{"id":93408,"date":"2025-10-22T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93408\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:57:07","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-wicked-night-emotional-routines-lead-to-first-10s-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93408\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dancing With the Stars\u2019 Wicked Night: Emotional Routines Lead to First 10s of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One couple was changed for good during \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0463398\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing With the Stars<\/a>\u201d Wicked Night.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 21 episode welcomed director John M. Chu as the guest judge as pairs danced to hit songs from \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1262426\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a>\u201d \u2014 with some taking on Elphaba and some taking <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10793569\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glinda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s scores were combined with last week\u2019s dedication night. Last week, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0408336\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Ann Inaba<\/a> recieved a bit of backlash for her criticism on certain pairs, but this week, she gave the first 10 of the season. The score came for <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14508219\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whitney Leavitt<\/a> and Mark Ballas\u2019 quickstep. The other judges, with the exception of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2625538\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Hough<\/a> who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One couple was changed for good during \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d Wicked Night. The Oct. 21 episode welcomed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-93408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}