Dancing with the Stars celebrities Calvin Johnson Jr., Laurie Hernandez, James Hinchcliffe, Maureen McCormick, Jana Kramer, and Vanilla Ice earned immunity from this week's elimination along with their professional partners during Monday night's performance show on ABC.
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Due to Monday night's U.S. presidential debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Dancing with the Stars' broadcast featured a special abbreviated one-hour format in which the competition's twelve remaining dance couples were paired into six "face-offs" in which two couples were assigned the same style of dance and required to perform them back-to-back.
Dancing with the Stars judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli then scored the dances -- immediately, without getting to offer any commentary on the performances -- and the couple which received higher scores for the dance style won immunity from Tuesday night's results show.
Calvin and professional partner Lindsay Arnold faced-off against Little Women: LA star Terra Jole and partner Sasha Farber in a Viennese waltz. The retired NFL wide receiver and Lindsay earned immunity after they received 32 points from the judges compared to Terra and Sasha's 30 points.
Laurie and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy competed against actress Marilu Henner and partner Derek Hough in a tango face-off. The Olympic gold gymnast and Val earned 31 points from the judges. besting Marilu and Derek's score of 28 points.
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James and partner Sharna Burgess battled Olympic gold swimmer and former What Would Ryan Lochte Do? star Ryan Lochte and partner Cheryl Burke in a cha cha face-off. The professional race car driver and Sharna received 29 points from the judges, topping Ryan and Cheryl's score of 25 points.
Maureen and partner Artem Chigvintsev went up against talk show host and model Amber Rose and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy in a salsa face-off. The former The Brady Bunch star and Artem earned 28 points from the judges, beating the 25 points Amber and Maksim received.
Jana and partner Gleb Savchenko competed against iconic singer and producer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and his partner Allison Holker faced-off in a jive. The country singer and Gleb earned a score of 26 points, just edging out Babyface and Allison's score of 25 points.
Vanilla Ice and partner Witney Carson competed against former Texas governor and U.S. presidential candidate Rick Perry and partner Emma Slater in a paso doble face-off. However, both couples received identical scores of 25 points from the judges, resulting in the score of Len -- the judging panel's head judge -- serving as the tiebreaker.
Since Len had given the rapper and The Vanilla Ice Project star a score of 6 points compared to Rick's score of 5 points, Vanilla and Witney won immunity.
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Either Terra, Marilu, Ryan, Amber, Babyface or Rick will now be eliminated along with their partner during Dancing with the Stars' Tuesday night results show based on the combination of the judges' scores and home viewer voting that occurred after Monday night's performance show.
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