Tyler Cameron and Sharna Burgess landed at the bottom of the leaderboard on Dancing With the Stars Season 35 Week 8 after their Viennese Waltz, leaving the pair in the night’s most vulnerable spot as the competition tightened. The episode aired one night early on Monday, Nov. 2, moved up because of Tuesday night’s election coverage.
The search for a Dwts elimination tonight answer also pointed to the top of the board, where Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson took first place with a quickstep to 2WEI’s “Toxic,” inspired by the Saw franchise, and earned the season’s first perfect score, 40 out of 40. Johnson had said the dance was “all about wow moments,” and the routine delivered exactly that.
That sharp split made the rest of the night feel even more unforgiving. Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy scored 37 out of 40 for their Argentine tango, while Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold also earned 37 out of 40 and picked up their first 10s of the season with a contemporary routine. On the other side of the ledger, several stars received 4s and 5s, a result tied in part to Shirley Ballas joining Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli as guest judge for Horror Movie Night.
Cameron and Burgess were no strangers to pressure in the episode. Their Viennese Waltz, set to Annie Lennox’s “Love Song for a Vampire” and inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, had the kind of theme that should have helped the pair stand out on a night built around spectacle. Instead, the routine left them at the bottom while the judges handed out marks that ranged from near-perfect to unexpectedly low.
That is why the unanswered part of Week 8 matters now. The scoring made the elimination race hard to read, but it also made one thing clear: the dance floor split cleanly between the night’s standout performance and the couples trying to survive the lower end of the board. The episode did not resolve who was eliminated, and that missing result is the next piece viewers needed to know.
