A Dancing Shocker: Sabrina Sent Home

Los Angeles (E! Online) - The only thing the Cheetah Girl couldn't pull off was the foxtrot.

Sabrina Bryan, the most promising horse out of the gate, was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars Tuesday, a shocker for all on a night—and a season—that had already played host to its share of weirdness.

Joining her in the bottom two was Cameron Mathison, who may have missed the mark with his tribal samba but was considered both the season's most improved contestant and the next-likeliest to take his shirt off.

"It's total madness!" exclaimed Bruno Tonioli after learning that those two, who each received a 25 on Monday, were facing the firing squad. "Sabrina, the most consistent. Cameron, the most improved. You have got to vote, nobody's safe!"

"There's been some bizarre things happen, but this takes the biscuit," Len Goodman agreed, while Carrie Ann Inaba sat there with tears in her eyes.

Goodman was of course referring to the string of mishaps that have befallen the show this season, including the ongoing lift controversy, Marie Osmond's fainting spell (which, because she was okay, turned into the joke of the week), the passing of Jane Seymour's mother, Mathison's hip injury, Jennie Garth's mid-performance slip-up, and the family emergencies that caused Gloria Estefan and Jennifer Lopez to miss their scheduled performances.

To top if all off, knock wood, Seymour was absent from the ballroom again tonight due to a bout of food poisoning, according to host Tom Bergeron.

And now it's the at-home voters who have apparently been stricken with some sort of mental ailment.

Bryan, who scored a 30 two weeks ago on her paso doble with partner Mark Ballas Jr., was one of the early favorites to make the finals this season and was only criticized so harshly last night because the judges expect nothing but the best from her.

"This is the most vocal our audience has been in five seasons. We are all shocked here tonight," said the usually impartial Bergeron, who also told Bryan that he had her "so pegged for the finale."

This was "an amazing opportunity and an incredible cast," the obviously surprised 23-year-old said after hearing the bad news. "I have grown as a performer so much out on this stage. Thank you so much."

"Thank you so much, baby," Bryan told Ballas, who responded by telling her how proud he was, followed by, "I love you."

Hmmm.

Meanwhile, completely safe were Seymour, who was in last place after scoring a 22 on her jive, and Osmond, whose paso doble "played it a hair safe," according to Inaba, and only merited a 23.

Seymour was starting to feel the heat more than anyone, having been scolded by Inaba for what looked like lifts during a couple of performances—an exchange which in turn has set off a tame yet pointed war of words between both ladies and Seymour's partner, Tony Dovolani.

"I've never met anyone who loves dancing as much as Jane," Dovolani, who in questioning Inaba's ballroom credentials dug up a rulebook and presented her with the section on lifts, told tvguide.com. "But it's hard to come back from them slamming us." (Inaba, a former Fly Girl, either shrugged off Dovolani's gift or gave him the finger, depending on who you believe.)

"I don't have the doll thing going," Seymour said, referring to the dolls Osmond hawks on QVC. "And some dancers [like Mel B] can come out here and just walk around. You get higher scores in this competition if you just walk around. Or you go up to the judges and you go pat, pat, on the cheek and you get 10s for that."

But despite being told by all three judges that the jive definitely wasn't her "most comfortable dance," Seymour has been given the chance to glide across the floor another day.

After only six hours of rehearsal, Melanie Brown and Maksim Chmerkovskiy continued to roar back from their brush with elimination by positively nailing their rumba, the slow Latin dance whose elusive combination of rhythm, romance and lust has proved especially hard for the stars to perfect.

"We got 10!" the Spice Girl, who did more than "just walk around," exclaimed back stage. "No, we got three 10s," Maks corrected her. "We got three 10s!" Brown reiterated after dancing the second perfect rumba in the show's history.

The only other 30-caliber rumba belongs to season three's Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska, who didn't strike that balance until week nine.

Replanting herself near the top of the leader board was Jennie Garth, who scored a 27, this time on a technically tough mambo (siblings Derek and Julianne Hough are truly the show's star choreographers) that had the judges singing her praises.

"What a difference a week makes!" said Tonioli, who last week complained that Garth had lost her "puff" halfway through her samba.

"To progress in this competition, you've got to come out with an exceptional performance…[long pause]…You did that," Goodman said, cheeky as always.

Helio Castroneves, whose cha-cha put him back in the race after a rare off-week, saved the photo finish for another day and also vaulted into the final six.

Each contestant will perform two dances next week. And as tonight, not to mention this season, has proved—anything can happen, and no one is safe.