Las Vegas Weekly

May 10, 2010 · 12:05 PM

Double dances and double votes could shake up DWTS tonight

By Robin Leach

Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Erin Andrews on Week 7 of ABC's Dancing With the Stars on May 3, 2010.

Photo: Adam Larkey/ABC TV

Each of the five remaining celebrities will dance twice on tonight’s two-hour Dancing With the Stars, and each celebrity will receive double votes from the three judges, which could totally shake up the dancers at the top and bottom of the leaderboard.

Is it Reno 911 star Niecy Nash, with Louis Van Amstel, or Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, with Cheryl Burke, who goes home tomorrow on the results show?

Will it be Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, with Las Vegas’ Derek Hough, and Olympic golden boy Evan Lysacek, with Anna Trebunskaya, in the final two dance-off May 24, plus ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, to make up the final three?

Or will heartthrob Chad ace out Niecy and Erin and be a last-minute contender in the final three? Those are the storylines being juggled as judges Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba get set to hand out an awesome series of votes that could spell victory or disaster.

Last week, it was a tie between Nicole and Evan, with Evan scoring Season 10’s first perfect 30 with the Argentine tango. Tonight, Nicole performs the foxtrot and a 1950s paso doble, and Evan dances the waltz and a futuristic cha-cha.

Erin dances an Argentine tango and a 1980s rumba with Le Reve choreographer Maksim. Chad and Cheryl dance a tango and a 1960s jive, and Niecy and Louis dance a Viennese waltz and a 1990s paso doble.

Tomorrow’s results show features an amateur college dance contest with four teams. Those finalists compete in the final show May 25, when the prized mirrored disco ball is presented to the Season 10 celebrity winner.

Sports books indicate that Nicole is still the favorite to win, as we have predicted since the start of Season 10, and it will go down to the wire with Evan. Nicole took a break from rehearsals with Derek and hosted at Pure in Caesars Palace on Saturday night; she shared some thoughts about DWTS with VDLX on the red carpet.

After the voting tonight, the Fabulous Five becomes the Final Four, and we’ll tweet reports without judges’ votes or giving away major surprises, unlike other Web sites. After the live broadcast to the East Coast, we’ll have our spoiler-alert story posted on VDLX. Then join us here tomorrow for a fantastic photo gallery of all the dance-floor action from tonight’s double dance-off and voting frenzy.

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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