Trevor Donovan Confused by Derek Hough’s ‘DWTS’ Critique

After surviving the underside two, Trevor Donovan and Emma Slater admitted they had been a bit stunned by the suggestions from the judges, together with Derek Hough’s comment that the contestant was pondering an excessive amount of about his steps and never within the second.

“To be sincere, sure — as a result of I felt fairly unfastened,” the 44-year-old actor informed Us Weekly after the Monday, October 10, episode. “I don’t know. I didn’t really feel like I used to be heady in any respect, however I’m gonna take their criticism to coronary heart and get again in it subsequent week.”

After their Samba to “Life Is a Freeway,” Hough famous that he thought the dance was “truly actually good,” however Donovan’s face “took [him] out of it.”

“I can see you enthusiastic about the steps. I need you to belief your self — you already know it, man. You bought his dance, you bought it. Now it’s simply performing, have enjoyable with it,” the previous DWTS professional defined. “They’re simply typically the place you’re enthusiastic about it — enthusiastic about ‘OK, Emma needs me to do that, Emma needs me to try this.’”

Carrie Ann Inaba agreed: “You aren’t believing in your self. You aren’t seeing how far you’ve come. You aren’t seeing what we’re seeing. Your eyes are down. After which I can see you checking in energetically with Emma and ensuring you’re getting the OK.”

The duo earned a 28 out of 40 for the dance, touchdown within the backside two with Sam Champion and Cheryl Burke. The judges opted to avoid wasting the 90210 alum.

“I really feel like we’re actually gonna get motivated,” Slater mentioned. “Generally I believe it helps folks at residence assume, ‘Oh, gosh, I don’t need them to be at risk.’ Perhaps they’ll vote just a little bit extra subsequent week. After which, after all, we’re gonna take all the pieces the judges say, significantly about being current within the second and within the dance and we’re actually gonna work on that. And simply do our greatest, put our greatest foot ahead for subsequent week. However it is vitally motivating when that occurs. It’s disheartening, however on the identical time you’ve bought one thing to show.”

When requested whether or not they had been shocked they had been within the backside two, Donovan admitted: “After our scores, not a lot. … I used to be just a little shocked with the scores, to be sincere.”

“We hoped the scores could be larger,” she agreed. “However I imply it’s type of what are you able to do? The judges are there for a motive and so they rating it and I completely respect that, and I do perceive what they had been speaking about. And there was some constructive criticism in there. Simply we want we might have been positioned larger, however that’s type of the foundations of the sport. … The primary factor is we’re coming again, so we’ll simply preserve pushing.”

Dancing With the Stars airs on Disney+ Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.