Sabrina Bryan's surprising elimination from the previous season's Dancing with the Stars hindered the Cheetah Girl from showing off all of her best moves, which is why dance partner and current boyfriend Mark Ballas plans to showcase her “full potential” on the show's nationwide tour.

“My part in the tour is to show Sabrina's full potential,” Ballas told TV Guide.  “If we had had six more weeks on the show, I could have really shown America what she could do.  I know there was a lot more that I could've pulled out of her if we had stayed in.  So I'm definitely going to be pulling out all the stops on the tour — and show everyone what they missed.”

Mark Ballas, who joined Dancing with the Stars just last season, believes that Sabrina Bryan was “by far the best dancer” and that she deserved to win the competition.

“She was by far the best dancer and no one can take that away from her,” he said.  “I've never worked with someone who wanted it so bad and was clinging to every word I said.  She worked so hard, she deserved it, and she was voted off too early.  A lot of people said it was because she had dance experience.  And yeah, she did a bit of hip-hop and jazz.  But it's not ballroom and Latin.”

Despite losing the competition, Mark Ballas does not regret participating in Dancing with the Stars, especially since it has proven to be an “absolutely amazing” experience, and given him “the chance to go on tour and see America and do what I love doing…  It's just great.”

The Dancing with the Stars tour kicked off on December 19, but Ballas only began performing on December 28 in Glendale, Arizona, as he was still recovering from a shoulder injury. Consequently, Sabrina Bryan spent the first few weeks of the tour dancing with Derek Hough.


-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: TV Guide
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