Las Vegas Weekly

April 13, 2009 · 7:33 AM

Will this week be the end of the road for Steve-O on DWTS?

By Robin Leach

Lacey Schwimmer and Steve-O.

Photo: ABC TV

As the celebrity contestants are slowly sent packing week by week on ABC’s top-rated Dancing With the Stars, the competition is getting tougher.

Tonight, the betting is that our Las Vegas nightclub regular Steve-O will be in danger of elimination, along with either champion bull rider Ty Murray or football legend Lawrence Taylor. Our Las Vegas Academy heroes Julianne Hough and her brother Derek look safe for this week with respective singer partners Chuck Wicks and Lil’ Kim. But Chuck and Julianne might creep into the unsafe zone next week.

Steve-O’s fan army has pulled him through each week. Unpredictable and unexpected viewer voting has bamboozled all the normal predictions. Wouldn’t ABC producers salivate at the thought of an elimination battle between the Hough teams in two weeks?

It’s becoming more clear who will wind up in the final four: Shawn Johnson with Mark Ballas, Lil’ Kim and Derek Hough, Gilles Marini and Cheryl Burke and Melissa Rycroft with Tony Dovolani. The top two looks set to be jilted Bachelor contestant Melissa and Sex and the City stud Gilles.

Vegas DeLuxe will have the judges’ scores tonight shortly after the live East Coast broadcast to determine the lowest vote-grabbing twosome, but then the viewers take over for tomorrow’s results show. That’s when anything can happen!

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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