{"id":264568,"date":"2026-09-23T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-35-viral-hits-night-continues-low-score-trend-who-was-sent-home\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:10:37","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-season-35-viral-hits-night-continues-low-score-trend-who-was-sent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-35-viral-hits-night-continues-low-score-trend-who-was-sent-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dancing With the Stars\u2019 Season 35 Viral Hits Night Continues Low Score Trend: Who Was Sent Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"gallery-current\">\n<p>The cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/dancing-with-the-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em><\/a> brought their best moves to the ballroom for night three of season 35 \u2014 but for one couple, it still wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>The third episode of the season aired on Tuesday, September 22, with both the male and female celebrity contestants dancing to popular social media songs as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-35-themes-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viral Hits Night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenna Dewan<\/strong> and <strong>Val Chmerkovskiy<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/dwts-season-35-premiere-night-2-recap-who-went-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked off the night<\/a> with a performance of Katseye\u2019s \u201cAnimal,\u201d which received praise from judges <strong>Bruno Tonioli, <\/strong><strong>Carrie Ann Inaba <\/strong>and<strong> Derek Hough. <\/strong>Tonioli told Dewan that she was a \u201cfast and furious sexy beast\u201d and that she \u201cdid not miss a beat.\u201d<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later on in the night, <strong>Ezra Frech<\/strong> was praised for his cha-cha with pro <strong>Daniella Karagach<\/strong>. Inaba told the Paralympian that he demands \u201cus to watch and you demand excellence for yourself,\u201d while Hough said he was \u201cblown away\u201d by the performance. They were given a score of 21, tying for first place with Dewan and Chmerkovskiy.<\/p>\n<p>Olympian <strong>Amber Glenn<\/strong> and pro partner <strong>Pasha Pashkov <\/strong>made the top score a three-way tie when they also earned a 21 points. Tonioli declared it was the \u201cbest tango of the night,\u201d and Inaba said that the performance was \u201cphenomenal,\u201d leaving her with \u201cshivers\u201d and \u201cfull body chills.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>However, the judges weren\u2019t quite as complimentary to all of the contestants.\u00a0Tonioli told <strong>Giada De Laurentiis<\/strong> that her salsa with pro partner <strong>Alan Bersten<\/strong> had \u201cno spice,\u201d with Inaba admitting she found the number to be \u201cshaky.\u201d They were given a score of 12 \u2014 matching <strong>Guillermo Rodriguez<\/strong> and pro partner <strong>Witney Carson<\/strong> as the lowest score of the night \u2014 and were ultimately sent home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried my best and it wasn\u2019t best enough. But I tried my best,\u201d De Laurentiis following her elimination.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Scroll down for a complete breakdown of each couple\u2019s scores from the third episode of season 35:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/dancing-with-the-stars-viral-hits-night-recap-who-went-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cast of Dancing With the Stars brought their best moves to the ballroom for night three of season 35 \u2014 but for one couple, it still wasn\u2019t enough. The third episode of the season aired on Tuesday, September 22, with both the male and female celebrity contestants dancing to popular social media songs as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}