[music playing]
Kendall and Maddie have been begging for a duet.
However, Maddie is not here today.
She's filming a huge special for Disney.
So JoJo is Maddie's sub.
JESSALYNN: Well, at this point, with JoJo here
and learning it and Maddie's maybe, maybe not,
would you guys rather just do the JoJo Kendall?
Yeah, I can't say either way.
Now, here's my deal, though.
There's nothing making it a duet.
It's just two people dancing side by side.
Did you watch Brynn and Sarah?
One goes over the back.
There's nothing that you did where
you were leaning on somebody or pitching you in a back tuck.
There was no interaction between the two of you.
It could easily be a solo.
Should Kendall just do it as a solo?
No.
It's a duet.
ABBY: Can we see it by yourself?
[music playing]
MAN (SINGING): Come on.
Take a shot.
[music playing]
OK.
Why are you so miserable?
Because you think you're not going do a duet with Maddie?
Yeah.
I want to do the duet.
I want Maddie to be here.
And I just want it all to be worked out.
You don't want it to be a duet?
What's annoying, sweetheart?
JILL: What's wrong, honey?
This whole situation.
Oh, stop, Kendall.
It's fine.
What's wrong?
She wants to do a duet.
Hi, baby.
Are you OK, honey?
What's going on?
Come here.
I want my duet.
I don't want to do it as a solo.
No, I don't want you to do it as a solo, either.
I want you and Maddie to do it.
Kendall and Maddie have been duet partners for years.
And they haven't had a duet in a really long time,
so it needs to be Maddie and Kendall's dance.
This is going to be a duet.
JOJO (VOICEOVER): Kendall is literally having
a panic attack about this duo.
Kendall's like, I don't want to do it with JoJo.
I want to do it with Maddie.
I'm like, dude, I would love to do this MJ dance as a solo
because I am MJ.
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JESSALYNN: That was good.
ABBY: She's doing a solo.
Thank you.
The whole world can say that I took the duet away
from Kendall, and I gave JoJo a solo,
and I'm, you know, big, bad, old me.
That is not what happened.
Kendall gave JoJo that solo.
Uh oh.
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Cheers.
That's not going to go over, I know.
Uh oh.
You know, I don't consider Jess a team player
by letting JoJo do the solo.
She just basically threw Kendall under the bus.
Is she OK?
She's fine.
CHRISTY: Good.
Well, they were just saying that it might be a JoJo solo now.
JoJo did it when you were out talking to Kendall.
Well, and she just kind of did it in her own little way.
Like, she didn't really care.
She didn't have anything to lose.
And she kind of did it better, like more entertaining.
You know what?
Enough already.
That's so childish, rude, immature, unprofessional.
My daughter deserves better.
This is a solo now for JoJo?
She did it. It was good.
OK.
So you want to take it away from Kendall, then?
You want to take it away?
No, she doesn't.
She wants to do it as a duet.
That's the attitude I'm getting, too.
JILL: Kendall, come here.
Would you rather have JoJo do this as a solo or you
and JoJo do it as a duet?
But it's-- nothing in it is a duet.
There's not one step that is interacting.
And that's what we started to say.
Why is that her fault?
It's not.
JILL: Well, why did you just scream at her?
I didn't scream at her.
I'm telling all of them.
I was like this.
You just screamed and clapped in her face.
ABBY: No, I did not.
JILL: Do you remember what happened
last time Kendall had a duet?
Her partner was pulled--
Well, I was yelling at everyone.
I'm not going to let you do this.
Come on.
I'm not going to let this happen.
ABBY: Let me talk to her.
Oh, my god, they're crazy.
JILL: I'm not going to let this happen.
It's not worth it.
I cannot believe Jill is leaving.
I mean, the theme for this season
is Jill and Kendall leave, leave, leave, leave.
Like, it's crazy.
Every day, someone's like, I just want to leave.
I'm done.
I quit.
ABBY: These kids all need to go to boot camp for, like, one
week and see how much they get yelled at.
I think this is a really interesting time for the team.
I think the kids also have heard the rumors.
Maddie might be leaving.
And I think there's an emotional roller coaster going on.
We just had this conversation about Maddie
possibly not returning.
And this could be Kendall's last time to do a duet with Maddie.
I think it's a very emotional time.
And you can't just be so dismissive.
She's a human being.
She's a kid.