Zendaya’s Dancing With the Stars Loss Still Stings
If Zendaya doesn’t receive an Oscar nomination this month, it wouldn’t mark the most significant oversight in her career. Instead, that would be losing the Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing With the Stars, a competition she believes she should have won in 2013. Speaking candidly with W magazine, Zendaya expressed lingering resentment about this outcome. “I’m still holding onto a bit of anger about that,” she confessed, gracing both the “Best Performances” issue and the previews for Challengers and Dune: Part Two. As one of the youngest competitors in the show’s history, Zendaya finished second to American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler. “I felt that loss,” she added. “At 16 years old, it was incredibly stressful, and being on live television every week? That was terrifying.