Tom DeLay hobbles off 'Dancing With the Stars' for good
Photo credit: ABC | Tom Delay and his partner Cheryl Burke compete on 'Dancing With The Stars.'
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Twinkle-toes Tom is gone.
And not a moment too soon - or so said his feet, both suffering from stress fractures.
What a run. Or walk. Or waltz. Or samba. Or something. It was all very unusual. But fun, bizarrely so.
The former Republican leader of the House, Tom DeLay, who almost - almost - made this season's blah-squared "Dancing With the Stars" watercolor fodder again hobbled off the floor for good last night.
Or until the finale reunion show.
This, of course, is a shame.
Meanwhile, Debi Mazar is going too. She and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy were ousted Tuesday night.
The end for DeLay was expected. Various reports, beginning with E! Online, said yesterday afternoon it was over. Even the Hammer couldn't figure out how to dance with broken feet, but heaven knows he and his feet tried - notably Monday night with a booty-shaking samba.
As previously noted, most unusual.
Amazingly, DeLay survived the vote Tuesday night, despite a low judge score on Monday.
That, doubtless, was a surprise to the liberal press (A Newsday critic reviewed his first dance with this - "Tom DeLay? Oy vey.")
Newsweek's Holly Bailey wrote this Monday: "Seriously, the guy is on something. He can't stop grinning. Suddenly, it feels as though we're in an alternate universe. 'You're easy on the eyes when you dance,' judge Carrie Ann Inaba tells DeLay. Come again?"
Said DeLay, "last night [my] feet were saying, 'What did you do?' " Samantha Harris then asked, Will you continue?
"No, I won't. You can't proceed if you can't practice [or] you make a fool of yourself out there. I can't do that to Cheryl." Cheryl Burke was his pro dance partner.
Next week he would have danced the Texas Two-Step. The audience groaned in disappointment.
Yes, we know exactly how the audience feels. But . . . Tom Bergeron invited him back to perform his own unique version later this season - feet willing.
