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The premiere of "Dancing with the Stars" began Monday night.
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The premiere of season 27 of "Dancing with the Stars" began Monday night with retired football player DeMarcus Ware and singer Tinashe who electrified the audience and took first place.
But it's Paralympic skier Danelle Umstead who stole the show with her courage – and Instagram star Alexis Ren, whose dance was tainted by a live television error that was most memorable.
Umstead is the first blind competitor to have participated in the show and she scored 18 out of 30 with her professional partner Artem Chigvintsev.
After the end of his graceful fox, Umstead's husband, Rob, and his guide dog, Aziza, gave him their love on the floor of the ballroom. Members of the public were moved to tears.
Later, she told reporters behind the scenes: "I was really vulnerable out there but I showed my true emotions and being the first blind dancer in the series, that's a moment of pride. I hope to show more to America.
Umstead explained to Fox News behind the scenes the limits of his view. "I have very little vision, I do not have central vision and I do not have peripheral vision, so I can see a lot of light from light to dark because I am completely blackened, so I have a little vision between the two – but that's [only] small sections and it's very fuzzy. "
The skier, whose husband helps guide her into competing mountains, told Fox that she also suffered from multiple sclerosis. "I was diagnosed eight years ago and we are trying to overcome that too, it's a big challenge [in dancing] … it affects my motor skills. "
But she said that doing "DWTS" was a dream since she was holding her baby in her arms and watching the show: "I was four inches away from the TV screen and I was up there. I said that I wanted to be the first blind competitor on "Dancing" with the stars, so I threw it to the universe.
Meanwhile, Ware and his partner Lindsay Arnold and Tinashe and dancer Brandon Armstrong both earned 23 points for first place.
Ware is the last football player to look like a leader on "DWTS". The audience gasped when he dramatically jumped on Arnold during their cha cha, but he sighed after the reporters: "The dance is so difficult, an error can make you lose your head."
Hip hop star Tinashe said behind the scenes about her dynamic jive: "I'm proud … I did not know what to expect, there was a lot of pressure, my body hurts."
Among the other contestants, the sexy Fuller House's Juan Pablo Di Pace and her partner Cheryl Burke performed a salsa that got the second highest score of the first with 22 points.
The Instagram sensation Alexis Ren and dancer Alan Bersten made a powerful jive, which was tainted by a cameraman "DWTS" cut from the end of their dance by accident.
Bersten said about the live TV opus, in which the camera was spinning wildly, not showing part of the dance on the East Coast show: "It was ten seconds, but Alexis worked so hard . publish it online. "
Model Ren spoke to Fox about his celebrity in social media: "I was schooled at home, so I really wanted to find a way to connect with people and I was trying to reach out.
Country radio host Bobby Bones exploded enthusiastically after completing his dance with Sharna Burgess. He slipped around the ballroom and fell. His fun jive was rewarded with a score of 20.
Disney channel actor Milo Manheim also collected 20 points.
Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton, a gold medalist, signed a contract with her partner Sasha Farber, who scored 19 points.
Retton, the mother of four girls aged 16 to 23, told reporters after the show, "I became very young … I sort of lost myself. for decades. "
With Umstead, they won 18 points each with former star of "Dukes of Hazzard", John Schneider, actress of "The Facts of Life", Nancy McKeon, and star of "Harry Potter", Evanna Lynch.
Actress Nikki Glaser was awkward in her salsa, taking only 17 points.
Tuesday night, the stars will perform a second dance and then face the first elimination of the season.
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