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What Kim Kardashian Has to Say About Being Kicked Off DWTS
Wednesday October 1, 2008

Kim Kardashian and Mark Ballas

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Dancing With The Stars

Kim Kardashian's dancing days are over.

She and partner Mark Ballas were eliminated on Tuesday's Dancing With the Stars after receiving a score of 17 out of 30 from the judges for their rocky rumba routine. (Their score - the third lowest - was combined with viewer votes.)

Adding to the emotion: She was kicked off on the fifth anniversary of her father's death.

Still, the reality star, 27, says she is pleased with her overall performance on the show.

"The real Kim is very shy and reserved and not outspoken and loud like everybody assumes she is," she told Usmagazine.com. "This was the perfect opportunity to show the real Kim."

"It was the greatest experience of my life and that's all that matters."

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Said Ballas, "For me, it's not about winning. Every partner you get has a different story, and it's about making it through to the next week and making your partner the best she can be.

"At the end of the day, the show is not about me, it’s about my partner," he added. "I am here to guide her and teach her."

Kardashian's elimination surprised many who assumed Cloris Leachman or Rocco DiSpirito were headed home.

"I was thinking, 'Oh help me, Jesus!'" Leachman admitted to Us after she learned she was in the bottom two. "If we had been taken off, I was thinking that I was going to have to run to the Jimmy Kimmel show, then do Good Morning America at 4 a.m., then take a plane to New York tomorrow."

The 82-year-old actress added, "I was not ready to go home, and I'm not going home!"

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Asked if he thought he was going to be eliminated, DiSpirito admitted to Us: "Yes, I did think that for a second."

Said partner Karina Smirnoff: "The show is so unpredictable. It literally can be anybody, and we didn’t have the best rumba that we could have done."

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