Alec Mazo and Paulina Porizkova
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After a much improved second outing by Dancing With the Stars's season four hotsteppers, it was especially tough to handicap the competition going into last night's results show. Who would dance for a final time? Would it be left-footed hillbilly Billy Ray Cyrus What about Shandi Finnessey, who delivered a mediocre mambo?

It took a long while, as reality results shows often do, to get to the point last night, but at least we were entertained by encore performances from Laila Ali and Maksim Chmerkovskiy along the way. Prior to Dionne Warwick's bland performance backed by Dancing's pros, we learned that it would be - shocker! - Heather Mills and her partner Jonathan Roberts who would be the first couple getting the green light for next week's performance round. Mills, who's rumored to be house hunting in LA, does not intend to leave anytime soon. In a surprisingly anticlimactic turn, host Tom Bergeron told our bottom two pick Clyde Drexler, that the fans had rallied to keep him on the dance floor another week.

Crowd favorites Ali and her partner sailed through, as did Ian Ziering and Dancing queen Cheryl Burke. When it came down to the wire, though, we weren't too surprised to see Paulina Porizkova and Alec Mazo go home. Our only suggestion moving forward? Please, production team, teach Bergeron the finer elements of surprise for next week's results show. He offered up a fair "after the break" teaser, but he and Samantha Harris need to really step it up when sending the stars home. Until then, we're looking forward to next week's jive and tango routines.

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