A Focus on DWTS, Season 22’s
Fabulous Finalists
Paige & Mark:
Beginning their Season of Delightful Dancing in all the right and
endearing ways, the quickly beloved pairing of Ballroom Contestants Paige
& Mark opened up their competitive run with a Light and Dainty,
well-Framed Foxtrot!
Up next for this already unarguably Fabulous Duo was a Latin
Night-themed Salsa which, despite Mark's
Absence due to an untimely Back Injury and the subsequent last-minute
stepping in of DWTS Troupe Member, Alan Bersten (who fulfilled his
roll as Temporary Pro brilliantly!), saw an incredible amount of superbly executed Lifts and Hip Swivels,
earning the night's Highest Score of 8,8,8!
Together once more, Paige
and Mark presented a
real <Ahem!> knock-out of a
Performance for Season 22’s Most Memorable Year Night in the stellar form of
a fiercely creative UFC-themed Paso Doble,
only to be followed up with an
equally gratifying, though starkly opposite, playful Disney Night Quickstep to
“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy
Story, a grin-inspiring, dancing event which would tie the elated Couple at
the Top of Week 04’s Leader Board with their highest earned score yet of all
“9”s!
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Paige & Mark
DWTS Season 22, Week 04
Disney Night
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Switching things up for Week 05 of the Competition, as part of DWTS' always nail-biting and yet somehow
still entertaining America Switch Up Challenge, Paige VanZant found herself partnered with Competing
Pro, Sasha Farber, for the
dancing of a “Perfect”ly Romantic and Flowingly Feminine Rumba!
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Paige & Sasha
DWTS Season 22, Week 05
- Switch-up Week
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Once again reunited with her former Pro Pal, Paige and Mark attempted to “behave”
themselves whilst embarking on a groovy Jazz tour of the 1970’s-themed Austin Powers franchise, as part of Week 06’s Famous Dances Night, earning the
ecstatic Couple their very first “10”
from Len!
Week 07 saw Paige and Mark take a Technically Terrific and
Fiercely Fast roll down the show's river, performing a high-speed Jive to
a Tina
Turner classic, affording this now seemingly unstoppable Duo their very
first and the show's only Second Perfect Score of the Season, earning all “10”s
from the Ballroom's Panel Judges!
Up next, for that same evening, were the Season's first Team
Dances, pitting the show's Celebrity Gals against the Boys of Season 22,
resulting in an all out Beyoncé
vs, Brown, Ballroom Battle!
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- Icons Night - Team Dances
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For Week 07 of the Season, Paige & Mark elected to cool things
down a bit, performing a fantastically frosty and chillingly clever Viennese
Waltz,
followed up by their second Dance that evening, a Judges Team Up Challenge
Routine that united Paige and Mark with two of their Competitive Dancing
Counterparts, Antonio & Sharna,
as part of Judge Carrie Ann Inaba’s
Artistic, Group Paso Doble.
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- Judges Team Up Challenge Round
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Week 09’s Spectacular Semifinals saw Paige and Mark team up once
again with their talented Ballroom Buddy, Alan,
for a truly exquisite and creatively cocky
Trio Samba, as part of the show's always gratifying Trio Round,
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- Semifinals - Trio Round
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followed up by a surprisingly sensual, incredibly immaculate Argentine Tango!
Closing down their Season with one “Fireball” of a score-redeeming
Salsa - that earned the Couple not one
but two “10”s! –
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Paige & Mark
DWTS Season 22, Week 10
- The Finals, Night 01 -
Redemption Round
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Paige and Mark finished out Week 10 with an emotional and flawless Contemporary-esque Freestyle
and an appropriately celebratory
Jive/Salsa 24-hour Fusion Dance,
both of which earned these more than well-deserving, Second Place
Finalists two more Perfect Scores, while Audiences watched what was truly a
Dynamic Duo wrap up their Dancing escapades as two of the Ballroom’s most
beloved Characters, as well as Season 22’s ultimately Highest-scoring Partnership!
“It’s amazing,” Paige gushed, upon exiting the show as the Season's First Runner Up. “I’m just so thankful that I got to have this opportunity, I'm gonna remember it forever!”
