Watch Tyra Banks Announce The Wrong Names For The Bottom Two at DWTS

Published October 7th, 2020 - 06:13 GMT
Banks had made a terrible gaffe on Monday, sending Monica off as 'safe' during voting, only to realize she was in the bottom two.
Banks had made a terrible gaffe on Monday, sending Monica off as 'safe' during voting, only to realize she was in the bottom two.
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Anne was eliminated on Monday night after Tyra Banks' blunder

Anne Heche was so 'furious' after Monday night's elimination from Dancing With The Stars that she stormed off the set, it's being reported.

Heche lost out to Cheer coach Monica Aldama and partner Val Chermovsky during a confusing elimination where host Tyra Banks initially read out the wrong names in the bottom two.

The 51-year-old allegedly refused to do press and drove off the studio lot after losing, according to Page Six.

'Anne was not happy — she was furious. She drove off the lot and refused to do any press,' a source revealed to the site.  

Banks had made a terrible gaffe on Monday, sending Monica off as 'safe' during voting, only to realize she was in the bottom two.

The 46-year-old model then had to call the Cheer star, 50, and Val, 34, back to the stage, begging, 'Please come back. Please have Monica come back. There's been an error in our control room, but we're making it happen.'

'This is live TV, right?' Tyra covered. 'This is the craziness of live TV.'

'Nobody is infallible,' offered judge Bruno Tonioli, 64. 'I'm sorry, guys. You know, it happened in the UK.'

'I'm so sorry,' Tyra told Monica and Val as they walked back out. 'This is live TV. I was reading my cards, but my cards were wrong.'

The confusion reached a crescendo at the end of the two-hour episode as Tyra relayed the results of viewer voting and stated who was safe and those in jeopardy.

After the creator of America's Next Top Model told the rapper Nelly, 45, he made it through, she faced Chrishell Stause, 39, Anne Heche, 51, and Vernon Davis, 36, onstage.

Tyra then skipped completely past Chrishell and said that Nelly's departure meant Anne and Vernon had the least amount of votes.

Seconds later, she realized her mistake, saying, 'There's actually been an error. I'm looking right now, and we have three couples. So we need to clarify this for a second.'

That's when she had to bring back Monica, which she did with a cry of, 'We're all human.'

Monica was saved from elimination by judges Carrie Ann Inaba, 52, and Derek Hough, 36, while Anne and partner Keo Motsepe, 30, were sent home.

Tyra has been criticized this season for her show performance, but handled herself like a pro.

She later took to social media and chalked it up to being a live production.

'Wowzers. Live TV. Wrong name on cards. So challenging to deal with moments like these. But we power through,' she posted on Twitter for her roughly 14.2 million followers. 

Social media was quick to react with some calling for the return of departed hosts Tom  Bergeron, 65, and Erin Andrews, 42.

They were let go from the show in July and Tyra was named as new host and executive producer  of the ABC dancing competition show.  

Tyra told Us Weekly last week that she takes criticism in stride after being scrutinized for her performances on DWTS.

'Every host messes up. It’s just normal. It’s live TV. If it wasn’t live, there would be no mess-ups,' she said last week after Disney Night. 'Even on America’s Next Top Model, I would mess up and tell my editors to leave it in. That’s what makes things human and makes like live'.  

Anne garnered a great deal of respect for her moving paso doble to Katy Perry's Rise.

In a confessional, Anne said she related to the lyrics about triumphing over 'vultures' in one's life, recalling the challenges she'd faced when dating Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000.

Anne said she was told if she took Ellen to the premiere of her 1997 film Volcano, she would lose her 20th Century Fox contract.

She recalled Ellen urging her to listen to the studio, but she refused and took Ellen anyway.

'I was ushered out by security before the movie even ended and told I was not allowed to go to my own after-party for fear that they would get pictures of me with a woman,' Anne revealed.

She realized she'd been naïve to ignore Ellen's advice, noting 'the stigma attached to that relationship was so bad that I was fired from my multimillion-dollar picture deal, and I did not work in a studio picture for 10 years.'

As Anne danced, she threw open her costume at the word 'transform' to show off a rainbow lining inside, as rainbow-colored lights shone behind her.

'The multicolored warrior is strong and proud and stands for what she believes,' Bruno said, as Carrie Ann added, 'You don't give up, and we don't give up rooting for you.'

Asked what the performance meant to her, Anne said, 'I feel redeemed. It has been a blessing to be on this show, and to be able to tell my story, and to be able to have a partner to tell the truth with, and learn with, and survive with.'   

 

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