week nine [performances]

Semi-Finals!

Five couples remain, but only four will go to the finals.

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Dancing first is Kellie and Derek. The Argentine Tango is always fun to watch and they danced it wonderfully. Loved the beginning silhouette part of the dance. Not a fan of Kellie with dark hair though. Keep your blonde hair!

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Sean is in the audience! Sitting next to the one and only other blonde ex-contestant from the show, Andy Dick, with his daughter. Catherine was also there with Sean. She doesn’t have to sit by herself in the audience anymore. Ha. I was hoping to see Sean in the audience this week.

Side note: what up with ABC changing their player online? It surprised me. But I like it. It’s larger and doesn't freeze. Yay for updates!

Okay back to Kellie and Derek. The judges all give tens and it’s a perfect 30 for Kellie’s first time this season. Congratulations girlfriend! 

Ingo and Kym dance the Samba next. Always the good news before the bad. And you can tell the bad is coming when you hear things like “I love your determination…” or “I know you put so much work into it…” and then you get the million bad things you did wrong and a score of 24. But that’s not so bad. It’s not tens but it’s also not sevens. I enjoyed their dance.

Aly and Mark dance next and first is the Rumba but I can’t wait to see their Afro Jazz dance. Like what the heck is that?! Haha I’m curious. Her rumba was amazing. I felt the emotion in it and she did a fabulous job. They get a perfect 30, their first of the season. Great job!

Again we see Sean and Andy in the audience. But we see no pants on Andy. Why?

Jacoby is next to dance the Tango. I like watching the rehearsal packages but I hate watching Jacoby’s. He always has some sort of negative attitude and curses all the time. I’m so sick of it. I almost want to grab the remote and change the channel for about three minutes until his dance is over. Not a fan of his at all. I wish Sean was there in his place. Carrie Ann got all hot and bothered over the judges table and did a weird dance. Oh em gee. Really? Didn’t want to see that. And they get a 30.

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And last but not least is Zendaya and Val’s Quickstep dance. As race car drivers apparently. Very cute. Dang that’s about the quickest quickstep I have ever seen! It was hard to keep up with them. My eyes hurt. But nice job guys! And I found their outfits interesting. I liked that her was yellow with a black stripe and his was black with a yellow stripe. Yeah, I know. I’m a dork that finds stuff like that cool. Sue me.  “Did you have rocket fuel for breakfast?” Asks Bruno. Haha seriously! It was majorly energetic and fun. I guess because it was super fast, I missed all her mistakes but the judges didn’t and gave them a score of 25. Which is only one point better than Ingo and Kym…

First dances are complete and time for second dances. The Twitterverse chose each couple’s dance last week and now it’s that time for each couple to perform those dances.

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First up… Kellie and Derek’s “flay-menco”. Flamingo not included. Ha. Derek brought tap dance back! Nice! And the full flip at the end of the dance was badass. I mean seriously badass. How he can flip her 360 degrees around while she stays straight as a pencil is beyond amazing. I haven’t loved watching anyone dance more than Kellie since Shawn on season fifteen. Now I have two favorites! Oh wow that was messed up. Bruno held up the ten paddle when he meant nine. I was like whoa, hold up, what?! He said nine but help up ten? What’s happening right now?! So the total score is 28 for Kellie and Derek. Not bad for a skinny little lady wearing a five thousand pound dress. Not bad at all.

All stars have stories that have emotional moments at some points. This makes me wonder what Sean’s story would be. Recalling everything I have learned about him and his family I would say his story wouldn’t have one ounce of sadness in it. Everything would be happy about it, which isn’t bad it’s just what is expected. Happy and supportive family, parents married forever, has a fiancé, had a good childhood, etc. Sort of boring, but a fairytale story that everyone wants.

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Ingo and Kym’s Charleston is next. I totally love it. The special effects blow me away every time. It’s like I’m in the twenties watching them dance on my television set. It was so fun to watch. Bingo Ingo! Yet again! They get a score of 27 for their performance. Nice job!

Oh geez what’s next?! Aly and Mark’s Afro Jazz. I’m excited. Bring it. Judging from their outfits it’s gonna be craazyyy! Oh I am loving this even before they begin dancing. They are just sitting in the audience looking creepy. Aly’s facial expression… worries me a little. It’s like a I-know-your-secret type look. Omg nooo waaayyy! That dance was so exciting! Like, I was freaking out the whole time. I didn’t know what was happening. It was that awesome to watch. Aly rocked it! For sure. It was the best dance style that ever happened on this show. It should become a regular. The judges give them a total score of 29. Whoo great job!

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The dance next to Afro Jazz that I was most excited to see was the Lindy Hop. Preferably danced by Sean and Peta but they aren’t here sadly. So I guess I will have to watch Jacoby and Karina perform it. Not so excited anymore. Do they have to jump and dance on the judge’s table? What’s up with that? It’s like their third time or something doing that. I didn’t see anyone else doing that. Why is that even allowed? If I was a judge sitting there and someone did that I wouldn’t like it very much. They get a 29.

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Desiree!!! What?? What is she doing there? Hahaha did not expect that. Oooh her season is coming on air soon which means she chose her fiancé already and I’m excited to see who she picked. Can’t wait for the new bachelorette season to start! I wonder how far she sat away from Sean and Catherine in the audience… awkward…

Lastly finishing up the night it’s Val’s hilarious attempt at hip hop dancing. Sorry Val but your rehearsal package was so funny. Like Zendaya’s teacher said, “You in Zendaya’s world now. And you can’t smile like that.” Lmao! And we learn she was supposed to be a boy. Very interesting. Wow yeah just as we all expected, Zendaya knocked it out of the park. Hip hop is her comfort zone and she grew up dancing it. Val… um couldn’t exactly keep up with her. 

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Not a bad job but not a great job either. The roles reversed and now she is the pro and he is the star. And if he were being judged… he wouldn’t do well in the scoring department. She was too quick with the movements. But it’s all good because he’s never danced hip hop before and best of all he isn’t being judged. They get a 30. If bonus points were possible to be awarded and get a higher score than 30, they would get all the points above 30. Duh it’s Zendaya and hip hop. She has only been dancing it for eight years.

This week’s couple rankings:

Tied for first place: Aly and Jacoby with 59 total points. Whoa what?!

Second place: Kellie with 58 total points.

Third place: Zendaya with 54 points.

Fourth place: Ingo with 51 points.

Five couples remain, one will leave this week. The rest will have a spot in next week’s finals. I can’t believe it’s over next week! Geez. 

Until next time…

xo

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