Dancing with the Stars: Beefcake and Chenoweth Edition

Hey guys! After a brief stay from the Governor last week, I am back to give you your weekly recap our favorite show.

The sad new is that Carson Kressley was eliminated after last week's episode. I was pretty bummed when I heard that, because Carson was by far my favorite contestant, even if he wasn't the best dancer technically. He was by far the most entertaining, and one of the few contestants to not spend the entire rehearsal time trying to convince me that competing on Dancing with the Stars was the hardest thing that anyone has ever tried to do in the history of forever. Frankly, I was not expecting to enjoy this episode at all, now that Carson was gone, but little did I know that ABC had another ace up its sleeve…

And that ace was in the form of Kristen Chenoweth, singing and dancing with all the pros, who were by the way, wearing suspenders (suspenders are super sexy). Seriously, who did not wish that they were Kristin right then? We also learned that ABC decided to go with "GCB" as the official title of Kristen's new show, so it wasn't all good.

Performances- The episode started out rough, with Rob Kardashian's family proving once again that they are classless and his dance getting a not so great 22 points. Nancy Grace yelled at my future husband, Tristan MacManus, for doing exactly what she asked him to do, and apparently the judges were smoking crack while she was performing, because they gave her very mediocre dance a nine. Ricki and JR were outstanding as usual and David Arquette made up in energy what he lacked in finesse. Chaz's tango was solid, but he is clearly the weakest dancer of the group, scoring only 19 points.

Hope Solo's dance from Rent was also disappointing, although it did inspire a hilarious catfight between the judges and Maks when they criticized her lackluster performance. I wasn't a huge fan of Hope's performance, but part of that may be because I had a horrible teacher in high school who used to play 525,600 Minutes on repeat throughout the entire class, so I was getting some PTSD-style flashback the whole time.

Beefcake Alert- Seeing all of the male dancers performing with Kristin Chenoweth made me realize just how gorgeous they all are. There really should be some sort of warning before something like that comes on my TV, but it was pretty awesome. Also, I don't know if I ever noticed that David Arquette cleans up very, very well. It's actually a little eerie- once he shaves he looks about ten years younger and he doesn't look quite as gaunt.

Plus, we got a nice extra shot of beefcake during the group performance because Maksim decided to take wardrobe tips from Derek Hough and forgo a shirt.

Group Performance- This week was the first week where the contestants performed a bug group number together. First of all, Carson came back and was hilarious, so that made me happy even though it was obvious that the show had no purpose for him other than to hang out and be funny. It was pretty fun watching the group dynamic as they all practiced together, like Carson joking around with Maks or JR and Tristan pranking Chaz. The final performance came out pretty well and it ended up being really fun.

So what did everyone think? Are you still watching even though Carson is gone? Does anyone have a chance at beating JR or Ricki? Do you think Brooke Burke had any idea who she was talking about when she recited the list of Broadway composers? Who do you hope dresses up as a Chippendale's dancer for next week's Halloween episode (coughTristanCough)?