Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart

Tuesday night Tom and  reminded the audience that, as always, the couple with the lowest combination of judges' scores and audience votes would go home. In addition to that, however, those with the second - and third -lowest totals would be part of a dance-off that would be decided by the judges, and whoever lost would also go home.

The celebrities in the bottom three were Louie Vito, Michael Irvin, and Melissa Joan Hart - and as predited from the low scorer's Kelly escaped. This meant that one couple was homeward bound the the remaining two battling it out in the dance off.

The lowest-scoring couple, going home without even a dance-off turned out to be Melissa Joan Hart and Mark Ballas, with Louie and Michael heading to a dance off finale.

Michael Irvin and Anna Demidova strode out first and Michaels exuberant samba was without doubt one of his strongest dances. Aswe said yesterday Michael is determined to in the competition. The judges weren't entirely convinced but they praised his delivery..

Louie Vito and Chelsie took their jive to the floor, Louie despite trying lost his timing several times add to that a couple of stumbles and things started to look decidedly bleak for the snowboarder and his partner.

The voting - Bruno Tonioli backed Louie and Chelsie, but crucually Len Goodman and Carrie Ann Inaba went with Michael and Anna, meaning that Louie and Chelsie were packing their dancing shoes