Dancing With the Stars: Selma Blair Exits Season 31 Due to Health Concerns



By Rebecca Iannucci / October 17 2022, 7:eleven PM PDT

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Selma Blair‘s clip wrong the Dancing With the Stars ballroom came to a premature discontinue connected Monday nighttime erstwhile the histrion voluntarily bowed retired of the Season 31 competition.

Blair changed into identified with a mates of sclerosis successful 2018 and has been transparent astir her warfare with the continual contamination astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic collaborating successful Season 31 with nonrecreational dancer Sasha Farber. But passim rehearsals for this week’s 2 declares, MRI consequences revealed that the rigors of the contention person been taking a sizable, and perchance risky, toll connected Blair’s musculus tissues and bones. Thus, she determined to exit the absorption astatine immoderate constituent of Monday’s broadcast, which celebrated the astir memorable twelvemonth of each contestant’s existence; she and Farber nevertheless completed a sendoff waltz to Andra Day’s “What the World Needs Now is Love,” incomes a truly cleanable forty from the judges.

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“I don’t deliberation radical admit what this show mode to [the competitors],” Blair told co-host Alfonso Ribeiro aft her performance. “Everyone had specified notable motives for being close present — truthful wholesome and truthful appropriate. To spot the people marketplace respond to each 1 radical and our efforts, it’s truthful heartening. I’m truthful blessed with each people, and I’m truthful arrogant of this people assemblage for seeing us.”

Because Blair voluntarily near the competition, nary antithetic dancers person been eliminated connected Monday’s episode. A second, Prom Night-themed installment of Dancing volition circulation connected Disney+ connected Tuesday nighttime clip (8/7c), and Monday’s rankings from the judges volition alternatively constituent into Tuesday’s precise past results. (Blair’s champion forty received’t impact the competition; TikTok large sanction Charli D’Amelio and pro Mark Ballas earned the night’s 2d-highest standing of 39 — which includes the superior 10s of the season! — with their contiguous time number.)

Video of Blair’s last wide show tin beryllium introduced portion it turns into available. In the intervening time, driblet a remark on with your thoughts connected her aboriginal departure.