Dancing With The Stars 2012 Week 9 Semi-Finals Recap: Maria Menounos receives perfect score (Video)

By Angel Cuala on May 15, 2012 in Entertainment, Music, Television, United States • Comments

Updated: May 16, 2012 10:25 a.m.

Read Dancing With The Stars 2012 Week 9 Elimination Result: Maria Menounos eliminated despite having a perfect score

The four remaining Dancing With The Stars 2012 contestants competed with each other on Monday, May 14, 2012, a week after Roshon Fegan and Melissa Gilbert were eliminated. Videos of their Round 1 performances are available below.

Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, performing on
Dancing With The Stars 2012 semi-finals night
Image Credit: ABC video

As featured at ABC on Monday night, the DWTS Season 14 contestants are now its Week 9 performance night or semi-finals after the double elimination last week, with only four contestants left including Donald Driver, Katherine Jenkins, Maria Menounos, and William Levy.

Just like the competition last week, there were also two rounds of performances this week for each dancing pair, one is a ballroom dance and the other is a Latin dance, where in Maria Menounos & Derek Hough led the scores in Round 1 after receiving a perfect score from the judges.

“I remember when you first started Maria. The transpiration you’ve undergone is credibly beautiful. I loved the dance. Ridiculous lines, fabulous dance, it was beautiful. It was amazing just loved it!” Show Judge Carrie Ann Inaba told her, as she danced to Argentine Tango.

Below is the list of names of the remaining four DTWS 2012 contestants according to the sequence of their performances, with their respective scores from the three judges Carrie Ann, Bruno, and Len in Round 1, and their final scores for that night.

Round 1:

* William Levy and Cheryl Burke: 9, 9, 10 (28)

* Katherine Jenkins and Mark Ballas: 10, 9, 10, (29)

* Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd: 9, 9, 10 (28)

* Maria Menounos and Derek Hough: 10, 10, 10 (30)

For Round 2, William Levy & Cheryl Burke received receiving the perfect score after doing their Samba, but Maria & Derek led the overall scores that night since they 29 points in the second round while William & Cheryl only scored 28 points on the first round.