Danielle Fishel still doesn’t fully understand if there’s a way to the judges’ madness on Dancing With the Stars.
“I’m gonna say the scoring on this show does confuse me. It’s somewhat confusing,” Fishel, 44, said on the Wednesday, November 5, episode of the “Pod Meets Twirl’d” podcast. “I do think that perhaps they may benefit from halves. Like an 8.5 and an 8 after which 9 or a 9.5.”
Fishel explained that a part of her confusion stemmed from the scoring across the team dances — where she and partner Pasha Pashkov plus three other couples faced off against the opposite 4 pairs. (Fishel’s Team Chicago ultimately received a better rating, earning a 40 out of 40 from judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Bruno Tonioli and guest judge Flavor Flav. Team Kool, meanwhile, received a 38 out of 40.)
“Even when I believe concerning the team dance scores and I take into consideration — I believe, mainly, my important query could be, I assume, for Derek, when he gives a critique to Team Kool concerning the dance, but then says, ‘I believe the primary dance was higher,’ but then gives us each the identical rating. I’m like, ‘Hmm, OK,’” Fishel said.
She continued, “A few of that stuff is somewhat confusing to me. I don’t think that’s out of line to say. Individuals are entitled to do whatever they need and pick the scores that they need but it surely is somewhat confusing as each an individual on the ballroom floor and in addition, I believe, as a viewer, sometimes those things are somewhat confusing.”
Fishel and Pashkov were ultimately sent home throughout the Tuesday, November 4, episode after earning a person rating of 34 out of 40 for his or her contemporary to “Dream On” by Aerosmith. Days before Fishel’s exit, her former Boy Meets World costars defended her performances despite not being at the highest of the leaderboard.
“Carrie Ann has her favorites, and he or she’ll have two or three that regardless of what they do, they might walk on the stage, trip, hit their face, and he or she’d be like, ‘You tried so hard, 9!’” Will Friedle said on the Saturday, November 1, episode of the “Pod Meets Twirl’d” podcast. “Danielle does the most effective thing where she’s doing triple flips and he or she’s like, ‘You’ve got to carry your shoulders different too,’ and it’s like, ‘What the f***?’”
Rider Strong, meanwhile, echoed Friedle’s sentiment. “I’m with you, man. I held back the anger. I wanted to present them the advantage of the doubt. At this point, it’s beginning to feel like a private vendetta,” Strong, 45, shared. “Are you guys open to the potential that Danielle is likely to be working her ass off?”
Fishel, for her part, shared that she had a “big selection of emotions” after leaving the competition.
“I’m obviously very sad to be leaving the competition. I’m sad my day-to-day life goes to so drastically change now. I even have literally woken up each day and looked forward to rehearsal and looked forward to what dance we were learning that week, and to seeing Pasha and collaborating with him and hanging out with him,” she said on Wednesday, while getting emotional. “Talking about not seeing him day by day goes to make me very sad. We had probably the most dream-like partnership you may possibly ask for with someone that you simply get thrown along with.”
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, with recent episodes streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.
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