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DWTS Shocker: Lauren Jauregui Voted Off on TikTok Night

Lauren Jauregui's shocking Dancing With the Stars exit on TikTok Night has fans questioning the judges after a week of raves.

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The Weekly Observer

SEP 30, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
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DWTS Shocker: Lauren Jauregui Voted Off on TikTok Night
Ballroom dancing (illustrative file photo, not from the actual broadcast). Photo: Christian Harb / Unsplash

"Dancing With the Stars" delivered its biggest shock of Season 35 on Monday's TikTok Night, sending singer Lauren Jauregui and pro partner Brandon Armstrong home despite glowing reviews from the judges just one week earlier.

Jauregui, the former Fifth Harmony member, had been a frontrunner after judge Carrie Ann Inaba called her Week 2 foxtrot "mesmerizing" and Derek Hough compared her to "a willow dancing in a gentle breeze." Instead, she and Armstrong landed in the bottom three, and America's vote sent them packing. Asked how she felt afterward, Jauregui had one word: "Pissed," according to ABC's recap of the episode.

Elsewhere on the show, gymnast Jordan Chiles and partner Ezra Sosa tied for the night's top score with Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas. The elimination has fans arguing online about whether the judges' save should have come into play, and it sets up a wide-open field heading into next week.

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