14 DAY TRIAL // Even with the little incident that sent Kirstie Alley and partner Maksim to the floor on the previous edition of Dancing With the Stars, the 60-year-old actress was saved from elimination. Wendy Williams was sent home.
Williams’ foxtrot failed to impress judges, who said her performance had just taken a turn for the worse, giving her a mere 15 points for it.
She and Cheryl Burke occupied the two bottom positions and it would have probably taken a miracle for Williams to make it through to another week.
As the video below will confirm, Williams played it cool when she heard her name, and tried to make a gracious exit from the show, even if she somewhat placed the blame for her poor dancing skills on her traveling.
“I’m probably the busiest person travelling back and forth. In addition to that I have a marriage, a child and a litany of other things to hold together,” she said.
She made a good comeback though, when she took the time to stop and thank the judges for their time and to producers for making it possible for her to be on the show in the first place.
“This has been a wonderful opportunity and I want to thank the judges and Tony for teaching me how to dance,” Wendy said.
Still, Tony would have probably had lots more to do with her since, as per her own admission, she’s not cut out for dancing.
“Look, despite stereotypes this is one black girl who can’t even do the Running Man!” Wendy said, right before promising she’d talk more about her DWTS stint on her own show.
The previous edition of the show saw Kirstie and Maks take a tumble just as they set out to rumba, in what was named the longest five seconds ever in the history of television, as also noted above.
The two eventually recovered from the fall and continued the dance, for which reason they got only kind words from the judges – and a score that kept them out of the bottom three.