Monday night on Dancing with The Stars’ fourth week of competition, the stars recalled their most memorable years. This is one of the most emotional nights during the whole competition because some stars are struck with tragedy during their most memorable year while others most memorable years’ are uplifting.
Gary Busey chose the year 1979 for his most memorable year. This is the year that he got his academy award nomination for his starring role as Buddy Holly in “The Buddy Holly Story”. Busey and his partner, Anna Trebunskay, danced a Jazz routine to “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly in his honor and after almost dropping his partner during the routine, he did not get the best reviews from the judges. They did, however, boost his spirits by letting him know that he was most definitely entertaining. He received an overall score of sixteen out of thirty. Busey’s reply to the low scores was that he felt the scores were not “the truth of the heart of the dance”.
Since in the third week of competition Real Housewives of Atlanta’s, Kim Zolciak, was forced to withdraw from competition with partner Tony Dovolani after suffering a mini stroke, this week’s elimination was based on the viewers votes for two weeks as well as the judges scores. Gary Busey and Anna Trebunskay were in jeopardy along with Carlos Penavega and his partner Witney Carson, and when the results were read it was Gary and Anna that were sent home this week.
When asked by co-host Erin Andrews after the elimination how he felt about being eliminated and what he had learned from being on the show he responded, as always, with a philosophical reply vowing that he would remain in the ballroom in spirit stating “the fact that I have been eliminated is false because in spirit, with Anna as a partnership, will remain in this room throughout the show. So, you won’t see us dancing but we will be there.” Even going as far as telling co-host fill in Alfonso Ribeiro that he was not done with his speech when Ribeiro was trying to close the show.
