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"Get ready to cry - it&amp;#039;s Most Memorable Year Of My Life week on Dancing with the Stars and you just know there are going to be some tearjerking tales! First, though, we get Aloe Blacc performing &amp;#039;Wake Me Up&amp;#039; (and there&amp;#039;s enough time for me to do a double take neck-snap when I discover that Incubus&amp;#039;s Mike Einziger is on stage playing guitar because he co-wrote it. How did I not know this?). Anyway, there&amp;#039;s a twist in store - after we&amp;#039;ve welcomed our dancers to the floor, Tom announces that if the competition was based solely on last week&amp;#039;s viewers votes, one of the women would be going home this week. That could still change after the judges&amp;#039; scores are added in, but ouch! What a note to start on. Let&amp;#039;s get moving, and quickly...  Christina Milian &amp;amp; Mark Ballas - Cha Cha Cha Christina and Mark are not happy with Julianne&amp;#039;s controversial comments about Mark last week - oops, Julianne, you&amp;#039;re in trouble - but they decide to put that behind them and focus on their dancing this week. Christina wants to focus on 2010, which is when she gave birth to her daughter... and also divorced her husband, who had been unfaithful to her. She&amp;#039;s dancing to &amp;#039;Forget You&amp;#039;, and wants to show that women can be strong and fierce and turn tough times into a positive. Well, her cha cha cha is great, honestly. She&amp;#039;s shaking her booty like nobody&amp;#039;s business - and she starts off in a solo, in what I can only imagine is Mark addressing Julianne&amp;#039;s criticisms. It all seems to come very naturally to Christina, and there&amp;#039;s loads of sass and fun. I enjoyed it... Len: Len&amp;#039;s back, people! He says he&amp;#039;s thrilled to be there, too - so he could see Christina&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot; cha cha cha. He says she has fire and ice - fire in her performance, and ice in her attitude. Plus, he praises her &amp;quot;great&amp;quot; technique. Bruno: Bruno says Christina &amp;quot;painted the perfect picture of a hot Latina&amp;quot;! He praises her tight footwork, sharp finishing and &amp;quot;indecently hot hips&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m all flustered!&amp;quot; he announces. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says she&amp;#039;s always enjoyed watching Christina, but this was &amp;quot;special&amp;quot;. She says something was just different, and their cha cha cha was right on and &amp;quot;technically on fire&amp;quot;. She likes their partnership, too. It smells like good scores to me, and after Tom&amp;#039;s awkwardly made Mark shimmy, the points are in. It&amp;#039;s a 9 from Carrie Ann, a 10 from Len and - after Christina&amp;#039;s stopped screaming - a 9 from Bruno for a total of 28 out of 30. That&amp;#039;s our first 10 of the season, people!  Jack Osbourne &amp;amp; Cheryl Burke - Waltz Okay, so Jack made me actually weep with his story - and then his beautiful waltz. He chooses to commemorate 2012 because it has both highs - moving into his house with his wife and the birth of his daughter Pearl - and lows. In other words, his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. It&amp;#039;s genuinely moving as he tears up talking about the diagnosis and says he wasn&amp;#039;t scared for himself, but was worried he wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to look after Pearl. I don&amp;#039;t know how you can watch it and not cry. Anyway, Jack says he was able to take his mind off things by looking after Pearl - who was only two and a half weeks old when he was diagnosed - and says he wants to dedicate his waltz to her and his wife Lisa. His waltz - to &amp;#039;Kissing You&amp;#039; - is absolutely gorgeous. I don&amp;#039;t know if I&amp;#039;ve just been won over by his story, but it&amp;#039;s lovely. And afterwards, Jack runs over to kiss Lisa! Bruno: Bruno says everyone was lost in Jack&amp;#039;s story of character and courage, but says he didn&amp;#039;t need any help because his dancing was &amp;quot;wonderful&amp;quot;. He says Jack set the mood for love with light footwork, musicality and his &amp;quot;best lines ever&amp;quot;. He even got his bum under control! Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says that there is something &amp;quot;magical&amp;quot; about Jack being able to slip into grace, saying his dancing takes her breath away. She praises the technique, too, from the rise and flow to the fact that he knew what he was doing at all times. Len: Len says the waltz is a much bigger dance than people think and needs &amp;quot;big flowing movement&amp;quot;. He praises Jack for doing so much of the dance in hold, and while he does offer some criticism of Jack&amp;#039;s hands, he adds that the waltz was &amp;quot;fabulous&amp;quot;. Anyway, it&amp;#039;s a 9 from each judge for a score of 27 out of 30 - Jack&amp;#039;s highest so far! Now, excuse me while I mop up my tears...  Leah Remini &amp;amp; Tony Dovolani - Contemporary Leah never mentions the word &amp;#039;Scientology&amp;#039; but when she says she will be paying tribute to the last year it&amp;#039;s clear she&amp;#039;s discussing her exit from the Church. She admits that it is hard moving away from something you&amp;#039;ve been raised with, but says she&amp;#039;s realised what she&amp;#039;s made of and wants her daughter to see her strength. She confesses that change is scary, but she had to do it! And she&amp;#039;s dancing to Katy Perry&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Roar&amp;#039;, because that&amp;#039;s basically her story in a song. She even comes up with a concept for the contemporary dance, deciding to play a puppet who breaks free of her strings. That&amp;#039;s helpful given that Tony hasn&amp;#039;t done contemporary before (&amp;quot;Shall we get Corbin to choreograph for us?&amp;quot; Leah deadpans). In the end, her dance is okay but a bit stumbly- especially when it comes to the lifts. I like the story behind it more than the routine, sadly. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says she loved the concept and the message of the dance, and praises the &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; execution at the beginning of the dance. But she admits thats it fell apart when the lifts came in, as Leah was doing lift-movement-lift-movement with no flow. Leah insists she tried since she&amp;#039;s not a dancer, and Carrie Ann does acknowledge that. Len: Len agrees that the concept of the dance was great and loved the moment that Leah broke free, but he thinks the lifts were a bit laboured. &amp;quot;It was good, but for me it wasn&amp;#039;t great,&amp;quot; he concludes. &amp;quot;Right,&amp;quot; Leah sighs. Bruno: Bruno says he liked Leah fighting back, and acknowledges that the dance was hard - she had to work with and against gravity. But he thinks she did well, saying she carries herself in a &amp;quot;luscious&amp;quot; way and had very good storytelling and a lot of effort. Still, Tony backs up his partner, saying he knows how much she&amp;#039;s improved since they started and that he&amp;#039;s proud of her. It&amp;#039;s a 7 from Carrie Ann and Len and an 8 from Bruno for a total of 22 out of 30. Leah is not happy - &amp;quot;What am I thinking? You don&amp;#039;t want to know.&amp;quot; But she does say she&amp;#039;s just trying her best and praises Tony for putting up with her!  Corbin Bleu &amp;amp; Karina Smirnoff - Foxtrot After a not at all awkward Brooke-Paris Hilton chat (Paris is supporting Christina Milian, apparently), we&amp;#039;re onto Corbin and Karina. Corbin wants to commemorate 2011, when his sister Phoenix was diagnosed with scoliosis. He speaks about the pain she has suffered and says she&amp;#039;s handled it &amp;quot;beautifully&amp;quot;, describing her as an &amp;quot;inspiration&amp;quot;. He says their song, Rascal Flatts&amp;#039; &amp;#039;I Wish&amp;#039;, says everything he wants to say to Phoenix and gushes about her grace at 12 years old. Anyway, his foxtrot is lovely and smooth - and his Karina spin is amazing. Obviously when it&amp;#039;s over he rushes over to hug his sisters, too. Len: Len describes Corbin as a &amp;quot;terrific&amp;quot; dancer, saying he&amp;#039;s impressed by how Corbin instantly captures the character of each genre of dance. He says there was lovely, flowing, fluent movement in hold and praises him for getting the &amp;quot;sway&amp;quot; right. He acknowledges that the last lift might be slightly out of character but says he appreciated the dance. Bruno: Bruno says Corbin could be &amp;quot;the lovechild of Fred Astaire and Ben Vereen&amp;quot;! He says he has both incredible style and smoothness, and also slickness, verve and jazzy moves. He thinks he&amp;#039;s unique, basically. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says she&amp;#039;s torn because she thinks there might have been an unauthorised lift in the beginning, though Karina insists that she kept her foot on the floor just for Carrie Ann. Carrie Ann agrees to add a point to her score if they use an action replay, but apparently that&amp;#039;s against the rules so that whole conversation is redundant. It&amp;#039;s not the end of the world though - Corbin gets a 9 from Carrie Ann and Len and a 10 from Bruno for a total of 28 out of 30.  Bill Engvall &amp;amp; Emma Slater - Viennese Waltz After we check in with Elizabeth Berkley and her Saved By The Bell co-star Mario Lopez, we&amp;#039;re on to Bill and Emma. First, Brooke meets Bill&amp;#039;s wife Gail, who is basically lovely - I love how she says the main change in Bill is that he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;taking a lot of naps&amp;quot;. Anyway, Bill is dancing for her, choosing 1982 as his most memorable year because it&amp;#039;s when they got married. He&amp;#039;s really sweet talking about how he had to win her over - and how she used to rebuff his attempts - and how she&amp;#039;s always been there for him, without ever getting credit. Aww. Bill&amp;#039;s Viennese Waltz to &amp;#039;She&amp;#039;s Always A Woman&amp;#039; is really sweet - not perfect, but good. And Gail obviously gets a kiss at the end (I saw her wiping a tear away...). Bruno: Bruno says the dance was honest, heartfelt and emotional. He acknowledges a couple of timing issues and warns Bill about his arms (&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a bowling alley!&amp;quot;) but it seems he mostly liked it. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann agrees that Bill wears his heart on his sleeve and says he touched their souls, though she too points out some timing problems. Len: Len says the dance was a bit skippy and rushed in parts, but he praises Bill for his lovely rotation, the romance of the dance, and his ability to keep his frame in hold. &amp;quot;Well done!&amp;quot; With that said, it&amp;#039;s an 8 from each judge for a total of 24 out of 30.  Nicole Polizzi &amp;amp; Sasha Farber - Jazz Nicole is going to dance for 2012, because it&amp;#039;s when she gave birth to her son Lorenzo! She admits that becoming a mom massively changed her for the better - she even likes doing laundry now (Sasha asks if she can do his). The most heartfelt moment comes as Nicole admits the backlash when she announced her pregnancy was hard to deal with, as she worried if she would be a good mom. She seems pretty good now, anyway! There&amp;#039;s a funny moment when she says she&amp;#039;s done a 180 and Sasha incorrectly corrects her to a 360, but it&amp;#039;s all entertaining (and Tom validates Nicole, later). They&amp;#039;re dancing to Britney&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Work Bitch&amp;#039; because it represents Nicole being a full-time mom and working to make a good life for her son. Her jazz dance is great, stupidly enjoyable - Snooki&amp;#039;s spun around to flashing lights, it&amp;#039;s full of attitude, and there&amp;#039;s a hell of a lot of sass. I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s technically perfect but I almost don&amp;#039;t care. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says Snooki surprises her every week. She says that she knows not all of the moves come naturally to her, but that&amp;#039;s not a criticism - she barrels on through and is always on beat and in sync. (She also praises Sasha&amp;#039;s choreography.) Len: Len says the dance was fast-paced and vibrant with clean lifts, energy and attack. And it was fun to watch. Bruno: Bruno says Nicole works hard for her money - and deserves every penny, because she&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;exhilarating bundle of fun&amp;quot;. He loved it! It&amp;#039;s a 9 from each judge for a total of 27 out of 30 and Nicole is pleased: &amp;quot;I danced my butt off for that score.&amp;quot;  Brant Daugherty &amp;amp; Peta Murgatroyd - Contemporary After quite an illuminating VT in which the pros disagree on whether having previous dance experience is an advantage or disadvantage (and it all gets a bit &amp;#039;throwing shade&amp;#039;) it&amp;#039;s time for Brant and Peta. Brant chooses to dance for 2009, which is when his father sadly passed away. His dad had a big impact on him, supporting his acting, and he wants to pay tribute to him. He doesn&amp;#039;t want his performance to be depressing though - instead, he wants it to be uplifting. He says he wishes that his dad could be there to cheer him on, and it&amp;#039;s clear after the dance that he&amp;#039;s trying not to have a little cry. Aww. Len: Len says the dance was &amp;quot;terrific&amp;quot; because it had passion, love, interaction and chemistry - he thinks Brant&amp;#039;s dad would be looking down at him. Bruno: &amp;quot;With incredible pride,&amp;quot; Bruno adds. He praises Brant for having &amp;quot;dedication and passion&amp;quot; but no fear, saying he acted the dance wonderfully. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says contemporary is nothing without passion, but Brant&amp;#039;s every movement was driven by a true place of passion - he &amp;quot;wrapped his heart around the routine&amp;quot; and it was &amp;quot;breathtaking&amp;quot;. Brant&amp;#039;s pretty sad, but he does get a 9 from each judge for a total of 27 out of 30.  Amber Riley &amp;amp; Derek Hough - Foxtrot Amber is going to remember 2009 - she&amp;#039;d been working in Ikea, was devastated when she got rejected from American Idol, and then won her role in Glee. The rest, as they say, is history! She wants to show that even if you&amp;#039;re close to rock bottom you can push on through if you keep going. Her foxtrot to &amp;#039;Try A Little Tenderness&amp;#039; is fun - I really do like Amber, and it&amp;#039;s nice that she ends the dance by the mic.  Bruno: Bruno announces that &amp;quot;Lady Amber is here to stay&amp;quot;, saying she is &amp;quot;absolutely and utterly sensational&amp;quot; and a &amp;quot;performing powerhouse&amp;quot;. He acknowledges the foxtrot wasn&amp;#039;t traditional but says it could have been lifted from Broadway, describing her as a star. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann says Amber &amp;quot;danced the heck out of that routine&amp;quot;, saying that she hits every style of dancing. She says it was perfectly in sync, apart from one little slip. Len: Len agrees that Amber is a star and lights up the place, but admits that he was disappointed in the amount of actual foxtrot content in the dance - especially compared to Jack, Corbin and Bill, who worked on their hold and posture. Derek says he prepared Amber for that criticism, which, well, why didn&amp;#039;t he just put more content in the dance if he knew she&amp;#039;d get those comments? No matter - Len still thinks Amber&amp;#039;s great. The scores are in and they&amp;#039;re mixed - a 9 from Carrie Ann, a 7 for Len and a 10 from Bruno for a total of 26 out of 30. Amber&amp;#039;s certainly excited!  Elizabeth Berkley &amp;amp; Val Chmerkovskiy - Jive I am so excited about this. Elizabeth is admittedly kind of cheating when she chooses to commemorate two years - both 2012 when her baby was born and 1989 when she moved to Hollywood - but when it means a tribute to Jessie&amp;#039;s Saved By The Bell caffeine pills meltdown, I don&amp;#039;t even care. She says everything followed on from her Hollywood movie, and she wants to show her son that he should follow his dreams. She&amp;#039;s dancing to &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m So Excited&amp;#039; because of its inclusion in Saved By The Bell and the dance basically has the best introduction to any performance on any dance competition ever. It&amp;#039;s basically a copy of the Bell scene, except with &amp;quot;jive pills&amp;quot;. It&amp;#039;s so good. The rest of the jive is not great and kind of out of control, but it&amp;#039;s so much fun that I don&amp;#039;t really care. Carrie Ann: Carrie Ann loves Elizabeth for doing that and taking her back to when she used to dance! She admits that the kicks were &amp;quot;just a little soft&amp;quot; though and points out that she fell out of her pirouette. But she loved the nostalgia factor. Len: Len disagrees - he thought Elizabeth&amp;#039;s kicks were sharp, fast, clean and exact! He says the dance was tight even though Elizabeth could have struggled because of her height - Len is impressed. Bruno: Bruno says Elizabeth doesn&amp;#039;t need any pills to dance! He says he agrees that the steps gave him a bit of nostalgia - it was all Flashdance, Footloose and fun. Carrie Ann gives Elizabeth an 8, while both Bruno and Len score her a 9 for a total of 26 out of 30. But here&amp;#039;s Tom to ruin the joy, as he reveals that with the judges&amp;#039; scores and last week&amp;#039;s viewer votes combined, Elizabeth is in jeopardy...  Who&amp;#039;s going home? So, could Elizabeth be the one going home? Tied at the top of the leaderboard are Christina and Corbin, while Leah&amp;#039;s at the bottom. But how will the judges have affected things? First we find out the safe contestants - Corbin, Amber, Bill, Jack, Brant and Nicole. That leaves Christina, Elizabeth and Leah in jeopardy... but Elizabeth is safe! That means that we have the top scorer and lowest scorer in the bottom two (though they aren&amp;#039;t necessarily the bottom two.) But who&amp;#039;s going home? It&amp;#039;s Christina and Mark! There&amp;#039;s instant shock from the audience, followed by a ripple of boos. It is a shame, given that Christina had a great dance earlier and even got a 10. She admits that she&amp;#039;s in &amp;quot;true shock&amp;quot; but is pleased to leave on a good performance. Plus, Mark is &amp;quot;very proud&amp;quot; of her and says they went out with a bang. But that&amp;#039;s that - who&amp;#039;ll be hanging up their dancing shoes next week? Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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