🚨Warning: This post spoils the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 31!🚨
After 10 weeks of intensive dancing, colorful costumes, and a whole lot of tears, Dancing with the Stars officially crowned their Mirror Ball champion last night!
It was down to the final four couples, Shangela and Gleb Savchenko, Wayne Brady and Witney Carson, Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas, and Gabby Windey and Val Chmerkovskiy, with each couple performing a redemption dance and a freestyle number before the winner was crowned.
After Shangela and Wayne were knocked out of the competition due to their lower scores, it all came down to Gabby vs. Charli. But to no one’s surprise, since she’s been at the top of the leaderboard since the show began, Charli and Mark came out on top!
Though Charli is known for her TikTok dances, she was a competitive dancer for almost a decade before blowing up on the app. However, Charli has alluded to the fact that dancing didn’t bring her as much joy as it used to when appearing on her family’s reality show, The D’Amelio Show.
Her final DWTS performance seemed to be a love letter to falling in love with the art again as she and Mark danced in many different styles, which made the crowd, and judges, extremely emotional. It’s no wonder that this performance earned her another perfect score and sealed her fate to become the Mirror Ball champion!
Charli and Mark’s Freestyle, falling back in love with dancing again.
#DWTS #DWTS31 #DancingWiththeStars #DWTSFinale
Disney+ / Via Twitter: @OfHeroine
However, not everyone was excited about Charli’s victory. Fans quickly took to Twitter to air their grievances about what they saw as a “controversial” win:
the judges ignoring the fact charli has over 10 years of competitive dance experience and the biggest social media following out of everyone #DancingWiththeStars #DWTSFinale
Fox / Via Twitter: @hooliejuli
However, Charli supporters were quick to praise the TikTok star and commend her on the much-deserved win:
I feel like people are disrespecting Charli’s win. She wholeheartedly deserves it. She is one of the best dancers we’ve seen on the show and was so consistent. Not to mention how stunning that freestyle was #DWTS
Twitter: @Maya_Palladini
lol not people complaining that charli won. y’all, every person in the finale had some kind of dance experience, yet the only one y’all want to pick on is charli. SHE DESERVED the win. It was EARNED. So happy for her. #DWTS31 #DWTS
Twitter: @bmbaileyy
Charli’s Freestyle was everything a Freestyle should be she put everything she learned this season into that routine and it highlighted what her journey this season has been an amazing routine Charli has just been incredible to watch all season #DWTS #DWTSFinale
Twitter: @ThomDWTS
AND YALL BETTER PUT SOME RESPECT ON @charlidamelio NAME!!!! She did absolutely fabulous this entire season!!!! 10/10 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 congratulations!!! #DWTS #DWTS31
Disney+ / Via Twitter: @KeepUpWhitMe
charli d’amelio and mark ballas seriously have one of the greatest partnerships in dwts history. every single one of their performances is a notable standout & you can tell how hard they work. they’re both absolutely brilliant & never fail to create magic in the ballroom together
Twitter: @pharaohjade
Well, as Ms. Swift once said, “The haters are gonna hate, hate, hate.” You just gotta shake it off! Congrats to Charli and Mark on their DWTS win!
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylaharrington/dancing-with-the-stars-champion-twitter-reactions