Overview
- Following Friday’s fan-picked partner-swap show, No Angels singer Nadja Benaissa was eliminated despite strong jury scores.
- Judge Joachim Llambi called the result “a slap in the face for performance and fairness,” and ex-pro Christian Polanc called it “a small catastrophe.”
- Viewers on social media accused RTL of swaying the partner-swap poll, though these claims remain unproven.
- With Benaissa gone, Anna-Carina Woitschack is the last woman left and said she will dance “for all the women,” while training eight to nine hours a day and earning 30 points for a Paso Doble with Evgeny Vinokurov.
- Pro Ekaterina Leonova, out since Show 3, said the semifinal is tougher than the final because pairs must prepare backup routines for a live “Impro Dance” they only learn in the show.