Tyra Banks had a super awkward ‘Steve Harvey Moment’ on DWTS

Plus, Skai Jackson's touching tribute to 'big brother' Cameron Boyce.
October 6, 2020 9:30 a.m. EST
October 7, 2020 9:01 a.m. EST
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Somewhere out there, Tom Bergeron is weeping. We all know live TV comes with its fair share of mishaps—crowning the wrong beauty queen; calling out the wrong Best Picture winner; wardrobe malfunctions; Al Capone’s vault. Stuff happens! And last night, Dancing with the Stars host Tyra Banks experienced just how awkward and embarrassing those live TV snafu’s can be. Reading her cards, she wrongly announced two couples in the bottom two, when three of the wrong couples were still on stage. Bring on the cringe.The ANTM alum announced CHEER's Monica Aldama as safe when in fact she was in the bottom two next to Anne Heche. No one caught the mishap until Tyra said “Anne and Keo and Vernon and Peta are in the bottom two,” while Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause was still standing on the ballroom floor. If that sounds confusing, that's because it was. Yikes.
“There's actually been an error. I'm looking right now and we have three couples, so we need to clarify this for one second. The bottom two couples are Anne and Keo and Monica and Val,” Tyra quickly said after confirming with the producers in the control room. Monica and her partner quickly had to return embarrassingly to the stage while Vernon and Chrishell had to scurry offstage with little fanfare. “There's been an error in our control room, but we're making it happen,” Tyra went on, trying to fill the air as the shuffles happened on stage. “This is live TV, right? This is the craziness of live TV.”“I was reading my cards, but my cards were wrong,” she continued. “And again, we apologize for this. This is live TV, and we're all human.”Sure humans make mistakes. But roasting on Twitter is forever, Tyra. Dang. THE SHADE.[video_embed id='2037265']RELATED: Should Tyra Banks’ ‘smize’ be added to the dictionary? [/video_embed]

Skai Jackson's Cameron Boyce Love

Tyra's blunder wasn't even the biggest moment of the night—Monday's DWTS also saw one of the most heartfelt and personal performances we’ve seen in 29 seasons. Skai Jackson dedicated her “Ordinary People” foxtrot to the late Cameron Boyce, who passed away suddenly last year at the young age of 20.Speaking with her partner Alan Jackson, Skai, who is only 18 years old, said of Cameron, “He was in my life for half of my life, which is crazy... I met Cameron, obviously, on Jessie, and we just really built this bond for years and years and years. And he was kind of like a big brother figure to me. He always looked out for me through everything. He really molded me into the person that I am now." “Of course I miss him every day,” she continued as tears fell from her eyes. "But I have him on my phone case, so I get to see him."“I know that he loved Dancing with the Stars and he loved dancing. So that's why I'm really excited, just to do this dance, because it is for him."DWTS viewers were obviously moved by her admission (as were the judges, who gave her the first 10 of the season). Okay, who’s chopping onions on Twitter?!

Anne Heche Talks Ellen

Anne Heche was sent home in the end (all that drama for nothing) but she did go out with a bang. During the show, the Volcano and Men In Trees star opened up about her three-year romance with Ellen DeGeneres in the late '90s, a time when being openly gay was on the cusp of acceptance but not quite there yet. According to Heche, it affected her career in serious ways.“In 1997, I met Ellen DeGeneres at the Vanity Fair party and that was the night that changed my life forever,” she told her partner Keo before dancing the Paso Doble to Katy Perry's “Rise.”“My movie premiere for Volcano, I had told them that I was taking Ellen as my date and I was told if I took Ellen I would lose my FOX contract,” she said. “At that moment, she took my hand and said, 'Do what they say' and I said, 'No thanks.' I took Ellen to the premiere and I was ushered out before the movie even ended and was told I was not allowed to go to my own after party for fear that they would get pictures of me with a woman. She was warning me, 'This is going to happen.'”She continued, “I was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres for three-and-a-half years and the stigma attached to that relationship was so bad that I was fired from my multi-million dollar picture deal and I did not work in a studio picture for 10 years.”It’s a heartbreaking story but we’re glad she was able to share it.[video_embed id='2045716']BEFORE YOU GO: Young girl says best words a parent can hear at school pick up [/video_embed]

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