The Dancing Fool: Brandy may go bye-bye
Brandy, left, and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy perform during the celebrity dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars" in Los Angeles. (Oct. 18, 2010) Credit: ABC
Two weeks to go. Four dancers left. One more will leave Tuesday night. And the question on everyone's mind: Will Bristol Palin be the one?
Poor Bristol. Seriously: She's worked hard, has an excellent pro by her side (Mark Ballas), and isn't terrible. But among the final four, she's the least talented, and because the best is supposed to win this competition, and the least is not, why not go Tuesday night?
Perhaps simple arithmetic will help explain why she could stay. The "DWTS" game is guided by percentages, with the weight of three judges' scores equal to the weight of millions of viewer votes. If tonight's final four are scored exactly the same as the top four dancers last week, then Palin still ends up with 22 percent of the judges' vote. The top dancer gets 26 percent of their vote. That's only a 4 percent spread.
My hunch: The top three will roughly get equal judges' votes Monday , while Bristol's popular vote will pull her even Tuesday. That means that whoever gets stiffed by the voting public goes Tuesday.
Who might that be? Brandy could be in trouble.
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