Apparently You Can Use Dancing With The Stars To Delay Surgery
 Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

What an overly-dramatic week on Dancing With The Stars.  Overly - not because there was a lot of real drama - but because we had to hear and see the replay where Cristian de la Fuente hurt his arm ad infinitum, and hear Samantha Harris reflect upon how sad it was ad infinitum.  He hurt it during the samba with Cheryl Burke.  At first Tom Bergeron told the audience that an EMT diagnosed it as a "severe muscle cramp."  But last night, de la Fuente announced that his doctor said he'd torn a tendon.  Here's the kicker:  the doctor told him he needed surgery to repair it, and Cristian said that he chose to delay the surgery and continue on with Dancing With The Stars.  Now:  if you have a serious tendon injury, are you even able to compete in full-out professional dancing?  It makes no sense to us.

But Cristian was safe from elimination by the viewers' votes (and judges' scores combined), as were Mario Barrett, Jason Taylor, Marissa Winokur, and Kristi Yamaguchi.  So there are now six contestants left in the competition.  We were pretty surprised to see Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough get sent home last night.

It was kind of embarrassing, too; as soon as they got eliminated, Derek moved to congratulate the others, and Shannon stopped him and said "Wait for the music," seemingly not realizing her mike was on, and then began walking off to talk to Bergeron.

But, apparently they're doing quite well, as they confirmed their new relationship on the news today:

Is it real, do you think?

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