PureDWTS Season 20 Finale Media and Interviews After Night One
I can’t believe we’re down to the last shows of the season. Also, I can’t get Riker and Allison’s Jack Sparrow and Freestyle dances out of my head. I love when that happens and I hope and pray it’s telling for tonight’s outcome? So, first up, let’s get the scores first from last night….
Riker and Allison Holker – 80 (40/40)
Rumer Willis and Val Chmerkovskiy – 80 (40/40)
Noah Galloway and Sharna Burgess – 72 (32/40)
You can also view some magnificent photos from last night at the Daily Mail, ABC7, and Entertainment Tonight.
You can watch some new interviews at E Online. The couples weigh in on how they were feeling after they danced.
E Online also reviewed the dances last night. They are still upset about Derek and Nastia not being in the finals. Me too. Ditto to this paragraph and Riker in his Jack Sparrow costume…
Let the record show: We are still mad.
Nastia Liukin should be in these finals and there’s nothing you could say that would make us change our mind about that. However, regardless of what we think, we can’t do anything to change reality and we’re just going to have to accept the fact that we do not control television and focus on the good things, like Riker Lynch in a Jack Sparrow costume.
FOX 11 interviewed the couples as well. Here is a take from the link….
Rumer also told FOX411 about doing the freestyle, “Honestly, you have to just let the whole world disappear and you just have to dance with your partner and stay with that connection…it was amazing. I don’t even feel like I totally remember it. I don’t know how to explain it. We put everything we had on the floor.”
While her supporters include A-listers like Gwyenth Paltrow and Ashton Kutcher, who tweeted their love on Monday, Rumer gratefully noted backstage that it was her crew of NON-famous fans who voted her into the finale.
Rumer received a perfect score of 80 for the two dances.
Meanwhile, double amputee Galloway scored a 32 for his first dance and a 40 for his second for a total of 72 points.
He told FOX411 about his freestyle with partner Sharna Burgess, “I felt great because I was not happy after the first dance and so many [co-stars] came up to me…and said, ‘Shake it off.’
“And Sharna was like, ‘Let’s just dance and feel it.’ And that’s what I did.”
Army veteran Galloway lost two limbs while fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005, and hit rock bottom before pulling himself out of a major depression.
So for his freestyle, he explained backstage to FOX411, “The other dancers represented my mom, my dad, my sisters, friends of mine that have been on this journey with me even in the darkest times. When I was struggling and they were helping me, they were fixing me. Even when I didn’t want them, they were doing something for me even if it was stepping back. But then they were coming in and it was that moment of walking and them doing it for me — and me coming out the other side on my own.
“I’m who I am today because of them and after it was done, I looked over and my mom is in the audience and it hit me. And after it went to commercial I went right over to her and we cried and told each other we loved each other.
“It couldn’t have ended better,” he said.
Riker Lynch, who dressed up in a white tuxedo, hat, and tails to dance freestyle with partner Allison Holker, also impressed earlier in the night by recreating his “Pirates of the Caribbean” dance, complete with firing cannon.
He told reporters, “That is such an epic dance for me. I’m such a ‘Pirates’ fan so the fact we got to do that again and get such great remarks from the judges was so cool!”
Glamour also has some coverage backstage that you’ll want to read including some teasers for tonight’s show.
And here are more interviews, coverage, and recaps….
Access Hollywood:
Afterbuzz TV:
ETA: You can watch Noah and Sharna’s Afterbuzz TV interview here.
GMA:
Ok, keep checking back. We’ll add more later. Thanks for reading and all of your support for this site all season!! You are all the best! xx
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