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Aly Raisman Safe for Another Week on Dancing With the Stars

Aly Raisman and Mark Ballas were declared safe, along with Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough, were declared safe first in the April 23 show.

 

It appears the judges and fans of ABC's Dancing with the Stars are still in love with local Olympian Aly Raisman.

Raisman, who started her gymnastics career in Newton, was one of the first contestants to be declared "safe" during the April 23 results show. She and her dancing partner Mark Ballas were joined by Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough to be ensured another week of competition.

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On the April 22 show Raisman and Ballas danced a foxtrot to Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" and the pair earned 27 out of 30 points from the judges. That score put them in third place among the eight dance teams. Pickler and Hough earned 29 points Monday night as did contestant Zendaya and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy. 

It was an all-Stevie Wonder evening, with Wonder singing when the competing couples were not dancing.

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In the end, the result show came down to two pairs - former baseball player Sean Lowe and his partner Peta Murgatroyd and boxer Victor Ortiz and his partner Lindsay Arnold. After tallying the votes of the judges and the viewers, Ortiz and Arnold were sent packing. 

"Dancing With the Stars" returns again from 8 p.m. to 10:01 p.m. on Monday, with the DWTS Results Show airing next Tuesday night from 9 to 10:01 p.m. Next week's theme is Latin Night.

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