The season 35 premiere of Dancing with the Stars hit an unexpected snag on Tuesday night after voting for the live competition crashed just minutes after the broadcast began.

Co-host Julianne Hough, 38, was forced to address the technical problem after the evening’s second performance, informing viewers that online voting was temporarily unavailable.

Fans attempting to submit their votes through ABC’s website were met with an error page displaying the message: “Error 503 Too Many Variants.”

By 8:45 p.m. ET, Alfonso Ribeiro delivered a more definitive update, telling the live audience that online voting would remain offline for the rest of the night.

“For tonight, and tonight only, we are throwing out online votes,” Ribeiro announced.

Viewers were still able to support their favorite Dancing with the Stars contestants by text message, although the abrupt change may have left some fans unable to make their voices heard.

The voting outage was revealed soon after former Bachelorette contestant Tyler Cameron wrapped up his routine with DWTS professional Sharna Burgess.

“A quick update for everyone who is voting at home,” Hough said a little more than 25 minutes into the live episode. “This is coming through live right now: Voting on ABC is currently down live.”

In its place, she urged viewers to ‘please make sure that you guys are texting for everyone.’

‘We will keep you posted as the night goes on,’ she added.

Ribeiro gave an update around 20 minutes later and said DWTS was ‘still having online voting issues.’ 

After he said that online votes wouldn’t be counted for the first half of the two-part premiere, Hough tried to put a more positive spin on the malfunction.

‘Did we break it with the voting? This is kind of rad!’ she said.

‘We’re breaking stuff around here,’ Ribeiro joked.

Fans located in the US and its territories can vote via SMS by texting a keyword with the name of the male celebrity performing on Tuesday’s show to 21523. 

Usually, viewers text the first name of the star they’re voting for, but the presence of Connor Wood and Connor Leavitt has forced them to text ‘Connor W’ or ‘Connor L’ to specify whom they’re casting votes for. 

Wood is known for being a TikTok star, while Leavitt is the husband of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt. 

Viewers are allowed to cast up to 10 votes per couple per voting method for each show, though only texting will be an option for part one of the premiere.

Notably, only the male celebrities will be performing with their professional dancer partners on Tuesday’s episode, while the female celebrities will debut their dancing skills on Wednesday night’s episode.

During the broadcast, Ribeiro clarified that the couple with the ‘lowest combined total scores and votes’ would be eliminated at the end of each night.

On social media, some viewers vented about online votes being thrown out. 

‘With the vote system broken it doesn’t seem fair to eliminate anyone,’ one fan suggested.

After it was announced that Connor Leavitt had been eliminated at the end of the broadcast, some rushed to blame his failure on the voting glitch. 

‘I’m so sad for Conner Leavitt [sic] and I blame the glitch in the voting system because I tried to vote multiple times and they never went through!!!! JUSTICE FOR THE LEAVITTS,’ wrote one furious viewer. 

Canadian viewers were particularly upset by the change of plans, as they had been able to vote online but were excluded from voting via text. 

‘No online voting means that Canadians just don’t get a say tonight,’ read one post with a gif of Steve Carell on The Office saying, ‘This is the worst.’

Another Canadian fan wrote, ‘wdym the website worked for me and i could vote but now they’re not counting any of the website votes and i can’t vote via text in canada.’

Dancing with the Stars returns with the second night of its two-part season 35 premiere on Wednesday at 8pm ET on ABC, as well as streaming on Disney+. Episodes can also be viewed a day late on Hulu. 

Three Mets fans turned a historic night at Citi Field into an unforgettable personal moment after catching Pete Alonso’s 300th career home run ball and meeting the former New York slugger following the game.

Alonso launched a Kodai Senga offering an estimated 413 feet into the second deck in left field, tying the game with one out in the ninth inning. The Orioles ultimately prevailed, 7-5, in 11 innings Tuesday night.

The milestone shot drew a thunderous response from the Citi Field crowd, followed by a curtain call for Alonso. Fans also broke into “Fire Stearns!” chants aimed at Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns, who did not make a stronger push to retain the popular homegrown first baseman during the offseason.

For the three fans who came away with the landmark baseball, the reward went far beyond the souvenir. They shared time with the Polar Bear, received beers and signed memorabilia, and were invited to visit him at Camden Yards.

In video shared by SNY, Alonso thanked the fans after getting the ball back and asked them where the homer had landed.

“You guys want bats?” Alonso asked as he offered to sign anything the fans wanted.

He then signed the jerseys they were wearing, adding a “300 homer game” inscription to commemorate the achievement.

The five-time All-Star, who played seven years with the Mets, appeared to autograph balls for them and was then shown coming out of the visitors’ clubhouse with bats that he would also sign. 

“Offices, man cave, mantles, bedrooms,” the Mets’ all-time home run leader said. “Do you want me to write anything on it, inscribe it in any sort of way? I can write whatever you want. Don’t be bashful.”

Alonso, who signed with the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million contract in the offseason, also brought the three fans cold Miller Lites and took a photo with them.

“Any time you guys want to come to Camden [Yards], VIP tickets,” Alonso said. “You guys want tickets, VIP passes, the whole nine yards, on me, thank you.”

The 31-year-old has 36 homers and 101 RBIs while playing every game this season, as his Mets replacement, Jorge Polanco, hit .148 in just 37 games due to injuries.

The win helped Baltimore move within three games of the final American League wild-card spot, while the Mets have already been eliminated from postseason contention. 

At least three people were killed and a fourth was hospitalized after a helicopter believed to be operated by a news organization crashed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles, officials said.

The helicopter went down shortly before 7 p.m. between two commercial buildings at 9151 N. Mason Ave. in Chatsworth, prompting a response from 56 Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters.

LAFD Capt. Branden Silverman said the aircraft appeared to be a news helicopter, though he did not identify the outlet connected to it.

Fire officials evaluated four people at the crash site. Three were declared dead, while another person was taken to a local hospital in an unknown condition, the department said.

Silverman said one victim was a pedestrian in the parking lot. It was not immediately clear whether the remaining victims were inside the helicopter or were on the ground when it crashed.

The impact ignited a fire that damaged four vehicles and two storage containers. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, and no nearby buildings were threatened, according to the LAFD.

Authorities had not yet said how many people were aboard the helicopter.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Three people were killed when an NBC news helicopter crashed between two buildings near the site of a fatal bus collision in Los Angeles.

The aircraft went down shortly before 7pm Tuesday in a parking lot between two warehouses near the intersection of Northoff Street and DeSoto Avenue in Chatsworth. The crash occurred close to where an SUV had struck a bus earlier that evening.

The earlier bus crash left two people dead and six others injured.

The helicopter appeared to have come to rest atop two shipping containers and several vehicles parked in the area.

The crash sparked a large fire that threatened four nearby vehicles, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

After crews extinguished the flames, firefighters were seen putting up a canopy over at least one body.

Authorities said the three victims included the helicopter’s two occupants and a pedestrian on the ground. Another person was taken to a local hospital in an unknown condition.

The Fire Department said four vehicles and two storage containers were damaged by the blaze.

Following the crash, a longtime NBC 4 Los Angeles anchor confirmed that the chopper was a ‘television news helicopter,’ noting: ‘We are not in contact with our television news helicopter.’

‘We have lost contact with our people,’ Colleen Williams said through tears. 

She later confirmed that the news helicopter was from NBC Los Angeles, before the news station took a break to process the information.  

LA Fire Department Captain Branden Silverman had earlier told reporters on the scene that the helicopter is ‘pretty well destroyed.’

The crash came as local media outlets rushed to get aerial footage of the fatal bus crash, showing people running away from the scene as police cruisers sped toward the fiery explosion.

It appeared the bus was crossing the intersection at around 5pm when the SUV T-boned it, sending both vehicles onto the curb, ABC 7 reports. 

Authorities are now looking into the possibility that one of the vehicles ran a red light.

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Three people were killed at the scene, while others were rushed to local hospitals. The extent of the victims’ injuries remains unclear.

One of those killed was reportedly ejected from the bus, while the others were said to have been onboard the city bus. 

An LA Urban Search and Rescue Team was also seen extricating multiple people from the bus, with at least one person found stuck underneath the vehicle, KTLA reports.  

She was eventually freed and quickly loaded into an ambulance in unknown condition with what crews on the scene described as ‘crushing’ injuries.’ 

Soon after the bus crash, images emerged showing the front half of the Ford SUV embedded in the side of the Metro bus.

When the vehicle was then removed, a gaping hole was visible in the bus’s side, according to the Los Angeles Times.

At the height of the response, there were 56 Fire Department personnel on scene, spokesperson Jennifer Middleton told the LA Times.

The intersection where the two fatal crashes occurred will now be closed for ‘quite some time,’ she noted. 

In a brief statement, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she is ‘absolutely devastated by the loss of life in Chatsworth tonight.

‘My heart is with the families and loved ones of those we lost in the tragic bus collision and helicopter crash,’ she posted on social media. ‘My heart is with the families and loved ones of those we lost in the tragic bus collision and helicopter crash.

‘I’m grateful to the city teams who responded so quickly,’ she added, as she urged the public to ‘please stay clear of the are as public safety officials remain on scene.’ 

Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the helicopter crash. 

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.