Who was the first off ‘Dancing With the Stars’?
Host Tom Bergeron earlier today tweeted that the producers were flummoxed by who got nixed.
Well, I’m sure most of the viewers are, too: the Hoff is off!
The first dancer out is usually some lower-level has-been celebrity such as Shannen Doherty or Ashley Hamilton.
Loading ...Former Atlantan and “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff is cheesy for sure and he certainly danced poorly last night. Yet it’s still a shock he didn’t have enough voters to keep him around even a second week over the likes of Audrina Patridge and Margaret Cho. He is arguably the best known of the 12 contestants.
Maybe Hasselhoff should have competed in the German version of the show.
Another former Atlantan, Disney star Kyle Massey was paired with Hasselhoff for elimination but wasn’t necessarily in the bottom two. He had one of the higher dance scores (23 out of 30). Hasselhoff tied for the bottom at 15 with Cho and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino. He obviously got fewer votes than those two.
The scores are 50% based on the three judges’ scores and 50% based on viewer votes.
Producers are probably concerned that losing Hasselhoff may mean a sharp drop off in viewers after a strong opening (21 million last night.)
If anything, this proves the producers didn’t rig the results. And, hey, they still have Bristol Palin!
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52 comments Add your comment
Les
September 21st, 2010
10:16 pm
I expected Margaret Cho to go first. Too much goofing off on the dance routine.
Judy
September 21st, 2010
10:42 pm
Margaret Cho should have been the first to go…. I mean really for just goofing off.
amcmichael
September 21st, 2010
10:46 pm
so glad the hoff is gone. he’s a creepy has been!
Jay
September 21st, 2010
10:58 pm
“He is arguably the best known of the 12 contestants.” You are kidding right. He is better know than some but not all. He is not better know than Rick Fox, Kurt Warner or Brandy. Maybe I am more of a sports fan than a TV fan. I do not know Kyle, “the situation” or Audrinia or the footloose lady or is it dirty dancing. Hoff is on the same level as Florence henderson to me.
Molly
September 21st, 2010
10:58 pm
David Hasselhoff is one of those people who just doesn’t know when to retire and call it a day. Sort of like Monica Pearson and Mary Hart. It’s just sad to see these older people hanging on just to stay in the spotlight.
Shekita
September 21st, 2010
11:02 pm
Dr. Long ditnt do it! He not a pedefile. He a man of God. I jus wanted to say that
Tia
September 21st, 2010
11:13 pm
Yeah riiiiight Shekita.. of course he did… normally those so opposed to homosexuality are closeted gay individuals. I saw him a spa in Midtown getting a laser procedure on his face last year. I thought Jesus didn’t like vanity. Who cares if someone is gay, that is not that issue at all. It is when they speak hateful stuff and then themselves are actually gay. OF COURSE HE DID IT… Men of God also are gay… give me a break.. like knowing and loving God are two different things.. get out of the ignaramous dark ages.. and stop believing everything someone tells you in ‘the church’ to get more and more of your money… wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and realize Jesus is about LOVE, not HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUTH
September 21st, 2010
11:15 pm
Not to mention they have ALOT of evidence, it isn’t just talk… sorry to burst your bubble
NOTHappy
September 21st, 2010
11:23 pm
About time they made it about dancing and not about personalities. The judges scores should weigh in at 60% and the nutty public’s at 40%.
PR
September 21st, 2010
11:34 pm
For once the voters got it right. The Hoff SUCKED!. So glad he is gone. Now they need to get ride of Bristol “I wanna be famous” Palin. She is another one that is a nobody, should never have been on the show, and is a total loser. The Bimbo from Alaska…whatever made her famous?
REESE
September 21st, 2010
11:37 pm
I think it was right for him to leave and the next person to leave should be the situation and then palin.
Atlantaphotog
September 22nd, 2010
12:13 am
Maybe he had a few sippy-doos of the happy juice before he went out to dance.
positive outlooks and decent personalities
September 22nd, 2010
12:17 am
I love Bristol! You are just angry because you don’t know who you are
Sat
September 22nd, 2010
1:37 am
“Another former Atlantan, Disney star Kyle Massey actually had fewer votes than Hasselhoff but managed to stay alive because he had one of the higher dance scores (23 out of 30). ”
This is factually incorrect and should be changed. They announced on the show other couple in the “bottom two” was not necessarily the lowest vote getter, so you cannot make this conclusion.
Steve
September 22nd, 2010
2:26 am
Sorry Jay, but Hoff is better known than any of those you mentioned. I am guessing you are of the younger generation. I am not saying he is more talented, but due to Knight Rider, Baywatch, and the fact he is a laughable second tier has been has keep his name in lights far longer and higher than those others.
Fox was an average baller, Warner played the first half of his career outside the NFL, and Brandy is still working on longevitt though she is definitely on the right track. I am not a big Hasselhoff fan, but he is probably the best known, especially outside of the states.
Elliot Garcia
September 22nd, 2010
6:20 am
Way to make a TV blog political….
TiredofRealityTV
September 22nd, 2010
7:25 am
Why is this show called Dancing With The STARS? STAR does not Equal Bristol Palin…… DWTS will end up like that other reality tv show with the missing judges…..oh yeah…A HAS BEEN – DANCING WITH AMERICA’S HEADLINER TRASH!
Dream
September 22nd, 2010
7:27 am
I think I was in a coma when Bristol Connecticut I mean Palin became a celebrity star!
Can anyone share with me how and when she became a Star?
Willy do it?
September 22nd, 2010
7:36 am
Why all the hate on Bristol Palin? All she ever did wrong was have a baby as a teenager…like a great number of teenage girls do every year in America. Because you hate the mother, that automatically means hate the child?
A star is someone who is well known….and you all seem to know her name and everything about her!!
Elton
September 22nd, 2010
7:42 am
Sat – what? – “Another former Atlantan, Disney star Kyle Massey actually had fewer votes than Hasselhoff but managed to stay alive because he had one of the higher dance scores (23 out of 30).”
You said: “This is factually incorrect and should be changed.” WRONG
Check your writing – that statement IS NOT factually incorrect and therefore does not need to be changed. Get a clue.
HODIK
September 22nd, 2010
7:52 am
Ho continues the AJC traditional typical leftist crap. Get your Palin dig in no matter what. Dude, a Frank Rich you’re not.
Princess
September 22nd, 2010
8:03 am
This show has jumped the shark and is just plain boring. I think its time has come and gone. Hopefully, the other “reality” shows will follow suit.
Tracey McGoughy
September 22nd, 2010
8:06 am
Actually Willy, no one hates Bristol and especially not because she’s a teenage mother. IMO, she is yet another person who has done nothing of substance to deserve this celebrity but still are paraded across TV like she’s worth paying attention to. Some of us are just tired of it.
Shannon
September 22nd, 2010
8:12 am
The “hate” on Bristol is the convergence of several factors. First, there’s the caving to ideology when she said (rather practically) that abstinence didn’t work for teenagers and then reneged on that thanks to pressure (presumably from her mother). Now she’s an abstinence spokeswoman although she is well aware that abstinence doesn’t work. So I look at her as supporting policies that increase teen pregnancy.
Second, she is *only* famous because of her mother, and that means that she is going to be judged in tandem with her mother. So yes, there is judgment related to Sarah Palin, but since Sarah is the very reason that Bristol is known, that’s going to be the case.
Third, she is parlaying that secondhand fame in ways that put her in comparison with Kate Gosselin, the folks from Jersey Shore, Heidi and Spencer, etc.–and her very public on again/off again with her baby-daddy deliberately played out in the press (announcing their reengagement via a tabloid before they tell her mother?!) doesn’t help.
Does that help understand the Bristol hate?
Also, poor Hoff–and I’ve never heard of Rick Fox or Kurt Warner. Sorry, but being a household name among only half the population doesn’t quite make you a household name.
bigd
September 22nd, 2010
8:40 am
shannon get a life. How would you like it if everyone compared you to your alcholic mother
middler and so tired of all the rhetoric :
September 22nd, 2010
9:00 am
Oh Molly! The old people should give up their gigs because they are old. It will be interesting to see what you look like and what you are doing at 50. Or will you have retired to the home to give way to the younger folks.
Booger Sandwich
September 22nd, 2010
9:16 am
Personally dont watch the show but getting rid of that overinflated ego of HasselDORK was the best bet. He and Kit need to reunite and drive strait over the nearest cliff.
Booger Sandwich
September 22nd, 2010
9:16 am
I noticed Florence still has some of that Wessonality.
JOANN
September 22nd, 2010
9:21 am
Molly is stupid to the third degree. Are you the only human on earth not to get older. Are you still an infant?
Crack is Whack. Whitney aint eva gun be fat.
September 22nd, 2010
9:24 am
Let whifney on dat show an I show um all hos dancin it done.
dancer for money
September 22nd, 2010
9:38 am
Why is no one questioning a man who has named himself as the situtation?
Talk about bogus celebrity. Lay off Palin
MC
September 22nd, 2010
9:55 am
Palin’s dance at least was fun and funny! She seemed normal when interviewed more so than crazy Audrina…and what really do any stars do that make them worthy of our adoration? Brandy and Hoff’s acting, yeah right!
Eddie's Spiritual Son
September 22nd, 2010
10:57 am
Rodney, you are doing this online community a disservice by not allowing comments under the Eddie Long post.
Just like Frank Ski is a sellout for not discussing it as well. Friends with benefits indeed!!
bevvie
September 22nd, 2010
11:00 am
I like Shannon. Lay off the negative comments about her. She should not have gone first last season.
Peggy
September 22nd, 2010
11:08 am
I think it’s Hoff’s ego. He think he is the $hit cause of the success of Baywatch. The most international watched show. It wasn’t Hoff’s acting or presence that made Baywatch a success. It was fake blonds in skimpy bikini’s. The sooner someone inform Hoff of that the sooner he will disappear.
John Galt
September 22nd, 2010
11:36 am
You people showing all this hate for Palin- a teenager without a personal political agenda- are not making her look worse, but you are speaking VOLUMES about your own character.
Shame.
bap
September 22nd, 2010
11:56 am
He’s a sleaze and no one should consider him a “celebrity.” And, as long as Ms. Palin is still a contestant, this long-time fan of DWTS is boycotting the program! She should be home taking care of her son….as should her mother!!!!!
Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho
September 22nd, 2010
12:06 pm
bap, once a fool always a fool? Who are you to say she is not taking care of her child? The silence will be deafening.
Barak
September 22nd, 2010
12:11 pm
Bristol and her mommy are HOT………..
Barak
September 22nd, 2010
12:12 pm
Bap is an idiot. She probably has 4 or 5 illegitamate kids herself running around that the teax payers are paying for.
bap
September 22nd, 2010
1:02 pm
Sorry Barak….you couldn’t be more wrong!
war eagle
September 22nd, 2010
1:58 pm
Next they will change the show to Dancing with the Shia’s Starring Barak Obama, Ahmadinner jacket, Pelosi, Reed, Chavez,and Qadhafy. First dances-the Mohammed Mumba, The democratic spin and the call to prayers cha cha.
Sat
September 22nd, 2010
2:19 pm
@Elton
“Sat – what? – “Another former Atlantan, Disney star Kyle Massey actually had fewer votes than Hasselhoff but managed to stay alive because he had one of the higher dance scores (23 out of 30).”
Check your writing – that statement IS NOT factually incorrect and therefore does not need to be changed. Get a clue.”"
I can differentiate between fact and opinion very well, thank you very much. There is absolutely no proof to support that statement. The show specifically said he was not necessarily second to the last, hence no red light drama. There is no way anyone can know for a fact that Kyle had less vote than Hasslehoff unless they had inside information and there is no evidence to support that the writer has that. Hence, a claim like that is not factual and should not be presented as facts. Other articles made that distinction that Massey was not necessarily in the bottom two and i see the change has been made here. You are the one who needs to get the clue. I know its obnoxious but i’m a stickler for facts.
palinhater
September 22nd, 2010
2:37 pm
Get rid of Bristol; she was dreadful. The judges were walking on egg shells doing her critique.
Melissa
September 22nd, 2010
2:39 pm
@Sat — Actually, Rodney said:
“Another former Atlantan, Disney star Kyle Massey was paired with Hasselhoff for elimination but wasn’t necessarily in the bottom two. He had one of the higher dance scores (23 out of 30). Hasselhoff tied for the bottom at 15 with Cho and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino. He obviously got fewer votes than those two.”
He didn’t even make the statement that Massey had fewer votes than Hasselhoff. Where did you get that from? What he DID say was that The Hoff obviously got fewer votes than Cho and The Situation (because they each had the same judges’ score).
Rodney Ho
September 22nd, 2010
2:55 pm
@Melissa. I fixed it after the fact once Sat pointed that out. I didn’t hear Tom say they weren’t necessarily the bottom two. I just assumed they were. So it’s possible Kyle garnered more votes than Hasselhoff. But it is true that the Hoff got fewer votes than Cho or the Situation since they all had the same judges’ score.
Way to man up...
September 22nd, 2010
3:32 pm
…you Ho…
Or is...
September 22nd, 2010
3:33 pm
…”man up” and “you Ho”, in the same sentence, an oxymoron?
Peggy
September 22nd, 2010
5:44 pm
I think Sarah Palin is the dumbest political since Quale but I think it’s ashamed how you all treat her daughter. Sarah has narrow minded views to go along with her narrow minded town. Bristol has a chance to get out of Alaska & meet people from all over. I will bet that her views will change. She may not go to the left but she will be more open minded. Bristol will learn that you don’t demonize people just cause they don’t think like you, LOOK like you or worship like you. Just by entering in a relationship with Levi she has already proved that she doesn’t listen to her mom (in that case she should have). GIVE THE GIRL A CHANCE.
Shannon
September 22nd, 2010
7:44 pm
If Bristol didn’t have a political agenda, it would be different. However, consider the combination of these two facts:
* She said publicly that abstinence doesn’t work for teenagers (that is, as a practical matter, they won’t abstain).
* She is now a spokesperson for the abstinence movement.
This means a few things.
1) She is not a “dupe.” She knows abstinence doesn’t work.
2) She is ignoring what she knows in order to stay in the good graces of those who also admire her mother and in order to keep a paycheck.
3) She is contributing to teen pregnancy–not because of *her* pregnancy but because she is deliberately promoting a method for reducing it that she knows and has admitted does not work.
I don’t “hate” Bristol, but let’s not idolize or idealize her. Putting her on a popular reality TV show is problematic.