Alix Earle‘s performance on this week’s episode of Dancing With The Stars may have earned her a few 10s from the judges — but she says there was a last minute change that viewers didn’t know about.
Earlier this week, the influencer, 24, performed a tango alongside her pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy set to Billie Eilish‘s “Bury a Friend.” Given it was Halloween week, the dance had some spooky elements…but one had to be cut during rehearsals.
In a behind-the-scenes video Earle shared to TikTok on Thursday (Oct. 30), she revealed that the duo were actually supposed to start their dance buried under a pile of dirt. In the clips, Earle and Chmerkovskiy could be seen getting down and dirty in the makeshift graveyard on the ballroom floor.
“This is crazier than expected,” Earle said as she stepped into the dirt, later adding, “I mean it looks pretty cool.”
Unfortunately, the dance partners quickly realized that every time they moved the got dirt in their eyes and after they exited the graveyard, they tracked dirt all across the ballroom floor.
In the end, production decided it was best if it was swapped out for something a little less messy to keep everyone safe — and to keep the ballroom clean. They ultimately decided on using rubber mulch.
“We couldn’t see and dragged dirt across the whole floor so we had to change the material in the box 😭,” Earle captioned the video.
Even though they decided to go a different direction, Earle added in the comments that she was finding dirt and sand everywhere for days — and praised the maintenance crew for cleaning up the ballroom.
You can watch Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy’s entire dance below.
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