'Dancing With the Stars' Season 20 Episode 5 Recap: Suzanne Somers Eliminated as ABC Show Goes Disney
Suzanne Somers on Monday became the fourth contestant to be eliminated from "Dancing with the Stars" after the actress managed to get her heel got caught in her dress during a jazz dance with partner Tony Dovolani, Fox News reported.
"That was a bummer," the 68-year-old told FOX 411, according to the news channel. "That was just one of those things that never entered my mind -- never, ever -- that there would be an issue with the heel getting caught in the hem of my dress. And I couldn't extricate it," she explained.
Dovolani, meanwhile, relied on the old "the show must go on" motto.
"She looked at me, and I was like, 'Just keep going! I got you!'" the professional dancer said.
The couple's jazz was based on the animated classic "Lady and the Tramp" as the ABC show celebrated its second-ever "Disney Night," the Los Angeles Times noted. The two-hour event was made "for those who like to see animated snippets from iconic family flicks mixed with shameless corporate cross-promotion," the newspaper judged.
And how did some of the remaining couples in the competition fare?
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Robert Herjavec did not quite hit the right steps during the aptly titled "Step in Time" from "Mary Poppins." But head judge Len Goodman love the Shark Tank panelist's enthusiasm. Herjavec and his partner, Kym Johnson, scored 24 points.
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Soul singer Patti LaBelle remains a "crowd pleaser," according to the Los Angeles Times, and the 70-year-old did a solid job with the "When You Wish Upon a Star" waltz from "Pinocchio." She and Artem Chigvintsev took home 27 points.
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"Practically perfect in every way" is how judge Bruno Tonioli evaluated the "Frozen" jazz routine "Love is an Open Door" performed by gymnast Nastia Liukin and dancer Derek Hough. The result: a whopping 38 points.
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Actress Rumer Willis slipped in the the role of Ursula, the villain from "The Little Mermaid," and "the crowd went nuts, as did the judges," the Los Angeles Times said. She and partner Val Chmerkovskiy scored no fewer than 39 points.
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Singer Riker Lynch and his partner, Allison Holker, performed "a beast of a paso," as judge Carrie Ann Inaba put it. The "Pirates of the Caribbean"-themed dance earned them 38 points.
The remaining contestants, meanwhile, ended up in the middle of the field: Combat soldier Noah Galloway and dancer Sharna Burgess scored 28 points with their "Aladdin" routine; "Bachelor" star Chris Soules and his partner, Witney Carson, earned 27 for "Zero to Hero"; and dancer Mark Ballas led actress Willow Shields to 34 points with a foxtrot from "Alice in Wonderland," the newspaper detailed.
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