{"id":789,"date":"2005-03-28T04:02:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=789"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:35:51","slug":"nikkis-shock-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikkis-shock-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki&#8217;s shock elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE TEEN IS LEFT DEVASTATED AFTER BEING GIVEN A SCORE OF ONE OUT OF TEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With The Stars<\/em> judge Todd McKenney has no regrets about giving Nikki Webster and Sasha Farber&#8217;s tango dance a score of one. &#8220;I stand by my score and comments,&#8221; says Todd.<\/p>\n<p>He says Nikki and Sasha had been using far too much pizazz in their performances while forgetting the basics. &#8220;While they hinted at the tango, the music, the feel, the mood were all missing. They didn&#8217;t have a connection &#8212; the music was appalling. It was a snazzy routine, which we&#8217;ve come to expect from Nikki, but it wasn&#8217;t the tango,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>But Nikki argued that last week was the first time they tried something different. &#8220;We&#8217;ve played it safe up until now \u2026 [Todd] hasn&#8217;t put anyone else down when they&#8217;ve done illegal lifts before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m upset that the judges scores are not consistent. They&#8217;re not judging everyone on the same level &#8212; they&#8217;re judging me like I&#8217;m in a professional ballroom competition, not a TV program for charity,&#8221; says the devastated teen star.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Todd disagrees. &#8220;That&#8217;s a superficial way of looking at it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd: &#8216;Susie was disgraceful&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Judge Todd McKenney also had some harsh words to say about ex-contestant Susie Wilks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Susie bowed out in a really disgraceful manner by slagging everyone,&#8221; he says. &#8220;She was saying things like, &#8216;If we&#8217;d have just got one more point we&#8217;d still be in the comp and Derryn [Hinch] would have gone,&#8217; and that&#8217;s just so mean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Todd also says he found Susie and Jonathan Doone&#8217;s dance routines annoying. &#8220;They took it too far and they shoved their sex down our throat, and I didn&#8217;t like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With The Stars Tues, 7.30pm, Seven Network<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: NW<br \/>\n<a title=\"NW - March 28, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/gallery\/displayimage.php?album=15&amp;pos=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View scan of this article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE TEEN IS LEFT DEVASTATED AFTER BEING GIVEN A SCORE OF ONE OUT OF TEN Dancing With The Stars judge Todd McKenney has no regrets about giving Nikki Webster and Sasha Farber&#8217;s tango dance a score of one. &#8220;I stand by my score and comments,&#8221; says Todd. He says Nikki and Sasha had been using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/nikkis-shock-elimination\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikki&#8217;s shock elimination<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,79],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-dancing-with-the-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}