Jenna Dewan Allegedly Thinks She Was “Set Up to Fail” by ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Producers Airing a Specific Clip That Caused Her Elimination

Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy were eliminated during “Grammy Night” on Dancing With the Stars this week, a somewhat shocking result considering their flawless performance and high scores. And while Jenna and Val handled the elimination gracefully on camera, sources say Jenna feels she was set up to fail.According to an insider who spoke to The Sun, Jenna “feels the producers are partially to blame too because they really set her up to fail with showing that Janet Jackson video in the middle of the episode. They had to have known that would anger the fans who are already upset by her dance experience, yet they chose to highlight it anyway.”The source adds that Jenna also “blames all of the social media discourse as a whole. Sure, the drama with Val didn’t help and she’s not blind to that. But the campaign to get her out because she’s a former professional dancer was LOUD. On top of that, Jenna believes the final nail in the coffin was the backlash she got the past week from posting her kid online.”Jenna alluded to the social media discourse in a post-episode interview with Extra, saying, “I know it’s hard to know how this all plays into it. I know this was a particularly tough week for a lot of the online noise and all stuff that comes with the show. I don’t know, I’ll never know how, or if, any of that plays into this. But I know that we went out there and had the best time of our life.”The Step Up star also said she’ll be “wishing everybody the best,” and that while it was a “sad result,” she had a “great season.”