Dancing with the Stars (American season 7)

Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week.

Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week.

  indicates the couple (or couples) eliminated that week.

  indicates the returning couple was the last to be called safe.

  indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.

  indicates the couple withdrew from the competition and did not dance that week.

  indicates the couple that would have been eliminated had an elimination taken place.

  indicates the winning couple.

  indicates the runner-up couple.

  indicates the third-place couple.

Individual judges scores in charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.

The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:

• Week 1 (Night 1): Cha-cha-cha or foxtrot
• Week 1 (Night 2): Mambo or quickstep
• Week 2: Paso doble or rumba
• Week 3: Jive or Viennese waltz
• Week 4: Samba or tango
• Week 5: Hustle, jitterbug, salsa, or west coast swing
• Week 6: One unlearned dance and hip hop group dance
• Week 7: One unlearned dance and team dances
• Week 8: Two unlearned dances
• Week 9: Two unlearned dances
• Week 10 (Night 1): Samba face-off and freestyle
• Week 10 (Night 2): Favorite dance of the season

  Highest scoring dance

  Lowest scoring dance

  Not scored or danced by the celebrity

  Danced, but not scored

• Names in bold are the winners of each round.

• For the final round, Tony Dovolani helped Kirill & Hannah, Julianne Hough helped Mitchell & Maria, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy helped Craig & Samantha.

• For the November 11 "Design a Dance" performance, viewers had voted in the weeks beforehand about what style dance they wanted (Jive), what song they wanted the dance to ("Great Balls of Fire"), and what professionals they wanted to do the dance. Also, Dancing with the Stars held an online contest where viewers could submit their drawings for outfits for the performance. Allen, Texas resident Kelly Kealy-Mayton won, and her designs were turned into the outfits for Derek and Julianne Hough, and she and her husband won a trip to the show.[3]

• Cloris Leachman became the oldest woman in the series.
• During rehearsal of their first dance, Jeffrey Ross was accidentally poked in the eye by Edyta Śliwińska, suffering a scratched cornea. Against doctor's advice, Ross continued the competition. They were the first couple to be eliminated.
• On Friday, October 3, 2008, Misty May-Treanor was injured during practice. She received immediate medical attention.[4] At the end of the next episode, on Monday, October 6, May-Treanor announced that she had ruptured her Achilles tendon, and thus had to withdraw from the competition; moreover, she had surgery scheduled for October 7. She plans to return to volleyball competition after her recovery, stating that she had already planned to take some time off, so this injury did not affect her career.[5] On the results show the next night, Bergeron revealed that no one would be eliminated that week because of May-Treanor's withdrawal; instead, the week three scores would be combined with the scores from week four. He also revealed that Rocco DiSpirito would have been eliminated.
• On Sunday, October 19, 2008, Brooke Burke was injured during the camera blocking for her Jitterbug with partner Derek Hough. She was doing a front flip and came down too hard on her right foot. She put ice on it immediately, but ended up going to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Monday morning, October 20, 2008, for treatment and X-rays. There, it was determined that she had severely bruised her foot, but as of Monday afternoon, an ABC spokesperson told People magazine that Burke and Hough were still planning to perform on that night's live show.[6] They did just that, and went on to receive a 29 for their Jitterbug, remaining at the top of the leaderboard for the fifth straight week.
• On the Monday, October 20 show, Tom Bergeron announced that Susan Lucci had fractured two bones in her foot, but she would still dance her Hustle that night.
• On the Tuesday, October 21 results show, Tom Bergeron announced that Michael Flatley would sit in as a guest judge for Len Goodman during week six. Goodman got one week off due to an "impossible schedule," as stated by Samantha Harris.
• Forty minutes after the Tuesday, October 21, results show, Julianne Hough was taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for increasingly painful stomach pains.[7] Initially Hough said she was taking a day off from the group rehearsal to relax and try and feel better. However, on October 27 she was diagnosed with endometriosis.[8] She announced on the October 27th show that she would undergo surgery to remove her appendix on October 28, and that she would bow out of the competition until she recovers. Her partner Cody Linley worked with Edyta Śliwińska for weeks seven and eight of the competition.[9] Hough returned to the show for week nine, the semi-finals, on November 17.
  • Julianne Hough's scheduled performance for the October 21st results show was pre-recorded and postponed. It aired during the November 18th results show with Mark, Derek, and Lacey performing a choreographed routine along with Julianne.
  • On Thursday, October 30, Lacey Schwimmer reported that she has endometriosis as well. Hough's experience with the common but painful condition helped Schwimmer to notice similar symptoms and be diagnosed at an early stage, enabling it to be treated with medication and not requiring surgery or time away from the show.[10][11]
• Due to ABC's television coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election on November 4, 2008, the week seven results show was moved to Wednesday, November 5.
• Tuesday, November 25 marked the first time since season two that a couple (or two) did not receive a perfect 30 for their favorite dance of the season, as Lance Bass received a 28 and Warren Sapp received a 27.
• During the season, Toni Braxton had a tumor under her breast and was scheduled not to go on tour, though after it was removed, she reported she would.
• To this date, Brooke Burke holds the record of the most weeks at the top of the leader board with eight weeks.

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