PureDWTS Season 21 Week 9 Scores, Media, And Interviews
Can I just say I don’t think I have been more sad watching an unfair elimination take place as I was last night. Mark and Alexa, I’m going to miss you greatly. What EMMY worthy dances too! What a sad loss for the show when there could have been more of the same in the coming weeks from them. 🙁
I’m also disgusted with the drama with Tamar that seemed to rule the show last night when they could have had a SHOW STOPPING PRO NUMBER TO FILL THAT TIME INSTEAD!!! Oh well, I feel like we’re all talking to a brick wall with producers. It seems they want a tabloid type show. I will just say,…thank gawd for Strictly Come Dancing and DWTSRussia fulfilling my A+++++ Ballroom and Pro number dreams. Yes, I still love our version, but, it’s just disappointing so much of the time these last few seasons. Something needs to give? 🙁
So, here are the scores from last night for those who need them:
Bindi Irwin & Derek Houg 10-10-10-30 60 total
Alexa PenaVega* & Mark Ballas 10-10-10-30 60 total*eliminated*
Nick Carter & Sharna Burgess 9-9-10-27 56 total
Carlos PenaVega & Witney Carson 9-9-9-24 51 total
Tamar Braxton Valentin Chmerkovskiy 8-7-7-27 49 total
Alek Skarlatos & Lindsay Arnold 8-8-8-24 48 total
Onto some interviews and media! First see E Online for all of their interviews with the couples last night. For lots of coverage and interviews with Derek and Bindi, see Pure Derek Hough. Also, Team Crikey and DancingWTS_21 has some cool shots from behind the scenes and some videos of the dances from different angles. Be sure to check out Storm Viking’s DWTS All Access Videos at her tumbler page as well in case you weren’t able to tune in last night. Lots more below. Warning: Mark and Alexa’s interviews will tear you up.
FOX11:
PenaVega admitted to FOX411 it wasn’t easy to share her secret, especially with the man she loved.
“That was the scariest part was having to tell Carlos because I knew that our relationship was very serious and at some point I was going to have to share it with him. We weren’t engaged yet, we were boyfriend and girlfriend, but I just wondered, ‘What is he going to think of me? Is he going to leave me? Is he going to think this is something we can’t get past?'” she said of the singer whom she married last year.
“How do you tell somebody you love and care about hey, I did this and it wasn’t like I did it for a little bit of my life, I did it a very long time. He’s like, ‘Babe, I’m here for you always. If you ever feel like you’re struggling, I’m here.’ It was just such a relief.”
PenaVega told reporters her elimination was “a bummer,” but she emphasized what she gained from being on “DWTS”: “I was so uncomfortable going out there because I still felt strangely awkward about my body and I’m like, ‘Why am I still feeling this way? This is something that’s been over for so long.’ For me, tonight was the final night of letting that go and finding an amazing confidence throughout this journey.”
Entertainment Tonight:
JC Rubio’s Periscope:
Access Hollywood:
Afterbuzz:
GMA (THANKS AL!):
#GMA #DWTS Week 9 Recap & @alexavega @MarkBallas Exit Interview Promo! pic.twitter.com/EkT8R9buIt
— Al Kahn (@idolxfactor1) November 10, 2015
I agree Vogue. So much drama surrounding Tamar’s unexpected trip to the hospital and we didn’t get an opening number 🙁 Still think the girl should’ve pulled out. She probably should’ve been admitted to the hospital for antibiotics to treat her pneumonia…girl looked like s*it. Still gotta wonder though if some of that drama wasn’t a ploy to get votes. Don’t doubt that she’s sick but c’mon girl…you gonna end up killing yourself over a stupid dance show.
Thanks Kelly and I have to wonder if it was a ploy to get votes too. Seriously, I wish Tamar well and I liked their dances, but, geez. It took the focus off of them and the content of the show. Sad.
Orange is NOT Witney’s color. That lipstick–bleck!
I agree. lol and I hated Lindsay’s lipstick too last night.
If it was a ploy to get votes, I wonder if it will back-fire. I know that it left me feeling like she would be better off if she wasn’t on the show any more.
Seems like it was a ploy after all the bad edits she has received the last couple of weeks. And she was in and out of that ER in record time…plus traffic to and from ; get me to that hospital. In the four times I have gone to the ER with my kids I have never been out of there in less than 3 hours….
But if she is as sick as she claims; I wish her well and hopes she recovers soon.
I think Tamar is just exhausted which is making her sick I mean she shoots 3 shows a day on the real she is on tour and had 2 performances last week one in Orlando one in LA went to Las Vegas she’s shooting her reality show as well she has a 2 year old son she spreading herself thin…I highly doubt it was a ploy to get votes..I’m a fan of team valentay Im glad they are still in the competition…
….Also the elimination is based on the previous week which would make sense on why she got sent home last week wasn’t to great and that plus her and Carlos splitting the viewer votes….however I am still surprised at Alek still being here he must have a lot of people voting for him.
Andy cancelled an appearance to make time for DWTS. Tamar could have done the same. I have little sympathy for someone who knows that DWTS is nearly a full time job (her sister was on the show, afterall) yet doesn’t make room for it in her schedule. Then, she can barely stand up, but instead of withdrawing, she sticks around such that a healthy Alexa is eliminated. If Tamar can’t dance next week, I’ll be rather pissed that Alexa was eliminated for no reason.
And she didn’t do anything nice for Nick – that duo was a mess and would have been better danced, at least, with a pro standing in for Tamar.
I find it hard to believe they a Dr couldn’t have come on set and treated her. I know she’s not a huge celebrity but I’m sure ABC has drs on call. For some reason the producers want her around and I think this is her ticket to the finale. I just found the whole thing shady and not really on her part. Total ploy by the producers.
I feel bad for Alexa too. I can’t know what goes on behind closed doors with her marriage but Carlos seems very controlling. She couldn’t even go to NY without him! I didn’t feel like the crying was sincere. Again, this could just be the way he’s being edited.
Thanks for putting this together Vogue! I enjoy your media posts very much!
FWIW, I was told that Val & the producers seemed utterly clueless about what was going on with Tamar – Jenna was learning the choreography for the rumba duet so she could step in, they we rearranging the running order just in case Tamar was returning, and the buzz backstage from the time the show started to when Tamar actually arrived was that Tamar was going to be disqualified and that everyone else would be safe. Val didn’t even know Tamar had left until he went looking for her and couldn’t find her in the makeup trailer. So if anything was orchestrated – I’m pointing the finger at Tamar as the conductor.
I really hope she is eliminated next week. I think she has proven numerous times in various interviews or lack of showing up for scheduled dwts appearances, in video packages, and even in her dancing with Val on the floor that she’s not connected enough with all of this to put in what should be put in if you are going to be a finalist. I don’t even care for Val, but she has stood him up for appearances several times and he actually has seemed genuinely bewildered many times this seasons by her actions. Just doesn’t seem like this is a person who should be a finalist.
The whole situation is unfortunate. Tamar needs to worry about her health. If TPTB didn’t manipulate the show so much all of us wouldn’t be questioning if this was a ploy for votes. The show has way too much drama to be enjoyable anymore. It is truly a shame to lose Alexa. Wish Carlos would have been the part of the married couple to leave. It was a painful show to watch last night. Seems the show is truly losing the fun, entertainment factor and that is truly a shame.
That’s very interesting information Courtney..I saw where you tweeted that as well. Like the poster above said (#12) if there wasn’t so much manipulation going on in past seasons I probably would feel differently. Maybe it’s just a crazy turn of events. I do hope Tamar gets better and I certainly hope she doesn’t jeopardize her health for this show.