Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy just got the boot from Dancing with the Stars Season 35 during the Week 9 “Grammy Night” quarterfinals and he took to social media to say his goodbye to his dance partner. Needless to say, their fans are very upset.
Val On Social Media
Just hours after the episode ended, Val took to his Instagram and shared a selfie of himself with Jenna Dewan. In his caption, he seemed very admiring of Jenna, saying:
❤️you @jennadewan … you’ve been exactly what I imagined. The absolute best! Thank you for the opportunity to be by your side through this entire process. I’ll never forget it.
Grammy Night Performance
Dancing with the Stars fans saw that the duo actually danced well on Grammy Night. Jenna and Val Chmerkovskiy put it all on the line with a jazz routine to Janet Jackson’s “All for You,” scoring a strong 28/30 right out of the gate.
They then topped it off by winning their dance-off against Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik to scoop up two extra bonus points. Despite their performance, they were sent home, which left Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson advancing to the semifinals with the highest score of the night: 31/30
Per TVLine, Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson got to kick back and skip the Dance-off round altogether thanks to holding the highest cumulative score of the entire season. The rest of the couples, however, had to fight tooth and nail for those crucial extra bonus points to boost their night’s total.
Fans React With Shock
The audience vote just didn’t stack up for Val and Jenna. They tied for the second-highest score of the night with 30 points, but received the lowest audience vote among the remaining couples.
Whether that was due to his earlier controversy with Carrie Ann Inaba or not isn’t clear. But their faithful followers were not happy at all.
In the comments section, one of them wrote, “I still can’t believe it!! Like there’s no wayyy😭 you guys were amazing and such a powerful team💔.”
Here are a few more responses from the discussion area:
- “Not fair. You two should have been in finals for sure!! Gonna miss seeing you on the dance floor.”
- “I’m heartbroken. My winners.”
- “you guys were incredible – i seriously almost threw my remote at my tv – i have loved watching you two i’m a dance instructor myself and you guys completely inspired me @jennadewan @valentin 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌.”
- “She was the best technical dancer there hands down. I don’t know what happened 😭.”
- “Im so upset about the elimination😭 you literally had the best dance tonight BY FAR. So confused how this even happened!”
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