The competition is heating up on Dancing With the Stars, with just sixcelebrities left in the race for the Season 35 mirror ball trophy.
The latest elimination came during Grammy Night, when the couples performed routines to songs that have either won or been nominated for a Grammy Award.
No guest judge joined Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli, but there was live music from Grammy-winning artists, including Sheryl Crow, Brandy and Maren Morris.
Here’s what happened last night and who was sent home.
Who left ‘Dancing With the Stars’ last night?
Jenna Dewan and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy were eliminated during Week 9, after a jazz routine to Janet Jackson’s “All For You.”
The pair had the lowest combined judges’ scores and viewer vote, despite winning their dance-off and tying for second place on the leaderboard with 30 points.
“Honestly, dancing again, getting to share my joy with my family, over here every single night, thank you, my baby, thank you,” said Dewan. “I had a great time and I loved getting to share that with the world. Honestly, all love.”
The show‘s cohost, Julianne Hough, called the elimination “shocking.”
Dewan was expected to go far in the competition. Her scores were consistently high — she scored a perfect 40 the previous week in addition to ranking highly this week — and she entered Dancing With the Stars with previous dance experience, including starring opposite Channing Tatum in the film Step Up and working as a backup dancer for Jackson.
Last night’s show featured three head-to-head dance-offs, instead of the usual dance-off between the bottom two couples. Winners of each dance-off were awarded two points. Dewan beat Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik to win hers.
No couples were awarded perfect scores, but Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson were close, scoring 29 out of 30 for a salsa to “Die With a Smile.”
The remaining six couples — Shum and Johnson, Ali and Ravnik, Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov, Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas, Ezra Frech and Danielle Karagach and Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold — will advance to the semifinals.
Who else has left ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
See the full list of celebrities eliminated from Dancing With the Stars below:
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Week 7:Tyler Cameron, reality TV star, and Jackson Olson, baseball player
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Week 5:Guillermo Rodriguez, TV personality
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Week 4:Ciara Miller, reality TV star
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Week 2:Giada De Laurentiis, chef
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Week 1:Conner Leavitt, reality TV star, and Sarah Jane Nader, influencer
When is ‘Dancing With the Stars’ on again?
Dancing With the Stars airs every Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+. Episodes are available to stream the following day on Hulu.
