I think this will mean no elimination this week. They will have to come up with something else to hold the audience on the second night. Which has moved to Thursday.
Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor will leave “Dancing With the Stars” after suffering an injury, Access Hollywood has learned.
A source close to the show revealed to Access that the volleyball star is out of the competition and will require surgery.
Though the competition was just two weeks old, Misty had already stepped out as a “Dancing” star on the rise.
She consistently received 21 points out of 30 for the host of dances she performed with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
And just last week, Misty received some of her highest praise from the judges after performing an intense Paso Doble with Maks.
“Compared to what we [last] saw I want to thank you because that is the kind of determination we need,” judge Carrie Ann Inaba said on Monday’s show, before turning her attention to Maks. “You gave her one of the most ambitious routines in week two, what are you doing?”
And judge Bruno Tonioli also had high praise for Misty.
“It is mighty ‘Xena The Warrior Princess,’” he raved, a reference to how Misty tackled the dance floor in her black costume. “I love your energy, I love what you put into it. You forget the finesse — you put so much power [that] sometimes you stumble a little bit. But you do a good job.”
Backstage, following their performance, Misty told “Dancing” host Samantha Harris, she had been working extremely hard in rehearsals to conquer the ballroom.
“I was frustrated more in myself [during the dance],” she said. “He wants to see the best in me and I want the best out of me.”
Misty and Maks were slated to dance the jive in next week’s competition.
The Olympic champ had pulled double duty in recent weeks, competing on the AVP volleyball tour and training for “Dancing.”
Just two weeks ago, she and partner Kerri Walsh won the $1 million AVP Crocs Cup Shootout in Manhattan Beach, following their earlier victory on September 14 at the AVP Crocs Tour in San Francisco.
Who will win Dancing with the Stars?
- Brooke Burke 5/2
- Toni Braxton 4/1
- Warren Sapp 5/1
- Lance Bass 6/1
- Cody Linley 6/1
- Maurice Greene 8/1
- Susan Lucci 10/1
- Rocco DiSpirito 20/1
- Cloris Leachman 150/1 |
