{"id":282608,"date":"2019-10-29T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1087500"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:47:21","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-sent-karamo-brown-home-but-he-still-feels-like-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/dancing-with-the-stars-sent-karamo-brown-home-but-he-still-feels-like-a-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With the Stars Sent Karamo Brown Home, But He Still Feels Like a Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019929\/rs_600x600-191029104458-600-karamo-dwts-ch-102919.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p><strong>Karamo Brown<\/strong> may be done on <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em>, but the <em>Queer Eye<\/em> star hopes he accomplished his mission of showcasing unity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Sean<\/strong> [<strong>Spicer<\/strong>] and I kind of started this journey together. Me making a comment about him and people giving me backlash and saying, \u2018how dare you.&#8217; But what I&#8217;m always trying to show people is that kindness can trump hate in anyway. And a lot of people were like, \u2018Why would you be kind to somebody?&#8217; And he and I have had heartfelt conversations and that&#8217;s what America needs right now, is people talking to each other who are different,&#8221; Brown told E! News after his <em>DWTS<\/em> elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage, Brown gave Spicer a hug that sparked waterworks from the former White House press secretary.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.467808219178\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18.401369863014\">\n<p>&#8220;It just shows that if you can be kind to people, things can change and that&#8217;s what I try to do on <em>Queer Eye<\/em> and I try to do that here and it&#8217;s been great,&#8221; Brown said with his professional dance partner Jenna Johnson by his side.<\/p>\n<p>Brown went out with not one, but two <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a><\/strong> moments. And Beyonc\u00e9, if you&#8217;re reading this, he wouldn&#8217;t mind a shout out. The Monday, Oct. 28 show included Brown performing a paso doble to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/destinys_child\">Destiny&#8217;s Child<\/a><\/strong> song &#8220;Survivor&#8221; and a group freestyle to Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;Sweet Dreams.&#8221; The scores of 25 and 24 weren&#8217;t enough to keep him in the competition as the judges decided to keep <em>The Office<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Kate Flannery<\/strong> in the running.<\/p>\n<p>Brown and Johnson were lifted up, literally, by the <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> cast.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;I have to tell you, that moment right there, I felt like a champion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I felt like I had the mirrorball. It just shows that I made friends here, that I left a positive and that&#8217;s all I want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>Click play on the videos above to hear more from Brown and what Flannery had to say about being in the bottom two.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> airs Mondays, 8 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1087500\/dancing-with-the-stars-sent-karamo-brown-home-but-he-still-feels-like-a-champion?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karamo Brown may be done on Dancing With the Stars, but the Queer Eye star hopes he accomplished his mission of showcasing unity. &#8220;Sean [Spicer] and I kind of started this journey together. Me making a comment about him and people giving me backlash and saying, \u2018how dare you.&#8217; But what I&#8217;m always trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 08:50:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}