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Three strikes (in this case, weeks) and Debi Mazar is out of Dancing With the Stars. The actress, who co-stars in HBO’s Entourage- failed to sparkle alongside partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. (picture courtesy of ABC-TV)

Queens no longer is in the house.

After tallying judges scores and viewer votes, Queens-born actress Debi Mazar and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy had the lowest combined score this week on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. While her Samba scored an unimpressive 17 with the judges on Monday evening, Mazar did not have the week’s lowest judges score- politician Tom DeLay and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin both fared worse, with a 15 and 14, respectively.

Despite not landing in the week’s bottom two, DeLay withdrew from the competition, as result of suffering stress fractures in both od his feet. Irvin joined Mazar in the bottom two, and has fan support to thank for surviving another week.

Irvin and partner Anna Demidova tackled the Samba this week, but took a major step backward in the process, slipping six points from last week’s 20 (which had been an improvement of seven points from the week prior’s dance).  DeLay and partner Cheryl Burke also danced the Samba and dipped three points from last week’s score.

Singer/actress Mya and partner Dmitry Chaplin again topped the leaderboard, but this week they had it all to themselves, scoring a 27 (though judge Len Goodman awarded the pair a mere seven, while Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli gave them two perfect scores of 10). Losing some traction were last week’s co-leaders Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff (down six points to a 21, for their Rumba). Olympic gold medal swimmer Natalie Coughlin and partner Alec Mazo enjoyed the week’s biggest gain, with their Rumba scoring a 27 (up six points from last week).

With Mazar and DeLay out of the dancing competition, the remaining contestants undoubtedly will feel the pressure. After Mya, Coughlin and model Joanna Krupa (who along with partner Derek Hough, scored a 23 for their Samba), the remaining seven contestants each scored in the 17-21 range, with no one safe from those brutal paddles.

Favorites Donny Osmond and partner Kym Johnson dropped four points to a 21 this week, as their Rumba failed to sizzle. Maybe Donny needs to plant an even bigger and wetter sloppy one on Tonioli next week to ensure a higher score? At least he’s got the fans on his side, and actually has potential to go pretty far in the competition. Whether he does anything more memorable than sister Marie’s on-air fainting…

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