Interesting update - thanks.
In the two American Idols that I recall where a top-12 contestant withdrew for personal reasons (oh, like an arrest or something), either the last contestant cut came back, or, like in AI2, they didn't do a cut one week.
I was hoping Willa, being the last cut, would be back. I love her smooth dancing - she's really learned some ballroom skills!
Yeah, that's what they did tonight. Took it right down to the wire without saying what they were going to do, even spotlighting the "bottom two couples" and making them sweat which one would be cut.
Then, very last thing, they announced: "No one will be cut tonight." Everyone comes back next week and all the points so far will count forward to next week.
Ha ha, poor Jerry Springer! He hasn't wanted to be there for the past 3 weeks. Now he has to learn two new dances in the next week and then go through getting voted off.