[This story contains spoilers from episode five of Dancing With the Stars season 34.]
It was an emotional night in the Dancing With the Stars ballroom for Dedication Night, and to make the night even sweeter, no one was eliminated from the competition at the end of the episode.
Each celebrity performed a special tribute dance to honor of someone in their life, delivering 10 emotional routines in honor of the cast’s parents, siblings, former co-stars, romantic partners and children. (Read who the professional dancers would dedicate their own number to here.)
Former professional dancer Kym Herjavec also returned to the ballroom, serving as the first official guest judge of the season.
Finishing out the fifth week of season 34, the cast is noticeably dwindling down. Hilaria Baldwin was eliminated at the end of last week’s Disney Night, making her the fourth contestant to exit the competition. No one was eliminated at the end of Dedication Night, meaning the remaining cast composed of 10 couples all moved onto the sixth week of competition.
The remaining celebrities include Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt, Olympian Jordan Chiles, social media star Alix Earle, The Traitors season three winner (and Zac Efron’s brother) Dylan Efron, actresses Danielle Fishel and Elaine Hendrix, Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying, conservationist (and son of Steve Irwin) Robert Irwin and comedian-actor Andy Richter.
Richter kicked off the night with an adorable salsa alongside his daughter. One of the most highly anticipated numbers of Dedication Night was Irwin’s contemporary to Phil Collins’ “You’ll Be in My Heart,” which he devoted to his mother, Terri Irwin. And it proved to be a memorable one, as he earned his first three nines of the season, ending with a total score of 35/40 (after sending the entire ballroom into tears).
Fishel dedicated her jive set to the Boy Meets World theme song to her former co-star William Daniels, also known as Mr. Feeny on the series. The performance landed the actress her first eight of the competition.
Leavitt emerged as an early frontrunner during the first half of the competition, placing as the top-scoring couple for four consecutive episodes. Disney Night was the first time she and Mark Ballas pulled ahead as the only couple to place at the top of the leaderboard, and they notably earned the season’s first nine.
However, Efron ended her top-scoring streak on Dedication Night, becoming the first celebrity to earn four nines, one from each of the judges. The Traitors winner performed his dance in honor of his little sister set to the tune of his elder brother, Zac, and Zendaya’s song “Rewrite the Stars.” Trailing close behind Efron were Irwin and Earle, who both respectively scored 35/40 points.
At the end of (most) nights of the competition, the couple with the lowest combined total of judges’ scores and viewer votes is eliminated. Live voting takes place during the East Coast airing of each show and ends shortly after the final dance is completed.
See the full list of scores for week five of DWTS season 34 (aka Dedication Night) below.
Andy Richter and Emma Slater: 24/40
Robert Irwin and Witney Carson: 35/40
Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten: 30/40
Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas: 33/40
Jen Affleck and Jan Ravnik: 29/40
Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach: 36/40
Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa: 32/40
Scott Hoying and Rylee Arnold: 30/40
Danielle Fishel and Pasha Pashkov: 29/40
Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy: 35/40
Season 34 of DWTS airs and streams simultaneously on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays, with new episodes available to stream on Wednesdays on Hulu.
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