Following every episode of "Dancing with the Stars," the judges, in my opinion, gave David Alan Grier an overly harsh critique and scoring. He is light years a better dancer than Lawrence Taylor, and his dismissal from the show seemed wrong to me.
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Grier was eliminated alongside professional partner Kym Johnson and later gave an expletive-laden rant to Access Hollywood that night after his dismissal; he admitted he was furious over the comments from the judges throughout the season, particularly those from former “In Living Color” Fly Girl, Carrie Ann, whom he worked with.
“There’s several people that can kiss my a**, but she’s definitely the first in line…” he said.“To stand up week after week and be humiliated by people who have no right to talk to me [like that]… I am proudest that I didn’t climb across that table and slap the **** out of every one of those judges and that’s my proudest accomplishment.”
Grier didn’t call out any particular comments by Carrie Ann and her fellow panelists, but rather their collective criticisms of his dances with Kym throughout the five weeks he was on the show.
“I spent so much time trying to bring class into, what for me, was a classless situation, so it shouldn’t be like that, but that’s the way it is,” he said.
Now, talk show host Bonnie Hunt sits down with “Dancing with the Stars” judge Bruno Tonioli who responds to David Alan Grier’s controversial outburst after being eliminated from the hit reality show, on “The Bonnie Hunt Show,” airing Monday, April 20 (syndicated/log on to bonniehunt.com for stations and times).
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