Guillermo Rodriguez keeps posting the lowest judges' scores on 'Dancing With the Stars' and keeps surviving. Will he be eliminated Oct 6?
75% of users predicted YES — the community missed this one. 8 predictions cast.
Guillermo Rodriguez and partner Witney Carson survived "Dancing With the Stars" Season 35's Mariah Carey Night on Oct. 6, despite finishing at the bottom of the judges' leaderboard. Their samba to Carey's "Obsessed" drew the night's lowest score, in the mid-teens out of 30, continuing a pattern of weak scores offset by strong fan votes. Instead, Ciara Miller and pro partner Brandon Armstrong were eliminated after their jazz routine to "Emotions," which had actually earned Miller her best score of the season.
The combination of judges' points and viewer votes determines each week's bottom two, and viewers again chose to keep Rodriguez over a couple that scored higher with the judges, extending a pattern from earlier weeks. Hollywood Reporter and Deadline both described the result as another surprise elimination, since Miller's score outranked Rodriguez's going into the vote.
The community had leaned toward predicting Rodriguez's elimination, with 75% forecasting a yes, so this question resolved against the majority view. The episode fits a broader season arc: ABC's combined scoring-and-voting format has repeatedly spared lower-scoring contestants with devoted fanbases while cutting couples who performed better in the judges' eyes, a dynamic that has driven much of this season's social-media attention and debate about the show's format.