DWTS 10: The First Couple Eliminated Is ...

Tonight is the first results show of Dancing with the Stars 10.  Right off the bat, no wasting time, 1st couple safe is Buzz/Ashly and 1st couple in bottom 2 is Pamela/Damian.  It was cute seeing Nicole jump up in joy when Buzz was announced as safe and you should have seen the jaws that dropped when Pamela/Damian were announced as in the bottom two.  I admit that shocked me, as well.

Len gave his opinion of all the contestants to waste some time.  I think we got enough of his opinion last night.  The drama last night and today was basically the whole Tony/Kate mess.  Today popeater.com actually posted an article saying that Kate tried to get Tony fired.

Anyway, the encore performance was, of course, Nicole/Derek's jive.  She is a fabulous dancer, but that is how she makes her living.  Have you ever seen the Pussycat Dolls perform?  However they want to couch it, she's a professional dancer and she and Derek make a terrific couple.

Special musical number of ballroom fusion, choreographed by Michael Jackson's choreographers and performed by our pros.  It was wonderful, I love the pro numbers.  I wanted to see more of Damian because we've seen the others.  They then had Adam Corolla back for a funny bit.  I don't usually like his humor, but tonight he was actually funny.

Next couples safe were Aiden/Edyta and Niecy/Louis.  Backstage Brooke did some very awkward interviews with Pamela/Damian and Buzz/Ashly.  You know, the dumb question like "How does it feel to be in the bottom?  Are you surprised?"  Sheesh.  Anyway, Tom announced that the female chosen to perform in the Macy's Stars of Dance Design a Dance was Melissa Rycroft.  There are seven available previous male stars to choose her partner from.  I basically just saw Warren Sapp, Maurice Greene (my favorite George Jefferson), and Cameron Mathison, but Cody Linley, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Joey Lawrence are also in the running.

The next time waster, I mean Musical Guest, is a medly of Beach Boys songs performed by the Beach Boys and John Stamos.  I love the Beach Boys, they performed Kokomo, and I got to see Damian dance some more, so it's all good.

Next we had The Len Commandments (with him dressed appropriately as Moses)
Thou shalt not kill time  (fru fru stuff that Len hates)
Thou shalt not take the judges names in vain (lots of bleeps here)
Thou shalt not steal dance moves (do your own choreography)
Thou shalt not interrupt me (or he shall smite you ... yeah, you, Bruno)
Thou shalt not do lifts (or Carrie Ann will get ya)
Thou shalt have rhinestones (lots of rhinestones)
Thou may honor the judges (with roses)


Len then Challenged each couple to show a story for next week without gimmicks or tricks.  Show the story through the dance.

The next couples safe were Evan/Anna, Jake/Chelsie, and Nicole/Derek.

Macy's Stars of Dance performance was a special one celebrating life and hope among the survivors in Haiti.  Okay, I was in tears.  Short interviews with a Haitian Ballroom Champion and a champion Mambo dancer.  The Mambo dancer was in NY when the earthquake hit and when he got back to Haiti, he found out that his little boy was dead.  He said that in dancing there is hope.  They got together some dancers that they said cared about Haiti.  There were 5 couples dancing to Hips Don't Lie by Shakira.  The men were Haitian, and their hips didn't lie.  There were also Haitians on mambo drums.  I enjoyed that performance.  For more information on how to help, go to www.abettercommunity.com

Next couples that will be back next week are Erin/Maks and Chad/Cheryl.  That leaves either Shannon/Mark or Kate/Tony to join Pamela/Damian in the bottom two.  That makes me sad because I don't want to see Shannon or Pamela leave but I know ABC is enjoying the drama too much and Kate's worshippers won't let us get put out of our misery and have her leave.  After an extra long commercial, Kate/Tony were told that they were safe.  Insert eye roll here.

Shannon/Mark are the first couple eliminated from Dancing With the Stars 10.  That really stinks.  They only then announced that yesterday Mark hurt his knee and would have been out for six weeks.  Shannon said that she wouldn't have wanted to continue without him anyway.  My question is this:  Did Shannon/Mark really have the lowest score or was his injury the reason for their premature departure?

Well, the first two weeks of Dancing With the Stars 10 turned out to be full of drama and surprise.  How will they manage to match this next week?  I'll be tuning in to see.  Did y'all agree with this elimination?  Is this on the up and up?  Post your comments ...