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closeTuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
'Dancing With the Stars': Belated fast-forward recap
Robert Philpot
Prediction: Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin will be a guest on The View this Thursday. Because this Thursday's The View is scheduled to feature contestants eliminated from Dancing With the Stars.
To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, personality goes a long way, and it's taken Irvin further than anyone should have expected in Dancing With the Stars. Consistently getting some of the lowest -- often the lowest -- judges' scores, Irvin has stayed alive thanks to viewer votes. Monday's DWTS even showed Irvin using his ESPN Radio show to lobby for votes, with him pledging to take home a trophy for Dallas.
Problem is, tonight's results show is double-elimination, and Irvin scored the lowest judges' score Monday. Between a waltz that got him a 20 from the judges (including a generous 8 from head judge Len Goodman) and a sudden-death gang mambo in which Irvin and Anna Demidova, the first couple called out by the judges (giving them a mere 2), Irvin and Demidova had an aggregate 22 on the night. That put Irvin in a bottom three along with snowboarder Louie Vito -- who frankly also seems doomed -- and Melissa Joan Hart, whose personality just seems like it will take her a longer way.
This has been a wacky season (even for DWTS), and I would've expected Vito, with his lack of mainstream name recognition, to have gone home a lot earlier. His scores haven't been that great, and neither have Irvin's, but they keep sticking around. But as Irvin pointed out, this is like the NFL playoffs -- the competition gets tougher as the amount of teams sticking around gets smaller. And votes previously designated for now-eliminated contestants aren't likely to fall to him or Vito.
I've never voted in these things -- seems like a conflict of interest, especially since these are things I wouldn't watch were it not for my job -- but if I were voting on last night's episode, I'd give the vote to Joanna Krupa, a model I'd never heard of before this competition (and whose name I finally can stop looking up). Not only did she have last night's highest scores, she doesn't -- unlike fellow high scorers Aaron Carter, Donny Osmond, and Mya -- come from a background that involves choreography, which gives all those pop stars a head start.
Here's Irvin's waltz. Despite my prediction, I'm rooting for the guy. But I think his time is up.
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