Karina Smirnoff and her partner Randy Couture's time on Dancing with the Stars is over, but the couple still has insight on which nineteenth-season pairings have the potential to go all the way.
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"Oh gosh, well, we saw perfect scores yesterday. I think we definitely have frontrunners with [Janel Parrish] and [Val Chmerkovskiy] and [Derek Hough] and [Bethany Mota]," Smirnoff said during a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, the morning after she and Couture got eliminated from the show.
"But I think every week, we might have a new leader."
During Monday night's Dancing with the Stars broadcast, both Parrish and Mota and their partners earned the season's first perfect scores of 40 points from judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Julianne Hough.
"Yeah, it's been interesting," Couture chimed in. "I think early on, [Alfonso Ribeiro]. Everyone looked at Alfonso, and the dances he put out were amazing. And last night, to see two perfect scores, I don't know!"
Smirnoff and the mixed martial arts and UFC fighter acknowledged they had to dance first out of the entire pack a couple times, which might've presented them with a disadvantage.
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"I think we definitely have set the record with being first two weeks in a row," Smirnoff said, adding, however, that last night was Couture's "best take."
Couture apparently doesn't have a theory on why he got the boot from the competition so early on, but he's happy with how things turned out. Over the last five weeks, Couture insisted he "absolutely" gave Dancing with the Stars his all.
"It's the way it goes, I guess... You can only focus on the things you have control over," Couture noted on GMA, "I learned a ton."
He also walked away with home viewers likely having a different perception of him, contradicting the stereotypes of UFC fighters.
"[I wanted] to do something outside the box and expand people's view of who I am and what I am capable of," Couture said, jokingly adding that he'd like to take "all four [judges] at once" into the Octagon ring.
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Smirnoff and Couture finished in eleventh -- and last -- place on Monday night's judging leaderboard after receiving 26 points for their paso doble routine. Last week, the couple had landed in a four-way tie for eighth place with 28 points.
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