James Hinchcliffe Nearly Perfect On 'Dancing With The Stars'
James Hinchcliffe earned the second-highest marks in Week 4 of ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ coming up just shy of a perfect score.
James Hinchcliffe’s Dancing with the Stars odyssey might be going on a lot longer than he expected. The IndyCar driver and partner Sharna Burgess earned the second-highest score from the judges during Monday night’s Week 4 performance show.
On “Cirque du Soleil Night,” Hinchcliffe and Burgess performed a quickstep inspired by Cirque’s Broadway show Paramour and set to the song “The Hollywood Wiz” by Guy Dubuc and Marc Lessard.
They were just two points away from a perfect score.
Judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Julianne Hough gave the duo 9/10 points, while Bruno Tonioli awarded them a 10/10.
If you missed it, you can watch Hinchcliffe and Burgess’s impressive routine below, and check out his Week 4 video diary here.
The only thing that stole Team Stop and Go’s thunder was that front-runner Laurie Hernandez and her partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy did obtain a perfect score on Monday with their jazz routine to Michael Jackson’s hit song “The Way You Make Me Feel.”
But earning a score just shy of perfection should put James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess on the radar of DWTS fans, if they’re not already there.
He and Hernandez were the only pairings to score in the upper 20’s or above in Week 4. Reality star Terra Jole came in third with 25 points, while Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds had the lowest score at just 18 points.
But those skewed results were mitigated by the fact that there were also ten less points on offer this week, since fourth judge Len Goodman was absent due to other judging commitments on the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing.
That means that while Monday’s score gave Hinchcliffe his highest individual marks, it also yielded the lowest total amount he has picked up all season. His previous three scores were 31, 29 and 29 respectively.
He should theoretically be safe from elimination as Dancing with the Stars sends another couple home tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC.
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