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Dancing With The Stars 9 – The Semi-Final Results

Aired 11-17-09

We opened with the encore dance – Mya & Dmitry’s Salsa.  That was an easy choice.  It was certainly THE dance of the previous night.  It was just as fabulous the second time around.

In the recap we learned that Kelly made up her solo in the Rumba because she forgot the whole thing.  We also saw that Kym was at least as upset as Donny over their disastrous Tango.

Hosts Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris announced that the first couple moving on to the finals …. was going to be announced shortly.  Oh, that was just mean!

Samantha then interviewed the four celebs and I was struck by Kelly and Joanna’s comments.  They both sounded like they were getting themselves prepared to be eliminated.

The first number of the night was a production of “Be Italian” from the movie “Nine”.  I’m not sure who the people were performing the number.  I also don’t know that I would have picked this particular number for such a high profile spot.  The commercial that followed was much more appealing. 

Musical Guest #1:  Alicia Keys with “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart”.  Alicia looked gorgeous but I wasn’t loving the thigh high blue suede boots.

Oh, good grief.  They had the four celebs lip syncing in a music video to David Bowie’s “Under Pressure”.  Donny was getting waaayyy too into it. 

We finally got some results.  Tom & Samantha called forward Joanna & Derek and Mya & Dmitry as they were the two highest scoring couples.  The result:
Mya & Dmitry Chaplin – in the finals.
Joanna Krupa & Derek Hough – in jeopardy.

Musical Guest #2:  Leona Lewis with “Happy”.  Leona was wonderful but I seriously did not like the choreography for the dancers.  It was much too melodramatic.

Tom then had Donny & Kym and Kelly & Louis come to center stage:
Donny Osmond & Kym Johnson – in the finals. Donny looked immensely relieved.
Kelly Osbourne & Louis van Amstel – in jeopardy.

Musical Guest #3:  The BeeGees.  Specifically Barry and Robin Gibb singing “You Should Be Dancing”.  It’s a little unbelievable that Barry can still rock that falsetto after all these years.  They were joined by Tony Dovolani, Cheryl Burke, Chelsie Hightower and a newbie named Artem Chigvintsev.  The featured dancer, though, was last season finalist Melissa Rycroft.  She did the second half of the dance with former partner Tony.  She looked great – but that’s not exactly news.

We came to the end of the show and it was time to find out whether Joanna & Derek or Kelly & Louis were leaving.  As Tom lead up to the announcement, Kelly looked worried and nervous while Joanna & Derek looked resigned.  They just seemed to know.  They were the ones eliminated.  After a brief interview, Tom announced that Joanna & Derek would exit by doing a reprise of their lovely Waltz from the night before.  It definitely brought a tear to my eye.

There’s no way around it, this result wasn’t fair.  I adore Kelly and Donny but it should have been one of them to go.  Joanna was the second best dancer (behind Mya) in the cast but I guess she just didn’t have the fanbase.  Sigh.

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