DWTS Season 16, The Finale – Dancing by the Numbers
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Well, that’s that. Can’t say I’m sad this season is over. Seriously, another twitter vote?? Why not just fess up and admit you want Zendaya to dance again cuz this is your last chance to pimp the crap out of her. Not even CLOSE to the best freestyle of the night, yet we’re likely going to have to see it again. Absolutely ridiculous. By the way, Tony Dovolani – you’ve been SCHOOLED on how to do a contemporary freestyle, my friend. You too, Maks. Take notes. Derek pretty much ruined contemporary for the rest of you on this show going forward.
Luckily, this season we’re likely to have a winner that is much more deserving than Melissa was – even though I’m not a fan, and I think the producers had a huge hand in giving it to her via twitter promotion and all kinds of other little mind games, Zendaya is a better dancer than Melissa was. Do I think she’s better than Kellie?? Hardly. She neglected to wear ballroom shoes when it should have been required the last couple weeks – and tonight we saw why. She’s so unstable out of her turns even with the sneakers on, but it’s worse with the ballroom shoes. Compare their dancing and you see a LOT of stops in Zendaya’s dancing and few or none in Kellie’s. But the difference between Kellie and Zendaya isn’t as stark as it was between Melissa and Shawn. Of course, I think there is still a pee wee baseball mentality at work here, even in Val, who is using that as one of his selling points as to why they should win. That and the fact that there’s never been another couple like them. Ummm…really? No. I had such high hopes for you, Val. Dashed, they are (tm Yoda).
The sad thing is that I like Zendaya and I think she had a shot at winning without all the pimping and the promoting and the turning a blind eye to things that have raised Len’s ire (at the very least) in previous seasons.
Kellie’s quickstep wasn’t perfect either – but it was also much more technically difficult than Zendaya’s Samba was. It’s a shame that the judges/producers agenda is so set. Kellie’s freestyle was absolutely brilliant and Zendaya’s totally forgettable. My thought is that Kellie and Zendaya’s score should be reversed…at least. Aly’s freestyle?? So many stops and starts in it – it was kinda crazy. Way overscored. Her Samba was about right, although I don’t think she was better than Jacoby. I liked Jacoby’s jive and I liked his freestyle as well. I think it could have been better, but then I’ve seen a real second line in New Orleans – it wasn’t the dancing that was at issue, it was the music. And if you aren’t accustomed to Second Line, you’re less likely to get Jacoby’s freestyle. I wish it would have been closer to a second line, cuz that would have made me even more nostalgic for New Orleans.
Anyway, the complete and total breakdown of online voting at abc.com is an interesting phenomenon. I’m somewhat convinced that it’s convenient to Zendaya in that her little minions are probably facebookers and texters and will still easily overpower everyone else. With Zendaya begging every day they can hardly let her down, can they?? Even Mark, pimper extraordinaire, hasn’t been begging for it this season. Pretty reasonable requests that people vote from him, and that’s it. In any case, it appears that those of us who voted right away online? Our votes are going to be tossed, per OK! Online. I’m sure Vogue already has that info on the site somewhere for those who are in need of a link.
Sad to see my once favorite show be made into such a farce. But on the plus side – these last two seasons have shown everyone who the real deal is when it comes to choreography. That would be Derek, for those who aren’t sure. Lordy, the man is a genius. No one else can touch him at this point. Amazing.
Oh, and before I forget, there will be another dance that will be scored out of 30. I think the results of that will pretty much follow the agenda. What it will likely do is just narrow the margins slightly. From reading the press release, I was under the impression that only the top three will do this dance, but then tonight watching the show it sounded like all four couples would do it. I sense they are changing the rules as they go…can’t imagine why. :::rolls eyes:::
Here’s where we stand after the performance show:
I’ll say right off the bat that I agree with Courtney. Barring a miracle, I think it’s going to be:
Jacoby – 4th
Aly – 3rd
Kellie – 2nd
Zendaya – 1st
Why do I say that? Well, Jacoby has a long way to go to not be in fourth place. Let’s look at it a bit differently this week, since it’s the finale. For Jacoby to WIN, he needs ALL of the following things to happen:
– Jacoby needs 20,400 more votes per million votes cast than Aly, AND;
– Jacoby needs 32,600 more votes per million votes cast than Kellie, AND;
– Jacoby needs 36,600 more votes per million votes cast than Zendaya.
I don’t see any of those happening, do you?? If NONE happen, Jacoby gets fourth place. Which is what I think will happen. What about Aly? What does she need to win?? She needs ALL of the following:
– Aly needs for Jacoby to NOT get 20,400 more votes per million votes cast than her, AND;
– Aly needs 12,200 more votes per million votes cast than Kellie, AND;
– Aly needs 16,300 more votes per million votes cast than Zendaya.
While it’s possible that Jacoby could get the votes to get past her and into third place, I don’t really see that happening. I also have a hard time believing that Aly would get the votes to get past either Kellie or Zendaya. Maybe Kellie, since she’s an Olympic gymnast and should have a larger fanbase than Kellie…but I doubt it.
What does Kellie need to win?? She needs ALL of the following:
– She needs for Jacoby to NOT get the 32,600 more votes per million votes cast than her, AND;
– She needs for Aly to NOT get 12,200 more votes per million votes cast than her, AND
– She needs only 4,100 more votes per million votes cast than Zendaya.
For Zendaya to win, she simply needs for everyone to not cover the spread. Pretty simple. I will add that the addition of another dance, assuming they are all scored between 27 (Jacoby) and 30 (everyone else) decreases all the margins by 2 to 3 thousand votes. It makes the margin that Kellie has to overcome to beat Zendaya only 2,800 votes per million votes cast, assuming they get the same score. If Zendaya is vastly overscored (or even a little overscored) relative to Kellie, then we know who got the votes, don’t we? Well, maybe not. Who knows any more?
I think it really comes down to Kellie and Zendaya, although it’s possible that it could be Aly and Zendaya. See, I think the judges would score Aly higher if they thought she could win because they like being right. With another dance tonight, they can score Kellie and Zendaya close and still be able to say they were pretty much right. If Aly suddenly outscores Zendaya and Kellie tomorrow, I expect that means she got the votes. Unless of course both women blow the dance in a very obvious fashion and the judges have no choice.
Anyway, I think we’re looking at a final two of Kellie and Zendaya with Zendaya winning OR a final two of Zendaya and Aly with Zendaya winning as my second choice. I think it will take a miracle for Kellie to win although I think she deserves it the most. If she does much better than Zendaya in the instant dance, I expect the judges to conveniently ignore it, so Zendaya can win. I’m leaving it at that. If something crazy happens, I’ll do a follow up numbers post to explain it. Although I doubt it will be needed. It’s pretty simple when there are only four people. 🙂
There’s really not much more to say, your placement seems spot on. This show has become a joke. I am glad it’s almost over.
Kellie’s husband gave her a puppy after her freestyle last night. Awwwww!
Thank goodness our bundle of joy will be dancing tonight.. ANDY!
SECOND LINE!!! That’s the term I was grasping for last night but couldn’t recall – thanks for reminding me. And yes, Jacoby totally went the 2nd line route, and I think from that standpoint it played. A coworker of mine (who occasionally reads Pure) even made a point of coming to my desk this morning and telling me how much he enjoyed Jacoby’s freestyle because it “reminded him of his fraternity days at Tulane” and was glad that someone unless “got” what Jacoby was going for. I actually rewatched it twice last night after blogging – and I stand by my claim that it really was not a bad freestyle. I’d take Jacoby’s over Marie’s, Mel B.’s, and Evan’s ANY day. 😀
And yes, it stinks to high heaven that the voting website is down – and regardless of the alleged motives of it or who it may or may not have been done to benefit, I think fans of ALL the couples should be upset about it…they’ve essentially taken away a large part of our voice. They’re in their sixteenth season and they’re claiming technically difficulties??? And not even giving any indication that they were trying to fix it? It’s tricky…tricky tricky tricky…
Well, phooey, but thanks! 😉 Robbed again!
I don’t know….the DWTS facebook page is EXPLODING with Kellie and Derek supporters. Like out of the 17k+ comments i would say 85% are pro Derek and Kellie. Last season it was the same for Melissa…when i went to their facebook page Melissa’s name was all over it. I am staying slightly confident that Kellie might pull off the upset. Who knows…maybe i am dreaming. What i can’t stand is Peta and the Dance with Me twitter- I love their shout out (Peta your a pro why are you RT
ing the tweet? to get brownie points with maks? that Zendaya shouldn’t be on the show but its ok for Kristi Yamaguchi, Shawn Johnson, Nicole S, and Jennifer Grey were allowed…um, really? So in a non obvious way you legit through Mark and Derek under the bus…i’ve gotta say…zebras don’t change their stripes and Maks, Tony, Louis, Val, Peta- and the rest of the Russian Mob squad are brutally sore losers. Need to take a page in learning how to lose or win gracefully.
If someone but Zendaya wins, then I’d be pretty happy. However, I just don’t think it’ll happen. This season has just been way too manipulated.
And the best part is they retweeted my tweet basically saying “Yes, we are going to undercut everything Mark and Derek did and say they won bc of it”…i mean can you be more obnoxious? Isn’t this your school’s twitter account that you promote?? So i tweeted Peta back and asked “So is it ok to get a football player and him not be the best dancer but have the best freestyle and win?!” Ugh, i need to just stop reading. Every year i think that people can’t get more obnoxious and each year they get worse than the year before!
Peta is the DWTS equivalent of Ed Hardy – cool for only a brief moment (when she won with Donald), then just tacky, unremarkable, & synonymous with douchebaggery.
@Joey- I unfollowed them all on twitter…the whole bunch: Maks, Val, Zendaya, Peta, Tony, Kelly M, Kirstie, ect. Maybe it’s just me, but whatever happened to professionalism? I understand Maks supporting his brother (to the extent of ‘Hey, vote for V&Z’) but it was all out of hand. It was making me mad so I decided unfollowing was better.
I was thinking it’s Zendaya but I’ve been thinking that after that freestyle by Kellie and Derek it could be them. I’ve heard of a lot of undecided people people or people who don’t usually vote going through for them after that dance.
I think ABC really screwed things up with voting being down and not even explaining things. I think Z’s voters can’t do the whole ‘stay up all night and power vote’ thing and it really ended up working in their favor. I think Kellie could have won with the power voting, but I think Z has more people voting over all.
I really have no idea how it will be, but here’s to hoping for Kellie!
I’m wondering too if Kellie might be able to pull it out. There’s a lot of positive Kellie chatter on the interwebs and I feel like taking twitter and abc.com voting down hurts Zendaya and her “make lots of emails” advice. Facebook has security measures that its much harder to make a kajillion accounts. Kellie’s freestyle had a big impact; I’ve been voting for Aly all season and I split votes this week to Kellie because her freestyle I thought stole the show.
I’m curious to what the 24 hour/instant dances are going to be. In season 13 everyone had the same samba and season 14 they had salsa, jive and cha cha. Aly said she had salsa. Im wondering if they would have cha cha again after the relay.
Joey, sometimes we just need to sit back, close our computer and breathe in and out several times, while saying slowly to ourselves, “this is just a glittery danceshow…. this is just a glittery danceshow…. this is just a glittery danceshow….” and then toss glitter in the air like the Glitter Fairy should be doing….. By the way, who was our glitter fairy again, and can she come back?
Since you’re getting upset with them, stop paying attention to them right now. Just stop, and in a few months, go back and see if you can look at them without the emotion that they’ve caused you.
As for Peta….. I do agree with C. She did wonderfully with Donald, because he had been watching every single episode of the show, and he’d studied and knew what needed to happen….. Peta definitely benefited from his knowledge about the show, but since then…. Not so much. She seems to have wanted to go the “my partner and I are hot and sexy so we will exploit it as much as possible…” And, I don’t think she really has any chemistry with any of them….. Sharna had more chemistry with Shawn in a few days, than Peta had with him the whole time they’d been dancing together! (and if someone wants proof, go to youtube and look up their trio dance, and watch both Peta and Sharna with Shawn, while they’re being judged)
Wait….. Tonight’s “Instant Dance”…..
Wasn’t it originally going to be a 24-hour challenge where they found out everything on Monday, and were to have it ready for Tuesday?
And, we weren’t told what style or anything for the Instant Dance, were we? I may have missed that.
@Lori Aly said in her Access Hollywood interview the dance was salsa but they get the music tonight on air. its like a cross of the 24 hour challenge and instant dance.
At some point, ya’ll are going to realize what I’ve known for quite a while – most of the pros are actually pretty stupid. 🙂 Even Derek has moments of sheer “I could totally smack him in the face” stupidity and he’s generally pretty smart – in fact, he’s had those moments twice in the last week. 😀
Seriously (although I was only partly kidding), these are just people. Quit expecting them to be better than you or me (or the average schmoe who posts on the net) – they totally aren’t, except when it comes to dancing.
As far as who’s going to win?? Don’t take my post (or Courtney’s) as gospel – It’s just what we’re thinking right now and lord knows, we’ve both been wrong before. I was certain Evan was going to beat Nicole right up until his craptastic freestyle, and even then I wasn’t sure. In the past few seasons we’ve gotten better – but only because TPTB have gotten more obviously manipulative. And we know that manipulation works.
Hahahahahaahah……Joey and Court!! Dying laughing. 🙂
@Joey “What i can’t stand is Peta and the Dance with Me twitter- I love their shout out (Peta your a pro why are you RTing the tweet? to get brownie points with maks?”
Poor Peta (a.k.a. Ed Hardy).
The sad thing is that Zendaya, imo, is a sweet, talented, young lady. I just don’t think she did better than Kellie. Period. That doesn’t make me dislike Zendaya in the slightest but that crew doesn’t get it. It seems to be kill or be killed and that is the mentality of people who choose to make their life a very difficult route, imo.
And yes, extremely unprofessional to use the company twitter account for personalizing your insecurities.
It’s just pathetic and annoying to see that crew think with their blinders on. They think everyone is out to get them and everyone doesn’t want them to do well over Derek or whoever. GET THE CHIP OFF YOUR SHOULDER!
Why would people not want you to do well..Maks, Val, Dance With Me USA etc.? That’s paranoid and ridiculous. I WANTED YOU TO DO WELL! Until you pull this crap. Tweeting that no one complained about Jennifer Grey, Nicole, Kristi, Shawn etc. as being ringers but thinking everyone is complaining about Zendaya is having your blinders on. Everyone complained about Derek and Mark’s partners with past experience.
Grow up!
… and a glimmer of hope, although ever so faint, still exists … at least in my mind! 😉
My comment awaits moderation … it must be troll season! 😉
You are correct, meggie. We’ve turned moderation on for all comments. 🙂 Every finale has it’s wackos.
Heidi, awesome numbers post again. I agree so much on the pimping. I liked Zendaya in the beginning and then when they started pimping her over and over in these manipulated ways, I got more and more turned off. The hatred and trolling from her fans made it that much worse….and now we have the voting issue at the official site. Anyway, for whatever happens tonight, please please may the best person and dancer win and that is Kellie imo with Zendaya coming in 2nd, Jacoby 3rd (of all of Karina’s partners, he’s my all time fave. I’d jump for joy too if he beat Zendaya), and Aly 4th.
And like Sandy, I can’t wait to see Andy (and Sharna) again tonight. All Star of Season 16!!
It sucks that on finale night that’s when the website for voting gets shut down all the fans, celebs, and the pros that have been working hard all season got screwed so now I have no clue who is going to win I know who I want to win but with how things were last night with voting who knows.
That’s exactly it, Vogue. I really liked Zendaya’s contemporary the first week her jive in week 2. I’m sure she is a very nice girl. I even said in the preliminary rankings that I thought she would take 1st (based on her, Val, and her dancing). But the manipulation has turned me off from her and her rude fans didn’t help. Now I just want anybody but Zendaya to win.
Annie Barret over at EW.com has a great way of indicating something is truly obnoxious….after or inbedded int he sentence she “says” #sparklebarf…..
She referenced it a couple of times in her write up. If I tweeted I would tweet that to the obnoxious tweeters….
anyway, thank you to the mods for the site. It has made this pretty dismall season worthwhile.
I really hope you’re wrong Heidi – Kellie is the one who deserves to win and I hope she does.
Normally I wouldn’t even look at dialidol because the internet votes easily could outbalance the “result” shown there. But since the email voting didn’t happen this time, for whatever reason, I decided to take a look. To say I was surprised by their numbers is an understatement.
They have Kellie on a clear 1st place with a score of almost 125.000, Z with approx 26.5000, Aly with less than 25.000 and Jacoby with around 14.000…
It might be wishful thinking on my part – but I really hope they’re right this time. 🙂
derek totally put the others who tried to do some wacked out version of contemporary to shame…i’m telling you…he’s too good for this show…
i don’t know if zendaya is gonna win…i like her but her dance was not what i was expecting…nothing special really…and it felt short…plus that flip was soooo sloppy…but i think she just needs to get strong in her legs so everything doesn’t look so shaky and unstable…
I hope dial idol is right too Gitte!!! *keeps fingers crossed
Give Zendeya the MBT now (well deserved) and put a fork on this show. The entire voting fiasco last night was the last straw.
well zendaya tweeted that they trended all night- so hopefully her trolls wasted their efforts doing that versus picking up the phone and making calls. (i only call them trolls bc i literally got verbally assulted by a few illiterate kids cursing at me). Honestly- i don’t want to see Derek and Kellie’s dance as an encore- it was so good i don’t think they could replicate it. it just kinda came together and i don’t want to spoil that…so dance away to the encore Zendaya- just like Shawn did last year…and then hopefully you lose the real prize:) JK…kinda!
I did some checking around the web today on various other sites and the website down/ fans can’t vote online in the finals wasn’t even getting much traction as a story. Nobody really cares and I feel like it proves how irrelevant and passed over this show has become. It’s pathetic really and what a disservice to the couples.
Good points about the encore, Joey.
I don’t know where Zendaya gets the idea that she trended all night, though. I looked at the graphs and it doesn’t appear that way. Some were claiming she didn’t trend at all – which is equally dubious. In any case, the graphs show that Kellie had higher peaks of tweets, but Zendaya may have sustained it longer. She certainly didn’t run away with it, however.
Seriously suspect about the online voting down and more suspect that they were nonchalant about it on finals night. Wow!
I guess we will see. I did what I could to keep voting for Kellie via facebook. I even made a second facebook account. It wasn’t too hard to do!
I saw Tony D tweet to vote for Val and Zen I tweeeted back, that as a competing pro, he shouldn’t be throwing support towards one team. Maks is different, imho because Val is his BROTHER!! But not Tony or Peta!
#26 Joey, I’ve had hate spewed at me by the Zendaya shippers all season, it’s especially bad these last week weeks!
I’ve not had much access to the intenet the last few months, but have been watching DWTS faithfully and trying to keep up with at least some of the main posts on this site. I’m usually reading the posts days after the fact, so haven’t been posting.
The scoring this season is a joke. I usually watch with my mother and call out what the judges will score before they show their paddles. The judging BS is so predictable that normally I’m 100% accurate, or only off by a few points for the entire night combined.
I won’t argue with the final four, but that has been pretty obvious since the first show this season.
My rankings and why:
1. Kelly/Derek–just magic together. Their bodies fit together in dance perfectly. I’ve known who Kelly is since her days on IDOL, but I had no idea that she could move like she does. Very impressed with her—amazed even. Derek has been my favorite since the first season nad he has never disappointed me. I’m glad we got another season with him. but I can’t imagine that we’ll have many more. His phone must ring non-stop. Both dances were jawdropping.
2. Zendaya/Val–very good to excellent together. I look forward to seeing her dance when she fully grows into her limbs and loses that sense of awkwardness she sometimes displays when she is dancing. Val is much more PC than his brother, but he does seem to overdue it at times. But, that said, I was disappointed in both their dances last night. Where was the Samba bounce? The kids were wasted in the freestyle–they were barely involved in the routine. And I wouldn’t have known the theme if they hadn’t repeatedly stated what it was.
3. Aly/Mark–Good and getting better, but still in third place for me. Missed there first dance because we were under a severe storm watch/warming and the first half hour they didn’t show DWTS. Didn’t like their freestyle at all–probably my least favorite of the night. It just didn’t go anywhere—a try too hard and miss the mark routine for me.
4. Jacoby/Karina–
Good entertainment for the most part but the dance skill is certainly often lacking. He needs to dial back the dance party and work on getting the steps and shapes a lot cleaner. And I haven’t been able to see the “charm” others see. He wants to win, I get that, but I just don’t find him to be doing anything on the dance floor that makes him deserving.
At the end of the day it really is just a dance show to entertain nad help us deal with and sometimes escape form real life.”
My heart and prayers go out to all of those who have been effected by the tornado that caused so much pain and loss in Oklahoma.
That comment comparing Peta to Ed Hardy was hilarious! I saw some Ed Hardy perfume in the store the other day. I don’t even need to sniff it. I already know what it smells like. Eau de skanky!
I still think Kellie might pull off a win. She’s the little engine that could.
It was mentioned by others but it does feel like Zendaya did plateau weeks ago while Kellie building off the AT peaked at the right time. Also Carrie Ann’s comment about connection helped in the long run bc Kellie improved there,
I wish pros were more diplomatic but what can you do.
I’m worried that TPTB have already decided that next season’s perfect storyline is Maks trying to match Val’s win.
Hoping that Kellie wins but if not i just need to remember Tom’s line about “Have you seen the trophy?”
I’m really hoping that I get to see Kellie and Derek hoisting the Mirror Ball trophy tonight. I remember feeling so let down last year when Melissa and Tony won and I’m sure I’ll feel the same way if it goes to Z & V.
As others have said, I thought Z was talented in the beginning but the constant pimping really got to me. Especially putting her in the pimp spot for 2 weeks in a row. Kellie and Derek blew the competition away last night so no matter who wins, they are the true winners in my eyes – but I still want to see them w/ the Mirror Ball!
Ahh… I unfortunately think that you are right and Zendaya will win- even though i wish it was Kellie. Having abc.com, doesn’t help either i bet.
As for the encore- Kellie and Derek without a doubt!
I’ll be here praying for the best…
Also I have to say a huge THANK YOU to Courtney, Heidi, Vogue and everyone who works on this site for this season! Thank you to all you do on this site! I always enjoy reading the blogs and coming here:) Enjoy a break when the show is over- You need it!
Really, Sandy…Kellie’s husband gave her a puppy? That’s fantastic! Then the lucky lady already has two things worth 100 cheap mirror ball trophies — a loving husband and a sweet fur baby!!! 😛 I bet she’s beyond thrilled.
My votes went to Aly and Mark, they are my favorites, but mad the website went down and I couldn’t vote as much as I wanted. Well anyways, the winners of Season 16 will be Kellie and Derek, wasn’t their biggest fans, but don’t mind it one bit that they will win. They NAILED it last night,I just can’t wait to see the pissed face on Val when Kellie and Derek win over them lol. Also it seems like she also has the encore, she got way more tweets than zendaya.
Here’s 24hr hashtags for encorekellie
http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/encorekellie/
Here’s zendaya
http://www.hashtags.org/analytics/encorezendaya/
just look at the numbers
you guys are all so awesome because I totally feel the same way about Peta, Maks, Val, Tony, etc.
Tony and Louis I can stand but the rest.. ugh, just so annoying, especially when they say it in the context of “vote for the fam” or something..
I feel like their is certain groups within the cast of pros..
1) Maks (leader), Val, Tony, Peta,
2) Derek, Mark, Karina, Kim, Tristan, Anna (people I actually like)
and then Cheryl is somewhat in between those but I think shes more in the Maks group, and Tony seems friendly with all of them.
It’s sort of like when Maks and Karina broke up, everyone who was associated with Maks seemed to hate her and tbh, it seems like after they broke up she became more personable in the show and less of a strict teacher (especially after her seasons with Ralph and JR)
but Maks seems to be the same cocky guy as he always was, which I can see in Val as well.
Peta is just there. She uses her sexuality to an extreme, it’s like we get it, you have a great body.. but so does all the other female pros! Her season with Gilles annoyed me because both of them were over the top in my opinion. As Apolo said when he did his cha cha/paso, taking your shirt off should go in context with the mood of the dance (which made me laugh when he said it because Gilles was right behind him)
anyways.. I’m glad I’m not the only one who is annoyed by the “fam” pros, which by the way, I unfollowed most of them as well on twitter.
Yes, I read it today online somewhere, she has wanted a puppy and he had a surprise for her. So sweet.
.. a loving husband, a sweet fur baby and a few months dancing with Derek Hough! Yes, a very lucky girl.
Sandy and Cidra, I crossed over to the dark side last night and joined twitter so I could vote for #encorekellie. I deactivated my account today though. The things you have to do for those two crazy kids! 😉
Stay positive everyone!!! I have faith that Kellie will pull this off tonight!!!
Oh meggie – You go girl!
After watching the unbelievable coverage of the devastation in Oklahoma everything important in life flashes before your eyes. And honestly, who gives a rip who wins that tacky MBT.
Sending Hope and Prayers to all those incredible Heroes.
Yes Meggie and Cidra, It’s a little Maltese puppy.
You said it, Sandy! I send my prayers as well!
That Dance with me tweet irritated me so much – “So it’s not fair that Zendaya is on #DWTS? What about Kristi Yamaguchi, Shawn Johnson, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Grey? Was that fair?”
I love how they make sure to only mention previous partners of Derek and Mark with no mention of Maks’ ringer Mel B. If Jennifer Grey, a 50 year old woman who learned a few dance routine for a film 25 years previously, was a ringer then Mel B sure as hell was. And DanceWithMeUSA, stop acting the victim – Nicole gets called out for being a ringer ALL THE TIME.
The only reason I’ve watched this show for the last few years is for Derek however I quite enjoyed V and Z this season but all the twitter stuff from the Chmerkovsky mafia is making me dislike them. In fact I hate seeing tweets from any of the other pros supporting one team over another, I find it a bit unprofessional and would prefer if they waited until after the final.
I hope Derek and Kellie win tonight and that Derek moves on from this show. Then I too can be done with it! I’m fed up of all the manipulating and backstage producer shenanigans that obviously go on.
LOL Meggie, you sold a bit of your soul for a worthwhile cause, and it paid off!!!! We applaud you.
If I’m motivated to watch next season and TPTB continue the Twitter madness, I’ll join you. 😉
Feel robbed that I was unable to vote online, whether or not Kellie and Derek win. If they lose, I’ll wonder if my votes could have made the difference. If they win, I will have been denied the opportunity to support them with my vote. I just have to keep saying to myself—this is all #sparklebarf.
I’m really happy they got that redo it made me cry!!! Seriously Kellie is amazing!!!
Ahhh Andy and Sharma are doing jazz!!!!
I’m sorry to beat a dead horse, but again with the pink sneakers.
It’s pretty easy to dance a great jive when you’re wearing sneakers instead of ballroom shoes.
What a surprise…. Zendaya performs her instant jive in sneakers, and the judges don’t say anything about it.
OMG I cant believe that Dance Center was cut…. really, come one it is a finale tradition… I am furious……
I love Kellie, but I think Zendaya should’ve won. Derek didn’t need another trophy. His ego is big enough already. He just wants to be an actor and be famous, like his sister, who is a bad actress and just wants to be famous. It’s sad. I wonder how many dancers Derek called demented this year.
Woo Hoo! Champagne! Where’s the champagne?????
I am actually beside myself with happiness right now.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DEREK AND KELLIE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I WAS SO HAPPY I AM SO HAPPY OMG YES WOW OMG LOL OMG 🙂 I KNEW IT
I need a DRANK OMG I”M JUMPING AROUND THE HOUSE OMG 🙂
Hello…where do you go for booze? Heidi’s house of course. You should know better, meggie.
Weirdness – my balcony door just blew open from the storm outside
FYI – if you act like a total sore loser, I might leave your post up so people can see it.
Also, FYI, if you act like a poor winner, I WILL delete you.
It’s a long commute, PH! LOL!
Lol i mean know one should be mad its a competition and its fun that’s how i see it and not because i love derek but the show tried to cheat and it backed fired so im happy 🙂 and i did like Zendaya but they kept pushing her on us 🙂
@PH
Talk about weirdness…fireworks from the baseball game downtown started going off right after they announced the K/D win.
I cannot believe it. Happy, Happy, Happy.
oh John, Derek is the farthest thing from an egomaniac, but if he had one I would encourage him to wear it proudly, he has something to show for it. Any way not gonna rain on my parade. The right star won the right star/pro combination won. Congrats to Val for making it to finals 2 straight seasons, maybe he can take lessons from this season and apply them to next season. I think after this today, I have turned in my DWTS fan card. Not worth the stress, its been a good ride and am sure I will catch Derek in so many more arenas because God knows we have not seen anything yet. Thanks mods for keeping us updated during the season.
So Dancewithme tweets saying relax guys its just a TV show and congrats to all the participants and then goes on a RT frenzy of every tweet putting down Derek and Kellie and crying foul, not sure if they have a PR but I don’t think that’s a good look for a business.
Thank you, PH, for mentioning the Oklahoma food bank. It’s been a hard few days for this Oklahoma gal… 🙁 Also, thanks again to all of the mode here at Pure. You did a FANTASTIC job this season! Bravo, bravo, ladies! 🙂
Sigh… to be honest, I’m afraid for what S17 will bring. With the format changes, and the “age it down” crapola, this is the first time I’m actually *not* looking forward to the next DWTS season starting. Oh well, I guess I just need to get used to be too damned old for TPTB to care what I think…
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