Spice Girls singer Melanie C was one of the most promising contestants this season on “Dancing with the Stars.” In fact, going into “Grease Night” on Monday, she ranked fourth in our predictions for who would win the Mirror Ball Trophy. But it wouldn’t be “DWTS” without some baffling results, and she ended up eliminated in 11th place, which only one of our users saw coming when they made their predictions for the show. And hardly any of our readers agreed with the outcome when we polled them at the end of the night.
Only 4.09% of respondents agreed with her elimination, and even that’s higher than I might have expected given how strong her performances were. She was in the bottom two with social media star Olivia Jade, but only 18.59% thought Jade should have been eliminated instead. Instead, more than three-quarters of our readers (77.32%) thought someone should’ve been eliminated who wasn’t in the bottom two at all.
And that pretty much echoes how the judges felt about the matter. Both Melanie C and Jade had received strong scores from them both this week and throughout the season thus far, and they were none too pleased about having to decide between them. “America, what have you done?” said Derek Hough, because it was clearly viewer votes and not the judges’ scores that put the two celebs on the chopping block. Hough and Len Goodman voted to save Jade, while Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli voted to save Melanie C. Because it was a tie, head judge Goodman’s vote was decisive, which meant Jade stayed, Melanie C was out, and no one was happy.
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