Dancing with the Stars: Season 23's First Eliminated Contestant Is...

Season 23 has said goodbye to its first couple

By Lauren Piester Sep 21, 2016 2:15 AMTags
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Season 23 of Dancing with the Stars has its first casualty. 

Say goodbye to Jake T. Austin and Jenna Johnson!

Jake and Jenna were eliminated tonight after finding themselves in the bottom four couples with Maureen McCormick and Artem Chigvintsev, Amber Rose and Maks Chmerkovskiy, and Ryan Lochte and Cheryl Burke. 

While it's a little sad to see the Wizards of Waverly Place star go home so early, it's not all that surprising. He tied for the second lowest score both this week and last week, only above Rick Perry, and seemed to struggle a bit with both of his routines. Somebody's got to be the first one to go, and unfortunately it was Jake this week. 

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Now, we've got some griping to do: what was that, DWTS

Did we really need to spend the entire first hour of that show rehashing every dance, with inaudible commentary and misspelled captions? That same thing could have been accomplished much more entertainingly in one five minute highlight reel, but instead, we just had our time massively wasted. 

So take note of this, Dancing with the Stars: We are in a fight, and you've only got like 10 more weeks to make it up to us. Better make 'em count. 

Dancing with the Stars airs Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC.