“Dancing With the Stars always goes all out for Monster Night and this year’s Halloween episode was no different. Each couple danced twice on Tuesday night – first for their solo routines and then in the group marathon.
Many of the couples had fun with the Halloween theme, including Alyson Hannigan and Sasha Farber. Hannigan went back to her Buffy the Vampire Slayer roots and although she didn’t mention the name of the show (and couldn’t because of the SAG-AFTRA strike), she dressed as a vampire and dedicated her paso doble to the fans who have stuck with her through the years.
Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy impressed the judges with a contemporary routine. At the end of the dance, however, Chmerkovskiy carried Gomez to get her scores as she suffered some sort of injury. She fought through the pain to earn a score of 37 out of 40 and returned for the second round.
Harry Jowsey, on the other hand, struggled with the judges’ low scores and the negative comments he had read about himself on social media. “It’s humiliating because I’m doing my best but it’s never good enough,” he told his partner Rylee Arnold. She brought in her sister, former professional Lindsay Arnold, to help lift her spirits.
During the Monster-thon, the couples all danced in the ballroom at the same time. The first eliminated couples received only one bonus point, while the winning pair – Gomez and Chmerkovskiy – received five. Going into the elimination, Gomez and Chmerkovskiy sat at the top of the leaderboard, while Jowsey and Arnold remained at the bottom.
In the end, however, the votes spoke louder than the judges’ scores and Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater were eliminated.
