November 27, 2025 • 50 mins
It’s been an incredible season and Sharna Burgess has been with us the entire time, giving her critiques as a former pro and current international judge. And now she’s back for one final time to close out the monumental Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars!
What did she think of the instant dances? And what about those freestyles? Were there TOO many performances?
Plus, Sharna gives us her scores and wraps up the pop culture juggernaut that was 2025’s Dancing with the Stars…
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now welcome to the ballroom in the fourth judges chair.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It Shanna Burgess.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up, everybody, Welcome to the final episode of Shanna
Burgess in the fourth Chair. I cannot believe we just
had the finale of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It was eleven weeks this year. It was a jam
pack season. It was an amazing season.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The casting was on point, so so incredible, and what
a night it was. I was there, I wasn't in
the ballroom. I stayed backstage because you can just see
so much more. I wanted to see everybody. But we
have so much to get through, so let's just get
stuck into it, shall we. We opened up with Alex
and Val doing a samba. Carrie Anne said, that is
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the way that you start the show. It had all
of the content in it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She really has learned to develop her own.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Style over the course of this season, so refined and fierce,
and that she performed.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The absolute heck out of it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So no real dance notes in there, but I absolutely agree.
You know, I've said before, I wasn't that big of
a fan of Alex in the beginning, feeling like it
was very timid and I just wanted more and could
see she could do it, but it wasn't there. And
I think that's what we're saying here. She's developed her
own styles. She's now refined in fierce. You can really
see that connection between her and VOW one hundred percent
agree with carry Anne's comments. Derek said, it was so good,
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such a hard dance to get that proper rotation in
the crusadis walks, the stationary walks of samba rolls, really
calling out some key technical steps there that are in
our technique book that you want to get in She
really did do them well. I feel like we could
have done more in the rotation, but we'll get back
to that. And then Bruno said it was incandescent. Always
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a great dancer, but now she is a performer and
a star. So I love those comments from the judges.
You can really tell like, where are the finale here,
and everyone has done such a great job. We're really
trying to give everyone their flowers at the same time
as giving them a critique. So I appreciate there was
a lot of positivity.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In the night.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
For me, however, I felt that she was fractionally back
at times, which meant her hips felt like they were
over her toes and her head weight was behind her hips,
which made it feel once again like Vow was sort
of moving her instead of her moving her. And I
actually felt that we needed more hip rotation in there
in those very specific crisatis walks. So they're in a
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shadow position, which is where they're both facing the same
way in an open shadow frame, and they're doing these walks.
I think it was diagonally along the floor.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Now, fringe pants is going.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To do a lot of the work for you, so
maybe it masked it, maybe it looked like it was there,
But for me in watching it, I actually felt like
we could have had more rotation in the hips in
those points, and a couple of other ones in the
samba steps. But I do feel like they had a
good flow. They had a nice bounce action her arms
and her lines. There was so much in it to love.
I really did think it was fabulous from her, but
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there were those two key things that I felt were missing.
The judges opened up with a perfect score. We gave
it a ten ten ten. I ended up giving it
a nine.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Moving on to Dylan and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Danny's first dance, they had a passa dob Lay. Let's
get into Bruno. He complimented the body. I'm pretty sure
he was complimenting both Dylan's body, which is very beautifully sculpted,
and also the shaping that he was doing in his body,
because he then went on to say beautiful shapes and
he loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was really blown away by this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I feel like he was quite surprised with how it
came to and maybe that's because.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He was in the room with them doing the work
and he probably.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Didn't see the fruits of that labor until really in
show night.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And that might tell us a little bit about Dylan.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right that he really works his butt off throughout those
rehearsals and where it starts is so far from where
it finishes in a good way.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And then we move into carry Anne.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She said, how far you've come is absolutely incredible. Some
of the shaping was great, but their hands were bugging her.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
We're going to get back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And Derek said his improvement is so incredible. He agreed
with that. The knee walks were so powerful, incredible shaping. Yes,
it did need a bit more stretch, and yeah, really
said to Danny that she's quite a moment maker, which
absolutely is true for Danny. She creates incredible, memorable moments
in her routines. So for me, listen, passo is a
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tough dance.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It can be. It really should be the man's dance.
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You want to have that dominance, that alpherness about you
in this dance.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That matador.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't know that that is necessarily Dylan's energy. You know,
he is who he is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He has his own type of masculinity, which Derek references
later in the show. But on the technical side of things,
the first thing that I wrote was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That his arms don't develop.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So what you notice, and I think this leads into
the hands that carry Anne was talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The hands were sort of like paddles in.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The wind, and he would have the general shape of
what was happening with his arm and it would just
sort of wave around instead of developing from somewhere to
get there, which a gives it speed.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And more dynamics.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And so that's why it's confusing when you watch him,
because you're like, no, now it's clean and it's placed,
but they're sort of two placed and just moving around
instead of developing into the shape. And then developing out
of it, which gives us again those dynamics, and so
I really felt that. I also felt that his elbows
were too low, which was weakening our posture, which has
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been something for me for him through the whole season.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And there was a moment in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There where I wrote a big shouty capital letter okay
and exclamation points. I'm gonna guess that that was the
knee walks. I did feel that his feet were a
little bit messy. I do think that he had fantastic
passad obla posture, which is where we lift that center
up higher more aiming for pretending that our legs go
all the way up to our sternum. This is when
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you really do want your hips over your toes, not
your nose over your toes.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So I felt like his passo posture was really great.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You could see he really worked on that, but overall,
I just felt that it was missing some of the attack.
It felt a little bit slow, if I'm honest with you,
for a passadoblay, and I really I don't know if
this has been a thing with his arms the whole season.
It might have just dropped in and made sense for
me about the fact that they're not developing, and that's
why it's always felt a little bit soft. But for
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those things, it really stuck out as not his strongest
dance to come out the gate with on the finale,
So the judges gave it a nine to nine. Bruno
was wowed. He gave it a ten. I landed on
an eight, crossing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right over into Elaine and Alan doing a rumber.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now rumber is a hard dance to do in a finale.
She is beautiful, she has beautiful quality of movement, so
it could always have been a really good one for her.
Let's see what the judges said first. So Derek said,
you're an amazing dancer and performer. The triple turn into
a fan, lovely texture, She's had a beautiful season. Congratulated
on their body of work. She has had a beautiful season.
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She's always had great texture in her arms and in
her emotion, in her body, in her chest.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So I do agree with that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And her turn's always been fabulous. That has stuck with
her from her dance background when she was younger.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That never left her.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Her turns I think have been better than anyone else's
in the season.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Really spectacular. What they've been able to do with those.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Bruno said, she's pure class, a perfect balance of sensuality
and elegance. It was the fluidity and the smoothness. It
was like silk, a perfect interpretation of the rumba lovely comments.
I do feel that it was a gorgeous balance of
sensuality and elegance.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
She really bought who she is to it her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't mean maturity in age, I mean emotional maturity
and groundedness and just like beautiful seeing a grown woman
doing a dance like this, you know, there's something that
felt very real and natural for her.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I loved that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Carrie Anne said she's been waiting for this dance for her,
It's more than just steps.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's what you do with the in between is it was?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was exquisite, and she thanked Alan for the choreography
and giving Elane that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Agreed. I think that sort of leads into what.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I just said about that grown womanness about her.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know that she brought herself to it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was really beautiful to watch her out there doing
this dance. Now, getting into a technical standpoint, I know
that we come up against things with Elaine in her body,
from her accident, and so again I have to reiterate,
I don't know if these things are fixable or not,
but for me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The legs were not straight.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And in rumba we have a very very prominent straight
leg action. That foot has to develop the leg and
the foot has to drag through it pulls through bent
and then it develops and slides through onto that straight leg,
just like we do on chutchya, but it's slower and
you really really really want to see the development of that,
the pushing the weight onto the foot, those two straight
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legs for as long as possible and then snapping them
through again. So we missed the straight leg action in
the rumba, and so because and it also did feel
that she wasn't settling into her hips, so we were
missing some of that hip rotation and the snap. And
I think you could see Derek sort of working on
that a little bit in the start as far as
the rotation the hips, getting that snap into it, but
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it just didn't land.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
For me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It all felt a little bit square, lacking in the
hip rotation, lacking in that straight leg action for a rumba. Now,
when we go up top and we look hips up
spectacular she is a spectacular performer. The texture in her
it was ten plus plus when you look up top,
the movement, the energy, the emotion, the arms, the absolute
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texture and beauty that she had in it flawless. But
unfortunately for me, when I looked down and got into
the floor, it just wasn't grounded and all those things
that I mentioned before about the technical sides of it,
so I felt like this was a hard dance for her.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Now. The judges gave it a ten ten ten.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I was leaning in between an eight and nine, but
I did land on a nine because so much of
it was beautiful. I know she can't use her feet
the way that I would want her to because of
the metal in them, and so I'm sure that played
into the fact that she couldn't do some of the
things I'm asking for with her legs, but I do
need to see it so and there was so much
else about it to love that all those things considered,
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I landed on a nine for a lane moving into
Robert and Whitney doing a quick step. Derek said it
was crisp, it was clean, the frame, this was strong,
it was fantastic, and he congratulated Whitney on phenomenal choreography
and the job that she's done this season. Bruno said
the footwork was nimble and called the whole dance powerful.
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Carry Anne said it was amazing, but she did call
out the kip up timing. For me, the first thing,
I was like, Wow, what a routine. This was spectacular
from Whitney. It was ballsy, it was. It really was
a lot of content, and by content, I don't just
mean specific to quick step content. It was changing rhythms,
it was the floor work, it was it was a
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very demanding routine. Now did it suit Rob it absolutely
because he's the greatest showman. Honestly, his performance quality is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
In what he delivers out on that floor.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I felt personally on the technical side of things, yes,
the kip up was.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
A whole beaten half basically, or a whole beat.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Off the two beats one beat. It depends on how
you sort of count quickstep. There was a couple things,
so yes, yes, yes, yes, the kip up was off.
We saw that that was a timing mistake. I felt
that his frame was sometimes really really good, really good
in the way that Derek Hauld worked on it and
him like stretching out into his window. And then other
times when we're going into the pivots or other things
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that would rotate that left elbow that was pushing forward,
and it was just rounding his back off a little
too much for me. So I would love to have
seen consistency and pulling that elbow back. And then at
the end I didn't know if she got caught in
his wrist or what was going on. But the prep
into the lean, now, this isn't necessarily that anything went wrong.
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It was just a bit of an eggy moment for
me in the choreography. And I don't mean that to
Shade Whitney. I absolutely loved this routine. But sometimes things
work and sometime things don't. We know that, right, and
for me, that prep into the lean down for a
moment like that, to be spectacular, you have to not
see the prep, and it was sort of like we
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saw them grab on and go, team go, and we're
going to do this, and then it didn't necessarily give
the payoff at the end, I think for so much
of a setup, so it kind of took me out
of it a bit, if I'm honest with you. So
I let judges carry Anne went a nine because of
the timing issue on the kip up. Also, oh my god,
by the Whitney does kip ups in heels.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That woman is just ridiculous. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Back to the scores, Carrine gave it a nine and
Derek and Bruno landed on at ten, so nine to
ten ten from the judges.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I also landed on a nine.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Getting into Jordan and Ezra another passadobly for the night.
I mean, I love watching them dance. I think they've
also had a really incredible season. We have Carrianne that
said it was so intense, there was so much attack,
but she feels there was too much attack in the
beginning of it, which is interesting. I feel I don't
necessarily know, but I can understand. I think, oh, if
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I'm trying to remember, I wonder if I feel like
it lost a little bit of steam part way through.
I think it was a fierce dance from her. I
did love the attack, but I think I don't actually
know where Kerrian was referencing there. I'm trying to find it,
but I'm not actually finding it. I'm not saying it
wasn't there, but I'm just not remembering it from when
I saw it last night. Let me know in the
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comments if you understand what she was saying. Moving into Derek,
he said, you did it strong, fierce, powerful, clean. It
had all the content, which it totally had, all of
that passive dobel a content that you want to look for.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There was some nice stretching in it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And Derek also congratulated Ezra on his very first finale,
congratulations as what a body of work you have done already.
It's beautiful. Moving in to Bruno, he said, the power
and the focus, She's like a Queen of the Amazon.
She just goes for It was so much determination. I
think we can definitely say that about Jordan. She's always
got that beautiful determination that absolutely singularly focused on the
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job at hand, and I absolutely love that about her.
And I think it worked for this dance too. For
me how I felt about it, I would have just
loved more stretch in this one. You know, it was good,
but I feel like Jordan. We had this comment earlier
in the season for Robert, and I'm not sure if
I set it for Jordan as well, but I do
feel it in this dance. Sometimes things get cut a
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little bit short, and maybe it has to do with like,
she's so incredibly strong and she hits things beautifully and
so hard, but I would love to see the fluidity
in a little bit more like actually seeing that texture
and that stretch out to the ends of it for
it to bounce back. It's not that she doesn't do
the never stop moving, always be breathing somewhere in it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's just I feel like I wish there was a
little bit more.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Resistance in it, so it stretched a little bit further
beyond its point and then it snapped into something because
I really did feel she had nice shapes, but I
wanted more stretch out of them. But I did think
that content was absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We landed with a nine to.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Ten ten from the judges carry On giving it a nine,
Bruno and Derek giving it tens. I also landed on
a nine getting into the very first of the instant dance. Now,
let me let me say that I this was a
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hard call. I probably should have said this at the
very start of this episode, but before we move into
the instance, this finale was a really hard call for
our pros and our celebrities. Three hours three dancers, one
of them being an instant dance, which, by the way,
that means those four dances that they had on the
table and they didn't know which one they were going
to get, they were rehearsing all four of them throughout
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the week, so they were rehearsing six dances this week
so they could perform three of them. That is, I
think that is a different level to what we've ever
done on the show, or at least it sounds more
dramatic than I have.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ever experienced on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That and it's also the eleventh week of the season.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They've had a really intense few weeks leading.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Up to it. It just they were exhausted, is what
I'm trying to say. They are exhausted. I don't know
if it was an amazing choice to have this much
pressure on them, because I do feel and as you'll
have noticed in my critiques of the dances previously, I
love them all, but things were missing. And that is
only because they had less time to work on them,
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not because they're not capable of it, not because these
pros weren't trying to do it, not because the celebrities
just couldn't get it, but because they had very restricted
time on how to on getting all of that these
things together. Six dancers, you guys, they were having six
dances for the one show. I don't know if I
love it. Look again, we've got to try things, and
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the network is like, this show is crushing it, and
the network ABC is probably like, let's do three hours
and see how we go. My opinion, lovingly and with respect.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If we were
going to do three hours, you know what I would
have loved. I would have loved more journey packages and story,
bring on an artist performance to sing us an emotional song,
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like we had great performances. I do think we had
some really fun moments throughout the show with those three hours,
but I think we could have done more with it
in terms of our journey packaging and recapping the season
for people a little bit more. There could have been
more emotional points that we could have hit instead of
just exhausting our talents so much. So that's my two
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cents worth, you know, And it's no shade to the show.
We absolutely have to try things, and I love that
they tried it, and it's because the show is doing
so well and it's absolutely crushing it, and so is
everyone on the team. But I don't know if I
loved this choice coming from being a pro dancer.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now, I don't know that I would have loved.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Being in that situation of rehearsing six dancers, when you're
trying to do your best work, when you're trying to
create a freestyle that is going to be the absolute everything,
and also do a redance that shows how much you've improved.
I don't know, guys, I wish they just had more
time to get their dancers to be on the best
level that we've seen the whole season, you know. With
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that said, let's get into the instant dancers. So first
up we had Alex and Val. They picked out the chutcher.
Bruno said, from week one to now, the transformation, the feet,
the hips absolutely incredible. Carrie Anne said she is blown away.
She rose to the occasion and that it was fantastic.
Derek said, shows how much you've learned the fact that
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you can go out and just be like I'm going
to do a chutcher and said the fringe pants were
a good choice.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
First thing.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I said, thank god for the fringe pants. They were
hiding her legs. There was a lot of bent leg
action on there, and so it gave her more action.
Her nose was not over her toes, her hips were
forward over her toes. And then the ending, I wasn't
so sure whether it was she was stuck on his
sleeve or if she forgot what the underturn was after
doing that leg swing. So there were a couple of
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things where I was like, it wasn't an amazing dance
from them.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Was it good?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, because she's gotten good over the season and they've
done great work, And yes, I think it showed improvement,
but I don't think it was a spectacular dance from them.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So the judges gave it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They thought it was spectacular, and the judges gave it
a ten ten ten. I, however, landed on a nine
for that chutcha all right. Next up we had Dylan
and Danny for the instant dance. They picked a foxtrot.
Carrie Anne said, your improvement is unbelievable. It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The heel leads and you were.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Leading like a leading man, and you know what he
really was leading through that.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I agree with that he had some lovely heel leads
in it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You could tell they were working on that technique very
true to what Danny has been working on this season.
Derek said, I'm in shock the control in your legs
and the ankles and the knees, the compression, the fluidity.
He said, he called this out as one of the
best male celebrity foxtrots on the show ever. I was
a bit shook at that statement. Now that's not to
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say that Dylan wasn't great or he didn't do a
good job. I think there were really good parts in it.
But you know, then we went and had Joey and
Jenna come out and do a tango and remind you,
like some of the male celeb contestants that we've had
come on the show, you know, James Hinchcliffe, Charlie White.
Do I say those just because their mine and I
remember them? I know there've been other spectacular male performances
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on the show before. I thought that was a really,
really big statement. But you know, he was really feeling it.
And to be fair, these judges have been right there
on the journey with these guys throughout the season in
the room watching them, and so maybe it felt that
way to Derek. Totally get it, but for me as
a viewer, I was like, I don't think so, I
can think of a few off the top of my head. However, agreed.
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He did have control in the ankle's, legs and knees
and it was very, very smooth, so much of an
improvement from the last time that we saw Dylan do
the foxtrot, and so I was really really impressed. And
you know what, I also feel like Danny choreographed to
the music. I love that song by the way that
they had the ordinary song, so there was a lot
about it to love. For me, I thought it was
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really impactful, but I didn't love it as much as
what the judges were saying. Bruno said, where did that
come from? Len would have absolutely loved it. You were
in total control. For me, I was like, okay, frame,
his frame started off so much better. Finally I was
seeing that left elbow in the proper position, not pulled forward,
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and his head was looking.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
More over his hand and not over his shoulder.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It didn't look look like he had a crick in
his neck, you know what I mean. It looked like
he was really hitting the right position. Now we lost
that part way through and his his head ended up
going you know, old habits die hard turning a little
too far left, but it did start off better. And
then I just said, he's just stuck in between when
he's not in frame, he's stuck in between his feet
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in second position, which is slightly slightly in a plea
but not so it's kind of in no man's land,
and he's not picking.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
One side or the other.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He never really mastered that how to drive through one
leg into a deep plea into a second and to
hit the lunge on the other side, or to find
those pictures. He would sometimes find them, but then the
elbow would pull back behind the ribs and it would
weaken it again, those elbows not being out and wide
and give him that strong, very very strong posture.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I just I feel like there was a lot that
felt a little.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Bit unfinished in it, and fair because again, six dances
they were rehearsing. I did, however, think they had lovely glide,
which is that ankle's knees power that we had Derek
talking about. So I really agree on that point. The
judges loved this dance. They gave it ten ten ten.
You guys, I was in between an eight to nine
and I didn't commit because I don't need to, but
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I was definitely in between eight to nine. I did
not think that this was the strongest of dancers. Again,
how could it be it being an instant dance.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Did I like watching it?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, because I love watching them dance, But if I'm
looking at a technical aspect on that judge's table, I
was in between an eight and nine for sure. Moving
right along, we are getting into Elaine and Alan. They
did a quick step, good Lord, an instant quick step.
Derek said, she's the quick step queen. Hard dance to do.
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There was a little misstep, but it was sensational. We
had Bruno say that it was classy and glam but
there were many footfaults, but she did well in spite
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And then we had Carrie Anne who said there was
some mineum a.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So everyone's calling out the little misstep, but love the
way that she carried herself and that it's the hardest
so far, Like stepping into that quick step was the
hardest so far for me. Yes, there was a misstep.
There was a misstep in the hops that was pretty significant.
But what also had me feeling this way is the
frame just looked low and wobbly, which made it look
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a little bit tired or not strong. And I really
do feel like this was just a very hard dance
for them to step into, and it overall just gave
it a bit of messiness that I don't think we've
seen from a lane in quite some time, or maybe ever.
To be honest with you, I don't love being so
hard on it because I love them and I love
watching her dance and seeing her go out there and
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give it everything.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But it was really tough. So we judges gave this
a nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was on an eight for a lane getting into
Robert and Whitney with the instant chatcha. So Bruno said,
so much cleaner, the foot placement, the placement, overall, the
finish just better. He is on fire. Carrie Anne said
she agrees with Bruno. It's but it's the partnership and
they did the work together and this was absolutely wonderful.
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There is something really special about this partnership and something
really special about Whitney in it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I saw this video on TikTok the other day and
it was Alfonso's voice and he was talking about how
that loss with Milo really broke something in Whitney and
that she had lost a little something in her and
she was never really quite the same after that, but
he feels like he's seeing it come back in her
this season. They're so beautiful because I relate to that.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
First of all, I'm so sorry that it was my
win that did that to Whitney, but an end at
the same time, I'm still proud of that win, and
at the same time, I relate to that feeling, you know.
There it was James Hinchcliff's season where I really truly
thought we had it and everyone thought we had it,
and that loss broke a little something in me. And
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it's that feeling of you have to understand, like that
season that wit had with Milo some of her best
work I've ever seen her do, and it's that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Feeling of God, well, what's the point.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I can give it absolutely everything and do absolutely everything,
and I still have no control and it still wasn't enough.
And that's a really hard heartbreak to get over because
it's your creativity, it's your heart, it's your soul, it's
just part of your identity. And I agree, take my
own personal part of that story out. I so agree,
and I see that in Whitney, and then I see
her in this season and it was just so beautiful,
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the way she speaks with Robert, the way she interacts
with him, even the way she said at some point
she wanted everything to be wonderful for him and she
has this little brother. A lot of the times we
can say these things on the show, but you really
feel when it's heartfelt and meant and genuine.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And I just have loved this partnership.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I think that's what carry Anne was trying to
refer to in her moments that she had to speak,
is that it's their partnership and that together they did
this work, and that every time they come out on
the floor it is wonderful. Derek said the rotation in
his hips, the check forward walks.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It was just absolutely so impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Now, for me, this was another one where I felt, Look,
I'm a big Robert and Whitney fan and have been,
and he's my fellow Ozzie, and I love everything about
their dancing, but this dance was not the one for me.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
There were mistakes. There were definite mistakes.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He was trying to go into the New Yorker a
whole bait too early, and you literally saw on camera
Whitney had to stop him and counting him in and
put him into.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It, and it all felt a little bit no man's land.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And again same with everyone a little bit because this
was the Instant Dance Challenge. It didn't feel as clean
and sharp or still had that performance quality because he
is still going to go out and give you all
of that, but it was still it was missing some
of his crispness, his timing. He was rushing his timing
a lot in this one. I was not sitting in
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the pocket. That is not something that we see from
Robert very often, and so I wasn't a lover of
this performance for him. I did say he's such a performer.
But then of course all the other notes that I mentioned.
Now this is where it got like interesting for me.
There were obvious mistakes in this, just like there was
a what seems to me an obvious mistake in Elanes
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and they all called it out, but no one called
it out in this dance, which I felt was really interesting,
and maybe from their angle because it was Robert's back
to them, they just didn't see it. But it was
very clear on camera, which was where I was watching
from backstage. So the judges gave this a ten.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Ten. Ten.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You guys, this is the biggest difference that I had
in the judges of the night. I gave this an eight.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I gave it an eight because it was it was a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Little messy, that the timing was being rushed, and because
of the mistakes that were made, and not because I
wasn't cheering for Robert, absolutely cheering for Robert to win,
but I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I couldn't go higher on it because of those things.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But again, from where the judges are sitting at that desk,
you know, maybe they didn't see the mistakes come up
and that it was, from their point of view, a
really great performance, because they obviously gave it a perfect score.
Getting straight into Jordan and Ezra, they did a tango.
This is a really Someone said it was the best
one for them to do. I felt like this was
a really tough one for them to draw. Okay, carry
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Anne said, this challenge is so hard. The body contact
was tight, the hold was nice and sharp, and the
spotting was tight, so her spots in her turns. Yes,
the body contact was really good with this is something
that they've battled against in their frame positions.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
They did a really good job. Ezra did a really
good job at working around that and working with their
height difference.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Their hold was as nice as it could be, I think,
but it wasn't as good as it had been in
the last tango. But carry Ane felt it was She
felt it was sharp, which definitely it was sharp.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Derek said it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Was strong, it was low, the leans and the pivots,
everything was great. He absolutely loved and Bruno said, fab
you loss a little moment that he has borrowed from
my fave mister Craig Revel Horward, who's he speaks in
syllables sometimes and that's what he'll say.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Fab you less for me, you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I the first thing I was like, this is just
such a hard dance for them to do with this height,
and not only that, but this type of challenge where
we're out we're seeing in my scores consistently. I don't
think they all delivered great performances, but I think they
were up against it and I think you're really seeing
that truly, these guys have to work hard to.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Get it where it gets to you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
On a Tuesday night, I think it was just biting
off more than they could chew, and they had to
at some point sacrifice something so they could get other
things better. So I felt it was just a little
bit rough. The body contact was great, the frame dropped
a little bit. It was yes, it was low. It
had a nice attack in the knees, but it just
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overall didn't feel clean, you know, it didn't feel crisp
and staccato. It had attack, but it was a bit
more of a messy attack, like just really going for
it instead of that really controlled staccato action. And so yeah,
I felt different to the judges. The judges gave this
a ten ten ten. I was noncommittal and landing between
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an eight and a nine. Let's get stuck into the freestyles.
Everybody's absolute favorite thing. Freestyle was always my favorite. A
freestyle for me has to be the perfect ending to
the journey that you've had.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I want some story in there. I want it to
mean something.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I want it to be absolutely tailor made for that
celebrity to be the perfect piece for them to shine,
to also show how much they've grown, how much that
partnership has come together. And I really feel like some
people absolutely crushed that or not. Oh you know what,
I think all of them did a fantastic job at that.
So we started off with Alex and Val. It was
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a passive doblaze slash I think tango inspired freestyle. Derek said,
she is a superstar. It was like an arena tour performance.
She has built her confidence a week after week and
she's He was giving her her flowers and just said
thank you, thank you for sharing that journey with us.
And we really have seen that in Alex, right, that
that girl that came out in week one, that was
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incredibly timid and even she said in her package she
didn't go up and hug vow. You know, there was
a definite resistance in her, or a shyness or an uncertainty.
And now we're seeing her out there, she's just like,
give me more, more and more and more. She can't
get enough of it. She's leaving it all on the
floor every single time, and it's been absolutely beautiful watching.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Her blossom and open like that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Bruno called her a she row and said that she
is the leader of the pack. Carrie Anne said she's
really touched by her and the way that she learned
and delivered these exquisite dances.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
She dances with her heart open.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
She feels very connected to the journey and told her
she's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think, you know, as Carrianne has referenced before, and
as I've mentioned.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Carrianne Carrin's like old school dancer, solid gold dancer, which
I think even Jordan referenced, But like that is that's
from an era that doesn't necessarily exist anymore in dancing,
where like how unbelievably hardcore it was and how hard
it was and how you just had to do it
feet bleeding or not. And I think we sort of
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see that in Alex and she very much didn't have
to be that person. She could have come in, she
could have been precious, she could have been all sorts
of things. But she zero of that, no attitude, no resistance,
just wants more, wants to be absolutely true to it
and give the respects to not only Vow, but the
show and the style that she's learning is unbelievable. So
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I've loved seeing a grow that way, and I feel
that that's what Krrien was talking about.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I loved this.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I thought at first, I was like, oh, Passo's a choice.
I don't know how I feel about it, but she
did it really really well. She was so clean, so sharp,
her performance quality in it giving face, which is something
she had to grow into over this season. I thought
it was amazing. I don't know that it's my favorite
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I've ever seen. I think energetically, I like things that
are either emotional or upbeat, right, but that is a
personal preference. But no notes, like no notes as far
as what she could have done differently or better.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's a stylistic thing. I think.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I do think Val created something amazing for her because
because Alex was really good at the passo and they
had a great dance, so he's tailoring it to her.
He's doing movement that looks good on her. He framed
it really well with everything else. I thought the hot
girl's moment at the back was like really cool to
add that in there. We got to see some sexy
from her, Like there was a lot to love about this.
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The judges gave it ten ten ten. I also gave
it a ten. I don't know what she could have
done differently or better. It was a really really solid
freestyle freestyle for Dylan and Danny Bruno said it was beautiful,
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it was poetic.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Get captured the quality of a dream.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Carrie Anne said, Dancing with the Stars is this epic
journey and no one is going to ever understand it
until they do it, and this dance was a beautiful
representation of that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I love that comment.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I thought that was really really nice, and I think
it speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It really is true.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
This is a journey that absolutely nobody will ever understand
until they are in it. Even the celebrities that join
the show, they're like, what can I expect? And then
they get to the end of it and they're like,
nobody could have prepared me, because you just don't know
until you're in it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Derek said it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
He has this really sincere kind, beautiful masculinity about him.
He was a wonderful partner for Danny and he just said,
I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I'm speechless now.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
When I heard that they were doing a contemporary slow,
I was like, Oh, is that the right choice for Dylan.
I don't know, but I think it was a beautiful
choice in the context of where everything sat.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It stood out it was on its own.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I thought the opening visual was beautiful with everyone on
the floor and the way that it was stunning. I
think that Dylan really gave some emotion in this. When
I heard, I was like, that's a love song, Like
what are we doing? But then Danny explains in the
package that it's he has fallen in love with dance
and she was representing dance, which she very much does
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to him, and something about this might be the last
time that our hearts are this close, or that our
hearts feel this way. It could be the last time
that he well, it is the last time he's ever
going to dance like that.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
You know, when else is he going to do it?
When he's climbing mountains? Like I thought.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It actually was a beautiful way to finish their journey,
so I you know what, I really appreciated it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So the visuals were great.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I love there was an overhead where like she first
of all, he lifted her as he was laying down,
she rolled down to the floor and then she like
swung around and then.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Swooped him in to her lap. Gorgeous gore, just no notes.
I loved this visual.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
When he got into like an arabesque and of course
his little flexed spread out toes foot was towards the
camera and I was like, no, don't do that. Wrong angle,
but we did see it and it was there. I
thought it was beautiful. Look, he did some gorgeous movement,
beautiful assisting in the lifts and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We got to the water and I was like, yes,
here we go. What do we got? I don't know
if it lived up to what I wanted it to be,
like was it? It was great?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
There were some really great moments in it, and I
think this comes down to them not having enough time
to maybe practice it and find what was epic. I
feel bad saying this about Danny's work because I absolutely
love Danny's work. I just think maybe there could have
been something else that we did in the water that
could have worked and really emphasized it instead of it
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looking like we're just trying to slap it up and
kick it up, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
And so I felt like.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, such a cool moment that was almost there, Like
we were almost there for me. But there was a
lot to love in it. So the judges absolutely loved this,
and I do agree with all of their comments about
him and his journey and him falling love with it.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It was poetic. It even made me emotional.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Like it really did hit the feels for me, especially
understanding what Danny was representing and seeing how emotional they
were in their package. I just get emotional with these things.
So the judges gave this.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
A ten ten ten.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I however, landed on a nine for it, not because
I didn't love it, but because it just just missed
the mark for me of being something spectacular. And we
are talking about finale, we are talking about freestyle, and
I really want it to be all the things you know,
and it was so close getting into Alan and Elaine freestyle.
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Let's talk about all the things carry Anne said, reference
her bringing other people into her freestyle really shines a
spotlight on.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Like who she is as a person.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
She's just sharing that spotlight, which I thought that was
really sweet. She said she was lost for words, No,
she was lost for its. Sorry, she was stumbling to
try and find something to say, but she was pretty
much lost for words. And she just said it was
wonderful and she loved it. Derek said, in the beginning
he had said to her, let this journey begin, and
now he said that the journey is complete. He is
so incredibly proud of her. Bravo Bruno said, you've got it.
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Reference to the song being I hope I get it.
Delicious played to her strengths fantastic from day one. Agreed
Delicious played to her strength absolutely from fantastic from day one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I said, oh I love it. Oh I'm obsessed. Wow, no,
notes perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
This was the most spectacular way to see her end
her journey. It was everything that was comfortable on her body.
She was animated, she was acting, it was true to her.
It was almost almost about her.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
And it was beautiful seeing her and Alan in it.
I loved everything. This was chef's kiss for me. This
was a chef kiss freestyle. Well done, Alan, well done
a Lane. I have loved your journey. The judges gave
this a ten ten ten. I gave this a ten,
and then I circled that ten like three times because
I was like, yes, that is like the top top
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top ten plus plus on that spectrum of a ten.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
She's at the top of that. Robert and Whitney's freestyle.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Okay, before we even get into the judges, that package
was playing. And then it broke me, broke me in
all capital letters when he just said I wish he
could see it.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
No, I'm going to get a emential emotional now saying
it no.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
When he said I wish he could see it about
his dad, I just lost it and I was.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
And thank god they did an upbeat, something fun and
Whitney did a really great job of bringing that song.
My father told me right in the middle and just
had a little hint to a moment of something an
ode to Steve.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I love the way that she tied that in into
a piece that was high energy and upbeat that is
so tailored for rob it. But then we just had
that little nod in the middle. Ough spectacular. The judge
is Derek said he could barely contain his emotions because
obviously he's so very close with them. Remember you at
eleven years old and now tonight you're a dancer, your
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legacy as an example of how to move through life.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
He complimented it.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Basically, he is they are that whole Irwin family. There's
something spectacular about them, something special. Thank god they are here.
Thank God we had Bindi share her journey and now
we've had Robert share his. This was beautiful. Bruno said,
he sees you, he sees you your dad sees you.
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And that was a twenty four Carrot Gold performance. Referencing
the song Carry Anne basically said, please accept our love,
and everyone in this room is a consolation because there
is so much love for you, which there is. I mean,
there's something beautiful about Robert. Many people try and portray
what Robert does, but it doesn't feel genuine. And I
think it is the same with Bindi, and I think
some people in the beginning with Bindi didn't quite know
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if it was.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Real or not, and maybe they even feel that way
about Robert.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
But as someone that knows that family and watching them,
it is absolutely genuine.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
This is their legacy. This is who they are. They
are those people.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
That excitement, that love, that wonder that everything that you
see on them, that deep gratitude just for every moment
of existence. It is real and it is as Carrie
Anne said earlier in the season, it's a testament to
Terry in the way that she's raised them.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
It's so unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Now, the fact that both of them can dance, that's
some freaky stuff that I don't understand, Like I don't.
They just have these beautiful gifts and ways of connecting
with people and apparently ways of connecting with their body
and doing some crazy stuff with it. Because this was
a very, very impressive freestyle. There was a fabulous trick
at the beginning. I was like, yes, face, how amazing
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is that? The father told me moment which I felt
was really really special. I love the way she created
it and genuinely just another chef's kiss. I thought this
was beautifully crafted for Robert. I think he nailed every
single bit of it. I didn't see him miss a beat.
It was another demanding routine, Like think about what he
had to take on for this entire week.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Not only is he rehearsing those other dances.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And that's why his chutch I didn't look so great,
right because you obviously focused on the other ones. Quickstep
was really great, so much content, so much going on
in there to really get down, and then this one
that is a lot, you guys, that is so much
to take on, and he did such a fantastic job.
I can't imagine how unbelievably tired they are, all of
the couples. But it was a real feat and he
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did it. He absolutely went out there and he crushed it.
He didn't miss abeat. I feel like he nailed the tricks,
he nailed the performance. As always, his timing was good
in this one. I really think that it was the
perfect end to his journey on Dancing with the Stars.
As far as their final dance, I loved it. I mean, listen,
you can already guess the scores. Judges gave it ten
to ten. I also landed on a ten coming up
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to the final performance of the entire season, saving Jordan
and Ezra for last. The first thing I wrote was, oh,
I was like, oh my gosh, She's coming out fierce
and this is absolutely in her element. Bruno said, incredible
showstop A Queen Bee would be proud.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Loved it.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Carrie Anne said, you are a powerful woman of color,
and you show them how it's done. Best freestyle ever
in twenty seasons. I think she meant twenty years do
I think? I mean, listen again, Artists objective, It is
everyone's opinion, and this is definitely up Carrie Anne's alley
with it being so fierce and powerful woman, so I
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see how she got there. I don't know that it's
the best freestyle I've ever seen, but I do think
it was impactful and I do think it was beautifully
tailored for her, and I think Ezra did a great job.
Derek said, incredible, powerful, explosive. It was everything I said.
It was so so great for her. It was so fierce.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
She was in her element. Normani came out. Now did
I like that? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think I would have preferred that Normani came out
with the mic and we had a hint of her
in the background, but I don't know that I needed Normany.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
To dance with her.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Was it fierce, Yeah, but I wanted it to just
be about Jordan, you know, because she was so fierce
and in her elements. So I don't know that I
would have done that the same way. But that might
have just been a production thing, not even an Ezra thing.
Or maybe for Jordan, she was like, heck, yeah, I
want Normany dancing with me, you know, and they had
that moment with each other.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
So I'd never want to take that away from her, But.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
As a viewer, I kind of wish that it was
a little bit more about her and not bringing in
like surprise guests like that, like when you see Elaine
and she had surprise guests that was cool, but it
was still very much about Elaine.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
But I think this moment, I don't know personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Am I wrong as I'm saying, and I'm doubting myself,
but I'm not sure that I loved it Normaney coming
out now, no notes as far as taking points off,
that's just a creative thing. I thought it was a
fantastic dance, and again Ezra created something absolutely perfectly tailored,
like that attitude she was giving in the beginning, that
guts that she has, and that absolute fierceness that she has. Yes,
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like I thought, it was absolutely spectacular, and She's gonna
look at this dance in all the years to come
and be so unbelievably proud of it. Maybe it will
be her favorite one yet because it was just so
iconically her. And I do think that Beyonce Normani like proud,
super super proud to have their music be a part
of that moment. Judges gave it a ten ten ten.
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I also gave it a ten. Wow, you guys, what
a season. What a freaking season. We had more votes
than ever, more viewers than ever. The show is coming
back in full force and getting as flowers. We also
celebrated twenty years of Dancing with the Stars. It has
been an absolute gift to be a spectator for it, honestly,
(46:52):
And I watched what these guys do, and I watch
what these kids do out there, and I'm just so
in awe of them.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
You know, they are this new and younger generation.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Every time I'm on set or do a press line
or at the twentieth anniversary, everyone says, when are you
coming back?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Would you come back as a pro? And my answer
is the same.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
It's like, never say never, But I honestly love what
this generation of pros are doing. And also, guys, their
workload is unbelievable now, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Not only are they doing all the demand.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Of the dancers, it's all the tiktoks in rehearsal and
all of those things now are just important as doing
the work because look at how many votes it's generating.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
It really is so.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Interesting the way that it has shifted and moved with
the times. It's beautiful, not even interesting, it's beautiful how
it's shifted.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
And moved with the times.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I mean, TikTok was always meant to be the best
fit for Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
How will we not going viral years.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Prior, But somehow that magic formula has happened, and that
is through Dina Cats and casting and Conrad Green in direction,
and you know, the social media teams really like clocking
onto it and putting an importance on it. And of
course the addition I think of Ezra and Riley a
couple of seasons back and seeing it grow into this
version now is really beautiful. So would I love to
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be a part of it? Heck yeah, do I know
if I could even keep up with everyone anymore?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
They are so fierce and wonderful and what they create
is so spectacular. Robert and Whitney obviously won, and I,
you know, standing on the edge, we all ran in.
We were on the edge of the ballroom. We standing
there with Max and Peter, not not too far behind
where the mirror ball was, with Joey and Jen, and
we had no idea what way it was going to go,
because I think Robert was down a point than Alex,
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so we had no idea and figured it was going
to be really tight in votes.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
I think it could have been anybody's, but it did.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It went to Robert and Whitney, and it was beautiful
to see Whitney get her trophy. And I think she
wrote in her Instagram posts that eleven years ago to
the day she won her first MIRRORBA with Alfonso, and
eleven years later to the day, Alfonso is the one
handing her her second. I think that is just absolutely amazing.
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It's beautiful to watch all of them do their thing.
It's beautiful to see you guys fall in love with
it more and more to hear your feedback on it.
Even those of you that passionately have things to say
that make you unhappy. It's all part of it, you know,
And I love your passion for the show.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Thank you so much for hanging with me on in
the fourth chair.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Thank you Danielle Fischer for giving me this platform to
do this.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
This was so very fun.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I've loved being a part of this and bringing this
to you guys every week. And I've certainly loved seeing
the feedback as far as helping you understand what the
judges are saying and meaning, helping you understand why the
scoring might be that way, or how the scoring even works,
or technical aspects of a dance. I've always loved being
a teacher of love, being a coach and doing it
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in this way has actually been really really fun. Just
quickly before we go, guys, I just want to say,
and I've got my guys Zany here with me.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
We want to say Happy Thanksgiving, right, you want to
say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone? No?
Speaker 1 (50:07):
No, well, happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope
you have an amazing day filled with all the things.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
And that's it from us. I guess we'll see you
on the next one at some point. Bye.
And now welcome to the ballroom in the fourth judges chair.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It Shanna Burgess.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up, everybody, Welcome to the final episode of Shanna
Burgess in the fourth Chair. I cannot believe we just
had the finale of Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It was eleven weeks this year. It was a jam
pack season. It was an amazing season.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The casting was on point, so so incredible, and what
a night it was. I was there, I wasn't in
the ballroom. I stayed backstage because you can just see
so much more. I wanted to see everybody. But we
have so much to get through, so let's just get
stuck into it, shall we. We opened up with Alex
and Val doing a samba. Carrie Anne said, that is
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the way that you start the show. It had all
of the content in it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
She really has learned to develop her own.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Style over the course of this season, so refined and fierce,
and that she performed.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
The absolute heck out of it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So no real dance notes in there, but I absolutely agree.
You know, I've said before, I wasn't that big of
a fan of Alex in the beginning, feeling like it
was very timid and I just wanted more and could
see she could do it, but it wasn't there. And
I think that's what we're saying here. She's developed her
own styles. She's now refined in fierce. You can really
see that connection between her and VOW one hundred percent
agree with carry Anne's comments. Derek said, it was so good,
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such a hard dance to get that proper rotation in
the crusadis walks, the stationary walks of samba rolls, really
calling out some key technical steps there that are in
our technique book that you want to get in She
really did do them well. I feel like we could
have done more in the rotation, but we'll get back
to that. And then Bruno said it was incandescent. Always
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a great dancer, but now she is a performer and
a star. So I love those comments from the judges.
You can really tell like, where are the finale here,
and everyone has done such a great job. We're really
trying to give everyone their flowers at the same time
as giving them a critique. So I appreciate there was
a lot of positivity.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
In the night.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
For me, however, I felt that she was fractionally back
at times, which meant her hips felt like they were
over her toes and her head weight was behind her hips,
which made it feel once again like Vow was sort
of moving her instead of her moving her. And I
actually felt that we needed more hip rotation in there
in those very specific crisatis walks. So they're in a
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shadow position, which is where they're both facing the same
way in an open shadow frame, and they're doing these walks.
I think it was diagonally along the floor.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Now, fringe pants is going.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To do a lot of the work for you, so
maybe it masked it, maybe it looked like it was there,
But for me in watching it, I actually felt like
we could have had more rotation in the hips in
those points, and a couple of other ones in the
samba steps. But I do feel like they had a
good flow. They had a nice bounce action her arms
and her lines. There was so much in it to love.
I really did think it was fabulous from her, but
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there were those two key things that I felt were missing.
The judges opened up with a perfect score. We gave
it a ten ten ten. I ended up giving it
a nine.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Moving on to Dylan and.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Danny's first dance, they had a passa dob Lay. Let's
get into Bruno. He complimented the body. I'm pretty sure
he was complimenting both Dylan's body, which is very beautifully sculpted,
and also the shaping that he was doing in his body,
because he then went on to say beautiful shapes and
he loved it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was really blown away by this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I feel like he was quite surprised with how it
came to and maybe that's because.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He was in the room with them doing the work
and he probably.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Didn't see the fruits of that labor until really in
show night.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And that might tell us a little bit about Dylan.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right that he really works his butt off throughout those
rehearsals and where it starts is so far from where
it finishes in a good way.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
And then we move into carry Anne.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
She said, how far you've come is absolutely incredible. Some
of the shaping was great, but their hands were bugging her.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
We're going to get back to that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And Derek said his improvement is so incredible. He agreed
with that. The knee walks were so powerful, incredible shaping. Yes,
it did need a bit more stretch, and yeah, really
said to Danny that she's quite a moment maker, which
absolutely is true for Danny. She creates incredible, memorable moments
in her routines. So for me, listen, passo is a
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tough dance.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It can be. It really should be the man's dance.
It is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You want to have that dominance, that alpherness about you
in this dance.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That matador.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't know that that is necessarily Dylan's energy. You know,
he is who he is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
He has his own type of masculinity, which Derek references
later in the show. But on the technical side of things,
the first thing that I wrote was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That his arms don't develop.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So what you notice, and I think this leads into
the hands that carry Anne was talking about.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The hands were sort of like paddles in.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The wind, and he would have the general shape of
what was happening with his arm and it would just
sort of wave around instead of developing from somewhere to
get there, which a gives it speed.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And more dynamics.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And so that's why it's confusing when you watch him,
because you're like, no, now it's clean and it's placed,
but they're sort of two placed and just moving around
instead of developing into the shape. And then developing out
of it, which gives us again those dynamics, and so
I really felt that. I also felt that his elbows
were too low, which was weakening our posture, which has
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been something for me for him through the whole season.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And there was a moment in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
There where I wrote a big shouty capital letter okay
and exclamation points. I'm gonna guess that that was the
knee walks. I did feel that his feet were a
little bit messy. I do think that he had fantastic
passad obla posture, which is where we lift that center
up higher more aiming for pretending that our legs go
all the way up to our sternum. This is when
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you really do want your hips over your toes, not
your nose over your toes.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So I felt like his passo posture was really great.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You could see he really worked on that, but overall,
I just felt that it was missing some of the attack.
It felt a little bit slow, if I'm honest with you,
for a passadoblay, and I really I don't know if
this has been a thing with his arms the whole season.
It might have just dropped in and made sense for
me about the fact that they're not developing, and that's
why it's always felt a little bit soft. But for
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those things, it really stuck out as not his strongest
dance to come out the gate with on the finale,
So the judges gave it a nine to nine. Bruno
was wowed. He gave it a ten. I landed on
an eight, crossing.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right over into Elaine and Alan doing a rumber.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now rumber is a hard dance to do in a finale.
She is beautiful, she has beautiful quality of movement, so
it could always have been a really good one for her.
Let's see what the judges said first. So Derek said,
you're an amazing dancer and performer. The triple turn into
a fan, lovely texture, She's had a beautiful season. Congratulated
on their body of work. She has had a beautiful season.
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She's always had great texture in her arms and in
her emotion, in her body, in her chest.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So I do agree with that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And her turn's always been fabulous. That has stuck with
her from her dance background when she was younger.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That never left her.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Her turns I think have been better than anyone else's
in the season.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Really spectacular. What they've been able to do with those.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Bruno said, she's pure class, a perfect balance of sensuality
and elegance. It was the fluidity and the smoothness. It
was like silk, a perfect interpretation of the rumba lovely comments.
I do feel that it was a gorgeous balance of
sensuality and elegance.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
She really bought who she is to it her.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I don't mean maturity in age, I mean emotional maturity
and groundedness and just like beautiful seeing a grown woman
doing a dance like this, you know, there's something that
felt very real and natural for her.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I loved that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Carrie Anne said she's been waiting for this dance for her,
It's more than just steps.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's what you do with the in between is it was?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was exquisite, and she thanked Alan for the choreography
and giving Elane that moment.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Agreed. I think that sort of leads into what.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I just said about that grown womanness about her.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know that she brought herself to it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It was really beautiful to watch her out there doing
this dance. Now, getting into a technical standpoint, I know
that we come up against things with Elaine in her body,
from her accident, and so again I have to reiterate,
I don't know if these things are fixable or not,
but for me.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The legs were not straight.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And in rumba we have a very very prominent straight
leg action. That foot has to develop the leg and
the foot has to drag through it pulls through bent
and then it develops and slides through onto that straight leg,
just like we do on chutchya, but it's slower and
you really really really want to see the development of that,
the pushing the weight onto the foot, those two straight
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legs for as long as possible and then snapping them
through again. So we missed the straight leg action in
the rumba, and so because and it also did feel
that she wasn't settling into her hips, so we were
missing some of that hip rotation and the snap. And
I think you could see Derek sort of working on
that a little bit in the start as far as
the rotation the hips, getting that snap into it, but
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it just didn't land.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
For me.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It all felt a little bit square, lacking in the
hip rotation, lacking in that straight leg action for a rumba. Now,
when we go up top and we look hips up
spectacular she is a spectacular performer. The texture in her
it was ten plus plus when you look up top,
the movement, the energy, the emotion, the arms, the absolute
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texture and beauty that she had in it flawless. But
unfortunately for me, when I looked down and got into
the floor, it just wasn't grounded and all those things
that I mentioned before about the technical sides of it,
so I felt like this was a hard dance for her.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Now. The judges gave it a ten ten ten.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I was leaning in between an eight and nine, but
I did land on a nine because so much of
it was beautiful. I know she can't use her feet
the way that I would want her to because of
the metal in them, and so I'm sure that played
into the fact that she couldn't do some of the
things I'm asking for with her legs, but I do
need to see it so and there was so much
else about it to love that all those things considered,
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I landed on a nine for a lane moving into
Robert and Whitney doing a quick step. Derek said it
was crisp, it was clean, the frame, this was strong,
it was fantastic, and he congratulated Whitney on phenomenal choreography
and the job that she's done this season. Bruno said
the footwork was nimble and called the whole dance powerful.
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Carry Anne said it was amazing, but she did call
out the kip up timing. For me, the first thing,
I was like, Wow, what a routine. This was spectacular
from Whitney. It was ballsy, it was. It really was
a lot of content, and by content, I don't just
mean specific to quick step content. It was changing rhythms,
it was the floor work, it was it was a
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very demanding routine. Now did it suit Rob it absolutely
because he's the greatest showman. Honestly, his performance quality is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
In what he delivers out on that floor.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I felt personally on the technical side of things, yes,
the kip up was.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
A whole beaten half basically, or a whole beat.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Off the two beats one beat. It depends on how
you sort of count quickstep. There was a couple things,
so yes, yes, yes, yes, the kip up was off.
We saw that that was a timing mistake. I felt
that his frame was sometimes really really good, really good
in the way that Derek Hauld worked on it and
him like stretching out into his window. And then other
times when we're going into the pivots or other things
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that would rotate that left elbow that was pushing forward,
and it was just rounding his back off a little
too much for me. So I would love to have
seen consistency and pulling that elbow back. And then at
the end I didn't know if she got caught in
his wrist or what was going on. But the prep
into the lean, now, this isn't necessarily that anything went wrong.
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It was just a bit of an eggy moment for
me in the choreography. And I don't mean that to
Shade Whitney. I absolutely loved this routine. But sometimes things
work and sometime things don't. We know that, right, and
for me, that prep into the lean down for a
moment like that, to be spectacular, you have to not
see the prep, and it was sort of like we
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saw them grab on and go, team go, and we're
going to do this, and then it didn't necessarily give
the payoff at the end, I think for so much
of a setup, so it kind of took me out
of it a bit, if I'm honest with you. So
I let judges carry Anne went a nine because of
the timing issue on the kip up. Also, oh my god,
by the Whitney does kip ups in heels.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That woman is just ridiculous. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Back to the scores, Carrine gave it a nine and
Derek and Bruno landed on at ten, so nine to
ten ten from the judges.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I also landed on a nine.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Getting into Jordan and Ezra another passadobly for the night.
I mean, I love watching them dance. I think they've
also had a really incredible season. We have Carrianne that
said it was so intense, there was so much attack,
but she feels there was too much attack in the
beginning of it, which is interesting. I feel I don't
necessarily know, but I can understand. I think, oh, if
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I'm trying to remember, I wonder if I feel like
it lost a little bit of steam part way through.
I think it was a fierce dance from her. I
did love the attack, but I think I don't actually
know where Kerrian was referencing there. I'm trying to find it,
but I'm not actually finding it. I'm not saying it
wasn't there, but I'm just not remembering it from when
I saw it last night. Let me know in the
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comments if you understand what she was saying. Moving into Derek,
he said, you did it strong, fierce, powerful, clean. It
had all the content, which it totally had, all of
that passive dobel a content that you want to look for.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There was some nice stretching in it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And Derek also congratulated Ezra on his very first finale,
congratulations as what a body of work you have done already.
It's beautiful. Moving in to Bruno, he said, the power
and the focus, She's like a Queen of the Amazon.
She just goes for It was so much determination. I
think we can definitely say that about Jordan. She's always
got that beautiful determination that absolutely singularly focused on the
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job at hand, and I absolutely love that about her.
And I think it worked for this dance too. For
me how I felt about it, I would have just
loved more stretch in this one. You know, it was good,
but I feel like Jordan. We had this comment earlier
in the season for Robert, and I'm not sure if
I set it for Jordan as well, but I do
feel it in this dance. Sometimes things get cut a
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little bit short, and maybe it has to do with like,
she's so incredibly strong and she hits things beautifully and
so hard, but I would love to see the fluidity
in a little bit more like actually seeing that texture
and that stretch out to the ends of it for
it to bounce back. It's not that she doesn't do
the never stop moving, always be breathing somewhere in it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It's just I feel like I wish there was a
little bit more.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Resistance in it, so it stretched a little bit further
beyond its point and then it snapped into something because
I really did feel she had nice shapes, but I
wanted more stretch out of them. But I did think
that content was absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We landed with a nine to.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Ten ten from the judges carry On giving it a nine,
Bruno and Derek giving it tens. I also landed on
a nine getting into the very first of the instant dance. Now,
let me let me say that I this was a
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hard call. I probably should have said this at the
very start of this episode, but before we move into
the instance, this finale was a really hard call for
our pros and our celebrities. Three hours three dancers, one
of them being an instant dance, which, by the way,
that means those four dances that they had on the
table and they didn't know which one they were going
to get, they were rehearsing all four of them throughout
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the week, so they were rehearsing six dances this week
so they could perform three of them. That is, I
think that is a different level to what we've ever
done on the show, or at least it sounds more
dramatic than I have.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Ever experienced on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That and it's also the eleventh week of the season.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
They've had a really intense few weeks leading.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Up to it. It just they were exhausted, is what
I'm trying to say. They are exhausted. I don't know
if it was an amazing choice to have this much
pressure on them, because I do feel and as you'll
have noticed in my critiques of the dances previously, I
love them all, but things were missing. And that is
only because they had less time to work on them,
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not because they're not capable of it, not because these
pros weren't trying to do it, not because the celebrities
just couldn't get it, but because they had very restricted
time on how to on getting all of that these
things together. Six dancers, you guys, they were having six
dances for the one show. I don't know if I
love it. Look again, we've got to try things, and
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the network is like, this show is crushing it, and
the network ABC is probably like, let's do three hours
and see how we go. My opinion, lovingly and with respect.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If we were
going to do three hours, you know what I would
have loved. I would have loved more journey packages and story,
bring on an artist performance to sing us an emotional song,
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like we had great performances. I do think we had
some really fun moments throughout the show with those three hours,
but I think we could have done more with it
in terms of our journey packaging and recapping the season
for people a little bit more. There could have been
more emotional points that we could have hit instead of
just exhausting our talents so much. So that's my two
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cents worth, you know, And it's no shade to the show.
We absolutely have to try things, and I love that
they tried it, and it's because the show is doing
so well and it's absolutely crushing it, and so is
everyone on the team. But I don't know if I
loved this choice coming from being a pro dancer.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now, I don't know that I would have loved.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Being in that situation of rehearsing six dancers, when you're
trying to do your best work, when you're trying to
create a freestyle that is going to be the absolute everything,
and also do a redance that shows how much you've improved.
I don't know, guys, I wish they just had more
time to get their dancers to be on the best
level that we've seen the whole season, you know. With
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that said, let's get into the instant dancers. So first
up we had Alex and Val. They picked out the chutcher.
Bruno said, from week one to now, the transformation, the feet,
the hips absolutely incredible. Carrie Anne said she is blown away.
She rose to the occasion and that it was fantastic.
Derek said, shows how much you've learned the fact that
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you can go out and just be like I'm going
to do a chutcher and said the fringe pants were
a good choice.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
First thing.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I said, thank god for the fringe pants. They were
hiding her legs. There was a lot of bent leg
action on there, and so it gave her more action.
Her nose was not over her toes, her hips were
forward over her toes. And then the ending, I wasn't
so sure whether it was she was stuck on his
sleeve or if she forgot what the underturn was after
doing that leg swing. So there were a couple of
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things where I was like, it wasn't an amazing dance
from them.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Was it good?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, because she's gotten good over the season and they've
done great work, And yes, I think it showed improvement,
but I don't think it was a spectacular dance from them.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
So the judges gave it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They thought it was spectacular, and the judges gave it
a ten ten ten. I, however, landed on a nine
for that chutcha all right. Next up we had Dylan
and Danny for the instant dance. They picked a foxtrot.
Carrie Anne said, your improvement is unbelievable. It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The heel leads and you were.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Leading like a leading man, and you know what he
really was leading through that.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I agree with that he had some lovely heel leads
in it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You could tell they were working on that technique very
true to what Danny has been working on this season.
Derek said, I'm in shock the control in your legs
and the ankles and the knees, the compression, the fluidity.
He said, he called this out as one of the
best male celebrity foxtrots on the show ever. I was
a bit shook at that statement. Now that's not to
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say that Dylan wasn't great or he didn't do a
good job. I think there were really good parts in it.
But you know, then we went and had Joey and
Jenna come out and do a tango and remind you,
like some of the male celeb contestants that we've had
come on the show, you know, James Hinchcliffe, Charlie White.
Do I say those just because their mine and I
remember them? I know there've been other spectacular male performances
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on the show before. I thought that was a really,
really big statement. But you know, he was really feeling it.
And to be fair, these judges have been right there
on the journey with these guys throughout the season in
the room watching them, and so maybe it felt that
way to Derek. Totally get it, but for me as
a viewer, I was like, I don't think so, I
can think of a few off the top of my head. However, agreed.
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He did have control in the ankle's, legs and knees
and it was very, very smooth, so much of an
improvement from the last time that we saw Dylan do
the foxtrot, and so I was really really impressed. And
you know what, I also feel like Danny choreographed to
the music. I love that song by the way that
they had the ordinary song, so there was a lot
about it to love. For me, I thought it was
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really impactful, but I didn't love it as much as
what the judges were saying. Bruno said, where did that
come from? Len would have absolutely loved it. You were
in total control. For me, I was like, okay, frame,
his frame started off so much better. Finally I was
seeing that left elbow in the proper position, not pulled forward,
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and his head was looking.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
More over his hand and not over his shoulder.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It didn't look look like he had a crick in
his neck, you know what I mean. It looked like
he was really hitting the right position. Now we lost
that part way through and his his head ended up
going you know, old habits die hard turning a little
too far left, but it did start off better. And
then I just said, he's just stuck in between when
he's not in frame, he's stuck in between his feet
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in second position, which is slightly slightly in a plea
but not so it's kind of in no man's land,
and he's not picking.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
One side or the other.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He never really mastered that how to drive through one
leg into a deep plea into a second and to
hit the lunge on the other side, or to find
those pictures. He would sometimes find them, but then the
elbow would pull back behind the ribs and it would
weaken it again, those elbows not being out and wide
and give him that strong, very very strong posture.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I just I feel like there was a lot that
felt a little.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Bit unfinished in it, and fair because again, six dances
they were rehearsing. I did, however, think they had lovely glide,
which is that ankle's knees power that we had Derek
talking about. So I really agree on that point. The
judges loved this dance. They gave it ten ten ten.
You guys, I was in between an eight to nine
and I didn't commit because I don't need to, but
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I was definitely in between eight to nine. I did
not think that this was the strongest of dancers. Again,
how could it be it being an instant dance.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Did I like watching it?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, because I love watching them dance, But if I'm
looking at a technical aspect on that judge's table, I
was in between an eight and nine for sure. Moving
right along, we are getting into Elaine and Alan. They
did a quick step, good Lord, an instant quick step.
Derek said, she's the quick step queen. Hard dance to do.
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There was a little misstep, but it was sensational. We
had Bruno say that it was classy and glam but
there were many footfaults, but she did well in spite
of it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And then we had Carrie Anne who said there was
some mineum a.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So everyone's calling out the little misstep, but love the
way that she carried herself and that it's the hardest
so far, Like stepping into that quick step was the
hardest so far for me. Yes, there was a misstep.
There was a misstep in the hops that was pretty significant.
But what also had me feeling this way is the
frame just looked low and wobbly, which made it look
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a little bit tired or not strong. And I really
do feel like this was just a very hard dance
for them to step into, and it overall just gave
it a bit of messiness that I don't think we've
seen from a lane in quite some time, or maybe ever.
To be honest with you, I don't love being so
hard on it because I love them and I love
watching her dance and seeing her go out there and
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give it everything.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But it was really tough. So we judges gave this
a nine to ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was on an eight for a lane getting into
Robert and Whitney with the instant chatcha. So Bruno said,
so much cleaner, the foot placement, the placement, overall, the
finish just better. He is on fire. Carrie Anne said
she agrees with Bruno. It's but it's the partnership and
they did the work together and this was absolutely wonderful.
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There is something really special about this partnership and something
really special about Whitney in it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I saw this video on TikTok the other day and
it was Alfonso's voice and he was talking about how
that loss with Milo really broke something in Whitney and
that she had lost a little something in her and
she was never really quite the same after that, but
he feels like he's seeing it come back in her
this season. They're so beautiful because I relate to that.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
First of all, I'm so sorry that it was my
win that did that to Whitney, but an end at
the same time, I'm still proud of that win, and
at the same time, I relate to that feeling, you know.
There it was James Hinchcliff's season where I really truly
thought we had it and everyone thought we had it,
and that loss broke a little something in me. And
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it's that feeling of you have to understand, like that
season that wit had with Milo some of her best
work I've ever seen her do, and it's that.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Feeling of God, well, what's the point.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I can give it absolutely everything and do absolutely everything,
and I still have no control and it still wasn't enough.
And that's a really hard heartbreak to get over because
it's your creativity, it's your heart, it's your soul, it's
just part of your identity. And I agree, take my
own personal part of that story out. I so agree,
and I see that in Whitney, and then I see
her in this season and it was just so beautiful,
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the way she speaks with Robert, the way she interacts
with him, even the way she said at some point
she wanted everything to be wonderful for him and she
has this little brother. A lot of the times we
can say these things on the show, but you really
feel when it's heartfelt and meant and genuine.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And I just have loved this partnership.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I think that's what carry Anne was trying to
refer to in her moments that she had to speak,
is that it's their partnership and that together they did
this work, and that every time they come out on
the floor it is wonderful. Derek said the rotation in
his hips, the check forward walks.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
It was just absolutely so impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Now, for me, this was another one where I felt, Look,
I'm a big Robert and Whitney fan and have been,
and he's my fellow Ozzie, and I love everything about
their dancing, but this dance was not the one for me.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
There were mistakes. There were definite mistakes.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
He was trying to go into the New Yorker a
whole bait too early, and you literally saw on camera
Whitney had to stop him and counting him in and
put him into.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It, and it all felt a little bit no man's land.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And again same with everyone a little bit because this
was the Instant Dance Challenge. It didn't feel as clean
and sharp or still had that performance quality because he
is still going to go out and give you all
of that, but it was still it was missing some
of his crispness, his timing. He was rushing his timing
a lot in this one. I was not sitting in
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the pocket. That is not something that we see from
Robert very often, and so I wasn't a lover of
this performance for him. I did say he's such a performer.
But then of course all the other notes that I mentioned.
Now this is where it got like interesting for me.
There were obvious mistakes in this, just like there was
a what seems to me an obvious mistake in Elanes
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and they all called it out, but no one called
it out in this dance, which I felt was really interesting,
and maybe from their angle because it was Robert's back
to them, they just didn't see it. But it was
very clear on camera, which was where I was watching
from backstage. So the judges gave this a ten.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Ten. Ten.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You guys, this is the biggest difference that I had
in the judges of the night. I gave this an eight.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I gave it an eight because it was it was a.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Little messy, that the timing was being rushed, and because
of the mistakes that were made, and not because I
wasn't cheering for Robert, absolutely cheering for Robert to win,
but I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I couldn't go higher on it because of those things.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
But again, from where the judges are sitting at that desk,
you know, maybe they didn't see the mistakes come up
and that it was, from their point of view, a
really great performance, because they obviously gave it a perfect score.
Getting straight into Jordan and Ezra, they did a tango.
This is a really Someone said it was the best
one for them to do. I felt like this was
a really tough one for them to draw. Okay, carry
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Anne said, this challenge is so hard. The body contact
was tight, the hold was nice and sharp, and the
spotting was tight, so her spots in her turns. Yes,
the body contact was really good with this is something
that they've battled against in their frame positions.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
They did a really good job. Ezra did a really
good job at working around that and working with their
height difference.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Their hold was as nice as it could be, I think,
but it wasn't as good as it had been in
the last tango. But carry Ane felt it was She
felt it was sharp, which definitely it was sharp.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Derek said it.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Was strong, it was low, the leans and the pivots,
everything was great. He absolutely loved and Bruno said, fab
you loss a little moment that he has borrowed from
my fave mister Craig Revel Horward, who's he speaks in
syllables sometimes and that's what he'll say.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Fab you less for me, you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I the first thing I was like, this is just
such a hard dance for them to do with this height,
and not only that, but this type of challenge where
we're out we're seeing in my scores consistently. I don't
think they all delivered great performances, but I think they
were up against it and I think you're really seeing
that truly, these guys have to work hard to.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Get it where it gets to you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
On a Tuesday night, I think it was just biting
off more than they could chew, and they had to
at some point sacrifice something so they could get other
things better. So I felt it was just a little
bit rough. The body contact was great, the frame dropped
a little bit. It was yes, it was low. It
had a nice attack in the knees, but it just
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overall didn't feel clean, you know, it didn't feel crisp
and staccato. It had attack, but it was a bit
more of a messy attack, like just really going for
it instead of that really controlled staccato action. And so yeah,
I felt different to the judges. The judges gave this
a ten ten ten. I was noncommittal and landing between
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an eight and a nine. Let's get stuck into the freestyles.
Everybody's absolute favorite thing. Freestyle was always my favorite. A
freestyle for me has to be the perfect ending to
the journey that you've had.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I want some story in there. I want it to
mean something.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I want it to be absolutely tailor made for that
celebrity to be the perfect piece for them to shine,
to also show how much they've grown, how much that
partnership has come together. And I really feel like some
people absolutely crushed that or not. Oh you know what,
I think all of them did a fantastic job at that.
So we started off with Alex and Val. It was
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a passive doblaze slash I think tango inspired freestyle. Derek said,
she is a superstar. It was like an arena tour performance.
She has built her confidence a week after week and
she's He was giving her her flowers and just said
thank you, thank you for sharing that journey with us.
And we really have seen that in Alex, right, that
that girl that came out in week one, that was
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incredibly timid and even she said in her package she
didn't go up and hug vow. You know, there was
a definite resistance in her, or a shyness or an uncertainty.
And now we're seeing her out there, she's just like,
give me more, more and more and more. She can't
get enough of it. She's leaving it all on the
floor every single time, and it's been absolutely beautiful watching.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Her blossom and open like that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Bruno called her a she row and said that she
is the leader of the pack. Carrie Anne said she's
really touched by her and the way that she learned
and delivered these exquisite dances.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
She dances with her heart open.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
She feels very connected to the journey and told her
she's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think, you know, as Carrianne has referenced before, and
as I've mentioned.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Carrianne Carrin's like old school dancer, solid gold dancer, which
I think even Jordan referenced, But like that is that's
from an era that doesn't necessarily exist anymore in dancing,
where like how unbelievably hardcore it was and how hard
it was and how you just had to do it
feet bleeding or not. And I think we sort of
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see that in Alex and she very much didn't have
to be that person. She could have come in, she
could have been precious, she could have been all sorts
of things. But she zero of that, no attitude, no resistance,
just wants more, wants to be absolutely true to it
and give the respects to not only Vow, but the
show and the style that she's learning is unbelievable. So
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I've loved seeing a grow that way, and I feel
that that's what Krrien was talking about.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I loved this.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I thought at first, I was like, oh, Passo's a choice.
I don't know how I feel about it, but she
did it really really well. She was so clean, so sharp,
her performance quality in it giving face, which is something
she had to grow into over this season. I thought
it was amazing. I don't know that it's my favorite
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I've ever seen. I think energetically, I like things that
are either emotional or upbeat, right, but that is a
personal preference. But no notes, like no notes as far
as what she could have done differently or better.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's a stylistic thing. I think.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I do think Val created something amazing for her because
because Alex was really good at the passo and they
had a great dance, so he's tailoring it to her.
He's doing movement that looks good on her. He framed
it really well with everything else. I thought the hot
girl's moment at the back was like really cool to
add that in there. We got to see some sexy
from her, Like there was a lot to love about this.
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The judges gave it ten ten ten. I also gave
it a ten. I don't know what she could have
done differently or better. It was a really really solid
freestyle freestyle for Dylan and Danny Bruno said it was beautiful,
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it was poetic.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Get captured the quality of a dream.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Carrie Anne said, Dancing with the Stars is this epic
journey and no one is going to ever understand it
until they do it, and this dance was a beautiful
representation of that.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I love that comment.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I thought that was really really nice, and I think
it speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It really is true.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
This is a journey that absolutely nobody will ever understand
until they are in it. Even the celebrities that join
the show, they're like, what can I expect? And then
they get to the end of it and they're like,
nobody could have prepared me, because you just don't know
until you're in it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Derek said it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
He has this really sincere kind, beautiful masculinity about him.
He was a wonderful partner for Danny and he just said,
I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I'm speechless now.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
When I heard that they were doing a contemporary slow,
I was like, Oh, is that the right choice for Dylan.
I don't know, but I think it was a beautiful
choice in the context of where everything sat.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
It stood out it was on its own.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I thought the opening visual was beautiful with everyone on
the floor and the way that it was stunning. I
think that Dylan really gave some emotion in this. When
I heard, I was like, that's a love song, Like
what are we doing? But then Danny explains in the
package that it's he has fallen in love with dance
and she was representing dance, which she very much does
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to him, and something about this might be the last
time that our hearts are this close, or that our
hearts feel this way. It could be the last time
that he well, it is the last time he's ever
going to dance like that.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
You know, when else is he going to do it?
When he's climbing mountains? Like I thought.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It actually was a beautiful way to finish their journey,
so I you know what, I really appreciated it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So the visuals were great.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
I love there was an overhead where like she first
of all, he lifted her as he was laying down,
she rolled down to the floor and then she like
swung around and then.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Swooped him in to her lap. Gorgeous gore, just no notes.
I loved this visual.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
When he got into like an arabesque and of course
his little flexed spread out toes foot was towards the
camera and I was like, no, don't do that. Wrong angle,
but we did see it and it was there. I
thought it was beautiful. Look, he did some gorgeous movement,
beautiful assisting in the lifts and all those sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
We got to the water and I was like, yes,
here we go. What do we got? I don't know
if it lived up to what I wanted it to be,
like was it? It was great?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
There were some really great moments in it, and I
think this comes down to them not having enough time
to maybe practice it and find what was epic. I
feel bad saying this about Danny's work because I absolutely
love Danny's work. I just think maybe there could have
been something else that we did in the water that
could have worked and really emphasized it instead of it
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looking like we're just trying to slap it up and
kick it up, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
And so I felt like.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, such a cool moment that was almost there, Like
we were almost there for me. But there was a
lot to love in it. So the judges absolutely loved this,
and I do agree with all of their comments about
him and his journey and him falling love with it.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It was poetic. It even made me emotional.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Like it really did hit the feels for me, especially
understanding what Danny was representing and seeing how emotional they
were in their package. I just get emotional with these things.
So the judges gave this.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
A ten ten ten.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I however, landed on a nine for it, not because
I didn't love it, but because it just just missed
the mark for me of being something spectacular. And we
are talking about finale, we are talking about freestyle, and
I really want it to be all the things you know,
and it was so close getting into Alan and Elaine freestyle.
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Let's talk about all the things carry Anne said, reference
her bringing other people into her freestyle really shines a
spotlight on.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Like who she is as a person.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
She's just sharing that spotlight, which I thought that was
really sweet. She said she was lost for words, No,
she was lost for its. Sorry, she was stumbling to
try and find something to say, but she was pretty
much lost for words. And she just said it was
wonderful and she loved it. Derek said, in the beginning
he had said to her, let this journey begin, and
now he said that the journey is complete. He is
so incredibly proud of her. Bravo Bruno said, you've got it.
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Reference to the song being I hope I get it.
Delicious played to her strengths fantastic from day one. Agreed
Delicious played to her strength absolutely from fantastic from day one.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I said, oh I love it. Oh I'm obsessed. Wow, no,
notes perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
This was the most spectacular way to see her end
her journey. It was everything that was comfortable on her body.
She was animated, she was acting, it was true to her.
It was almost almost about her.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
And it was beautiful seeing her and Alan in it.
I loved everything. This was chef's kiss for me. This
was a chef kiss freestyle. Well done, Alan, well done
a Lane. I have loved your journey. The judges gave
this a ten ten ten. I gave this a ten,
and then I circled that ten like three times because
I was like, yes, that is like the top top
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top ten plus plus on that spectrum of a ten.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
She's at the top of that. Robert and Whitney's freestyle.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Okay, before we even get into the judges, that package
was playing. And then it broke me, broke me in
all capital letters when he just said I wish he
could see it.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
No, I'm going to get a emential emotional now saying
it no.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
When he said I wish he could see it about
his dad, I just lost it and I was.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
And thank god they did an upbeat, something fun and
Whitney did a really great job of bringing that song.
My father told me right in the middle and just
had a little hint to a moment of something an
ode to Steve.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
I love the way that she tied that in into
a piece that was high energy and upbeat that is
so tailored for rob it. But then we just had
that little nod in the middle. Ough spectacular. The judge
is Derek said he could barely contain his emotions because
obviously he's so very close with them. Remember you at
eleven years old and now tonight you're a dancer, your
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legacy as an example of how to move through life.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
He complimented it.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Basically, he is they are that whole Irwin family. There's
something spectacular about them, something special. Thank god they are here.
Thank God we had Bindi share her journey and now
we've had Robert share his. This was beautiful. Bruno said,
he sees you, he sees you your dad sees you.
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And that was a twenty four Carrot Gold performance. Referencing
the song Carry Anne basically said, please accept our love,
and everyone in this room is a consolation because there
is so much love for you, which there is. I mean,
there's something beautiful about Robert. Many people try and portray
what Robert does, but it doesn't feel genuine. And I
think it is the same with Bindi, and I think
some people in the beginning with Bindi didn't quite know
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if it was.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Real or not, and maybe they even feel that way
about Robert.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
But as someone that knows that family and watching them,
it is absolutely genuine.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
This is their legacy. This is who they are. They
are those people.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
That excitement, that love, that wonder that everything that you
see on them, that deep gratitude just for every moment
of existence. It is real and it is as Carrie
Anne said earlier in the season, it's a testament to
Terry in the way that she's raised them.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
It's so unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Now, the fact that both of them can dance, that's
some freaky stuff that I don't understand, Like I don't.
They just have these beautiful gifts and ways of connecting
with people and apparently ways of connecting with their body
and doing some crazy stuff with it. Because this was
a very, very impressive freestyle. There was a fabulous trick
at the beginning. I was like, yes, face, how amazing
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is that? The father told me moment which I felt
was really really special. I love the way she created
it and genuinely just another chef's kiss. I thought this
was beautifully crafted for Robert. I think he nailed every
single bit of it. I didn't see him miss a beat.
It was another demanding routine, Like think about what he
had to take on for this entire week.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Not only is he rehearsing those other dances.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And that's why his chutch I didn't look so great,
right because you obviously focused on the other ones. Quickstep
was really great, so much content, so much going on
in there to really get down, and then this one
that is a lot, you guys, that is so much
to take on, and he did such a fantastic job.
I can't imagine how unbelievably tired they are, all of
the couples. But it was a real feat and he
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did it. He absolutely went out there and he crushed it.
He didn't miss abeat. I feel like he nailed the tricks,
he nailed the performance. As always, his timing was good
in this one. I really think that it was the
perfect end to his journey on Dancing with the Stars.
As far as their final dance, I loved it. I mean, listen,
you can already guess the scores. Judges gave it ten
to ten. I also landed on a ten coming up
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to the final performance of the entire season, saving Jordan
and Ezra for last. The first thing I wrote was, oh,
I was like, oh my gosh, She's coming out fierce
and this is absolutely in her element. Bruno said, incredible
showstop A Queen Bee would be proud.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Loved it.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Carrie Anne said, you are a powerful woman of color,
and you show them how it's done. Best freestyle ever
in twenty seasons. I think she meant twenty years do
I think? I mean, listen again, Artists objective, It is
everyone's opinion, and this is definitely up Carrie Anne's alley
with it being so fierce and powerful woman, so I
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see how she got there. I don't know that it's
the best freestyle I've ever seen, but I do think
it was impactful and I do think it was beautifully
tailored for her, and I think Ezra did a great job.
Derek said, incredible, powerful, explosive. It was everything I said.
It was so so great for her. It was so fierce.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
She was in her element. Normani came out. Now did
I like that? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think I would have preferred that Normani came out
with the mic and we had a hint of her
in the background, but I don't know that I needed Normany.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
To dance with her.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Was it fierce, Yeah, but I wanted it to just
be about Jordan, you know, because she was so fierce
and in her elements. So I don't know that I
would have done that the same way. But that might
have just been a production thing, not even an Ezra thing.
Or maybe for Jordan, she was like, heck, yeah, I
want Normany dancing with me, you know, and they had
that moment with each other.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
So I'd never want to take that away from her, But.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
As a viewer, I kind of wish that it was
a little bit more about her and not bringing in
like surprise guests like that, like when you see Elaine
and she had surprise guests that was cool, but it
was still very much about Elaine.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
But I think this moment, I don't know personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Am I wrong as I'm saying, and I'm doubting myself,
but I'm not sure that I loved it Normaney coming
out now, no notes as far as taking points off,
that's just a creative thing. I thought it was a
fantastic dance, and again Ezra created something absolutely perfectly tailored,
like that attitude she was giving in the beginning, that
guts that she has, and that absolute fierceness that she has. Yes,
(46:10):
like I thought, it was absolutely spectacular, and She's gonna
look at this dance in all the years to come
and be so unbelievably proud of it. Maybe it will
be her favorite one yet because it was just so
iconically her. And I do think that Beyonce Normani like proud,
super super proud to have their music be a part
of that moment. Judges gave it a ten ten ten.
(46:31):
I also gave it a ten. Wow, you guys, what
a season. What a freaking season. We had more votes
than ever, more viewers than ever. The show is coming
back in full force and getting as flowers. We also
celebrated twenty years of Dancing with the Stars. It has
been an absolute gift to be a spectator for it, honestly,
(46:52):
And I watched what these guys do, and I watch
what these kids do out there, and I'm just so
in awe of them.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
You know, they are this new and younger generation.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Every time I'm on set or do a press line
or at the twentieth anniversary, everyone says, when are you
coming back?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Would you come back as a pro? And my answer
is the same.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
It's like, never say never, But I honestly love what
this generation of pros are doing. And also, guys, their
workload is unbelievable now, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Not only are they doing all the demand.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Of the dancers, it's all the tiktoks in rehearsal and
all of those things now are just important as doing
the work because look at how many votes it's generating.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
It really is so.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Interesting the way that it has shifted and moved with
the times. It's beautiful, not even interesting, it's beautiful how
it's shifted.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
And moved with the times.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I mean, TikTok was always meant to be the best
fit for Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
How will we not going viral years.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Prior, But somehow that magic formula has happened, and that
is through Dina Cats and casting and Conrad Green in direction,
and you know, the social media teams really like clocking
onto it and putting an importance on it. And of
course the addition I think of Ezra and Riley a
couple of seasons back and seeing it grow into this
version now is really beautiful. So would I love to
(48:10):
be a part of it? Heck yeah, do I know
if I could even keep up with everyone anymore?
Speaker 2 (48:16):
I honestly don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
They are so fierce and wonderful and what they create
is so spectacular. Robert and Whitney obviously won, and I,
you know, standing on the edge, we all ran in.
We were on the edge of the ballroom. We standing
there with Max and Peter, not not too far behind
where the mirror ball was, with Joey and Jen, and
we had no idea what way it was going to go,
because I think Robert was down a point than Alex,
(48:41):
so we had no idea and figured it was going
to be really tight in votes.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
I think it could have been anybody's, but it did.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It went to Robert and Whitney, and it was beautiful
to see Whitney get her trophy. And I think she
wrote in her Instagram posts that eleven years ago to
the day she won her first MIRRORBA with Alfonso, and
eleven years later to the day, Alfonso is the one
handing her her second. I think that is just absolutely amazing.
(49:10):
It's beautiful to watch all of them do their thing.
It's beautiful to see you guys fall in love with
it more and more to hear your feedback on it.
Even those of you that passionately have things to say
that make you unhappy. It's all part of it, you know,
And I love your passion for the show.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Thank you so much for hanging with me on in
the fourth chair.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
Thank you Danielle Fischer for giving me this platform to
do this.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
This was so very fun.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
I've loved being a part of this and bringing this
to you guys every week. And I've certainly loved seeing
the feedback as far as helping you understand what the
judges are saying and meaning, helping you understand why the
scoring might be that way, or how the scoring even works,
or technical aspects of a dance. I've always loved being
a teacher of love, being a coach and doing it
(49:53):
in this way has actually been really really fun. Just
quickly before we go, guys, I just want to say,
and I've got my guys Zany here with me.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
We want to say Happy Thanksgiving, right, you want to
say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone? No?
Speaker 1 (50:07):
No, well, happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope
you have an amazing day filled with all the things.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
And that's it from us. I guess we'll see you
on the next one at some point. Bye.
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