'Dancing With the Stars' Season 21 Cast: Derek Hough Talks Bindi Irwin's Timing Being 'Off' In Team Dance [VIDEO]
Derek Hough recently wrote about his partner Bindi Irwin being a bit off during the team dance on ABC's Dancing With the Stars.
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For the first time in Dancing With the Stars history, Hough lost a team dance. Monday night's episode featured the eight remaining celebs competing against in each other in two teams of four. Irwin and Hough's team wound up losing the battle.
Some blame was placed on Irwin's timing being off at the beginning of the performance compared to the others. Hough wrote about this for his TVGuide.com blog this week.
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"I love what we came up for our dance and am proud of everyone. Poor Bindi took the blame for getting out of sync at the beginning. She did get off timing a little bit," he wrote. "It was hard for her to hear and see because of our shots from the proton packs and the smoke. She just kind of gagged and went too soon. I was like, 'Oh, no!' It was one of those things that you could tell she was off, but it wasn't drastic. She did a great job!"
Next week Irwin and Hough will be dancing the foxtrot. They will also be doing the dance off, which Hough admitted he hasn't even started planning yet.
"There's also a dance-off this week, which I'm not worried about right now. I haven't even thought of that yet. I like to do those sort of last minute," he wrote. "I want Bindi to focus on the actual dance first and get that in her body and in her mind, and then we can go back and prepare for this. The good thing is that we've done two of the styles already: jive and cha cha."
Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
