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‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 35, Week 5 Recap: Super Bowl Night
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Tuesday’s episode of Dancing with the Stars.
Another week, another night of Dancing with the Stars.
It’s the first-ever Super Bowl night in the ballroom, so the remaining couples are dancing to songs from former Super Bowl halftime performers, including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and more. As we know, Disney loves synergy, and this is no exception since ABC and ESPN are hosting the big game this season.
The judges are joined tonight by Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN’s Monday Night Football. Don’t expect any sophisticated remarks from him, considering he tells the audience early on he has no idea about the technical aspects of any of the dances, but he’s excited to weigh in.
Let’s dive into Super Bowl Night.
Reality star Maura Higgins with Mark Ballas. These two are still on cloud 9, literally, after getting the first 9 of the season last week from Carrie Ann. This week, they’re dancing a tango to “Only Girl (In the World)” by Rihanna. In her intro package before the performance, she seems to be struggling with pain in her neck, so staying in frame might be tough. She definitely comes across a little stiff, but otherwise powers through. “Maura, once again a beautiful performance,” Carrie Ann tells her but reminds her that her movement needs to be more “punctuated” on the Latin dances. SCORE: 33 out of 40
Savannah Bananas midfielder Jackson Olson with Emma Slater. The pair have been in the bottom two the past two weeks, and Olson also has to prepare for the Banana Bowl (which went down over the weekend), so who’s to say how he’ll do with a salsa to “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars. Not sure how much salsa there was in the final product, but they certainly brought the energy. “I think this was your best dance,” Derek says. “It just felt like you really commitTed and owned that floor.” SCORE: 31 out of 40
Olympian Amber Glenn with Pasha Pashkov. They got great feedback on their rumba last week, but they weren’t too thrilled to go down on the leaderboard. Their upside down split is also making the rounds on social media, so they’re excited to get back out on the ballroom floor and raise the bar. This week, they’re taking on a samba to “Mi Gente” by J Balvin & Willy William. “She knows how to get the party started!” Bruno says, pointing out she’s also finally playing more within the style of dance, as they judges have been asking her to do for a few weeks. SCORE: 34 out of 40
Reality star Tyler Cameron with Sharna Burgess. These two gave the judges their “breakthrough dance” of the season last week, and now is Cameron’s time to shine as a former football player. He’s performing a jazz to “The Time (Dirty Bit)” by Black Eyed Peas, and Burgess is really focusing on his balance (which is kind of nonexistent). The song was perfect for him, since the judges previously compared him to Patrick Swayze, and yes, they did hit a lift…obviously. “Tyler, I love when you go dirty dancing!” Bruno says, also complimenting his improvement on his timing and his form. SCORE: 30 out of 40
Comedian and podcaster Connor Wood with Rylee Arnold. Their scores dropped slightly last week, so this is another chance for Wood to prove that he’s got some hip action in him with a samba to “Hips Don’t Lie” by Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean. And you know what? Those hips were doing something! “You really didn’t have the correct hip-foot action for the samba,” Bruno told him. It’s hard to say how his sins were worse than the other men before him, whose footwork could also use some finesse, but hey! SCORE: 25 out of 30
Actress Julia Stiles with Ezra Sosa. This movie star also had a breakthrough last week, and she seems to really be enjoying the experience now that she’s let go a little. Nowhere to go but up from here! Stiles says she’s channeling the queen herself with a jazz to “Jenny From the Block” [Track Masters Remix] by Jennifer Lopez ft. Jadakiss & Styles P, which also featured an homage to her film Save the Last Dance right in front of her co-star Sean Patrick Thomas. “I know this is the wrong movie, but I think we just got served!” Carrie Ann screams. SCORE: 33 out of 40
Actress Tatyana Ali with Jan Ravnik. The Fresh Prince star was a little hurt by Carrie Ann’s 6 last week, so she really wants to improve this week. She and Ravnik are dancing a salsa to “Squabble Up” by Kendrick Lamar, which is an interesting combination, and the judges sort of unfairly hold that against them in the scoring. Both Derek and Carrie Ann say it might’ve been too laid back for a salsa (maybe they should’ve been given a song above 100 bpm), but Joe Buck says it was his favorite of the night! “You’ve got it,” Bruno assures her, but wants her to go even further. SCORE: 29 out of 40
Late-night sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez with Whitney Carson. After once again getting the lowest scores of the week, Jimmy Kimmel’s right-hand man thinks maybe the judges were just having a bad day. Witney doesn’t think so, and she’s really honing in on his technique. She’s got her work cut out for her teaching him a salsa to “Tití Me Preguntó” by Bad Bunny, but Guillermo is going for a 6, especially from Carrie Ann. “You took the note, and you made it work!” she tells him. SCORE: 22 out of 40
Actress Jenna Dewan with Val Chmerkovskiy. This week’s performance will be all about passion, because these two are dancing a paso doble to “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga. Dewan is also filming The Rookie, so things are getting challenging as Val drills her on the technique — even on set between takes. “Incandescent! Thrilling from start to finish!” Bruno yells. SCORE: 36 out of 40 (straight 9s!)
Actor Harry Shum Jr. with Jenna Johnson. The Grey’s Anatomy actor is finally starting to feel like a leading man, and as they reach their flow, they’re performing a samba to “Yeah!” by Usher ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris. Shum Jr. got to see Usher’s halftime performance live, so hopefully he’ll be able to bring some of that same energy to the ballroom, but he’s going to have to remember this is a Latin dance and not a hip-hop routine. “If that was a halftime show, amazing. I loved every minute of it. But, it’s a samba,” Carrie Ann said. “You need to put more content in your dances.” SCORE: 33 out of 40
Paralympian Ezra Frech with Daniella Karagach. Bringing up the rear this week, these two are coming off heaping praise from the judges for their rumba on Week 4. For Super Bowl night, they’re performing a salsa to “Hot in Herre” by Nelly. Frech wants to bring a decade of missed parties to the ballroom floor tonight. (he was training to make it to the Paralympics, to be fair). “I genuinely get lost in your performances,” Derek says, “Fantastic way to close the show.” SCORE: 36 out of 40 (another straight set of 9s!)
Who goes home?
In a move that had the audience distraught but should’ve been expected at some point, Guillermo and Witney are sent home Tuesday night. Next week is Dedication Night, where the remaining stars will be honoring someone or something special in their life.
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Ben Affleck Calls Filming Justice League a ‘Low Point’ in His Career
Ben Affleck has determined that filming Justice League was a “low point” in his acting career.
The actor-producer-director made a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he opened up to host Josh Horowitz about why making the movie was such a negative experience. Affleck played Bruce Wayne/Batman in the 2017 superhero pic.
“The truth is, the experience of Justice League for me was so, so negative for lots of different reasons,” he admitted. “Some of which having to do with where I was personally, some of which having to do with the tragedy that happened during the time, and also the fact that I really saw how not to make a movie like that when the studio is at odds with the filmmaker. You’re really making a mistake. That was what really doomed that.”
After 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice became a major critical disappointment and didn’t meet Warner Bros.’ box office expectations, the studio wanted Zack Snyder’s Justice League to be a lighter tone, despite the filmmaker’s darker creative vision for the film.
During post-production, Snyder stepped away from the movie following the death of his daughter. Warner Bros. then brought in director Joss Whedon to oversee extensive reshoots, which ultimately lightened the tone.
“Boy, that was shitty,” Affleck said. “Him being taken off that movie, and the reshoots that we did — if you want the low point of my career, [it] was that.”
Horowitz also asked the Animals star and director if he had any kind of “epiphany” while working on Justice League as he saw “this film kind of collapsing in front of you.”
“Somebody’s death by suicide, that eclipses everything,” Affleck replied. “And the way in which that was, I thought, frankly, used as an excuse… I just thought that was one of the shittiest things I’ve ever seen. It was so gross. And then the whole environment and vibe, much of which I wasn’t privy to, but that I sort of heard about secondhand in terms of Ray [Fisher] and Gal [Gadot] and other people’s experiences. It was just like, ‘Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.’”
Several years later, fans finally got to see Snyder’s version of the film. A Justice League director’s cut was released in 2021 on HBO Max following a global fan campaign, a strategy shift for the streamer and Warner Bros. investing $70 million to finish visual effects and editing.
“I was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his cut], and he did it in a very kind of canny way… manipulated his way into getting his thing released, which was fucking great,” Affleck said. “I was really happy for him.”
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Judge Rules White House Can’t Proceed With Trump’s Ban On CNN, MS NOW & Politico
A federal judge prohibited the Trump administration from banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly wrote in his opinion that the news outlets “are likely to succeed not only on their due process claim, but also on their two First Amendment claims.”
But he added that “no one should interpret the Court’s decision to suggest that President Trump’s concerns about accuracy and fairness in the media’s reporting are unfounded, or that the government is powerless when its true aim is to protect national security when classified information is unlawfully disclosed.”
More to come.
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James McAvoy Recalls Being Bullied On The Set Of HBO’s ‘Band Of Brothers’
James McAvoy recalls his first day on the set of Band of Brothers and says a co-star bullied him.
During a visit to Bravo‘s Watch What Happens Live while playing “Spill the IMDb-tea,” McAvoy made the revelation while keeping mum about the names.
After being shown a photo of the HBO series, McAvoy took a closer look at the image and said, “Hold on, let me just see, is he in there? No, I don’t think he is in there. Ah, yeah, he is.”
“All right, so, I’m not going to tell you who it was,” he added. “[But] … one of the guys in that picture decided to bully me, on my first day as a professional actor out of acting school! So he got him and his buddies to just stand and point at me and laugh at me, for like three minutes.”
McAvoy explained that the scene he was shooting involved “a ton of actors,” adding, “It was one of those scenes with everybody in it, and we’re in a bar. And I had a scene, and all these guys were, like, in it for nine, 10 months, and you get one line in one episode and one line 10 episodes later. They were all pissed. And I come in for one episode, and I’ve got an arc and scenes. I’ve got tons of lines.”
The actor noted that his co-stars Dexter Fletcher and Robin Laing reached out to him and told him, “Come hang with us, man.”
McAvoy rated his experience on the Band of Brothers set saying that “a part from that day it was a nine, but that day it felt like a two [out of 10].”
Bravo host Andy Cohen said he would get the tea from McAvoy during the commercial break but the actor said that he would not confirm who it was. However, McAvoy did not that it was not David Schwimmer as he was not in the photo the put up on screen.
The photo in question featured Donnie Wahlberg as Carwood Lipton, Kirk Acevedo as Joe Toye, Scott Grimes as Donald Malarkey, Philip Barantini as Wayne A. “Skinny” Sisk, Neal McDonough as Lynn “Buck” Compton, Adam James as Cleveland O. Petty, Frank John Hughes as William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, and Ross McCall as Joseph Liebgott.
Band of Brothers was a 2001 drama series created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and based on the Stephen E. Ambrose’s non-fiction book of the same name.
Watch McAvoy’s interview in the video below.
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