“Dancing with the stars”: Thomas Da Costa eliminated, Billy Crawford, Carla and Stéphane Legar in the final

The noose is tightening on the floor of "Dancing with the stars".

After a long evening, actor Thomas Da Costa was eliminated this Friday evening on TF1, in the semi-finals.

Next week, Billy Crawford, little Carla (in tears and saved by the public), and Stéphane Legar (saved by the jury) will face each other in the final.

An unsurprising epilogue closing an evening sponsored by the first winner of the competition in France… a Matt Pokora in full promotion for his new album released the same day.

"I'm here to enjoy with you, to put myself in the vibe", however assures the singer leaping with a new peroxide platinum color to make Adriana Karembeu green with envy.

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🔥 The atmosphere on the set of this semi-final!

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The evening begins, still live from studio 217 in Plaine Saint Denis, with a medley of "Matt" (we call him that in the show's team) surrounded by the dancers and candidates in the running.

Nothing very original.

Fortunately, the good words of Camille Combal raise the level: “The semi-final is every year, but with Matt Pokora it's like a solar eclipse, it's every thirty years!

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“The level of these two!

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What to watch the start of the competition with a smile.

And a question: Carla, the young challenger, who had finished first the previous week, will she keep her place?

Or Billy Crawford and Fauve Hautot - "The level of these two, in a few months, they will be at the Paris Opera", chuckles Combal -, ultra-favorites of this season, will they come back in force?

Carla opens the ball of the evening with yet another funny combination imagined by the production of the show… a “Crazy in love” by Beyoncé and Jay Z on a samba (yes, yes…).

At 17, the winner of the Eurovision junior amazes Matt Pokora, who gives him the latest advice on how to reproduce an acrobatics he had performed in his time on the music of Grease.

In the euphoria of the live, she gets there but with some stiffness.

“Hats off for the fluid summer”, comments judge François Alu who still calls for “more rebounds and madness”.

“The stress made you dance out of rhythm”, completes Chris Marques whistled by the public.

Bilal, he lets go downright by putting a 10, the highest score.

Thomas Da Costa's "best performance of the season"?

Thomas Da Costa, with his dancer Elsa, although below the others at this level of competition, are doing pretty well on a contemporary.

"You got there, you succeeded, your best performance of the season," says Chris Marques.

Ironically, it was also one of the last.

But it is Billy Crawford, completely blocked from the back, because of an “acute lumbago” as the physiotherapist of the program affirms, who will do wonders during this new episode.

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✨ What emotions in front of Billy and Fauve's rumba!

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Braving her pain, the quadra, a competitor like never before, throws herself, with her foolproof smile, into a demented paso doble accompanied by a new difficulty: carrying Fauve Hautot in a particularly complicated figure.

BINGO!

Despite his suffering, Billy "Too strong", his nickname appropriate as ever, sparks and amazes the whole jury... and Twitter.

“But who dances like that with a lumbago?

asks Bilal Hassani.

I want to pay to see that, to see such a show at Bercy.

Technically, it's hypercalmed…” “It was excellent, you're still on your feet, I don't know how you manage… Bravo!

continues Chris Marques.

A real TV moment that will mark the annals of the competition.

"Frankly it hurts a lot but I did it for my wife and my wife who returned to the Philippines," says Billy Crawford, tears in his eyes, while his team worries about his health behind the scenes.

With his second dance of the evening, a rumba, he will not disappoint either despite his swaying when he can no longer move without excruciating pain.

"Is that ok with Billy's back?"

“, worries François Alu.

At 11:09 p.m., Billy Crawford and Fauve Hautot, who came first in the first two heats, qualified for the final.

Billy Crawford can't believe his eyes, the camera capturing his stunned reaction.

Stéphane Le Gar and Calisson do not work wonders, neither on the rumba on "I promise you" by Johnny Hallyday or even on Michael Jackson.

Same for Carla on a “Quick step” which lacks pep… a shame.

The two couples therefore face Thomas Da Costa in a three-way “face to face”!

And the public to vote.

Master Simonin, the bailiff assures him: “It was very close.

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