Crazy Cloris finally gets boot from ‘Dancing’
A nervous Susan Lucci remains to dance another week
“Dancing With the Stars” judge Bruno Tonioli offers a kiss goodbye to Cloris Leachman on Tuesday night.
The ballroom loses a legend: Veteran actress Cloris Leachman took her final bow Tuesday night after her version of the cha-cha-cha, if you could call that, failed to impress the judges or fans.
It’s not as though shtick-filled dances were anything new to the 82-year-old — heck, they were the only things keeping her around — but as Carrie Ann Inaba put it, rather harshly, Cloris took the dance right out of the competition.
After breaking the bad news to the show’s senior soft shoe, co-host Samantha Harris asked Cloris how she felt about coming to the end of her dancing days. The always-cheeky star deadpanned, “You know, I’m not leaving.”
Better than Brooke: Move over, Brooke Burke. Former boybander Lance Bass is the new leaderboard champ after scoring 27 points for his performance-night effort. The unexpected shakeup was due in part to a jive that had Lance leading the dance floor with all the right moves, and was certainly helped by the fact that this season’s dancing queen suffered a setback.
The model-turned-TV host injured a tendon in her right foot last week, significantly reducing her rehearsal time for this week’s rumba. The resulting dance, which would have been a winner for a lesser competitor, relied too much on Brooke’s sexy chemistry with pro partner Derek Hough and not enough on her signature precision steps.
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