Dancing with the Stars ousted Lolo Jones and her professional dance partner Keoikantse "Keo" Motsepe during Tuesday night's live nineteenth-season results show on ABC.
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The Olympian and Keo became the first couple eliminated from the competition based on the combination of the Dancing with the Stars judges' scores they had received during Monday night's performance show and the home viewer votes that were cast immediately following that episode.
"Absolutely," Lolo told Dancing with the Stars co-host Erin Andrews when asked whether she's glad she joined the competition.
"And I wouldn't have had it any other way. Because I knew [Betsey Johnson] had a malfunction with the boa thing, and you know, that was a disadvantage for her. And honestly, it was just steps on my part. So I'm glad that she's staying. She deserves to stay and everybody here did a great job."
"Working with her was very interesting because she has so many characters every day," Keo said of his experience being a first-time pro on Dancing with the Stars. "But mostly for me, I came to the show just to show myself on TV and I'm so proud that I did that."
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Betsey, a fashion designer, and partner Tony Dovolani were the other couple still in danger of elimination prior to Lolo and Keo's ouster, as they were the other bottom-two couple based on the judges' scores and America's vote.
Monday night's show featured all 13 of Dancing with the Stars' nineteenth-season couples performing one time with their pro partners for show judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Julianne Hough.
Lolo and Keo landed in twelfth place on the judges' leaderboard with 22 out of 40 possible points after they took the stage with a cha cha performance.
Betsey and Tony finished in thirteenth -- and last -- place at the bottom of the leaderboard after they performed a cha cha routine which received only 20 points from the judges.
To read where the 11 other pairs placed on Monday night's leaderboard, click here.
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