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"Dancing with the Stars professional Derek Hough has suggested that the show&amp;#039;s new voting system is to blame for a run of shock results this season. Following the removal of the competition&amp;#039;s results show, the format was tweaked so that viewers&amp;#039; votes are combined with the following week&amp;#039;s judges&amp;#039; scores - meaning that a couple who perform poorly one week but improve the next are still in danger of being eliminated.  &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Dancing with the Stars&amp;#039;: Is the new voting format a mistake? This season has also seen a number of surprising exits, with judge Len Goodman&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;top dancer&amp;quot; Elizabeth Berkley being eliminated last night and Christina Milian, Nicole Polizzi and Brant Daugherty also making waves with their departures. Following Berkley&amp;#039;s elimination last night, Hough told E! News that he believes she fell foul of the new format. &amp;quot;[Elizabeth] did an amazing job tonight, and was praised for being just such an amazing dancer, but I think this season has been the most shocking eliminations - there have been several,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s the new system that the votes from last week count for this week, and it makes it more unpredictable, and it&amp;#039;s crazy.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Berkley told Us Weekly that she is &amp;quot;sad&amp;quot; about her exit. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like that saying - don&amp;#039;t cry because it&amp;#039;s over, smile because it happened,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to live with that. I felt a little sucker-punch because I was excited about next week, and I just feel like we got cut short a little bit... Not that I felt entitled by any means, but I just felt excited and grateful.&amp;quot; Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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