ABC/ADAM LARKEYThat's gonna leave a mark.
In what can only be called the most jaw-dropping elimination so far this season on Dancing With the Stars, Joanna Krupa (who Carrie Ann Inaba thought might win) was sent packing last night.
We were backstage after the show and can tell you Joanna was feeling the sting.
"Being so close, it sucks not being able to go to the finals," Joanna tells us. "But I guess it is what it is."
Still, part of her saw it coming. "It was a hard competition and I knew that tonight anything could happen, so I was prepared for it."
Oh, and you won't believe who she and partner Derek Hough think may win…
They're all about supporting the girl who snatched the finals spot out from under them with her relentless underdog charm: Kelly Osbourne.
"We're definitely proud of Kelly," Derek told us. "She's grown so much, you just can't help but love her and root for her."
Derek and Joanna also hinted that they'll be doing much more than just sitting idly by in the audience for a camera op next week.
"We have a funny thing planned," Derek teased. "It's going to be fun."
And, of course, there is the teensiest sense of relief they don't have to work quite so hard this week. "Right now we're all sad," Derek said to Joanna. "But when we wake up tomorrow we'll be like, woo!"
Joanna said she didn't think she'd get to week nine, but someone else did. "There was no doubt in [my fiancé's] mind that I was going to make the finals. He's very disappointed."
Are you as shocked as we are that Joanna got the heave-ho? Who will win next week? Who should win?
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