Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong were eliminated from Dancing With the Stars on Mariah Carey Night after their jazz routine earned 21 out of 30 points. The result ended their run on the show and immediately set off criticism from Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner.
That is why viewers are asking who got eliminated on Dancing With The Stars tonight: the pair’s exit came on a night built around Mariah Carey Night, but the score left enough room for debate about what the judges saw versus what the audience expected. Miller’s elimination was the surprise, not because the number was high, but because it still was not enough to keep her and Armstrong in the competition.
On the Oct. 9 Giggly Squad podcast, DeSorbo said the voting was “rigged,” while Berner questioned how the Dancing With the Stars algorithm and bottom-three disclosures actually work. Berner also raised the possibility that gender bias could shape results, and DeSorbo defended Miller by arguing that producers often weigh audience appeal as much as performance. Together, their comments turned one elimination into a wider argument about how the show decides who stays and who goes.
That criticism matters because the elimination was described as another unexpected one, and the show still has not laid out the mechanics behind the voting process in a way that makes the outcome easy to follow. The missing detail is not just whether Miller and Armstrong lost the vote; it is how the show’s scoring, audience response and bottom-three reveals fit together when a pair with 21 out of 30 points can still go home.
For now, the answer is simple: Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong were the ones eliminated, and the reaction around their exit is now part of the story. What remains unresolved is whether the frustration voiced by DeSorbo and Berner stays a podcast argument or forces a clearer explanation of how Dancing With the Stars reaches these decisions.
