{"id":881872,"date":"2026-10-14T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881872\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:10:10","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-season-35-week-5-recap-super-bowl-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881872\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 35, Week 5 Recap: Super Bowl Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Tuesday\u2019s episode of Dancing with the Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother week, another night of Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s the first-ever Super Bowl night in the ballroom, so the remaining couples are dancing to songs from former Super Bowl halftime performers, including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and more. As we know, Disney loves synergy, and this is no exception since ABC<\/a> and ESPN are hosting the big game this season. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe judges are joined tonight by Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football. Don\u2019t expect any sophisticated remarks from him, considering he tells the audience early on he has no idea about the technical aspects of any of the dances, but he\u2019s excited to weigh in. <\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s dive into Super Bowl Night.<\/p>\n

\n\tReality star Maura Higgins with Mark Ballas. These two are still on cloud 9, literally, after getting the first 9 of the season last week from Carrie Ann. This week, they\u2019re dancing a tango to \u201cOnly Girl (In the World)\u201d by Rihanna. In her intro package before the performance, she seems to be struggling with pain in her neck, so staying in frame might be tough. She definitely comes across a little stiff, but otherwise powers through. \u201cMaura, once again a beautiful performance,\u201d Carrie Ann tells her but reminds her that her movement needs to be more \u201cpunctuated\u201d on the Latin dances. SCORE: 33 out of 40 <\/p>\n

\n\tSavannah Bananas midfielder Jackson Olson with Emma Slater. The pair have been in the bottom two the past two weeks, and Olson also has to prepare for the Banana Bowl (which went down over the weekend), so who\u2019s to say how he\u2019ll do with a salsa to \u201cUptown Funk\u201d by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars. Not sure how much salsa there was in the final product, but they certainly brought the energy. \u201cI think this was your best dance,\u201d Derek says. \u201cIt just felt like you really commitTed and owned that floor.\u201d SCORE: 31 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tOlympian Amber Glenn with Pasha Pashkov. They got great feedback on their rumba last week, but they weren\u2019t too thrilled to go down on the leaderboard. Their upside down split is also making the rounds on social media, so they\u2019re excited to get back out on the ballroom floor and raise the bar. This week, they\u2019re taking on a samba to \u201cMi Gente\u201d by J Balvin & Willy William. \u201cShe knows how to get the party started!\u201d Bruno says, pointing out she\u2019s also finally playing more within the style of dance, as they judges have been asking her to do for a few weeks. SCORE: 34 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tReality star Tyler Cameron with Sharna Burgess. These two gave the judges their \u201cbreakthrough dance\u201d of the season last week, and now is Cameron\u2019s time to shine as a former football player. He\u2019s performing a jazz to \u201cThe Time (Dirty Bit)\u201d by Black Eyed Peas, and Burgess is really focusing on his balance (which is kind of nonexistent). The song was perfect for him, since the judges previously compared him to Patrick Swayze, and yes, they did hit a lift\u2026obviously. \u201cTyler, I love when you go dirty dancing!\u201d Bruno says, also complimenting his improvement on his timing and his form. SCORE: 30 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tComedian and podcaster Connor Wood with Rylee Arnold. Their scores dropped slightly last week, so this is another chance for Wood to prove that he\u2019s got some hip action in him with a samba to \u201cHips Don\u2019t Lie\u201d by Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean. And you know what? Those hips were doing something! \u201cYou really didn\u2019t have the correct hip-foot action for the samba,\u201d Bruno told him. It\u2019s hard to say how his sins were worse than the other men before him, whose footwork could also use some finesse, but hey! SCORE: 25 out of 30<\/p>\n

\n\tActress Julia Stiles with Ezra Sosa. This movie star also had a breakthrough last week, and she seems to really be enjoying the experience now that she\u2019s let go a little. Nowhere to go but up from here! Stiles says she\u2019s channeling the queen herself with a jazz to \u201cJenny From the Block\u201d [Track Masters Remix] by Jennifer Lopez ft. Jadakiss & Styles P, which also featured an homage to her film Save the Last Dance right in front of her co-star Sean Patrick Thomas. \u201cI know this is the wrong movie, but I think we just got served!\u201d Carrie Ann screams. SCORE: 33 out of 40<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tActress Tatyana Ali with Jan Ravnik. The Fresh Prince star was a little hurt by Carrie Ann\u2019s 6 last week, so she really wants to improve this week. She and Ravnik are dancing a salsa to \u201cSquabble Up\u201d by Kendrick Lamar, which is an interesting combination, and the judges sort of unfairly hold that against them in the scoring. Both Derek and Carrie Ann say it might\u2019ve been too laid back for a salsa (maybe they should\u2019ve been given a song above 100 bpm), but Joe Buck says it was his favorite of the night! \u201cYou\u2019ve got it,\u201d Bruno assures her, but wants her to go even further. SCORE: 29 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tLate-night sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez with Whitney Carson. After once again getting the lowest scores of the week, Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s right-hand man thinks maybe the judges were just having a bad day. Witney doesn\u2019t think so, and she\u2019s really honing in on his technique. She\u2019s got her work cut out for her teaching him a salsa to \u201cTit\u00ed Me Pregunt\u00f3\u201d by Bad Bunny, but Guillermo is going for a 6, especially from Carrie Ann. \u201cYou took the note, and you made it work!\u201d she tells him. SCORE: 22 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tActress Jenna Dewan with Val Chmerkovskiy. This week\u2019s performance will be all about passion, because these two are dancing a paso doble to \u201cBad Romance\u201d by Lady Gaga. Dewan is also filming The Rookie, so things are getting challenging as Val drills her on the technique \u2014 even on set between takes. \u201cIncandescent! Thrilling from start to finish!\u201d Bruno yells. SCORE: 36 out of 40 (straight 9s!)<\/p>\n

\n\tActor Harry Shum Jr. with Jenna Johnson. The Grey\u2019s Anatomy actor is finally starting to feel like a leading man, and as they reach their flow, they\u2019re performing a samba to \u201cYeah!\u201d by Usher ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris. Shum Jr. got to see Usher\u2019s halftime performance live, so hopefully he\u2019ll be able to bring some of that same energy to the ballroom, but he\u2019s going to have to remember this is a Latin dance and not a hip-hop routine. \u201cIf that was a halftime show, amazing. I loved every minute of it. But, it\u2019s a samba,\u201d Carrie Ann said. \u201cYou need to put more content in your dances.\u201d SCORE: 33 out of 40<\/p>\n

\n\tParalympian Ezra Frech with Daniella Karagach. Bringing up the rear this week, these two are coming off heaping praise from the judges for their rumba on Week 4. For Super Bowl night, they\u2019re performing a salsa to \u201cHot in Herre\u201d by Nelly. Frech wants to bring a decade of missed parties to the ballroom floor tonight. (he was training to make it to the Paralympics, to be fair). \u201cI genuinely get lost in your performances,\u201d Derek says, \u201cFantastic way to close the show.\u201d SCORE: 36 out of 40 (another straight set of 9s!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWho goes home?<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a move that had the audience distraught but should\u2019ve been expected at some point, Guillermo and Witney are sent home Tuesday night. Next week is Dedication Night, where the remaining stars will be honoring someone or something special in their life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Tuesday\u2019s episode of Dancing with the Stars. Another week, another night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1855,16621,88,36317],"class_list":["post-881872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abc","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-entertainment","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}