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Get ready for some truly brutal critiques! Join us as we count down some of the most scathing and unforgettable moments when the judges on "Dancing with the Stars" absolutely tore into celebrity contestants. From questionable cha-chas to paso dobles that lacked all passion, these are the moments that left both dancers and viewers reeling. Prepare for some serious burns, some uncomfortable silences, and a whole lot of 'ouch'!
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00:00Now, just before we hear from you, I just want to remind you, we're live and kids are watching.
00:03Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today, we're counting down our picks for the harshest and most brutal
00:09critiques dancing with the stars judges have ever doled out.
00:12You know, you're supposed to be killing these dances, but I think the dances are killing you.
00:17Ouch.
00:18Number 10, David Hasselhoff.
00:21The Hoff, alas, can only hop.
00:23In his very first and last cha-cha with partner Kim Johnson, Hasselhoff mostly poses.
00:28His moves stiff and ungainly compared to the professional Johnson.
00:33Don't get us started on his hip action.
00:43Hasselhoff accepted his early elimination with good-natured grace, but not before the judges gave their verdicts.
00:50Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called it, quote, very bizarre.
00:53Judge Len Goodman was more generous, calling it entertaining.
00:57But Judge Bruno Tonioli called it, quote, a potpourri of insanity disguised as dance.
01:03Only twice it was madness, really.
01:04There wasn't any dancing.
01:06I mean, there was no timing whatsoever.
01:08I love all the Liberace sparkles, a bit of Prezi, a bit of Dean.
01:12It was like a potpourri of insanity disguised as dance.
01:16At least Hasselhoff took the departure in good humor, returning for the season 11 finale for a Baywatch-themed dance.
01:23All's well that ends well.
01:34Number 9.
01:36Wynonna Judd.
01:37This country music singer was a bust.
01:39With her partner, Toni Dovolani, she danced a samba to Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me.
01:44By dancing, of course, we mean waddling a little bit while Dovolani showed off some pole dancing skills.
01:58The lackluster choreography didn't help matters either.
02:01Judge Inaba was diplomatic with her, quote, whisper comment.
02:05Judge Tonioli gave a zesty demonstration of his constructive criticism that was honestly better than Judd's dancing.
02:11Oh, I was expecting a wild child. I wanted kind of the head rolls, air guitars, and the pole dancing.
02:18You've got to ride the samba. You can't hold back. It was a bit sedated for a performance.
02:24But nothing beats Len Goodman's testy zinger, saying Judd was, quote, like Mount Rushmore.
02:29She had no rhythm or hip action. Now that's a deep cut indeed.
02:33You're like Mount Rushmore. You look magnificent, but you don't move. It had no rhythm. There was no hip action. You kept going wrong.
02:43Number 8. Kelly Pickler and Derek Hough
02:46For season 16's trio dance, Pickler, Hough, and Tristan McManus gave a dramatic paso doble, depicting what looked like a love triangle gone wrong.
02:55This cinematic performance pleased two of the judges, with Tonioli calling it, quote, masterpiece theater and so engrossing.
03:10Inaba even hugged Pickler in excitement, but Len Goodman, true to form, was not so impressed.
03:26Goodman criticized the use of flashing lights and smoke, calling the performance, quote, a hodgepodge of moves.
03:32Above all, he took issue with the lack of paso doble spirit, even descending to yelling over booze and the other judges.
03:38It was a hodgepodge of moves just out there to titillate the taste buds.
03:44I'm telling you, where's the chassis capes? Where's the twist turns? Where's the recognizable paso doble?
03:49I can't believe it. This guy is so talented. I don't want to see flashing lights, crashing music.
03:56I wanted a paso doble, Derek.
03:58Who knew paso dobles could be very serious business?
04:01Number 7. Sean Johnson
04:03Another trio-week fiasco, this season 15 dance inspired another major meltdown.
04:14Sean Johnson with Derek Hough and Mark Ballas gave a performance to Jungle Jazz by Les Tambours du Bronx.
04:20It's electric, athletic and elegantly wild.
04:24And the crowd was absolutely ecstatic.
04:26The problem for the judges? It wasn't much of a samba.
04:39Goodman was the most critical, calling it, quote, self-indulgent.
04:43This is a very, very critical week. Sean, if you go home tomorrow, don't blame me. Blame those two.
04:52Oh, wow.
04:53Wow.
04:53All right. That's harsher than I expected.
04:55While otherwise raving about the performance, Tony Oli had to agree.
05:00Carrie-Anne and Abba, however, went against her two fellow judges in full-throated approval.
05:05Johnson et al. were not eliminated, but boy was their dance controversial.
05:09I disagree. I disagree with both of you because you know what? Sometimes you have to take a risk.
05:18You can't disagree with the truth.
05:19There wasn't a lot of samba, but what they did of samba was executed with perfection.
05:24What?
05:25Number 6. Kenny Mayne
05:27There have been tons of bad celebrity dancers on this show, but this ESPN anchorman was by far the most puzzling.
05:34Looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening. I need some hot stuff, baby, tonight.
05:41Dancing with pro Andrea Hale in a lively cha-cha to Donna Summer's Hot Stuff,
05:46Mayne's stiffness and lack of grace in movement is glaring.
05:49Hot stuff, baby, this evening.
05:53Gotta have some hot stuff. Gotta have some more.
05:56Hot, hot, hot, hot.
05:58The judges especially thought the performance was lacking.
06:00It was Tony Oli, though, who delivered the most savage critique, calling the dance demented
06:06and describing Mayne as like, quote, Pinocchio chasing Jiminy Cricket across the room.
06:11That was demented. It was like Pinocchio chasing Jiminy Cricket across the room.
06:16It isn't every day that Goodman is the voice of reasoned feedback, but even he was kinder to Mayne.
06:21Never knock a tryer. This man has come out here.
06:25He has a courage to carry out some dance.
06:28Either way, Mayne definitely needed some water after that burn.
06:32Number 5. Kate Gosselin.
06:35For Season 10's Storytelling Week, this reality TV personality danced an unconventional
06:40Paso Doble with Tony Dovolani to Lady Gaga's Paparazzi.
06:43Baby, there's no other superstar you know that I'll be.
06:48Papa, paparazzi.
06:51It was an interesting conceit, but a very underwhelming execution.
06:56The judges were particularly unenthusiastic.
06:59Len Goodman called it, quote, too pedestrian, feeling that it lacked passion.
07:04Tony Oli felt Gosselin looked as if she were walking more than dancing.
07:07For one second, you played the character.
07:10You came out there, you had the look of the super b**** from hell.
07:12You know, the face like thunder.
07:15Even the usually generous Inaba called it odd and, quote, hard to watch.
07:20Perhaps the most devastating critique, though, came from Gosselin's partner himself,
07:24who once joked that he wouldn't call what they did dancing.
07:28Reality hurts.
07:29I'm still, like, traumatized by that experience.
07:33Wait, wait, Anderson, did you just call it dance?
07:36We didn't dance.
07:38Number 4. Hope Solo and Max Schmierkowski.
07:41Granted, dancing a rumba to Seasons of Love from Rent feels like a doomed proposition.
07:55While Inaba and Tony Oli were measured in their criticisms,
07:58with the latter saying the dance didn't, quote,
08:00quite gel as well as it could have, Len Goodman didn't mince words.
08:05He bluntly told Hope Solo, quote,
08:06This is your worst dance.
08:08It let, kept, this is your worst dance.
08:11Of the whole season, in my opinion.
08:13And I'm, I'm so, well, look, do you think I like it?
08:20I'm really disappointed.
08:22When Goodman's critiques were met with boos,
08:24Schmierkowski also came to Solo's defense.
08:27It escalated to the point where Schmierkowski even told Goodman it was time to retire.
08:32I've been in this business for nearly 50 years.
08:34My criteria to judge is different to the audience.
08:38Let's not be disrespectful to everybody, right, because everybody's putting a lot of effort.
08:43Everybody on that balcony has been dying and killing themselves only to hear your guys'
08:50little judgmental comments.
08:51You know what I mean?
08:52Schmierkowski said he was not sorry for his comment to Goodman,
08:55although he took back his, quote,
08:57my show statement.
08:58What a mess.
08:59And you did say that you apologized for saying that it was your show,
09:03that you realized that you're part of a team.
09:05Any other regrets?
09:06Any second thoughts, what you said to Lynn or anything else, Max?
09:11Not really.
09:12Number three, Michael Bolton.
09:15Singer Michael Bolton proved he was very much just a singer,
09:18dancing a slow, hipless jive to Elvis Presley's Hound Dog.
09:21The contrast between him and his partner Chelsea Hightower was glaring,
09:36and the judges were not impressed.
09:38It was Tonioli's turn to deliver the harsh feedback,
09:41calling Bolton's dance, quote,
09:42a doggy mess of a jive,
09:44and the worst he had ever seen in 11 seasons.
09:47I am a dog lover, but you make it so hard for me.
09:51You should have kept that bone and gone back into the doghouse.
09:55I mean, no, it was a doggy mess of a jive.
09:57Even Len Goodman came to Bolton's defense.
10:00This is probably the worst jive in 11 seasons.
10:03No, that's not true.
10:05That's unfair.
10:06For me.
10:06And unfair.
10:07Well, I hated it.
10:08Well, okay, you hated it,
10:10but you should keep some of the comments to yourself, really,
10:12because that is unfair.
10:14Bolton was so offended,
10:15he demanded an apology from Tonioli,
10:18claiming his dance was, quote,
10:19hilarious.
10:20This hound dog was put down and hard.
10:24Number 2.
10:25Steve Wozniak.
10:26This Apple co-founder bit off more than he could chew with his dance.
10:29Dancing a samba with Karina Smirnoff
10:31to Harry Belafoni's jump in the line
10:33proved too much for a wobbly Wozniak to handle.
10:36Work, work, work, Sinoda.
10:38Work your body line.
10:40Work, work, work, Sinoda.
10:43Work it all the time.
10:44Wozniak's hamstring injury also impeded much great dancing,
10:48although he managed to do the worm.
10:50The judges weren't pleased
10:52and gave Wozniak and Smirnoff a combined 10 points for the faulty samba.
10:56Ouch.
10:57Steve Wozniak.
10:58You are so cute and you're so adorable,
11:01but at some point, and I hate to say this,
11:03but the novelty wears off.
11:05Only audience support managed to keep the pair from elimination.
11:08Former showrunner Conrad Green even said
11:11that Tony Oli still shudders at the memory of Wozniak's worm.
11:15Get this insect far away from us.
11:17Steve, on your knees and beg forgiveness.
11:20This was the worst sound I've ever seen, I think.
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11:38Number 1. Master P.
11:41By far the worst case of judge disappointment
11:43has to be this rapper's dancing debut with partner Ashley Del Grosso.
11:47I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.
11:51Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.
11:55His dances were excruciating to watch,
11:57but it was his lumbering pas doble to the animals
12:00don't let me be misunderstood
12:01that really broke poor Tony Oli for good.
12:05He called Master P, quote,
12:06like a child looking for his mother lost.
12:08It was a nightmare.
12:10It was a...
12:12It was...
12:13Oh, shut up!
12:14It was a child.
12:15It looked like a child on a mole, lost, looking for his mother.
12:19Goodman was similarly unsympathetic,
12:20and even Inaba could barely give a positive comment.
12:24Master P and Del Grosso got a combined score of 8,
12:27the lowest in the show's history.
12:29That is, indeed, the bitterest cut of all.
12:31I know the viewers think they're being kind in bringing you back.
12:36They're not.
12:37They're being cruel to you, to Ashley, to the judges.
12:42Honestly, it is time to go.
12:45Which of these terrible performances made you cringe in your seat?
12:48Let us know in the comments below.
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