Reportedly during the season 28 semifinals episode on monday, the Dawson’s creek alum, 42, was sent home one week shy of the ABC reality dance competition’s finale episode. Meanwhile after each of the contestants performed their two dances for judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli, Van Der Beek and his pro partner Emma Slater landed in jeopardy alongside Ally Brooke and Sasha Farber. In the “hardest judges’ verdict so far this season,” according to co-host Tom Bergeron, Inaba and Tonioli chose to save Brooke, a decision Goodman also would have made had Inaba and Tonioli’s votes been split.
Inaba said before she made her decision “This is not easy. First of all, this is not at all what I expected to see here”. Furthermore the judges’ verdict was an especially difficult one as Van Der Beek announced earlier in the episode that his wife Kimberly had suffered a miscarriage over the weekend.
Moreover he further shared the tragic news on instagram, writing, “Wrecked. Devastated. In shock. That’s how we’re feeling right now after the soul we thought were going to welcome into our family in april has taken a short cut to whatever lies beyond this life. We’ve been through this before, but never this late in the pregnancy, and never accompanied by such a scary, horrific threat to @vanderkimberly and her well-being.”
