DWTS’ Andy Richter slams Whitney Leavitt ouster – | TV Shows

Andy Richter is aware of he made a lot of Dancing With the Stars followers mad with his presence on Season 34 of the show, which lasted as long as it did, and has left him stumped over the most latest elimination of Whitney Leavitt.

Richter made it through 9 weeks of competitors on the ABC show, despite persistently incomes the bottom scores from the judges, one thing that irked some followers of the show who felt his followers have been retaining him in at the expense of better dancers who have been despatched home before him.

Now, following the elimination of Leavitt and Mark Ballas, which shocked followers slammed as “ridiculous,” the 59-12 months-previous comic is talking out.

Leavitt, 32, had been the top performer throughout the season and was at the top of the judges’ leaderboard before her shock cut.

Acknowledging that he had stayed in longer than anticipated, Richter shared that he was dumbfounded that the next particular person to be eradicated was the star of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

“I think Whitney is going home, to me it’s absolutely insane,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I mean, she’s an amazing dancer. And if all the sticklers who were furious about me still being in it, who were demanding perfect technical dancing, I don’t know why she would get sent home under that criterion.”

However, he also maintained that while complaints about expertise have been prevalent on the show, he also understood that there was more to it when it got here to fan votes.

“There’s a whole soap opera going on adjacent to this show online,” he said. “It’s a good way to sort of take the temperature of what the audience is feeling in terms of voting. I’ve seen forever, there’s like people just like, ‘Whitney’s gotta go,’ and I’m just like, ‘What? Why?

His comments come after sources claimed that Leavitt felt her departure was directly related to the release of season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives just days before the semifinals, where she was painted in a negative light.

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On the show, she was caught saying she had rejoined MomTok because it would give her a chance to be on Dancing With the Stars, and she felt that airing just days before the final elimination of the season was a slap in the face.

“She expressed on the set after the show last night, off camera, of course, that she feels that her being voted out was 100% a direct result of backlash from Mormon Wives,” a source told The Sun.

“Whitney feels really bitter that Hulu didn’t push the release of the show back a week.”

Dancing With the Stars airs Tuesdays on ABC and Disney+.