LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Prior to dancing with the Stars results tonight 2012, most news analysts thought Melissa Gilbert would face elimination. But did Dancing with the Stars results for tonight May 1, 2012 reveal a different shocker? This week, the strongest dancers continued to improve while the marginal dancers continued to produce lackluster scores. After several weeks of news predictions ending in error, however, tonight one familiar face was finally sent home.

Dancing with the Stars results this week didn’t go as well as Melissa Gilbert would have wished. After improving to twenty-four scores in previous weeks, this week she received news of only a twenty-one for her routine. In previous weeks, Len told Melissa that she had performed “well”. Bruno previously claimed that she showed improvement. And Carrie Ann exclaimed “I loved it, I thought you were so dynamic.”

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But Melissa’s scores in recent weeks have fallen, from a twenty-four, to a twenty-two, and now a twenty-one this week. The judges previously found fault with Gilbert’s paso doble.

Len had told her last month it was “a little bit and unsure and unsteady”. Bruno told news that Gilbert started strong but ended weak. “You messed up the ending”. And Carrie Ann told Melissa that she needed to improve her self confidence. This week she didn’t improve, but struggle earn the judge’s praises.

Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, however, improved dramatically, earning a perfect score on their paso doble. Also dominating news last night was Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd; their viennese waltz earned them all nines.

Prior to tonight’s telecast, the lowest overall scoring dancers were Melissa Maksim with a forty-seven, Jaleel and Kym with a fifty-one, and Roshon and Chelsie with a fifty-two. But in the end, Melissa was safe tonight.

Rather, sent to the bottom two tonight were Roshon Fegan and Jaleel White. And eliminated, in tonight’s May 1 results, was Jaleel White!