{"id":249070,"date":"2025-10-29T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:02:10","slug":"robert-irwin-completes-a-scary-good-tango-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249070\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin Completes a Scary-Good Tango For Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHalloween came to Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday night, Oct. 28, and Robert Irwin completed a routine that was bloody excellent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor week seven\u2019s Halloween Night, the Australian conservationist and his dancing partner Witney Carson performed a Tango to \u201cSweet Dreams are Made of This\u201d by The Hampton String Quartet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the clip, which can be seen in full below, Irwin, dressed-up like the Prince of Darkness, tangles with Carson on a fog-filled stage before taking the action to the main floor. Staying in theme to the bitter end, Irwin collects himself from the hardwood and is dragged to hell (or backstage) by dark forces, returning to face the judges with his face splattered in fake blood.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billboard\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe judges loved it, as Irwin and Carson collected 38 out of a possible 40 points, their best result yet in the competition which included two perfect 10s. It wasn\u2019t enough, however, to take top spot on the night, as the pair was pipped by Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-episode-7-halloween-scores-elimination-1236412126\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with 39\/40<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIrwin, the son of the late \u201cCrocodile Hunter\u201d Steve Irwin, has a fine chance of emulating the success of his older sister Bindi, who won the 21st\u00a0season of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/dwts\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwts\" data-tag=\"dwts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DWTS<\/a>, in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIrwin and Carson had two rounds of action on Tuesday night. The remaining cast members took part in the \u201cDance Monster-thon,\u201d a dance off which awarded five points to the last pair standing. In the end, those bonus points went to Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas, who shimmied to a score for the night of 37\/40. Elaine Hendrix was a no-show on Tuesday, following an injury suffered during rehearsals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe remaining contestants in this 34th season of\u00a0Dancing With the Star\u00a0includes TV personality Dylan Efron, Olympic gymnast\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/olympic-gymnast-jordan-chiles-caa-1236410018\/\">Jordan Chiles<\/a>, social media star\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/alix-earle-dancing-with-the-stars-hot-mess-acting-interview-1236410528\/\">Alix Earle<\/a>,\u00a0actress Danielle Fishel and actor Andy Richter.\u00a0The list of contenders is shrinking. Jen Affleck and Jan Ravnik are no longer competing\u00a0for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, following their elimination on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDancing with the Stars\u00a0airs live Tuesdays on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/abc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>\u00a0and Disney+, and streams the next day on Hulu. The finale will be on Nov. 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween came to Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday night, Oct. 28, and Robert Irwin completed a routine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,71516,101138,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-249070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bbnews","11":"tag-dwts","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}