Matt Walsh Reflects on ‘Tough Night’ After ‘DWTS’ Elimination

Matt Walsh is feeling nothing however gratitude following his Dancing With the Stars elimination.

“After a troublesome evening on TV, it’s at all times good to return residence to household,” the Veep alum, 58, captioned a pic of a home made signal which learn “we love you” through his Instagram Story on Tuesday, September 26. “Thanks for the love everybody!”

Walsh’s associate, Koko Iwasaki, addressed the elimination through her personal Instagram Story, writing, “I’m SO pleased with Matt and so pleased with how he danced tonight with some actual chacha steps. He’s a pleasure of a human, a real pupil and I might have him as a associate each season if I might.”

She continued: “You had been solely simply starting and we are going to proceed to bop! I really like you my buddy. And THANK YOU guys for all of the love and assist.”

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Following his elimination, Walsh praised Iwasaki for being “the very best,” telling cohosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, “I had an exquisite time and it was an exquisite expertise, and I might ask the judges to rewatch that routine someday.”

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Earlier within the episode, Walsh jokingly referred to as the ABC collection the “Olympics of dance” in his intro package deal earlier than expressing his want to go far within the competitors. “Sure, I’m a aggressive individual, so I hope I’m not the primary individual eradicated,” he acknowledged. “However I’m America’s sweetheart. They may carry me to victory.”

Forward of Tuesday’s episode, Walsh introduced he could be taking a “pause” from the present to face with the Author’s Guild of America (WGA) amid their strike. “I used to be excited to affix the present and did so underneath the impression that it was not a WGA present and fell underneath a special settlement,” he mentioned in a press release to Selection on September 21. “This morning after I was knowledgeable by my union, the WGA, that it’s thought of struck work I walked out of my rehearsal.”

He continued: “I’ve been and can at all times stand with my union members of the WGA, SAG and DGA [Director’s Guild of America]. Past our union artists, I’m delicate to the many individuals impacted by the strike and I hope for a speedy and truthful decision, and to in the future work once more with all of the great individuals I met at DWTS who tolerated my dancing.”

After the WGA introduced on Sunday, September 24 {that a} tentative deal had been made with the AMPTP, a rep for Walsh introduced on Monday, September 25, that he would compete on the present in any case. “It’s been a brutal summer season for all of us union members, so blissful the WGA brokered a take care of the studios, it is going to be good to place down our indicators,” Walsh wrote through Instagram on Monday, September 25. “Now let’s use this momentum to get all SAG/AFTRA actors again to work.”