Hamlin heads home on a surprising ‘Dancing’

Most popular

Tysonia’s weekly humiliation moment
And then, of course, it was time to check in with the Slim-Fast Challenge and with the very game Tysonia, who has been learning to dance when she isn’t drinking shakes. This week, she was assigned to learn the waltz and perform it in front of her co-workers. Perhaps only arriving at work in one’s underwear would be a more awkward workplace display than ballroom dancing for something called the “Slim-Fast Challenge,” but Tysonia got the job done. Unfortunately, we saw more shots of her co-workers practicing their judgmental expressions than we saw of her actually dancing. If the woman has to be subjected to this apparently grueling practice schedule, they could at least show a little of her work.

When we returned to the parade of results and more couples were pronounced safe, Vivica was predictably secured, followed by Joey — the less harshly criticized of last night’s primary rule-breakers, who at least did not receive the scary Carrie-Ann smackdown. When it finally came to set the bottom two, the good dancers with serious problems — Mario and Emmitt — were spared. The inferior dancers working hard and having fun — Harry and Jerry — faced off for elimination.

This set up an unfortunate clash of the lovable losers, given that Harry looks about as comfortable dancing as he would look unicycling in a bear suit, and Jerry is utterly incompetent but very, very nice and funny about it. All Jerry wanted was to last long enough to learn to waltz with his daughter. It seemed like he had an airtight human interest story of the type that usually leads to another week of safety. Would America really deny him?

Story continues below ↓

It would not. The boot went to sweet old Harry Hamlin, who had absolutely no natural ability and sort of became a guy who could dance, and at least that’s something. His poor partner Ashly was so moved by their departure that she burst into tears and couldn’t even speak. Poor Harry! The good news is that presumably, he went home and danced with wife and former celebrity dancer Lisa Rinna, who probably didn’t mind when he inevitably stepped on her feet.

Linda Holmes is a writer in Bloomington, Minn.

< Prev | 1 | 2