Dancing With The Stars season 33 episode 2 recap: 2 couples get eliminated after Oscar night

Dancing With The Stars season 33 continued with its second episode on September 24, 2024, at 8 pm ET on ABC and Disney+. The episode saw the dancers celebrating the cinema theme with the episode aptly titled, Oscar Night. With dances like the foxtrot, rumba, and waltz, the 13 contestants grooved to the tunes of movies including La La Land, Barbie, and Godfather.

The celebrities who entered the competition to win the coveted Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy include Danny Amendola, Anna Delvey, Joey Graziadei, Dwight Howard, Chandler Kinney, Ilona Maher, Brooks Nader, Stephen Nedoroscik, Phaedra Parks, Eric Roberts, Tori Spelling, Jenn Tran, and Reginald VelJohnson.

In the premiere, hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough announced that two couples would be eliminated from the show in the second episode. Tori Spelling and Anna Delvey were the two celebrity contestants who went home in week 2.

The judges for Dancing With The Stars season 33 include record six-time champion Derek Hough, alongside Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba.

Dancing With The Stars season 33 episode 2 recap: Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong were the highest scorers

To decide which contestants would be going home in Dancing With The Stars, the judges’ scores and viewer votes from both nights of the competition were added together.

Bachelorette star Jenn Tran started the night with her partner Sasha Farber and they danced the Tango to A Little Party Never Killed Nobody from the movie The Great Gatsby. The couple ran into some technical issues with the backing track, but Jenn's partner praised her for keeping on time as they scored 19 points.

Meanwhile, Eric Roberts performed Waltz to The Godfather theme and received 15 points. Former NFL star Danny Amendola danced to Top Gun's Highway to the Danger Zone and claimed the movie was "near and dear" to his heart as he wanted to join the military. Together with his partner, Danny scored 21 points.

Next act on Dancing With The Stars was by Anna Delvey, a convicted scammer. She experimented with quickstep dance form on a track titled Suddenly I See from the film titled The Devil Wears Prada. Before she could take the stage, Anna Delvey reflected on the negative feedback regarding her casting. She scored 17 points along with her partner Ezra.

Chandler Kinney took the stage of Dancing With The Stars with Barbie's What Was I Made For and stunned the audience and judges, awarding her 24 points. Reginald VelJohnson scored 16 points as his act on Ode To Joy, while Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik performed a paso doble to the Superman theme and received 22 points.

Joey Graziadei and his partner Jenna Johnson did rumba to the popular track titled Shallow from A Star is Born film. They garnered 22 points. Phaedra Parks got 21 points after a solid performance on Dreamgirls soundtrack while Tori Spelling scored 19. Dwight Howard got 22 out of 30 after a foxtrot number on La La Land's City Of Stars. The final performances of the night saw Brroks Nader score 20, while Illona Maher scored 21.

Leaderboard overview of both nights

Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong (Rumba) — 23 (1st week) + 24 (2nd week) = 47
Dwight Howard and Daniella Karagach (Foxtrot) — 22 (1st week) + 22 (2nd week) = 44
Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson (Rumba) — 21 (1st week) + 22 (2nd week) = 43
Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold (Paso Doble) — 21 (1st week) + 22 (2nd week) = 43
Danny Amendola and Witney Carson (Jive) — 20 (1st week) + 21 (2nd week) = 41
Phaedra Parks and Val Chmerkovskiy (Foxtrot) — 19 (1st week) + 21 (2nd week) = 40
Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten (Salsa) — 18 (1st week) + 21 (2nd week) = 39
Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko (Quickstep) — 18 (1st week) + 20 (2nd week) = 38
Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber (Tango) — 19 (1st week) + 19 (2nd week) = 38
Tori Spelling and Pasha Pashkov (Rumba) — 17 (1st week) + 19 (2nd week) = 36
Anna Delvey and Ezra Sosa (Quickstep) 18 (1st week) + 17 (2nd week) = 35
Reginald VelJohnson and Emma Slater (Paso Doble) — 16 (1st week) + 15 (2nd week) = 31
Eric Roberts and Britt Stewart (Waltz) — 15 (1st week) + 15 (2nd week) = 30

Results declare the eliminated stars

As all the dances concluded on the second night of Dancing With The Stars, America voted for the best performers of the night. Host Alfonso announced the first five pairs who were safe from elimination. Their names were: Danny-Whitney, Chandler-Brandon, Eric-Britt, Joey-Jenna, and Ilona-Alan.

Co-host Julianne chimed in and announced the rest of the couples who were safe and went to the next week: Dwight-Daniella, Brooks-Gleb, Steven-Rylee, and Phaedra-Val. This meant that out of Reginald-Emma, Tori-Pasha, and Anna-Ezra, two couples would be eliminated.

It was revealed by the hosts of Dancing With The Stars that Reginald was voted in the safety zone by America, resulting in Tori and Anna going home. While Tori showed some gratitude towards her kids and told them they could "do anything" they put their minds to, Anna declared that she would take "nothing" from this competition.

Watch Dancing With The Stars every Tuesday on ABC at 8 PM ET.

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