'Dancing With the Stars' contestants who got surprisingly far – despite their low scores

Every season of Dancing With the Stars features a diverse cast of celebrities who come into the game from a wide range of backgrounds and varying levels of dance experience.

Occasionally – usually around the middle of the season – they are dealt a real shock when one of the best dancers gets eliminated because they just did not get the votes needed to stay in the game.

However, that pendulum can swing both ways. Since eliminations are polluted by a few votes, sometimes a less-than-astonishing star has to stay away from the rest of the world based on their fan base.

AND is looking back at a few celebrities who made it much better than anyone else, based on the judges' scores.

Master P (Season 2)

Despite getting the lowest scores every day, he has the highest score being a 16 in Week 2 – the rapper 's fan base and personality gave him enough momentum to beat out three other contestants. However, it's time to get started in Week 4 after he and pro partner Ashly DelGrosso performed at the doo set to the Animals '"Do not Let Me Be Misunderstood" that earned them a total score of 8 – getting a' 4 'from Carrie Ann Inaba and two' from Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman. To this day, it's still the lowest score ever.

Adam Carolla (Season 6)

When Carolla signed on with DWTSIt was hard for anyone to believe that it was going to take it very seriously. While he did not completely bomb (and even survived the show's first-ever double elimination, which came in Week 2, for some reason) Julianne Hough while riding a unicycle for their Zorro-themed paso doble. He ended up going home the same night.

Cloris Leachman (Season 7)

The Oscar-winner was 82 years old when she joined the cast Dancing With the StarsCorky Ballas (Mark Ballas' dad), partner of Corky Ballas. They are very much at the bottom of the leaderboard, but love for Leachman's legacy and her never-quit attitude. However, in her final night of the competition, she performed a hip-hop group number set to "It Takes Two" Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock and, well, seemed like a fitting final dance for her oddly successful run on the show.

Steve Wozniak (Season 8)

While the Apple co-founder was an enthusiastic guy, he was not exactly born to dance. Despite the best efforts of his pro-partner, Karina Smirnoff, the tech mogul just could not win the judges – even when, during one performance, he did the Worm (well, tried to.) possibly his connection to Apple, got him and Karina all the way to Week 4, where he and Playboy playmate Holly Madison were sent home in a double elimination. During his final night, Steve and Karina performed an Argentina tango that earned them a dismal 12 out of 30 – which was still better than their samba the week before!

Kate Gosselin (Season 10)

The reality star managed to stay in the competition until Week 5, despite never getting a higher score than a '6.' Tony Dovolani's foxtrot during Movie Week, which resulted in a score of 15 out of 30, sealed the deal and it was eliminated that night.

Andy Dick (Season 16)

Comedians rarely do well on DWTS. Just look at Jeffrey Ross, Carolla, or, most recently, Nicki Glaser, who was kicked out in the first week of season 27. But somehow Dick managed to make it all the way to Week 7. Partnered with Sharna Burgess in her first outing as a DWTS pro, the controversial comic – who seems to be frequently involved, addiction battles and scandals – stayed around week-after-week, despite less-than-impressive scores. However, his final dance came during Latin Night when he and Burgess delivered a rumba that earned them a 17 out of 30 (again, in Week 7!), Which was a full five points lower than the next lowest score.

Bill Engvall (Season 17)

While it's hard to understand how many of the stars on this list made it as they did it, it's not at all difficult to see Engvall's appeal, considering the success of his Blue Collar Comedy Tour, which helped connect audiences in middle-America. However, even with millions of fans voting for him, the comedian and his pro partner, Emma Slater, still managed to defy all the odds by making it all the way to night in fourth place, overall!

Tommy Chong (Season 19)

The appeal of old Cheech and Chong movies are still strong after all these years. That said, it's easy to see that Tommy Chong is not dancer, by any stretch of the imagination. However, the comic actor and his partner, Peta Murgatroyd, soldiered on week-after-week until the Semi-Finals (in Week 10), when Chong and Murgatroyd finished the season in 5th place. While his routines were not so bad, there were at least one of the most popular members of the dance community. This is a solid example of how, sometimes, nostalgia can score you a lot of support.

Chris Soules (Season 20)

Soules had just finished his season The Bachelor about a week before his season DWTS kicked off, and despite not being very limber or "good at dancing," he had abs and a down-home country charm. Witney Carson, and it makes a certain amount of sense that it is managed to stay in the competition longer than expected. Still, making it all the way to Week 8 shows the true power of the Bachelor Fandom nation.

Gary Busey (Season 21)

DWTS pro Anna Trebunskaya had been with the show since season two, back when she came in 2nd place with Jerry Rice. She had been partnered with stars like Steve Guttenberg and Chuck Liddell in the past, culminating in 11 seasons of performing! Then, she got partnered with Busey. Somehow, under her guidance, the famously mercurial actor managed to make it all the way to Week 4. Trebunskaya has not appeared on the show since.

Paula Deen (Season 21)

During the same season that Gary Busey blew his mind with his unique brand of disconcerting screaming, Deen tried to make a Mirrorball trophy and shockingly made it to Week 6, even suffering a revealing wardrobe malfunction along the way. On average, she's only marginally better than Busey, and her partner, 10-season DWTS pro Louis van Amstel, also never returned to the show after this season.

David Ross (Season 24)

Perhaps one of the best things in the world could not have been predicted, Ross managed to make it to the end goal, he ended up beating out Normani Kordei for 2nd place! Exasperated pro Lindsay Arnold has a history of success, but not enough that Ross and his Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in almost 100 years, less than six months prior. A miracle like that will bring in the votes, even if the voters are not actually watching the show.

Drew Scott (Season 25)

The TV personality already had a huge fan base from his HGTV series Property Brothersand Emma slater delivered lackluster performances (that somehow earned unreasonably positive scores from the judges). Drew's brother, Jonathan, Jonathan, just did not get along with his brother. Still, Drew's winning smile and charismatic personality helps him make it all the way to the end where he came in 4th overall.

"Grocery Store Joe" Amabile (Season 27)

During the first week of the competition, Joe said his only goal was to make it past the first week. Despite getting the lowest scores (by far) during Week 1, he was not even in jeopardy. In fact, Joe and his partner, Jenna Johnson, were in last place on the leaderboard almost every week, they've never been in the bottom two. This is even after their dance trio, where Joe and Jenna performed a disastrous salsa set to "I'm Sexy Too" by Right Said Fred that got dismal reviews. There's something about his smile, his unassuming charm and his legion of Bachelor fans who have managed to keep him in this game, with the strong possibility of going all the way to the finals!

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