‘Dancing With the Stars’ season 31: Charli D’Amelio, Mark Ballas are Mirror Ball



TikTok star Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas are season 31 Mirror Ball trophy champions.

The duo was announced as the winners of the 31st season of “Dancing With the Stars,” beating fellow celebrities Shangela, Wayne Brady and Gabby Windey, who were paired with pro partners Gleb Savchenko, Witney Carson and Val Chmerkovskiy, respectively.

On “Good Morning America” Tuesday, D’Amelio and Ballas opened up about their win.

“I think for me, I really just gave everything I had to this journey and I got so much out of it, whether it’s confidence in my dancing, new friends, you know, memories that I’ll remember forever,” D’Amelio said, adding that she’s “so glad” and “thankful” to have had the experience.

Ballas called the experience, his first time in the “DWTS” ballroom in five years, “fantastic.”

“I had a really lovely time, made a great friend and had a great time creating and dancing with Charli,” he added. “And also to be on the floor with all my comrades, I’ve grown up with all of them. I loved it. I had a really beautiful time.”

For their final battle on the dance floor, which streamed live on Disney+, the four couples performed a redemption routine chosen by one of the judges. The selected routines were ones they performed earlier in the season.

Read on to see how the night panned out.

Show-stopping redemption and freestyle dances

For their redemption routines, Brady performed the quickstep to “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” by Jackie Wilson while Shangela took on the quickstep to “Queen Bee” by Rochelle Diamante. Each earned a score of 36.

But it was Windey’s Cha Cha to “I Like It (Like That)” by Pete Rodriguez and D’Amelio’s Jive to “Grown” by Little Mix that wowed the judges, each earning them a score of 40.

The final four couples then participated in a freestyle round. Brady took the dance floor first with his “Superbowl” routine with his dance partner, Carson, to a mix of Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” and Ciara and Chamillionaire’s song, “Get Up,” which earned him a 40.

TikTok star D’Amelio also earned a 40 for her moving freestyle performance to “Us Again” by Pinar Toprak, which told a story about her love and loss of dance, and then love of dance again.

Also earning a 40 was Windey for her sizzling “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago, which Chmerkovskiy’s wife, Jenna Johnson, choreographed.

But it was Shangela’s electrifying freestyle to “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child and “Call Me Mother” by RuPaul, which also featured Shangela’s partner, Savchenko, in drag as Natasha, that brought the entire ballroom to its feet.

“I forgot to vote because I was absolutely mesmerized by the whole thing,” Len Goodman said at the end of Shangela’s performance.

“It even had chicken,” he said, pointing out the moment in their dance when Shangela tossed him a fried chicken leg.

Cheryl Burke says goodbye

Also taking to the dance floor one last time was Cheryl Burke, who announced her retirement from the show over the weekend after 25 seasons.

The two-time Mirrorball champion delivered a fierce routine to Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana (At the Copa)” with two of her favorite dance pro partners, Louis Van Amstel and Pasha Pashkov.

Before taking the mic, co-host Tyra…



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