, such as Glenn.
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“Oh they REALLY want Tatyana to go home… like wtf is this? #dwts,” one person wrote on X, and another said, “they really gave tatyana f**king jenna dewan. We have to vote tf out of tatyana because it’s so obvious what they are trying to do. Why not pair up jenna dewas with amber?”
Another fan suggested, “it should of been amber vs jenna, maura vs tatyana, connor vs ezra,” and someone else said, “the thing that really gets me here is connor maura jenna and tayana are all doing cha cha so it really could’ve been connor v tatyana for the dance off.”
The dance-off pairings were chosen by producers, unlike last week’s team dances, which were picked by celebrities named as team captains in the competition. Due to having the lowest scores, Ali and Wood were selected as captains, and Wood’s team won the freestyle dance round with a perfect score of 40/40 (Ali’s team scored 36/40).
At the end of Grammy Night, another contestant will be eliminated, leaving just six teams left in the Semifinals on November 17. One more team will be sent home ahead of the November 24 finale.
Dancing With the Stars, Season 35, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC and Disney+
This story originally appeared on TV Insider
