‘Cheers’ Vet Chucked in Sixth ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Elimination
Another Off-the-Mark Outcome from Viewers Sends This Season’s Resident Elder Home
In a development that can only be accurately described as no big surprise whatsoever, Cheers alum and cartoon voiceover star (Ratatouille, Cars, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., and the list goes on and on) John Ratzenberger was knocked out of contention for Dancing with the Stars‘ top prize in the sixth week of Season 4′s competition. Equally totally not surprising, Billy Ray Cyrus was the other celebrity who found himself in the Bottom 2, but in the country singer-actor’s case, it was only his first appearance. How bizarre is that given his “dancing” to date? Very.
John’s talented partner Edyta Sliwinska (the lone four-season veteran pro dancer), whom I came to like more and more each week as she continually did a great job keeping the oldest amateur hoofer this year—John turned 60 on April 6—alive in the competition, made a very nice goodbye speech in which she thanked her partner for teaching *her* a lot. How gracious when it was only because of Edyta that John managed to steadily improve and shine so well near the end.
We all know that the main reason Billy Ray was spared is because he has a larger fan base than John and other stars who’ve long been gone. I’ve felt it’s been time for him to hang up his self-professed hillbilly dancing shoes for a few weeks now, so the only suspense that remains is whether or not he, aided by his partner Karina Smirnoff‘s crafty choreography, will manage to help snuff a better contender next week. Aside from him, there are no more bad dancers left in the bunch to easily target. Will Billy Ray stay, or will he go? And if he doesn’t, who among Laila, Joey, Ian, and Apolo will? As far as I’m concerned, those are the only two questions worth contemplating at the moment when it comes to Dancing with the Stars. Until next week…
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Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8pm EST (performance) and Tuesdays at 9pm EST (results) on ABC.
John Ratzenberger and Edyta Sliwinska photo courtesy of ABC
