Alannah’s rumba not hot enough to melt the judges’ hearts in Dancing with the Stars

After the Marty Party ended last week, it was model Alannah Beirne’s turn to get her coat last night as her samba just wasn’t hot and spicy enough to warm up a frozen Irish public.

Her chances of making it through to next week’s quarter finals were always going to be slim as, after four other competitors were saved by the public vote, she was left to fight it out in the dance-off with Erin McGregor, who had been given a score of 29 out of 30 by the judges.

What was noticeable after the exit of crowd-pleasing but rather low-scoring Marty Morrissey last week, was that the average scoring across the competition last night was very high — the lowest mark given by the individual judges was eight.