‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 24 Episode 9 Betting Odds

–This is the 24th season for ABC’s reality show.

–Bonner Bolton took the fall in Episode 8 leaving just four remaining contestants.

–’Dancing With The Stars’ Episode 9 airs on Monday, May 15 at 8:00 PM Eastern.

Bonner Bolton was eliminated on Monday’s Episode 8 of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and generated what approximates ‘controversy’ in the mainstream media. Each team danced twice on Episode 8 and the second dance was considered ‘scandalous’ by the tepid standards of network television. Bolton’s partner Sharna Burgess explained the concept of the pseudo-infamous second dance:

“This is very much like an intertwined office love triangle, love affair. We are having a lot of fun in this trio, but we don’t quite have the moves down yet.”

Bolton did what any intelligent bull rider would do on this type of program and included a second comely female dancer in his performance, namely DWTS troupe member Britt Stewart. It was actually a pretty cool idea for a dance with the two lovely dancers wearing white shirts and short skirts as they vied for the attention of ‘CEO’ Bolton. Instead of just having some fun with it the judges reacted as if Bolton had killed a kitten onstage. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba whined like a baby about the steamy number:

“I feel like I need to take a shower. It was kind of raunchy. I mean, you guys looked amazing and very sexy, and I loved the high concept — it was very clean and pristine. And I felt like Bonner you didn’t pop as much as I needed you to pop next to these two booty-popping — but you didn’t booty-pop, I noticed that … a lot, but not quite enough Bonner from you.”

Bolton didn’t ‘booty pop’ but he got the business from head judge Len Goodman who clearly needs to be put out to pasture:

“Rashad, he did an Argentine tango that had a bit of passion about it. … From me, this was a little bit too — I’m 73 — a little bit too raunchy for the old guy, really.”

The saddest take was from judge Julianne Hough. The 28 year old native of Orem, Utah set the public perception of the Beehive State back a couple of decades with this assessment of Bolton’s performance:

“I think I’m still recovering from that performance. I know they are still recovering. They (the audience) loved that.”

“I feel like we watched like the security cameras and I feel bad. The production was awesome. The girls are sassy as can be. I definitely saw some step touches and some hip thrusts and that’s who’s going to be voting — America — and they like that.”

JUDGE GOODMAN GOES UPSIDE BONNER’S HEAD, IS FORTUNATE NOT TO GET BEAT DOWN

The humorless judge Goodman also got really snotty to Bolton in his ‘dismissal’ from the show. Backstory–Bolton had been frustrated during rehearsal due to his physical limitations. Goodman lectured Bolton about how to deal with ‘frustration’ and sniffed that he should have been gone a long time ago:

‘You’ve got frustrated — please don’t blame the judges, blame the viewers, because really you’ve gone a bridge too far. I’m sorry but you should’ve been…’

Goodman gave a dismissive wave of his hand to indicate that Bolton had overstayed his welcome. Lest we forget, a refresher on what Bolton does in his day job:

And why would Bolton be frustrated with his ‘physical limitations’? It might have something to do with the fact that he BROKE HIS NECK a year ago and was TEMPORARILY PARALYZED:

“I was winning. But then I dismounted wrong, landed on my head and broke my neck.”

Not surprising for a legit hardass, Bolton downplays the severity of the injury. The bull in question came close to stomping him and he was fortunate that he didn’t leave the arena in a bag. The injury was downright brutal:

At Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, it was determined Bolton had broken his C-2 vertebrae, the same injury suffered by actor Christopher Reeve. Fortunately, unlike Reeve, his spinal cord was not transected.

Doctors fused his C2 and C3 vertebrae, inserting into the bones what looks like a prehistoric clamp chomping his neck. Bolton had his feeling and movement back but had to stay completely still for a month – a frustrating mandate for a young man perpetually on the go since he could walk.

His rehab was no walk in the park either:


“There were hard, dark times. The pain medicine was making it hard for me to hold on to any positive thoughts. I sort of wanted to end it all. But I got rid of the meds and started pushing myself to get better.”

So let’s wrap our head around that for a minute. Bolton almost died in the arena and was fortunate to not be trampled by a rampaging monster. He ended up with the same injury that paralyzed Christopher Reeve. He caught a break and his spinal cord wasn’t injured so he fought his way back to health after he *got rid of his painkillers*. You think that you might want something to take the edge off the pain after you break your C-2 spinal vertebrae?

Miserable douchebag judge also caught a break–that Bolton is a gentleman. The best thing that would have happened all season would have been for Bolton to take umbrage to his comments like they do in West Texas. The nerve of the dude to lecture Bolton on handling ‘frustration’ like a man.

Anyway, here’s the scores for Week 8:

WEEK EIGHT DWTS SCORING CHARTS:

Normani Kordei/Valentin Chmerkovskiy: 40
Rashad Jennings/Emma Slater: 39
Normani Kordei/Valentin Chmerkovskiy: 39
Rashad Jennings/Emma Slater: 36
Simone Biles/Sasha Farber: 36
Simone Biles/Sasha Farber: 36
David Ross/Lindsay Arnold: 36
Bonner Bolton/Sharna Burgess: 30
David Ross/Lindsay Arnold: 29
Bonner Bolton/Sharna Burgess: 28

Here’s the overall scoring average for the remaining four contestants:

SEASON AVERAGE DWTS SCORING CHARTS FOR REMAINING CONTESTANTS:

Normani Kordei/Valentin Chmerkovskiy: 35.8
Simone Biles/Sasha Farber: 34.7
Rashad Jennings/Emma Slater: 34.6
David Ross/Lindsay Arnold: 30.5

Posted below you’ll find a revised ‘To Win Season 24’ odds rundown along with the Week 9 prop bet odds. ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 24 Episode 9 aairs at 8:00 PM EDT on Monday, May 15:

DANCING WITH THE STARS SEASON 24 BETTING ODDS

 

TO WIN DANCING WITH THE STARS SEASON 24

Normani Kordei: -150
Simone Biles: +135
Rashad Jennings: +355
David Ross: +6000

DANCING WITH THE STARS WEEK 9 BETTING ODDS

 

TO BE ELIMINATED IN WEEK 9

David Ross: -350
Rashad Jennings: +300
Simone Biles: +750
No One: +1150
Normani Kordei: +2500

JUDGES’ HIGHEST SCORE

Normani Kordei: -500
Simone Biles: +235
Rashad Jennings: +1250
David Ross: +2000

JUDGES’ LOWEST SCORE

David Ross: -900
Rashad Jennings: +450
Simone Biles: +950
Normani Kordei: +1250

HEAD TO HEAD SCORING MATCHUPS

WHO WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE?

Simone Biles: +130
Normani Kordei: -150

WHO WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE?

Simone Biles: -210
Rashad Jennings: +180

WHO WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE?

Normani Kordei: -250
Rashad Jennings: +210

WHO WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST SCORE?

Normani Kordei: +110
David Ross +5.5%: -130

OVERALL SCORING PROPOSITION ODDS

NUMBER OF ’10’ SCORES TO BE AWARDED

0: +950
1-4: +250
5-8: -350
8+: +900

OVERALL AVERAGE SCORE FOR WEEK 9 WILL BE?

Over 34.5: +110
Under 34.5: -130

WILL ANY JUDGE AWARD A PERFECT SCORE OF 40?

Yes: -250
No: +210

THE LOWEST SCORE OF WEEK 9 WILL BE

Over 29.5: -130
Under 29.5: +110

TV RATINGS PROPOSITION ODDS

WEEK 9 KEY DEMO (18-49) RATINGS

Over 1.7: +130
Under 1.7: -150

WEEK 9 KEY DEMO (18-49) SHARE

Over 5.5: -250
Under 5.5: +210

WEEK 9 TOTAL VIEWERS

Over 10.25 million: -120
Under 10.25 million: +100

WEEK 9 NIELSEN RANKING (5/15/17 through 5/21/17)

Over 7.5: -145
Under 7.5: +125

WHICH WILL BE HIGHER?

Season 23 Episode 10 rating (1.7): +100
Season 24 Episode 9 rating: -120

WHICH WILL BE HIGHER?

Season 23 Episode 10 share (5): +180
Season 24 Episode 9 share: -210

WHICH WILL BE HIGHER?

Season 23 Episode 10 total viewership (11.34 million): -150
Season 24 Episode 9 total viewership: +130

Episode 10 was the semifinal show in Season 23

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