Carrie Ann Inaba

They were like a

lot like Carrie Ann was like laughing during his score, like when they were critiquing him.

Like it was.

It was bad.

So that was awesome.

Carrie Ann called you the king of contemporary.

Yeah.

What wasn't on camera is that I fell to my knees when she said that, and I...

all the time.

But then it's like the other day, I saw the clip of Val and Carrie Ann, is that her name? Yes.

That they were like having like their little conversation or whatever after the show and someone filmed it.

I'm like.

And he also did, like, such an amazing job.

And Carrie Ann, who has been so hard on him, actually gave him a positive review, and she was one of the 10s.

Okay, well, this girl's been under, she's been in the news recently.

The whole Val.

Yeah, it felt which I know.

Also, I know that it's like a. horror movie so I know it's supposed to you're supposed to feel a little on edge but it just yeah it didn't feel free well when the scores came Carrie Ann gave a 7 Derek a 7 and then Shirley hit with

the 4

opened up the show with a 4

I thought that Val was going to come in and really like have 10 toes down and be like, I'm not apologizing about this.

but he does immediately apologize to Jenna, which was nice about putting her in a situation where then that stress.

And then there were clips of Val and Carrie Ann, like holding each other and

apologizing

When Cynthia Erivo walks into a ballroom, you can bet the standard goes up, and every couple still standing knows it.

She will sit alongside the regular judges Carrie-Anne Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli, while hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough keep the night moving.

That is a lot of star power at one table, and for the eight couples still standing, it means there is nowhere to hide.

A guest judge with Erivo's musical theater background will be listening to every note, watching every line, and judging every story the dancers tell with their bodies.

The judges were split on Cameron's acting, though.

Ballas praised his acting skills, while Carrie-Anne Inaba disagreed.

So even on a bad night, there was a debate happening on the panel about what he did well and what he did not.

Sharna Burgess, to her credit, had her partners back immediately, She defended him, saying, literally, every bit of technique that got called out is everything that we've been working on all week.

They talked about it for a second.

I was like, I hope him and Carrie Ann don't have to have a moment.

And they didn't.

Yeah.

So if you didn't follow, we talked about this.

Carrie Ann had made a comment to Jenna Johnson, who's one of the pros, something about, like, you know, you weren't supposed to have a lift, and that was a lift.

There was discussion on whether something was a lift or not a lift, and she followed the rules.

Well, Val came out and had, like, the gif of Will...