PureDWTS DWTS Junior Season 1 – The “What To Look Forward To” Spoiler Thread **SPOILERS AHEAD**
So I was struggling with the whole spoiler situation, relative to DWTS Junior – since it’s being pre-taped, for the first time, we have spoilers that could potentially reveal the outcome of a show that’s not due to air for 2 more months…and I’m not really cool with that, since I want people to tune in and actually watch the show; plus I’m not really looking to get into any Reality Steve vs. The Bachelor-style legal brouhaha’s. So if you’re looking for who got eliminated – look elsewhere, I promise there are people on Twitter who are more than willing to share that info with you if you just know where to look. What we’re going to be sharing here is the good stuff – stuff you can look forward to watching once the show starts airing in October 🙂 What we share may vary week to week, based on what we hear from sources and people fortunate enough to attend the taping…I’m leaving this a bit open-ended, until I figure out the right format for it. I’ll update as I hear more, so stay tuned. Now if you’re just looking for pro/celeb/mentor/etc. spoilers, go here; if you are looking for an explanation of how scoring/voting will work, go here. Be warned – spoiler-y stuff after the jump…
Week 1:
Taped: 7/28/18
Airing: 10/7/18
High-scorers: Mandla & Brightyn, Ariana & Aryton (the only two teams to receive at least two 8’s – the highest paddle the judges brought out that night)
Eliminations: Two couples (one was Tripp & Hailey; 10 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Multiple people at the taping have told me they were “pleasantly surprised” by Alana; I’ve also heard universal praise for Akash & Kamri being ABSURDLY adorable, and potential fan favorites 🙂
Week 2:
Taped: 8/2/18 (schedule changed just for this week)
Airing: 10/14/18
High-scorer(s): Ariana & Artyon, Kenzie & Sage, Miles & Rylee (three-way tie)
Eliminations: One couple (9 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Couples danced to songs from the year the celeb was born – Alana danced to “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls 😎 Apparently this elimination was a shocker – so to put a positive spin on it, be prepared to be surprised this season…and just because your favorite might be at the bottom of the leaderboard, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re headed home!
Week 3 (Disney night):
Taped: 8/3/18
Airing: 10/21/19
High-scorer(s): Miles & Rylee, Kenzie & Sage (Ariana & Artyon were 2nd from the top)
Eliminations: One couple (8 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Miles & Rylee danced to a song from Aladdin (see below); Alana & Tristan had Beauty & the Beast (and Alana got to dress as Belle); Elliana & Jason did Toy Story (with Elliana as Jessie – see below); Akash & Kamri had Hercules; Sophia & Jake did The Little Mermaid
Week 4 (Halloween Night):
Taped: 8/10/18
Airing: 10/28/19
High-scorer(s): Miles & Rylee
Eliminations: One couple (7 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Songs/themes included Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, “Witch Doctor”, and Descendants. A few pix of the contestants in costume below. This elim was apparently kind of a tough one.
Week 5 (Junior’s Choice Night):
Taped: 8/11/18
Airing: 11/4/18 11/11/18
High-scorer(s): Ariana & Artyon (got the first “10” of the season)
Eliminations: One couple (6 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Couples danced to songs/styles picked by the junior celeb. Ariana picked hip-hop and she & Artyon apparently brought the house down to “Rolex” by Ayo & Teyo. Val pretended to give them his own Rolex as a prize for killing the dance 😛
Week 6 (“Giving Thanks” Night):
Taped: 8/17/18
Airing: 11/11/18 11/18/18
High-scorer(s): Sky & JT (got 29/30 for their foxtrot)
Eliminations: One couple (5 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Couples did dances dedicated to the people/things they were thankful for. Stevie Wonder was in the audience to support Mandla, who did a foxtrot. Maddie Ziegler made a cameo in sis Kenzie’s samba. Akash & Kamri did a super cute jazz routine to “Jai Ho”. Ariana & Artyon did salsa. Both happy and sad tears shed throughout the show, and this elimination was a heartbreaker 🙁
Week 7 (“90’s” Night Time Machine Night/quarterfinals):
Taped: 8/18/18
Airing: 11/18/18 11/25/18
High-scorer(s): Miles & Rylee (only couple to get a 10)
Eliminations: One couple (4 couples remain)
Other things to look forward to: Kenzie apparently did a jazz to “Call Me Maybe” (which is not a 90’s song, so who knows). One couple did a paso doble, one did a jive, one did a quickstep, and one did a Charleston.
Before I go any further, a note: at this point, it’s getting hard for me to do “what to look forward to” spoilers without revealing who’s left – I’ll try my best, but just know that if you don’t want to be completely spoiled, you run the risk of being able to deduce some things if you venture past this point. K?
…you sure you want to proceed?
…like, really really sure?
…aight, you’ve been warned…
Week 8 (Team Dance Night/semifinals):
Taped: 8/24/18
Airing: 11/25/18 12/2/18
High-scorer(s): Kenzie & Sage (only couple to get a perfect score of 30, but no score lower than “9” was given)
Eliminations: No eliminations (4 couples remain – everyone goes to the finals)
Other things to look forward to: Each couple did an individual dance and a team (duet, really) dance. Everyone left did really, really well, and source thinks any of the four finalists remaining has the potential to win the whole thing 🙂 Hint on who made the finals: Kenzie/Sage/Gleb (obviously), two other female celeb/male junior pro/male mentor teams, and one male celeb/female junior pro/female mentor team. Scores & votes from this show get rolled into the finals, to determine the eventual winner. Duet pairs were Kenzie/Sage & last male celeb/his junior pro and the two other female celebs/their junior pros.
Aight, now it’s about to get REAL spoilery up in here…if you don’t want a hint on what happened at the finale, click HERE to go back to the main page NOW.
You still wanna know?
Keep in mind, this isn’t airing till December…
Ok, fine, you asked for it….
Week 9 (Finale):
Taped: 8/25/18
Airing: 12/02/18 12/9/18
Other things to look forward to: Finale had a Christmas theme, much like the fall finales of the regular seasons. Couples did a freestyle (all Christmas-themed) and one other dance. Gleb utilized an outside choreographer for Kenzie & Sage’s freestyle (thank god). Only the winner was announced (no runners-up, 3rd place, etc.); winner was a female celeb/male junior pro/male mentor. Kids had an afterparty at the studio with cake & pizza, and all are headed home today (most of them had to do their first week of school with tutors last week at the rehearsal space – so tomorrow is the first real day of school for them).
And that’s all I’ve got, folks. I’ll leave this post pinned for a few more days, but with season 27 of regular DWTS gearing up this week, I’m probably not going to say much more about Juniors until the celeb cast announcement (whenever that might be) or closer to the premiere of Juniors (Oct. 7). So if you want to refer back to this post – bookmark it. Heidi & I are still trying to figure out how we’re going to cover Juniors, so if you’ve got any suggestions, let’s hear ’em. Heidi will still be doing a version of “by the numbers”, and I’m trying to decide if we truly need both a live blog AND power rankings. Either way – the next three months are going to be BUSY for us, so please bear with us 🙂
I haven’t heard much about Miles and Rylee, and I expected nothing but praise for them. Have you heard if they did well or not? Also thank you for this thread, it’s already getting me so excited for the show!!!
Miles & Rylee did well in week 1, they just weren’t the high-scorers. One source mentioned that the judges appear to be going a bit harder on contestants with dance experience – they’re being held to a bit of a different standard than those without.
That makes sense. Thanks!!!
I LOVE THIS POST!!! And I do not want any spoilers that will tell who went home or anything like that!???? But these kinda tidbits are awesome! ????????
If the judges are being tougher on the contestants with some dance experience, I’m all for it. If that’s the case, I’m curious to know how Kenzie did week 1?????
Any info on if all the couples did ballroom or not week 1? Curious….
If week 2 is already a theme week like Disney, the kids might definitely be doing different dances other than just ballroom, depending on the song….
Pleased to see Cheryl and Brandon kiddos scored the highest scores week 1-good mentoring!
Not surprised to hear that Mandla doing so well….had a feeling he would be good. Alana being a pleasant surprise makes me happy. She may be a lot of energy at times and over the top sometimes as a kid but if you watch the Mama June show on WeTv, she really is just a lot of fun now. I guess without pageants she found better outlets for her energy lol.
Actually surprised Miles hasn’t been a top scorer. Has he still done well at least?
So week 3 is Disney-I guess the first 2 weeks are going to show predominantly ballroom dances from the kids? At any rate, go Brandon’s team so far! Pleasantly surprised to hear they scored high again in week 2!
Any news on Elliana and her partner?
@amanda – See the update I just posted 😉
Any word on how the pros are as mentors? Glad to see Brandon’s team is doing well! Hoping Hayley and Alan have good runs and get to show off their personality a little more too!
Who are considered ringers in the group? How does Cheryl & her pair do? Are the judges fair enough? just seem odd that Val is up there, while I thought he isn’t the most eloquent .Unfair that all judges somehow closest to Jenna . I wish they’ve taken some people totally unrelated to any of the pros or dancers
Have 3 couples already been eliminated?
Love the use of songs from the year they were born for the juniors. It basically makes sure they probably have used the song before on the adults version lol.
Any news or hints how Hudson is doing?
How are Elliana and Jason doing ?
who were the high scorers for disney night?
Thank you so much for all your hard work in putting together all this information Courtney! These insights make me so excited for the show to air!
I am going to soooo look forward to seeing Disney Night with these kids!! I mean, at times, these themed weeks could be cheesy on regular DWTS but with the kids, I bet, something like Disney Week is just adorable!!
kenzie and sage are doing extremely well but i wonder how she did in the first week. im surprised shes doing this well considering her packed schedule ( she flew up here into the uk for two festival performances.) i wonder if miles and renee will be the main competition for kenzie and sage. does anyone know any details of their performances and how they’ve faired?
I Love Disney week! These Kids + Disney = tv gold for me already. Might be the only week they don’t have to check lyrics out lol.
@israa – I’m not sure you can really infer that “Kenzie & Sage are doing extremely well” – I’ve been told the scores have actually been pretty close together, and they’ve only ever tied for the high score, so it’s not like they’re blowing all the other couples out of the water. They’re doing well, but the judges are understandably being much tougher on Kenzie since she’s a trained dancer. If you’re wondering if Miles & RYLEE are going to be competition for Kenzie & Sage, I’d say yes – and I’d say Ariana & Artyon are going to be competition as well, and possible Mandla & Brightyn as the dark horse. Kenzie isn’t the only front-runner here.
How are Jason and Elliana getting on
Court, do you know which movie Kenzie had?
Ok, I feel I need to add a few PSA’s to this thread –
1.) Please do not ask “But how did [insert couple here] do???” or “How are [insert couple here] doing???” Please reread the intro to this post – this is just a “whet your appetite” post, not a “spoil all the things!!!” post. I am not taking requests for information, and I have carefully chosen what I am going to share about each episode, and what I have chosen not to share. I am politely asking you to respect that, and not litter the comments section with questions about certain couples. Feel free to comment on what I have posted, though.
2.) Judging from the questions I’ve been getting, I’m going to take a guess that some of the new traffic we’re seeing is from Dance Moms fans. First of all, welcome – glad to have you. Second of all, I would kindly ask that you not follow in the footsteps of so many fandoms before you and try to co-opt this site into a de facto Kenzie/Elliana fan site – each season, we seem to have one fan group that spams the comments with questions/comments/arguments/etc. about their fave, and it tends to drive off our regulars that are here season after season because they love the show, rather than a specific celeb that is only on for one season. PLEASE DO NOT BE THAT FANDOM THIS SEASON. It makes us here at Pure cranky, and it makes us kind of inadvertently root against your celeb because we want want our site back. I’m sure there are plenty of other boards/Reddit/fansites where you can bond with other Dance Moms fans.
3.) If you ask me a question and I don’t respond, DO NOT ask the same question, just with a different name – that’s called sock puppeting, and it’s annoying and deceptive. We can see that it’s the same person, and that makes us cranky. Also, if you ask a question and I don’t answer, PLEASE DON’T KEEP SPAMMING THE COMMENTS WITH THE SAME QUESTION REPEATEDLY. Odds are, I’ve seen your question, and I’ve chosen not to answer it – please reread the intro to the post if you don’t understand why I haven’t answered.
4.) If you guys read between the lines a bit, you can probably deduce some answers to the questions you’ve got (i.e. if you see that I mentioned Jason & Elliana dancing to Toy Story in Disney week, that means they’re still in the competition, and thus probably doing well). Also, if you read some of the previous comments, you might find the answers to your questions – if we’ve already answered a questions in the comments section, and we see you asking the same question further downstream, that too makes us cranky.
Carry on…
Thank you for these tidbits Court! I’m really looking forward to this season and seeing what goes on with the juniors.
Courtney, I have a bad feeling about some of the kids.
Don’t know what’s happening but Jason and Ariana are my favorites. However, I think Akash may be out.
What makes you say that, Miner?
Because, Akash is out of the news.
Hayley’s pair must be out because she sure looks like she is having loads of fun on vacation in Utah this week. I had hoped her pair would do better.
@Miner – Was Akash ever IN the news? Just going to drop a little hint here: some of the names you’re hearing a lot have already been eliminated, and some of the names you might not be hearing at all are still in the competition. It’s not very straightforward.
Halloween week with kids has to be tv gold. Nobody (well maybe Sasha and Mark) loves that more than kids 🙂
Sidenote: This is a question not about the contestants or anything like that. Is there any chance of a adult and child pro group dance?
#vin great Q to ask! Kinda curious about that myself???? I’m assuming there will be pro junior numbers for sure since I’ve seen pics, on instagram, on the girl junior pros dressed up in all the same dance dresses-like it was for a group dance number. They looked soooo cute!!!???????????? But I, also, recently saw a pic of Cheryl dressed up, on instagram and Twitter, for the Halloween night show-saw I’m gonna assume that the DWTS pros are dancing as well with the junior pros? I guess we’ll see….
WOW Brandon’s team keeps rockin it!!???????????????? Soooo psyched to see their dance that week and that theme should be pretty fun for all the kids!!
Really hope that Brandon’s success as a mentor means he’ll get promoted to being a pro. If not this fall, then hopefully in the spring.
How many weeks is dwtsjr? Is the final next week?
Next Saturday is the finale.
Why not a DWTS-S? with all 50+ contestants? At least it would make for a more level playing field.
I have no idea what you’re referring to, Pat.
Ugh I hate that Call Me Maybe song and no it’s not a 90’s song????????
I like the Giving Thanks theme, tho, from the prior week-I think it’s a very appropriate theme for kids to focus on and think about and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing that week’s dances:)
Well I have to admit that I was scared that the judges would be biased and favor Jenna’s couple, due to the close relationship they all share with her. I guess that was wrong and they were an early out. You see no mention of them in scores or dance/song selection, so I am assuming they are gone. I also think the pairs mentored by Emma, Sasha, Hayley, Keo and Artem must also be out. Can’t believe that the finale is Saturday, that went buy so quickly.
Call Me Maybe?” That ‘call” came about
12 years too late to be considered a 90’s “ring tone” LOL
I’ve always wanted the regular DWTS to do a 90s night. But Call Me Maybe? How are they even go to pass that off as 90s? There weee so many great songs to choose from from that decade.
I think Lindsay and brandon and gleb and the kids there mentoring are in the finals
Well I don’t know who’s left in the finals besides Kenzie but if I’m, truly, hoping she doesn’t win LOL If Lindsay and her team are left or Brandon and his team are left (and I have NO IDEA who’s left), I hope they have a shot at beating Kenzie out for that trophy????
But I guess, in the end, if they’re all that good, then I applaud all the dancers who’ve gotten to this point-I’m sure it’s been a long road for these kids and they’ve all worked hard no matter who wins:)
“…aight, you’ve been warned…” – stealing this one for every time my friends asks me what I think of their outfits when we go to Atlantic City in November lol.
Anyways, I think I have two of the final 4 figured out. If I’m right I think I will be very very happy
Iwas looking forward to watch DWTS Jr until I saw dance moms/Kenzie fans stating that she said on one of her live videos that she won dwtsjr. While she and sage might not be the top of the ledear boards with the audience being dance moms fans it is probably likely that she be the winner. That plus her and Sage dancing together on multiple occasions give her a leg up on the competition.
@Jules – You don’t think that sounds a bit convenient, do you? Dance Moms fans claiming Kenzie, who was on Dance Moms, won DWTS Junior? I’m sure they’re a completely unbiased source…
…receipts or it didn’t happen. And don’t believe everything you hear. Considering there were hefty fines being threatened against the contestants for revealing info about the outcome, if Kenzie is really spilling the beans, she is one foolish girl who will probably lose her (theoretical) prize money plus more for her loose lips.
I’m so excited to see the show when it airs!
As for how to cover it, the numbers and live blog posts sound good. I LOVE the Power Rankings posts but that format seems a little odd for this IMO because not only would you already know the results, usually the rankings are based on how you think the audience’s perceptions are altered s the show goes on and that’s something we’re not really going to be getting since it was a different studio audience every episode so most of those people would be voting on first impressions based on what they saw the day they were there (in terms of packages, I’m pretty sure we’ll see different ones every week on TV but apparently they showed the studio audience the same one with the teams first meeting at every taping). So each episode kind of exists in a bubble in that sense.But if you have an idea of how to do it with this format, I say go for it!
I saw on another spoiler site that the final 4 couples in the final consisted of 3 male pros and 1 female pro, have you heard anything like that too? I know you mentioned that there were two male and two female.
Read the post more carefully, AA. I have already said this.
Also, guys, please don’t come in here with “well I heard on Twitter/Instagram/another board that [insert piece of info here], can you comment on that?” Guys, EVERYTHING IS IN THE POST. I don’t feel the need to respond to what is going on on social media/other discussion boards – I trust my source, my intel is good, we’ve proved our intel is good for about 7 years now. I don’t owe it to “another spoiler site” to show receipts. What you see is what you get, and I’d appreciate it if you guys would actually read what I’ve posted more carefully.
Please don’t stop with the DWTS Power Rankings Court!!
I say keep them for S27 but maybe skip them for Juniors since it’s pre-taped?
Thanks for all your hard work! Us long-time followers REALLY appreciate all the hard work you, Heidi, Vogue, John & Lori put into Pure!!
I don’t mean to challenge you or put you down at all, I appreciate what you do was just curious. Thanks so much for all you keep us posted with!
How cute is that finale gonna look with those kids!! ???????????? and I love how they celebrated with the kids in true style-cake a pizza! Spot on!!
#Courtney – since I don’t follow her or her live feeds I only have to go by what several have stated that Kenzie herself mentioned in her live chats. But then again she is known embellish the truth so who knows. I don’t think she would actually care about a fine, Mommy would swoop in with her lawyer and take care of things for her.
Hmm as far as how you guys cover DWTS juniors, @Courtney you’ve done a great job updating us all summer with your post and I hate to say it, but by the time the show actually rolls around, there are going to be more and more spoilers on social media unfortunately:/
Since it’s pretaped, I personally don’t think a live blog is necessary cause the show isn’t airing live? A full power rankings would give you guys extra work on top of the work you’re putting in for DWTS season27. Maybe just a scaled down version of a power rankings for juniors? ????????♀️ Just my thoughts….no matter what, you know I’m an avid supporter!
Power rankings are always fun 🙂 . Also, am I the only one a bit disappointed by the trophy the winner gets? I was expecting the usual mirror ball trophy.
#vin ha! Ha! I saw a pic of that trophy too!! It’s star shaped or something? I wasn’t into it either-I figured it would look like a small version of the mirror ball trophy? But they did that for the recent short athletes season-so I guess the producers felt the winner of the juniors should be given something that’s totally different? ???? Maybe when we see it better on our TV’s screens in a few months, that trophy will look more appealing lol
And I’m sure the kids didn’t mind-they must’ve thought it was the most exciting thing! ????
The trophy looks like a Christmas Tree star
WHy is Mackenzie against these other children? She is n award winning dancer.
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Kenzie should be considered a professional dancer, she danced with Abbey Lee Dance studio. How can she be a contestant. Also, since we don’t get to vote, why bother watching. Totally disappointed in one of my favorite shows.
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