Viewers Lap Up 'Dancing's' Off-Screen Drama

But then, after last week's results show, she said, "something happened. It was something personal and traumatic and hard for my children. Things went drastically downhill -- 100 miles an hour." She did not elaborate.

So she decided she had to quit the show.

"Somehow, 'Mommy has to go disco dance' might not have been the thing," Bergeron suggested.

"I would have had a nervous breakdown," Evans agreed.

Which, ironically, is just what the woman whom Evans claims her husband had an affair with -- that would be her children's nanny -- says Evans has had already.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News Radio -- and don't you just love synergy? -- Alison Clinton said the singer "had a hard time back in December" and "kind of had an exhaustion breakdown, and then in January we started a Bible study together."

Speaking to Bergeron in that Tuesday "interview," Evans said, "I believe I was put on ['Dancing With the Stars'] for a reason."

We're betting ABC thinks so, too, after seeing the numbers on Tuesday's show, and we suspect they spent the afternoon offering their sincere and most humble thanks to the TV god.

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Hey, have you caught CW's new drama series "The Runaway"?

Of course you haven't, silly, which is why CW has yanked the show after just three broadcasts, sending trade papers into pun overdrive: " 'Runaway' has run aground," "The CW has sent 'Runaway' packing," " 'Runaway' flees CW sked," "CW Cuts 'Runaway' Loose" and, our personal fave, " 'Runaway' dead."

The move also fells in one swoop half the fruits of Dawn Ostroff's labor in her maiden season as head of CW. The network -- begat of the late WB and UPN -- only has one other new series on its fall schedule, the comedy "The Game."

"Runaway" starred former New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg as a guy on the lam with his family, which includes at least one idiot child who does not seem to understand "Dad's wanted for murder so we're on the lam" means no cellphoning girlfriends. Anyway, the show averaged just 1.7 million viewers.

Bye, bye.