Charli D'Amelio and Mark Ballas are the Season 31 Champions of "Dancing with the Stars"

Throughout the evening the remaining four finalists each performed two routines a redemption dance a doover of a dance performed earlier in the season and the highly anticipated freestyle dance In the latter actor and singer Wayne Brady with pro Witney Carson performed to quotGet Up24K Magicquot by Ciara featuring ChamillionaireBruno Mars drag queen superstar Shangela with pro Gleb Savchenko performed to quotSurvivorCall Me Motherquot by Destiny39s ChildRuPaul Gabby pictured below with with pro Val performed to quotCell Block Tangoquot from Chicago and Charli and Mark danced to quotUs Againquot by Pinar ToprakEach couple delivered in the category and all were awarded perfect scores but it was obvious even before the final dance that Charli and Mark would emerge as the winners Throughout the season D39Amelio has consistently gone from strength to strength receiving more perfect scores over more weeks than any celebrity contestant in the history of the show Judges Carrie Ann Inaba Bruno Tognoli Derek Hough and Len Goodman often equated her to a professional dancerWith all four couples entering the final vote neck and neck and perfect scores for frontrunners Charli and Gabby it was anyone39s guess who would outplace the other The leaderboard toppers both performed phenomenal freestyle routines in addition to their redemption dances But it was Shangela who blew the ballroom apart with an incredible visually creative freestyle routine that even saw her pro partner Gleb get into drag Shangela and Gleb as Natasha are pictured belowquotIt feels so goodquot said Gabby the season39s runnerup after the show quotWe worked so hard on that freestyle dance and it was nice to share the floor with other amazing dancers The piece itself I think was just incredible to performquot However with one Broadwayinspired dance number to her credit don39t expect to see her treading those hallowed boards any time soon quotOh you know I think I39m just baseline too lazy for a whole Broadway thingquot she laughed quotBut for one number for two minutes it was incrediblequotquotOh my gosh it just happened so fast I couldn39t even really comprehend what was going onquot Charli exclaimed quotBut I think I learned so much about myself Whether it39s about all these new styles of dance or just myself as a person or learning how to perform anything I39ve learned a whole lot about it all and that39s thanks to MarkquotAfter being told so often just how good she was during the season at this point she has no plans to go pro quotOh my goodnessquot she pondered quotI think it would be a whole lot of work to learn how to do it the way the pros do And that39s a lot They39re incredibly talented Really this was a lot for me so I couldn39t imagine being a proquotShe also offered some departing words of wisdom to those contestants signing up for Season 32 quotFor anyone that is going to be doing Dancing with the Stars next season it39s crazy but it39s so much funquotIn other finale highlights judge Len Goodman bid a final farewell after announcing last week that this would be his last season on the show and actress Selma Blair returned to perform the dance she had to forfeit weeks ago due to health concernsClick the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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