Joey Graziadei Wins Season 33

SPOILER ALERT: This story incorporates spoilers from the Season 33 finale of “Dancing With the Stars.”

“Dancing With the Stars” has formally topped the winner of Season 33! The “DWTS” season got here to an finish on Tuesday evening, after the scores and votes from the Nov. 20 semifinals have been mixed with reside viewer votes and scores from the finale, and the Len Goodman Mirrorball trophy was awarded to Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson.

Moreover, the voting document was shattered as soon as once more in the course of the finale.

The evening kicked off somewhat bit totally different than standard with half-hour of pretaped segments of the judges breaking down the finalists’ journies, as a substitute of the standard opening quantity. Finally, celebs from the season returned for a gap quantity to Madonna’s “Vacation.”

The present leaned into a few of the newsy tales that got here out of this season of “DWTS” as properly. Anna Delvey got here on stage in the course of the phrase “nothing” throughout her dance to Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.” Later, rumored couple Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber and partners-turned-couple-turned-exes Gleb Savchenko and Brooks Nader danced to Peaches & Herb’s “Reunited.”

Elsewhere by the evening, Season 32 winners Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy danced to Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Membership.” Then, Mark Ballas returned to bounce the “Libertango” by Tango Bardo with Derek Hough, honoring the way in which the Argentine Tango started — between two males.

Plus, the “DWTS LIVE 2025 Tour” execs took the ground for a routine to “Rush” by Troye Siva.

When it got here to the competitors, every pair of finalists carried out twice in the course of the finale — first, a redemption routine assigned by the judges, adopted by a freestyle routine.

A number of highlights included Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold beginning off the competitors with Carrie Ann Inaba saying that the late Len Goodman could be very proud. Later, the pair’s freestyle — carried out alongside a few of his gymnastics teammates — left everybody in tears and earned them an ideal rating.

The primary excellent 30 of the evening (and their second of the season) went to Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson for his or her redemption Cha Cha. Nevertheless, when it got here to their artistic freestyle routine wasn’t as much as par for Inaba, who mentioned it was “underwhelming.”

Danny Amendola and Witney Carson channeled Ken and Barbie, respectively, for his or her hot-pink freestyle routine, which the judges couldn’t get “Kenough” of. Decide Hough known as the efficiency “one of the vital entertaining issues I’ve ever seen on this present.”

After strolling down reminiscence lane (actually) whereas speaking about her time on “Dancing With the Stars,” Ilona Maher carried out an empowering freestyle with Alan Bersten to Chappell Roan’s “Feminomenon.” “Take a look at me Ilona, you may have develop into a real main leady!” Bruno Tonioli mentioned. “Proud, in management, holding the focal point between these wonderful dancers. You have been at all times the lady on high.”

Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong completed out the primary spherical, additionally with a jive. Inaba mentioned she might have had the hardest journey of the season and Bruno Tonioli mentioned it went “past” redemption. They earned the second excellent 30 of the evening. For his or her freestyle routine, Kinney and Armstrong paid tribute to pioneering Black performers just like the Nicholas Brothers.

Scroll by the checklist under to see a breakdown of all of the evening’s routines and scores.