Leeza Let Go in Third ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Elimination
The Talk Show Host Becomes the Third Woman Out in Dancing‘s Continued Slaughter of the Female Celebs
What a bummer. Heather and Laila, watch your backs, girls, because apparently a whole lot of people in America are not liking the female competition on Dancing with the Stars this year. Sure, Leeza Gibbons is in no way a dancing queen—more like a stiff stump, actually. Yet, she’s gone while the nearly comatose Clyde Drexler not only remains, but has never even appeared in the bottom two couples? With each passing week, it’s getting harder and harder to take this season seriously.
Fortunately, however, the best parts of the third elimination round didn’t involve the totally messed up voting results. Instead, the big props go to Season 2 champ Drew Lachey, who appeared during the first number by country duo Big & Rich to tear up the dance floor with his former co-champion partner Cheryl Burke. Drew’s routine was quite energetic and entertaining, so much so that I initially didn’t even realize he wasn’t yet another guest professional dancer.
Other highlights included co-host Samantha Harris’ announcement that she and her husband are expecting a child, as well as the always funny Jimmy Kimmel segment “Dance Along at Home with Jimmy Kimmel,” which destroyed the Rumba this week. And perhaps in direct response to all of the whining going around now about how supposedly mean the judges are, all three appeared in a lengthy and informative segment about what they look for in the dancers while scoring them. Throw in a couple of excellent one-liners from normally dry-as-ice co-host Tom Bergeron (particularly the one about Bruno’s metallic-looking shirt doubling as a solar reflector in the judge segment) and, all in all, the third elimination round wasn’t too shabby … except for Leeza’s unfair dismissal, of course.
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Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8pm EST (performance) and Tuesdays at 9pm EST (results) on ABC.
Leeza Gibbons and Tony Dovolani photo courtesy of ABC
