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Michael Irvin and Anna Demidova- along with  Mark Dacascos and Lacey Schwimmer- failed to make it into the top five of Dancing With the Stars’ninth season. (picture courtesy of ABC-TV/Adam Larkey)

Despite earning his highest score of the season thus far this week, NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin- finally- hit the dance floor skids.

Irvin and partner Anna Demidova had the lowest points tally after combining judges scores and viewer votes on Dancing With the Starsthis week.  Hosts Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris gave Irvin and Demidova the bad news before leaving Mark Dacascos/Lacey Schwimmer and Aaron Carter/Karina Smirnoff to dance for their lives in an elimination dance-off.  While Dacascos’ Cha-Cha-Cha improved upon Monday’s lowly Schwimmer-less performance, the judges unanimously agreed to save Carter and Smirnoff, who danced another rousing Jive.

Just five couples remain in the competition: Carter/Smirnoff, Joanna Krupa/Derek Hough, Mya/Dmitry Chaplin, Donny Osmond/Kym Johnson and Kelly Osbourne/Louis van Amstel- who, incidentally, have the season’s five best averages in terms of judges scores. Who would have thought- the actual five best couples comprising the top five.

Contestants have three more weeks of competition to endure before the finals. If they felt intense pressure over the last several weeks, it only gets worse from here on out. At least all of the top five deserve to be there, unlike past seasons where even just one oddball contestant in the top five threw everything out of whack (Ty Murray over Lil’ Kim last year? The scandal).

On a lighter note, Derek Hough and Mark Ballas “performed,” if one could call it that- their new single. The professional-dancers-turned-wanna-be-pop-stars appeared to lip-synch to their new single, “Move.” Someone must have forgot to inform them that the boy “band” craze ended some time ago.

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