A repeat for Indy man and the Cheetah Girl

Now that’s a mambo
Once again Indy driver Helio Castroneves and partner Julianne Hough brought it. It’s hard to say what’s working the most for this couple. Julianne clearly taught Helio well, but he has a natural gift for dance, and the mambo in particular. And the chemistry between them is still smoking. They go from funny cutups in training, to sweetly sensual on the floor.

Len was back on the cheesy race lingo, going on about Helio’s pit stop and overdrive even when it didn’t really apply. At least Carrie Ann made more sense when she pointed out that unlike most of the male competition, Helio led his partner. With a score of 27, this still looks like the couple to beat.

But don’t expect Jennie Garth and Derek Hough to be the ones to offer Helio and Julianne the stiff competition. Jennie still appeared stiff and nervous during the dance, and while it started off a little better than her last showing, and her flouncy pink dress covered up some of her worst steps, things didn’t end well. In their final move, Jennie went head-to-butt with her partner, leaving both on the floor. Their scores reflected none of this. Really the sevens-all-around would have been a bit much even without the fall.

Lucky number sevens
That’s when the judges hit autopilot. Cameron Mathison and Edyta Sliwinska performed another slightly wooden, mostly non-descript number. Cameron displayed the exact same problems viewers saw last week — good arms, bad legs. Bruno said he looked like Superman, but “sometimes you dance like Clark Kent.” And it was more sevens!

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. at least seemed to focus on some of the judges’ complaints from last week, and Karina Smirnoff was jerked around considerably less thanks to those efforts. Overall the rest of his repertoire was the same. He plays to the crowd, but his tight upper body and jerky “in the ring” motions don’t look like ballroom. Len inexplicably referred to his dance as “very light, very fluffy,” and of course the pair ranked seven from each judge.

In retrospect there was really only one couple that really deserved their set of sevens, Jane Seymour and Tony Dovolani. On premiere night they pulled eights, but with criticisms of Jane giving them an English mambo, rather than the “raunchy and sizzling” dance Len hoped for, at least the score made sense this time. Still it wasn’t exactly an off night for Tony and Jane.

The seven-frenzy came to an end when last week’s favorites Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas hit the floor. The only misstep from the Cheetah Girl was the selection of that eye-burning hot pink hue Jane wore last time. Otherwise it was a near perfect quickstep, which brought Sabrina praises for precision footwork and claims of professional quality dancing. Especially impressive given her four-inch-plus skinny stilettos. But this time, with a 26 out of 30, she didn’t beat the Indy champ.

With the same clear winners this week, the big question is who leaves Tuesday night? It’s a last place horserace between Mr. Las Vegas and the Maverick man, but the billionaire better watch out. Wayne may deserve the boot, but Mark doesn’t have the fan base to compete with the showbiz legend.

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