This text accommodates spoilers for episode 2 of Dancing With the Stars season 31.
Elvis is within the constructing! The season 31 Dancing With the Stars contestants and their skilled companions grooved to songs by the king of rock and roll throughout the Monday, September 26, episode.
After discovering herself within the backside two final week, Teresa Giudice and associate Pasha Pashkov labored on the Actual Housewives of New Jersey star bringing extra ardour to the efficiency. The truth TV persona devoted her efficiency throughout Monday’s episode to her late father, whom she used to look at DWTS with.
“I’ve to say, to start with I choked up,” Giudice, 50, advised host Alfonso Ribeiro after the efficiency. The judges observed a distinction from final week and Derek Hough advised her he’d seen a “enormous enchancment.” Nonetheless, Len Goodman had some constructive criticism, telling the New Jersey native her kicks had been “not sharp sufficient.”
On the finish of the evening, the Bravo star and Pashkov, 36, landed within the backside two once more together with Cheryl Ladd and Louis Van Amstel. The judges had been cut up on which duo to ship house, however head choose Goodman’s vote finally sealed Giudice’s destiny and she or he was eradicated.
“This was one thing that I’ve all the time needed to do, and I lastly did it,” she mentioned after Goodman, 78, made his choice.
One DWTS professional was lacking from Elvis Evening — Joseph Baena‘s associate, Daniella Karagach.
“Sadly, Daniella Karagach examined optimistic in a single day for Covid. She is totally asymptomatic and is self-quarantining. Everybody who has been in shut contact together with her has examined adverse,” a spokesperson for the truth competitors sequence advised Us Weekly in an announcement on Monday.
Dance troupe member Alexis Warr stepped in to bop with Baena, 24, as an alternative. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son wore a masks throughout his efficiency as he was thought-about to have shut contact with Karagach, 29.
The dancer and choreographer took to social media to implore viewers to vote for Baena in her absence. “Joe has a lot to present,” she mentioned by way of her Instagram Story, including that the health mannequin was “in the very best fingers” along with his stand-in associate. The judges gave the duo a rating of 24 and complimented Baena for main a dance so early within the competitors.
On the finish of the evening, three pairs had been tied for first place with a rating of 32 — Gabby Windey and Val Chmerkovskiy, Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas and Wayne Brady and Witney Carson.
Dancing With the Stars airs on Disney+ on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
