Chef Tom Aviv and Yana Dubrovsky Become the Second Pair Eliminated from Dancing with the Stars

Chef Tom Aviv and dancer Yana Dubrovsky were eliminated from Dancing with the Stars on Monday night, becoming the second pair to leave the current season. They exited after only their second appearance on the dance floor, following a debut that already made clear Aviv was struggling with the challenge.

Judges gave Aviv just 16 points for his first dance, the lowest score of the season so far. The performance quickly drew harsh reactions online, where many viewers questioned how he had been cast at all and noted that he seemed barely able to move or relax into the routine.

Aviv is well known to Israeli audiences after winning MasterChef in 2016, a victory that turned him into one of the most recognizable figures in the local culinary scene. Since then, he has opened successful restaurants in Israel and abroad, hosted food shows, appeared on Ninja Israel, and even acted in the series The Chef.

For now, though, his brief run on the dance competition has underlined that ballroom dancing is not among his strengths. The article frames the elimination as the end of a short, poorly received attempt to translate his television fame into a new format.