Will any judge hand out a perfect 10 on 'Dancing With the Stars' on Oct 20?
89% of users predicted NO — the community missed this one. 9 predictions cast.
A judge awarded a perfect 10 on 'Dancing With the Stars' during the Oct. 20, 2026 episode, the season's first such score. Paralympic sprinter Ezra Frech received the 10 from judge Carrie Ann Inaba for his Week 6 routine on the show's 'Dedication Night,' an episode in which contestants dedicated dances to people who had shaped their lives. Frech's dance finished with a combined score of 37 out of 40 once the other judges' marks were added. Figure skater Amber Glenn also drew a standout score of 38 out of 40 for an emotional routine honoring her late sister, though she did not receive a 10 from any individual judge. No couple was eliminated during the episode, meaning all remaining pairs advanced to the following week's Halloween-themed 'Horror Movie Night.' The perfect score came during a season that had, until this point, been marked more by controversy over which couples survived eliminations than by standout technical scores, including the recent ouster of longtime bottom-dweller Guillermo Rodriguez a week earlier. The community badly underestimated this outcome: only 11 percent predicted a judge would hand out a perfect 10 by the deadline, making it one of the week's sharpest surprises relative to expectations.