Derek Hough Shocked by 'DWTS' Latin Night Elimination

This article accommodates spoilers for episode 2 of Dancing With the Stars season 32.

The Dancing With the Stars season 32 competition is heating up — and this week’s elimination left pass judgement on Derek Hough surprised.

Cohosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough each wore red in honor of Latin Night on Tuesday, October 3. “Latin night is gonna be sizzling, sizzling, hot,” Julianne, 35, teased at first of the episode.

While some duos thrived all through the theme night — judge Carrie Anna Inaba informed social media persona Lele Pons that she “set this place on hearth” and “burned all of it down” — others struggled.

After the entire performances, Mauricio Umansky and spouse Emma Slater had the lowest rating of the night. Harry Jowsey and Rylee Arnold, Barry Williams and Peta Murgatroyd and Adrian Peterson and Britt Stewart had been all tied for the second lowest Latin Night rating.

Once viewers’ votes have been counted, Peterson, 38, and Stewart, 34, and Jamie Lynn Spears and Alan Bersten found themselves within the backside two. Spears, 32,  and Bersten, 29, have been ultimately eliminated from the contest.

After the effects were introduced, Spears said there were “a large number of nice parts” of the enjoy, notably, “Doing something I by no means idea I would do in my complete whole lifestyles.”

When requested what he idea concerning the elimination, Derek, 38, instructed Ribeiro, 52, that he didn’t see it coming. “Honestly, it’s quite surprising. Jamie Lynn, you had been fantastic, in reality. You must be actually happy with what you did here,” he said. “Wow, it’s a shocker, honestly. Jamie, we’re gonna pass over you.”

Other contestants, in the meantime, discovered themselves taking pictures from the center of the pack to the highest of the leaderboard. Actress Xochitl Gomez and partner Val Chmerkovskiy earned a score of 24 after receiving an 18 all through the premiere episode.

“Salsa is your superpower, my friend,” Inaba, 55, informed Gomez, 17. “There was a flash of Rita Moreno in there.”

Derek echoed the sentiment. “Your spins are out of this global. That used to be exceptional,” he said.

The judges also praised Charity Lawson for bringing her A-game in spite of no longer having spouse Artem Chigvintsev by her aspect. The former Bachelorette, 27, danced the Cha-Cha with temporary spouse Ezra Sosa as a substitute. The Dancing With the Stars authentic Instagram web page announced the lineup exchange on Tuesday ahead of the episode.

“Artem will not be dancing tonight due to COVID. Wishing him a snappy restoration! ❤️ ,” the account captioned a photo of Charity, 27, and Ezra, 22. At the beginning of Latin Night, Ribeiro famous that Charity had examined adverse for COVID-19 and was “able for tonight’s display.”

The episode marked Sosa’s debut as a pro competitor. He joined the ABC competition sequence as a troupe dancer for season 30 in 2021. Chigvintsev, 41, showed his make stronger for his brief alternative by means of Instagram on Tuesday.

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“Ezra stepped in like a champ and [he and Charity] had been operating in point of fact laborious this ultimate couple of days so please give them the entire love and reinforce you can,” he captioned a video of himself explaining his absence from the episode.

Keep scrolling to see the entire performers’ ratings from Dancing With the Stars’ Latin Night:

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