Dancing with the Stars' second stab at the "Switch-Up Challenge" proved to be very difficult for most temporary celebrity and professional pairings during Monday night's live nineteenth-season broadcast on ABC.
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No one was eliminated during Monday night's performance show, as America's votes and the Dancing with the Stars judges' scores will be combined with last week's voting and scoring totals to eliminate one couple on the upcoming October 20 show.
Jessie J. served as the guest judge last night and sat next to regular judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. In what turned out to be a very low-scoring night, each celebrity was paired with a different professional partner to test the skills of both parties in a genre of dance not very well known.
Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson and her temporary pro partner Derek Hough topped Monday night's leaderboard in first place with 36 out of 40 possible points from the judges after dancing a Charleston routine.
Second place was a tie between actor and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro and his temporary partner Cheryl Burke as well as actress and Back to the Future star Lea Thompson and her temporary partner Val Chmerkovskiy. Both couples earned 34 points on the judging leaderboard after Alfonso and Cheryl performed the flamenco, and Lea and Val danced a Broadway number.
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Actress and Pretty Little Liars star Janel Parrish and her temporary pro partner Artem Chigvintsev finished in fourth place on the leaderboard with 33 points after they performed a sexy Burlesque routine.
YouTube fashionista Bethany Mota and her temporary partner Mark Ballas landed in fifth place on the judges' leaderboard after they danced a hip-hop routine which earned 32 points.
Sixth place went to soap opera and General Hospital star Antonio Sabato and his temporary partner Allison Holker. The couple received 28 points from the judges for a Bollywood number.
Actor and Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett and his temporary partner Peta Murgatroyd finished in seventh place on the leaderboard with 24 points. They performed the jitterbug.
Comedian Tommy and his temporary partner Emma Slater danced a 23-point worthy mambo, claiming eighth place on the judges' leaderboard.
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Professional race car driver Michael Waltrip and his temporary pro partner Witney Carson finished in ninth -- and last -- place on the leaderboard with 20 points. They danced a disco routine.
When calculating the judges' scores from both Monday night and last week's shows, the combined two-week leaderboard is as follows:
Alfonso in first place with 74 out of 80 possible points, Sadie and Lea tied for second place with 73 points, Janel in fourth place with 69 points, Bethany in fifth place with 65 points, Antonio in sixth place with 57 points, Tommy in seventh with 51 points, Jonathan in eighth with 48 points, and finally Michael in ninth -- and last -- place with 45 points.
To find out each celebrity's score with his or her original partner from last week's performance show, click here. Dancing with the Stars' original nineteenth-season couples will resume next week.
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