{"id":8146,"date":"2024-05-01T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:51:50","slug":"sara-evans-thought-dwts-judges-hated-her-for-following-partner-tony-dovolanis-conservative-choreography-uyenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/sara-evans-thought-dwts-judges-hated-her-for-following-partner-tony-dovolanis-conservative-choreography-uyenn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Evans Thought DWTS Judges ‘Hated’ Her for Following Partner Tony Dovolani’s ‘Conservative’ Choreography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two decades after appearing on\u00a0Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, country star\u00a0Sara Evans\u00a0is looking back on her experience competing for the mirrorball.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of\u00a0Cheryl Burke\u2019s\u00a0Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans\u00a0<\/em>podcast, Evans, 53, shared that she thought her partner\u00a0Tony Dovolani\u2019s choreography hurt her chances on the ABC dance competition show.<\/p>\n

\"Sara<\/p>\n

\u201cTony was conservative in his choreography, you know, so I felt that that hurt me a lot because they would always say, you know, you’re just too rigid, you’re too [conservative] and I’m like, well, I’m just doing what I’m told,\u201d she said. \u201cI’m just doing what I’m told. I don’t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if you want me to come out and sing ‘Suds in the Bucket’, I will, but you know, the dancing part, I don’t know,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Evans said she believed the judges \u201chated\u201d her from \u201cthe very beginning,” and added, \u201cI also thought maybe it’s something like they want to be mean to me so that all my fans will come to my defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer made to sixth place on season 3 of\u00a0Dancing with the Stars<\/em>\u00a0before she ultimately\u00a0withdrew from the competition\u00a0amid her divorce from ex-husband\u00a0Craig Schelske.<\/p>\n

On an episode of her podcast\u00a0Diving in Deep<\/em>\u00a0earlier this month, she referred to\u00a0the turbulent period\u00a0as a \u201creally, really, really horrific time\u201d in her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be on\u00a0Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, and you could see some of the episodes, my eyes were just blood red swollen because I\u2019d been crying the whole day, missing my kids,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSuds in the Bucket\u201d singer said her marriage began to fall apart about six months before she signed on to\u00a0Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, and she knew she \u201cneeded to get out of the marriage,\u201d even though she \u201cdidn\u2019t believe in divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to film in the show, she temporarily moved to Beverly Hills with her kids Avery, 24, Olivia, 21, and Audrey, 19, and a nanny, while Schelske remained in Oregon, but would come down to Los Angeles on the days the show was taping.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to be at every episode and come down here and be seen on TV, on camera, and also at the same time, he was trying to make a case against me to show that I was working and not being a good mom,\u201d she alleged on the podcast.<\/p>\n

Eventually, she reached her limit and called divorce attorneys in Nashville. After an alleged incident while out to dinner at The Grove shopping center, in which Dovolani had to step in to help defuse a tense situation with Schelske, Evans filed for divorce on Oct. 12, 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to quit\u00a0Dancing with the Stars<\/em>\u00a0because the next day we were going to start the group dance rehearsals and because of the trauma that my children went through at the restaurant, I said, \u2018I\u2019m quitting,\u2019\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Though the star was still contractually bound to the show, she was allowed out of her contract if she agreed to give an interview explaining the circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember having to go in hair and makeup and sit in some hotel room and do this interview with Tony Dovolani, and without telling the details\u2026 explain that my kids were traumatized and I\u2019m not leaving them for five seconds, and so I have to quit the show,\u201d she said. \u201cI probably would have won!\u201d<\/p>\n

Evans \u2014 who is now married to Jay Barker \u2014 sat for a\u00a0pre-taped interview with then-host Tom Bergeron, which aired on Oct. 17, 2006. In the interview, she said she \u201cwould have had a nervous breakdown\u201d had she not withdrawn from the competition, and that an undisclosed incident \u201cwas very hard for my children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly two decades after appearing on\u00a0Dancing with the Stars, country star\u00a0Sara Evans\u00a0is looking back on her experience competing for the mirrorball. On the latest episode of\u00a0Cheryl Burke\u2019s\u00a0Sex,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nflnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8148,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions\/8148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}