Backstage Report: 'Dancing' Shock! Sabrina Out!

The Cheetah Girl Is Ejected in 'Dancing's' Toughest Season Yet! Plus, Seymour Falls Ill

October 30 -- Many responses of disbelief were uttered when audience favorite Sabrina Bryan and her partner Mark Ballas (the couple to get this season's first perfect score) were removed from the 'Dancing with the Stars' competition last night. Judge Len Goodman put it best when he said: "This takes the biscuit!" Bryan, a former frontrunner, spoke to AOL TV's Michael Maloney shortly after receiving the shocking news.

This has stunned pretty much everyone. How do you feel?
I'm not ready to go, but it's okay. It's okay.
How do you feel about your partner Mark?
I could not have asked for a better partner. Mark was a perfect pairing for me. His dedication and passion towards this kind of dancing is exactly what I want.
Who would you like to see win?
That's hard to say ... I'd like to see a woman walk away with that trophy. A woman hasn't won since [Kelly Monaco did] in season one. It's time. Mel [Brown] and Jennie [Garth] have so much more in them. The women are kicking butt this season.
What's next for you?
I have a lot going on with the Cheetah Girls -- a concert tour and another movie, but all I really want now is a massage!

Judge Bruno Tonioli passionately concurred with Goodman. "I am furious!" Tonioli roared. "This is unprecedented. [Sabrina] should have been in the finals. She was one of the most consistently good dancers. This should not have happened! It's so unfair I can hardly speak!"

Veteran dancer Julianne Hough, who's partnered with racecar driver noted that fans shouldn't take anything for granted when it comes to their favorites. "You have to vote for them," Julianne insisted. "Even if you think they're safe. Maybe that's what happened with Mel [Brown] when they were in the bottom two. I am so shocked [Sabrina was voted off]."

Would Julianne be shocked to see her charming partner pursue a career in front of the camera? "If he can be himself and host, I'd say yes," Julianne said, adding, "But if he had lines ... no, seriously, he's got such a great aura. Everyone just falls in love with him." Castroneves, however, won't be pitching his own reality series just yet. "Trust me," he said. "I'm going to keep racing."

Before fans got sick to their stomachs over Bryan's untimely exit, Jane Seymour literally became ill. The British beauty started showing symptoms of food poisoning after she arrived at the studio for the results program and left before taping commenced. Later, the star received a dose of the best medicine possible when she and partner Tony Dolovani were announced as the second couple that would be returning next week.

"Jane feels so much better," said her dance partner. "Especially now that she found out that she's safe." Was Dolovani the one who got to tell the former 'Bond' girl the good news? "I don't think I told her," he chuckled. "I think I yelled it. It felt like a big weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Thank you fans!"

The comeback story of the week belonged to Brown and Chmerkovskiy who were in the bottom two on October 16 and scored a perfect '30' this week. The couple managed to do so with a mere six hours of rehearsal, too. "Rumba is the kind of dance that you've already had training for," offered Chmerkovskiy. "[Mel] picked up that dance faster than others ... we got our 30." Why only six hours? "We had a lot going on," Brown said. "House construction and Spice Girls rehearsals."



Another reason there was less rehearsal time was because the celebrities and dancers had to take time out to practice their first group performance on Monday's show. "We had a great time with the group dance," said Derek Hough, who's partnered with Jennie Garth. "Performing is easier when you're on the dance floor with everyone else and you're not being scored by the judges."

"Getting together with everyone in the rehearsal hall for the group dance was fun," concurred Julianne, Derek's sister. "You could see each personality come out."

"The group dance was fun," agreed Jonathan Roberts, Marie Osmond's partner. "Derek and I flipped Cameron [Mathison]. It united us." Did the mass routine remind Osmond of performances from her variety program 'The Donny and Marie Show?' "No," she chuckled, "because I had to actually dance in this one -- I faked it back then!"

The high spirits on the dance floor were a stark contrast to the rather solemn mood that's overtaken the side room where (now fewer) dancers and stars congregate before and after they strut their stuff in front of the judges. "There's more pressure," admitted Brown, "But everyone's happy."

Derek attributed part of the quietness in the dancers' room to Osmond's fainting spell last week. "It takes a while to get over something like that," Derek said. "We were worried about her, but she's a hardcore rock and roll girl." (Hmm, isn't she a 'little bit country'?)

On Monday's show, Derek tried to lighten the mood from the background by waving his arms indicating 'don't do it!' when host Samantha Harris read the information so that fans could call and vote for the perfect-scoring duo of Brown and Chmerkovskiy. Host Tom Bergeron playfully busted the jokester on air. "We're all so close," Derek said. "We all had a great time [on Monday]."

Results nights, alas, remain a very different story. "I knew that this show would be hard physically," Osmond shared. "But I didn't realize how hard it would be emotionally. Tuesdays aren't fun because everyone here is so wonderful and someone ends up leaving. It hurts because we really do love each other."

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