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O'Hurley Hailed "Dancing" Machine
America's summer fling with Kelly Monaco--if not Dancing with the Stars--is over.
Monaco, crowned ballroom queen of the short-run competition series in July, was dethroned Thursday night by eyebrow-arching archrival John O'Hurley in a "dance-off" that perhaps seemed a better idea on paper to both the General Hospital actress and ABC.
O'Hurley and professional dance partner Charlotte Jorgensen defeated Monaco and her other half, Alec Mazo, by less than of one percent of the viewer vote, host Tom Bergeron said on air.
In the end, O'Hurley was speechless; Monaco was stoic.
"I think it's amazing," the defeated Monaco said. "We all came out winners in the end, didn't we?"
That is debatable. During its summer run, Dancing with the Stars was the silly season's undisputed hit. Monaco's victory on July 6 was watched by an American Idol-esque 22.4 million.
But when Monaco and O'Hurley returned to the dance floor on Tuesday night, a comparatively sparse 10.8 million returned with them. Thursday's half-hour results show was watched by 10.5 million.
On Tuesday's episode, Mazo seemed to sense that no good could come of the rematch. "I think Kelly and I have more to lose," he said.
The "dance-off" was arranged after outraged O'Hurley fans suggested, loudly, that their man had been robbed the first time around. Speculation popped up in tabloids that Stars' complicated voting system--a combination of judges' scores, and telephone and Internet balloting--had somehow been rigged by ABC to favor Monaco, its home-team soap star.
ABC refuted the charges, but allowed that a Monaco-O'Hurley rematch, backed by popular demand, sounded like a two-part, premiere-week special.
Said O'Hurley in August, upon accepting the "dance-off" challenge: "So, I will lace up my tutu, head back to the trenches, and once again learn to shake what mama gave me."
And so O'Hurley did. On Tuesday, he and Jorgensen won the judges' cards with their rumba, waltz and heavy-on-the-ham freestyle routines. The waltz was the showstopper, per the jury box, rating a perfect 30.
Monaco, on the other hand, was repeatedly told she looked tense. She and Mazo came away with decent, but not blockbuster scores for the cha-cha, quickstep and freestyle.
Fortunately for Monaco, the judges' votes didn't count. This time out, ABC relied solely on telephone votes from viewers to determine the winner. Unfortunately for Monaco, she didn't prevail on that front, either.
For his win, O'Hurley had $126,000 donated on his behalf to the charity of his choice, Golfers for Cancer. Monaco earmarked her runner-up's bounty of $124,000 to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.
Dancing with the Stars is slated to return as a series to ABC in January.
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