Albert Reed - Dancing with the Stars

Albert Reed - Dancing with the Stars
by: Natalie Finn/Yahoo News

The hit ABC show gave Albert Reed his walking papers Monday, making him the second contestant to be burned by the ominous red spotlight.

The Abercrombie & Fitch cover boy's Dancing demise came as a shock both to the judges, who had awarded his quickstep a 21 and dubbed him the "dark horse" of the competition, and the audience, which was obviously sorry to see the fresh-faced 27-year-old go.


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"I'm a little stunned, but we did the best we could," Albert Reed, who dedicated his Monday performance to his late grandfather, said after hearing the news. "That's all you can ask for." So unlike last week, when viewers gave the low-scoring Josie Maran the boot, the at-home votes didn't coincide with the judges' critiques this time around. Albert Reed was joined in the bottom two, however, by Wayne Newton, whose 15 was the lowest score of the night Monday. "Too slow for a quickstep," Bruno Tonioli said about Mr. Las Vegas' latest spin around the floor, which made up with charm what it lacked in speed and technical proficiency. Avoiding the glare this week was Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, whose energetic mambo actually looked as if it deserved better than the 18 it received from the judges.
Tonioli compared him to "a bulldog chasing a squirrel" and Carrie Ann Inaba pointed out that his "face was dancing twice as hard" as his body, but the 49-year-old entrepreneur, who ended up in the bottom two last week, was in the clear tonight. And although she's been told to work on her ballroom posture, Jennie Garth was still standing tall at the end of the night despite the spill she took with partner Derek Hough during her quickstep, which apparently only endeared them to the fans at home. Meanwhile, the stars to beat are still Helio Castroneves and Sabrina Bryan, who switched places on the leaderboard Monday but otherwise remained toe-to-toe in the judge's minds. Castroneves' encore-worthy mambo merited the season's first 27, not to mention comments like "real deal" and "exhilarating hot rod" (the latter being Tonioli's, of course). And Bryan's quickstep left her hip-hop days in the dust. The bubbly blonde turned in a "blistering performance," each step "filled with vibrancy," according to the pleasantly surprised judges, who had wondered whether her success with the Latin cha-cha would extend to the stricter ballroom stylings of ballroom. Marie Osmond, who will be 48 later this month, was right up there with the young punks with a 24. While it's still her performance abilities that are winning her extra kudos from the judges, Inaba called her "one hot cougar" and Len Goodman deemed her mambo with partner Jonathan Roberts "absolutely great." New mom Melanie Brown, who couldn't have been too unhappy to learn that tickets for an upcoming Spice Girls reunion concert in London sold out in 38 seconds, also was pleased to discover that she wasn't going home.

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