Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong were sent home on Dancing With the Stars on Mariah Carey Night after their jazz routine earned 21 out of 30 points. The elimination answered the question viewers were asking after the episode: who went home on Dancing With the Stars tonight.
The exit has kept drawing attention because the score was low enough to leave Miller vulnerable before any audience voting was counted in public. On Oct. 9, Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner raised the issue on the Giggly Squad podcast, with DeSorbo calling the result “rigged” and Berner questioning how the show’s algorithm and bottom-three disclosures are presented.
That criticism landed quickly because the elimination came only three days after the Oct. 6 episode, when the pair’s performance was judged and sent into the show’s voting process. The discussion has centered on how Dancing With the Stars balances judge scores, viewer votes and the hidden steps that lead to a final cut, which is why the result became more than a routine weekly exit.
The sharper complaint is not just that Miller left, but that the process behind the loss is hard to see from the outside. Berner suggested gender bias could shape the outcome, while DeSorbo defended Miller and argued that producers often weigh audience appeal, a claim that adds another layer to the debate without changing the fact that the routine scored 21 out of 30 points and still fell short.
What remains unresolved is simple: the elimination is set, but the way the show turns scores and votes into a bottom-three reveal is still the part fans cannot fully follow. Until that process is clearer, every close result will invite the same suspicion that followed Miller’s exit.
