DwtS 3 -- Results Show Week 2

It was the battle of the blondes on this week's DwtS 3 Results Show. Shanna Moakler was sent home, tonight. And, after two weeks at the bottom, Willa Ford looks to be in big danger next week.

After recapping last night's performances, the judges' selected Joey & Edyta for an encore of their Quickstep. Their excitement from last night's high scores carried over into tonight's dance, as the two smiled brightly throughout the performance.

Their dance was followed by the professionals demonstrating the Jive, one of next week's celebrity dances. When you think of the Jive, Billy Idol's song "Rebel Yell" is generally the accompanying soundtrack that plays in your head, right? Me neither. Yet that's the song they danced to, and it was more than a little weird. Kym didn't participate because of her knee injury.
As the pros cleared the floor, Samantha was backstage talking with some of the celebrities. She credited "Max and Willa" for choreographing the Jive routine, much to Willa's surprise. Mario gave Willa a high five, which she accepted with a happy but confused expression.

Samantha asked Willa about the level of competition this season. Willa said she was worried last night, after she and Max performed first and received decent, but not overwhelming, scores. "I kept thinking, 'Somebody's gotta suck.' And nobody sucked!"

Back on the dance floor, Tom was waiting to introduce this week's package of interview clips from last night's studio audience. Like last week, the famous people in the audience dominated the segment. Comedian George Lopez threw his support behind Mario, a fellow Lopez. Ted Danson said that he was pulling for Harry: "He's a few years older than I am, so my heart goes out to him." (Danson is actually almost four years older than Harry.)

Then Tom and Samantha introduced the first three couples moving on to next week's show. They were Sara & Tony, Emmitt & Cheryl, and Joey & Edyta.

Julio Iglesias took the stage to perform his cover of Foreigner's '80s hit, "I Want to Know What Love Is." One of the band's female singers provided backing shrieks -- er, vocals -- near the end. Mercifully, Max & Cheryl danced, to distract from the singing. Cheryl's dress was red hot, as was their Rumba.

My prediction for next week's results show: Neil Diamond sings "Juke Box Hero."

Backstage with the safe couples, Sam corrected herself and gave credit to Max and Karina, not Willa, for choreographing the Jive. Sara joked that Tony's moving in with her, so that they can train nonstop. And Emmitt said, to be tops with the judges, he and Cheryl had to "work a little bit harder." Cheryl quickly corrected him: "A lot harder."

From the dance floor, Tom quipped about Samantha's interview segment, "I don't know what's going on with Tony's hair, but he's standing between two bald gentlemen (Joey and Emmitt), and bald's starting to look pretty good." Backstage, Tony broke into a fit of laughter, the likes of which even Harry's new yogi has never seen.

Then Tom reintroduced Tysonia, the non-celebrity Slim Fast Challenge contestant. In this week's taped segment, she performed a Tango in front of an African dance class, to get the experience of performing in front of a larger audience. It's a pretty safe bet that, by the end of the season, she'll be brought out to perform on the same stage as the stars.

Tysonia's amateur Tango was followed by a live performance by a couple of Tango pros: Jordi Caballero & Claudia Velasco. The performance included plenty of lifts that the celebrities will not be able to include in their routines next week, but the dance still lacked a little something.

Apparently, Tucker wasn't as cool with his early departure as he seemed last week. He returned to grill the judges, in a pretaped interview segment entitled "Tucker Carlson: Behind the Sequins." He was critical of the subjectivity of the judges' scores. But Tucker admitted that his departure was "a little like euthanasia: sad but necessary."

In another pretaped segment, the celebs talked about the stress of the elimination process. Monique said that the red spotlight shining on the couples at the bottom was "like being sent to hell." Willa said, "I've never felt such failure as I did last week." But Harry was confident about his own chances: "I think I'm gonna stay in the competition. I don't think I have to change anything." And Shanna was determined: "I want to win this competition. We are not going home tonight."

Onstage, Tom and Samantha cycled through the remaining couples, until they'd pared them down to the Bottom Two: Willa & Max and Shanna & Jesse. Max looked sad and resigned to going home.

But Shanna & Jesse were eliminated, causing Max to fall down in a pretend faint. Willa climbed on top of him and mimicked CPR. Tom sped through Shanna's goodbyes, because the show was running out of time. This week's subtle jab of a departure song: "Leavin' on a Jet Plane."