When the show returned, “Dancing with the Stars” host Tom Bergeron explained they were interrupted by “a little incident” and thanked the ABC series’ security team “for staying in shape”.
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In a world where yesterday is what a week ago once was and this morning is passe by noon, a single incident that happened last month may as well have occurred at the 2012 Olympics and it’s the protestors should realize that instead of being heard and making a positive point, they’ve set themselves up to be a similar situation to Lochte – it’ll likely be hard to find employment, etc. – just on a much lesser scale. The show aired live on the East Coast and also aired live in Los Angeles and San Francisco because ABC’s primetime schedule in the West was preempted for football coverage.
It showed two men wearing anti-Lochte T-shirts going on the stage, shouting as they walked near Lochte, while he and dance partner Cheryl Burke were being critiqued by judges after their foxtrot.
On Monday night’s episode of DWTS, a disgruntled audience member jumped onto the stage and tried to tackle Lochte. “I’m shocked, and I’m hurt for Ryan”, she said.
Los Angeles police have identified the men on stage as Sam Satoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi.
No one was injured or listed as a victim in the incident, officials said. These guys got arrested because they were protesting Lochte’s lies. News. “They were just frozen the entire time in utter shock”. But I looked at Cheryl and she just smiled and said, ‘You just did what you said you can’t do. The Lochte scandal from Rio was briefly mentioned both by Bergeron and the swimmer in a recorded segment that aired before the performance.
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Others who performed well were Marilu Henner and Derek Hough, as well as country star Jana Kramer and new pro Gleb Savenchko who swept viewers away with their sexy routine.
In Rio, Lochte said that he and three teammates were robbed and that he had a gun pointed at his head by robbers but it was later revealed that the Olympians had vandalized a gas station after a night of partying and been confronted by security guards.
“I came out here and I wanted to do something I was completely uncomfortable with, and I did”, he said.
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Lochte and Burke got a respectable score of 24 for their dance but were topped by U.S. Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and her partner with 31.
