Derek and Shannon on Dancing With the Stars

It was another week of obvious, if not spoken, affection between Derek Hough and Shannon Elizabeth on Dancing With the Stars. In fact, in a quick little take from the week's practice video, Shannon tells Derek that she's mad an if he's not careful he will be going home alone tonight! I guess that says it all!

Well, maybe not all because they did perform two wonderful dances Monday night. We will excuse Len Goodman from the judging because he obviously had a stuffy-old-bugger pill before tonight's contest. Shannon did struggle with keeping her "gangly" as Bruno put it, appendages under control through the two dances but they were pretty great no matter what the judges said. Shannon and Derek finished the night with a combines score for two dances of 51 out of 60 putting them in fourth place behind Jason, Kristi, and Marissa and ahead of Mario and Cristian.

Speaking of Crisitan, he fell casualty to two horrific injuries tonight...well that may be overplaying it jus ta bit but hey, it is Dancing With the Stars!

First, it appears he may have pulled a muscle in his left arm during their performance. Clearly a very painful injury. Then to add insult, after explaining that they would only judge the dance up to the point of injury the judges dolled out the most horrific, obscene scores of the series. They gave Cristian 7's across the board and it was CLEARLY better than that.

I had speculated that it was time for another male star to be eliminated this week and with Cristian's injury and the sympathy vote that will go along with that and the ridiculous scores of the judges that leaves...Mario. Tune in Tuesday nite to see if I'm right!