{"id":6311,"date":"2018-03-19T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2018-03-19T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T08:41:31","slug":"diski-star-delron-buckley-departs-dancing-with-the-stars-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/diski-star-delron-buckley-departs-dancing-with-the-stars-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Diski Star Delron Buckley Departs Dancing With The Stars SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

SA netballer Vanes-Mari du Toit survives to dance another day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bafana Bafana winger Delron Buckley departed Dancing With The Stars SA this evening after his second consecutive Dance-Off in the bottom two pairs, as judges Bryan Watson, Debbie Turner, Tebogo Kgobokoe, and Jason Gilkison voted to keep netball star Vanes-Mari du Toit in the competition for another week.<\/p>\n

It was the highly anticipated Movie Week theme this week as all of the celebrity dancers and their partners moved to the music of some of the world\u2019s most popular silver screen hits. From Fame to Beauty and the Beast, the contestants pulled out all of the stops to make it a night to remember. Hoping that the force would be with him tonight, Delron performed the notorious Paso Doble to the iconic Star Wars theme music, but in the end his efforts didn\u2019t translate. \u201cI think there was too much in your head,\u201d Tebogo Kgobokoe said of his performance.<\/p>\n

Delron had started the competition very low on the leader board, with award-winning judge Jason Gilkison wanting to Red Card him for his messy footwork in Week 1, but the judges were impressed with his dedication and dramatic improvements week-on-week. Judge Jason raved that Delron\u2019s energetic Charleston in Week 5 was his \u201cbreakthrough dance\u201d. By last week\u2019s Jive routine, judge Debbie Turner thought that Delron was \u201cturning into a tiger\u201d, but unfortunately this week\u2019s Paso Doble proved a dance step too far.<\/p>\n

Delron said the Dancing With The Stars SA experience had opened his eyes to the world of dance, \u201cand I take my hat off to you guys,\u201d he graciously told the judges. And he paid tribute to his wife Raphaela, who flew in from Durban every weekend to support him in this adventure.<\/p>\n

The vote count and ranking of contestants is done according to the international format rules and was independently computed by Deloitte and Touche and confirmed against the vote results determined by M-Net.<\/p>\n

Dancing again next week [25 March] will be:<\/p>\n