Eric Roberts continues on to Dancing with the Stars Semi-Final

Donegal’s Eric Roberts has qualified for the semi-final of Dancing with the Stars.

Ireland AM presenter and Glen native Eric and his partner Arianna Favaro danced a Contemporary Ballroom dance to Tom Odell’s ‘Another Love,’ scoring 37 points, which was the joint-second highest of the six remaining couples.

In addition to their individual performances tonight, all six couples competed in the first-ever ‘Orchestra-thon’, a dance marathon that had everyone on the floor simultaneously dancing to Chuck Berry’s ‘Roll Over Beethoven’. For the first time, the marathon had six couples taking part, one more than its usual five, meaning even higher judges’ scores were available to the celebs. 

Eric and Arianna were the last two standing, picking up an additional six points on the scoreboard. 

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Olympic Rowing medallist, Philip Doyle, became the seventh celebrity to be eliminated from the show, who exited the competition with his dance partner, Daniela Roze.

The combined public votes and judges' scores saw them face off against Tolü Makay in the fourth dreaded dance-off of the season.

Next week is the semi-final and a Dancing through the Decades special.