UPDATE: DWTS: Ailing Derek Hough Out, Maksim Back In
Friday - October 16, 2009 - 6:28pm

Sources close to Dancing With the Stars confirm to Usmagazine.com that Derek Hough, 24, has temporarily left the reality competition due to illness. Pinch-hitting for him: the recently eliminated Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who will help Hough's celeb partner Joanna Krupa in rehearsals. (Krupa's on-air partner this Monday has yet to be determined.)

On Thursday, Hough wrote on Twitter of mounting, flu-like symptoms: "I think I'm getting the [flu]," he wrote, noting "serious sweats . . . My whole body is aching like crazy I can barely stand up . . . And I'm coughing like crazy."

Later, he wrote of a three-hour visit to the doctor's. "Had a temperature of 104 . . . Had an IV in my arm for 2 hrs . . ."

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/derek-hough-and-maksim-20091610

It's official - Maks will sub for Derek tonight...

Link to Zappy Article

I havent been watching this season but I hope he fells better even though his partner is a frigid bitch.