Dancing With the Stars' results recap: Good Knight, Gladys

It was an exceptionally sad elimination night on Dancing With the Stars. Although Gladys Knight's departure as shocking as Sherri Shepard's exit, it was nonetheless disappointing and a reminder that star power doesn't equal automatic safety.


So what did Knight have to say about leaving the show and her 60-pound weight loss? Plus, DWTS alum Jennie Garth stops by and talked candidly about her recent separation from Twilight star Peter Facinelli...


She hung on as long as she could, but Motown legend Knight to say goodbye to the dance floor Tuesday night after losing out to Roshon Fegan in the dreaded dance duel. While her elimination wasn't totally unexpected, there were no hard feelings when we caught up with Gladys backstage. She was still in high spirits and shared her thanks for the opportunity.


Gladys and Tristan were beat out by fellow bottom-two dwellers Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower after a dance duel jive for their lives. But the verdict was not unanimous: Carrie Ann chose to save Gladys (which I’m betting was more of a sentimental vote), while Len and Bruno opted to keep Roshon.


The concluding hour of Motown Week started with an upbeat Motor City medley courtesy of the Harold Wheeler band that featured the dance talents of Val Chmerkovskiy, Peta Murgatroyd, the “DWTS” Troupe and choreographed by Louis Van Amstel.


There was a segment that interviewed the stars on the mental and physical toll that being in this competition exerts. Injury-plagued Maria Menounos feels like an old lady, William Levy’s determined he's not going to let ankle pain take him out of the competition. Gladys wakes up in the wee hours of the morning to run the routines in her head. Katherine Jenkins can’t let her nerves get to her, or else she can’t perform well. Melissa Gilbert knows that she’s going to have to tap into something that she’s never had to before. 


The AT&T Spotlight Performance focused on the triumphant story of Michaela DePrince, a 17-year-old who was adopted as a child by a supportive American family from an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone, found dance, and has since started studying at the American Ballet Theater school to become one of the most promising ballerinas in the country. And her dance performance, to Natasha Bedingfield’s pared down rendition of “Wild Horses” and accompanied by Adé Chiké  Torbert of “So You Think You Can Dance” fame, was made all the more meaningful by the story that inspired it.


“SYTYCD” was also represented in force during this week’s Macy’s Stars of Dance performance -- a celestial contemporary piece by the Shaping Sound company choreographed by Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini and Teddy Forance. The whole thing was like a classical painting come to life, flowing and lovely and lighter than air. The string rendition of David Guetta and Usher’s “Without You” by ensemble Aston also helped to usher in next week’s Classical Week.

Motownphilly’s back again -- Boyz II Men returned to the ballroom stage to perform their new single “One More Dance,” accompanied on the dance floor by castaways Dmitry Chaplin, in all his bare-chested glory, and ginger Anna Trebunskaya, her skirt in tatters, dancing like they were the last couple on Earth.