Two pairs earned the season’s first 9s in Week 3.
The dancing continued on Dancing with the Stars this week, with two celebrity pairs earning the season’s first 9s during Motown Week.
Jason Mraz and Daniella Karagach were first to be awarded the almost perfect score, as they impressed the judges with their Jive set to Do You Love Me by The Contours, which they earned a pretty good 34 out of 40 for.
Ariana Madix and Pasha Pashkov were next and found themselves in joint first place on the leaderboard alongside Mraz and Karagach. It comes after their Samba to You Can’t Hurry Love by The Supremes.
Sadly, it was the end of the road for one of the contestants in the Dancing with the Stars 2023 line-up, as model and actor Tyson Beckford was eliminated.
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Along with his partner Jenna Johnson, Tyson performed a Foxtrot to Master Blaster (Jammin’) by Stevie Wonder. He managed to score just 20 out of 40, as Michael Strahan filled in as new judge, alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough.
“It’s been good, I learned a lot of things that I can take into the real world, so I had a good time,” Beckford said after being eliminated.
His exit follows Jamie Lynn Spears, who exited the competition in Week 2, after failing to impress with her Cha Cha.
Despite improving from Week 1 – as Tonioli told her, “You came out of your shell… you entertained and connected” – it just wasn’t enough to keep Jamie in the competition.
The week before, comedian Matt Walsh and Koko Iwasaki became the first pair to be eliminated from the ABC dancing show.
“I would ask the judges to rewatch that dance sometime,” the 37-year-old joked after being eliminated.
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