Olympian Philip Doyle said he was “jinxed” on the night he was voted off Dancing with the Stars, joking that he would “blame it all on the shoelaces” after they came undone during the live show.
Doyle found himself in the dance-off after the judges’ scores were combined with the public vote, and said that on a competitive night anything below the mid-30s can leave couples vulnerable.
“The shoelaces never come undone,” Doyle said speaking to RTÉ Entertainment after the show.
“Someone said to me before you go, make sure your shoelaces are done. And I said, sure, they’ve never come undone. And then sure, afterwards, they were undone – the first time…