DWTS Casualty Rocco DiSpirito: "I Should Stick to Cooking!"

"We had a good feeling," says the chef, who received the judges' lowest score - 18 out of 30 - for his samba routine with partner Karina Smirnoff. "Obviously, we knew our scores were the lowest. We knew we were out last week. It wasn’t subtle, let's just say."

Still, he adds, "You always hope that somehow a miracle happens, but I told myself that if I was out this week, it was still a great time."

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He joked that Smirnoff went though a lot of his trying "to learn how to dance. No human being should go through that!"

Was he miffed when judge Bruno Tonioli said he didn't have a musical bone in his body?

"I think he was giving us the heads up that it was going to be us today,," he said. "That was his way of saying, 'Be ready!' Bruno is not a mean guy. He speaks his mind and that's what his job is.

"There is nothing unfair or fair about this competition," he went on. "This whole thing is a gift so to look at it as fair or unfair is not the right perspective."

DiSpirito said he'll miss "the opportunity to learn how to dance from one of the world's greatest dancers [Smirnoff]. Maybe she will take pity on me and visit me in New York one day and try to teach me another step or two!"

The biggest lesson he's taking from the show?

Joked DiSpirito, "I learned that I should stick to cooking!"

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