Witney Carson and her partner Guillermo Rodriguez kicked off DWTS season 35 with the lowest score of the night, a 10 out of 30. Instead of brushing it off, Witney took to Instagram with a video declaring the show is“not a dance competition,”pointing out that contestants arrive with completely different levels of dance experience. Guillermo has none. Castmates like Jenna Dewan and Harry Shum Jr. have years of professional training.
Her take sparked exactly the debate the show has been dodging for years: is DWTS about dance ability or about who fans want to watch? The audience answered pretty quickly. Witney and Guillermo landed in the bottom three but were saved by viewer votes, while Conner Leavitt and Adele Zaikman were eliminated. Witney later told Us the judges’scores were“lame,”and with her third pregnancy announced just a month before the season began, she’s got plenty on her plate.
So where do you stand? Should the judges have more say, or is the fan vote the only thing that really matters on DWTS? Drop your take in the comments.
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