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Actress Mischa Barton and retired football player Doug Flutie were almost sent home

(CNN) Fox senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera was the first celebrity voted off "Dancing With the Stars" Monday night.

Both "The O.C." actress Mischa Barton and former football player Doug Flutie were at risk of being eliminated but managed to stay in the game for another week.

Barton seemed to struggle during the show's Latin episode, scoring just 15 points, the second worst score of the night.

"It's been a really rough week," she told the judges after her dance with pro partner Artem Chigvintsev. "This was a really bad rehearsal. It was tough to do it live when you haven't done it right once."

Rivera and his pro partner, Edyta Sliwinska, took on the roles of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, dancing a salsa on an Oval Office set.

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