Second celebrity cast off 'Dancing With the Stars'

LOS ANGELES – She may be the girl next door, but Holly Madison's reality star status was what kept her in the competition on "Dancing With the Stars."

Denise Richards earned extra points for her samba during Tuesday's results show, but it didn't help the 38-year-old actress compete with Madison's viewer votes and Richards was cast out of the ballroom.

Richards said after Monday's performance that she "would be shocked" not to be among the low-scorers forced into the dance off — a last chance to increase her judges' scores and remain in the competition — with her professional partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

But despite what judges said was an improved samba, the couple failed to dominate fellow low-scoring couple, Madison and Dmitry Chaplin.

Madison said Monday she was dreading the dance off.

"I don't want to have to do it with this dance because it's the hardest one," Madison said. "I'm just praying people vote and I can stay on another week and have another chance."

Her prayers were answered, although Richards scored two points higher in the second go-round.

"My daughters love my dancing," Richards said after she was eliminated. "It's been fun. I'm a huge fan of the show and I will continue to be, so and it's fun to be on the other side."

Viewer votes are also what kept Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and his partner, Karina Smirnoff, on the show. The couple earned only 10 points in Monday's competition — the lowest score in six seasons, but were saved from the dance off by their fans.

"I am having a blast," Wozniak said after Monday's performance. "When I got up there on the stage and was just about to start dancing, I thought, I'm the luckiest person in the world.

And Wozniak's fans seem to think they're lucky to be watching him.

"With Woz, I think what you're getting is real entertainment, and to me isn't that what Dancing With the Stars is all about?" said Chris Harrington, founder of the Web site VoteWoz.com. Harrington's Vote Woz twitter page has more than 60,000 members.

Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine which couple is eliminated each week. The new dance-off approach allows the two lowest-scoring couples to earn extra points from judges for command performances of their best dance. Viewer votes still count for 50 percent of each couple's final score.

Besides Madison and Wozniak, remaining competitors include rodeo athlete Ty Murray, rapper Lil Kim, former football star Lawrence Taylor, Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, country singer Chuck Wicks, reality stars Steve-O and Melissa Rycroft, and actors David Alan Grier and Gilles Marini.

Octomom vs. Allred on Dr. Phil

Los Angeles (E! Online) – After inexplicably biting the hand that was offering to feed her babies, Nadya Suleman found herself in a familiar place—talking to Dr. Phil.

Addressing the TV doc and his guests, attorney Gloria Allred and Linda West Conforti and Jackie Peebles from Angels in Waiting USA, for a Dr. Phil segment scheduled to air Wednesday and Thursday, Suleman tried to explain why she fired the nurses that Angels had secured to care for her 14 children.

"The primary issue was that myself and my nannies felt extremely uncomfortable," Suleman told Dr. Phil by phone. "I personally felt like a stranger in my own home. The goal was to empower me as a mother, help me, train me. I'm open to that, I want that, I want to do the very best for these...premature babies.

"I wanted [Angels] to use their training and knowledge to help guide me. I felt that was never accomplished. I felt as though every time I tried to hold the babies, feed the babies, they would be observing and they were waiting for me to make a mistake."

Kind of like the rest of America?

Anyway, Allred, who along with Dr. Phil helped get Angels in Waiting onboard, doesn't believe it all went down just how Suleman said.

"Our major concern has always been the best interest of the babies," L.A.-based legal eagle said, "and of course, I happen to disagree with quite a bit of what Nadya said in terms of what has happened. I think the real reason that Nadya has not been able to continue with Angels in Waiting may be the fact that not one, but three reports had to be filed with Child Protective Service by Angels in Waiting," who are required to report any missteps they see to child services.

Allred has scheduled a press conference for tomorrow at 1 p.m. at her Wilshire Boulevard office to "reveal the true facts" behind Suleman's decision.

"The whole point of Angels in Waiting, besides providing such high-quality care…was not to put the burden on the taxpayer, but that's what Nadya and Jeff are doing," Allred said. [They want] to shut everybody up…that's wrong. I want to know what they are hiding and why."

On Octomom's side is attorney Jeff Czech, who maintains that they have nothing to hide, but that the initial arrangement with Angels in Waiting put Suleman in an untenable position.

"I don't think anyone really foresaw the extent of what would happen the first time around," he said, referring to the night of March 17, when the first of the octuplets, Isaiah and Noah, were released from the hospital.

According to Czech and Suleman, nurses from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, where the babies were born, will help train the nannies Suleman chooses to hire herself.

Meanwhile, a rep for the hospital told Us Weekly today that the staff shakeup at the Suleman home will not affect the timetable for the remaining four babies' release.

"That is between [Angels] and Nadya Suleman," Kaiser spokesmasn JIm Anderson said. "The AIW is a whole separate thing. Our decision to discharge the babies previously and now, never had anything to do with AIW."

Another hospital employee who has been to Suleman's house says that two pediatric nurses visit the home each day to help out the existing nannies.

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