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Latin Week marked the midway point on season fourteen of Dancing with the Stars. The nine remaining celebrity contestants were reduced by one during Tuesday night’s elimination show.

To kick off the evening the judges asked Derek Hough and Maria Menounos to recreate their steamy Salsa from Monday night.

Instead of engaging in another controversial kiss Derek locked lips with Carrie Ann Inaba and Maria with Bruno Tonioli. The dance number ended with a Menounos wardrobe malfunction that brought a smirk from host Tom Bergeron.

The first three couples to escape elimination were Melissa Gilbert, Gladys Knight and Maria Menounos. Also safe were Donald Driver, Katherine Jenkins, William Levy and Roshon Fegan.

This week the bottom two couples, Gavin DeGraw & Karina Smirnoff and Jaleel White & Kym Johnson engaged in one final shot at redemption with a Cha Cha Dance Duel.

In a first ever sudden death mini-competition the celebrities and their pro partners danced to the same music while the judges observed them performing side by side on a split screen.

The eliminated couple was Gavin DeGraw and and his pro partner Karina.

Check out the Dance Duel performance video below:


Photos: ABC-DWTS