‘Dancing’ delivers a double whammy - Tom DeLay & Debi Mazar

Tom DeLay looked rough dancing a week ago and even worse on Monday night. With stress fractures in both feet, it seemed that the former politician was out of options. While he made it through Monday night's show, he announced Tuesday night that he was ready to take the advice of his doctors and withdraw from the competition. Sadly for Tom, he went home the week before he would have been doing his home state Texas two-step, so host Tom Bergeron told him he could come back and do it in the season finale if his feet recover by then.
This did not, however, mean that there would be no elimination. Given the large cast that started the season, the producers were apparently able to accommodate a double elimination at this point without throwing off the schedule. (Given the frequency of injuries in recent seasons, it could even be that part of the rationale for a larger cast is precisely so there's wiggle room to avoid skipping a week's elimination if someone has to quit.)

The bottom two, not unexpectedly, were Michael Irvin and Debi Mazar, and the "Entourage" actress got the boot. Debi took her defeat pretty well, while Michael lived to dance another day. Debi was a short-timer from the start, but it was sad to see her multi-colored skirt flutter off the stage for good.

Queen Latifah appeared to sing, with Cheryl Burke and Maksim Chmerkovskiy dancing along. Cheryl and Maks seemed tickled to be accompanied by Queen Latifah, who definitely beats another Phil Collins cover by the house band in terms of sheer cool. She returned later to perform a crowd-pleasing "Ease On Down The Road," making her one of the show's better musical guests.

Hip-hop dance troupe Jabbawockeez showed up for a very slick version of "Singin' In The Rain." It featured a very brief appearance by Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer, who seemed to expect their appearance to generate more audience gasps than it actually did.