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‘DWTS’ Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten Hilariously React to Fans Hoping for a Romance
It takes 2 to tango…
Or, perhaps, ten. After all, the Dancing With the Stars semifinal has travel and gone and, successful a shocking twist, nary of the couples were eliminated.
That’s right. All 5 dancer-celebrity pairings—including NFL alum Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik and their partners Alan Bersten and Rylee Arnold, Bachelor Nation’s Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson arsenic good arsenic Disney’s Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong—will vie successful the finale for the coveted Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.
What this means is that each of the scores from judges Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, arsenic good arsenic each the viewers’ votes from this week’s 2 dances volition transportation implicit into the finale arsenic each duo volition execute a freestyle dance. This marks the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment wherever the semifinal didn’t nonstop immoderate couples home.
And aft the scores received during the finale, it looks similar the finale volition beryllium a choky race. Leading the battalion are Chandler and Brandon arsenic good arsenic Joey and Jenna, who each scored 58 betwixt their 2 routines.
Following adjacent down were Ilona and Alan, with a people of 57, leaving Danny and Witney arsenic good arsenic Stephen and Rylee bringing up the rear with scores of 54 and 53 respectively.
And for the now-finalists, making it to the finale is nary tiny feat—both personally and physically.
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For Ilona, having made it this acold acts arsenic a testament to the afloat breadth of what she is susceptible of.
"I'm a pugnacious rugby subordinate who loves to assistance weights and tally done people," she said during the video up of her performance. "Making it to the finale would lone reenforce the connection that you tin beryllium elegant and graceful, and to not clasp yourself backmost from trying things that you privation to due to the fact that of however you look oregon however radical comprehend you."
She besides shared a peculiar shoutout to her spouse Alan, to whom she dedicated their Viennese waltz, telling cameras, “We genuinely created thing special, and honestly, I deliberation I've recovered a person to life.”
Meanwhile, Joey’s progression into the play finale has made past for the series.
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"I privation to instrumentality successful the celebration, but I besides privation to get backmost to concern arsenic well," helium said successful his video confessional. "There has ne'er been a antheral Bachelor successful the Dancing With the Stars finale and the brainsick happening is that if I bash it, it volition be Dancing With the Stars history."
And for Stephen—who archetypal won implicit American hearts successful his efforts to assistance bring location a medal for Team USA astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics—he’s hoping to travel retired connected apical erstwhile again.
"The past fewer months person been thing abbreviated of amazing," helium shared during the episode. "I person enactment my caput and assemblage done it, trying to marque definite I get these dances perfect, and I'm not stopping. I won an Olympic medal, and present I'm coming for that mirrorball."
For much connected this season’s celebrity-dancer pairings, support reading.
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Anna Delvey
The inspriation behind Inventing Anna traded her ankle bracelet for dancing shoes alongside spouse Ezra Sosa. However, the fake heiress was eliminated during the season's Sept. 24 episode, with her saying that she learned "nothing" in her now-infamous, one-word farewell speech.
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Ilona Maher
The Olympic rugby subordinate is acceptable to ruck up the creation level with pro Alan Bersten.
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Chandler Kinney
The Disney Channel prima volition effort to creation her mode to the apical with spouse Brandon Armstrong.
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Brooks Nader
The exemplary and her spouse Gleb Savchenko were acceptable to strut on the ballroom, but took their last bow connected Oct. 15.
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Reginald VelJohnson
All that mattered for the Family Matters alum and spouse Emma Slater was taking location the Mirrorball Trophy. However, their travel was chopped abbreviated during the 2nd week of contention connected Oct. 8.
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Eric Roberts
The Dark Knight star was partnered with Britt Stewart. They were eliminated successful the 2nd week alongside Reginald and Emma.
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Joey Graziadei
The Bachelor alum has recovered his roseate betwixt thorns successful spouse Jenna Johnson.
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Tori Spelling
The alum of Beverly Hills, 90210 was ohio truthful acceptable to creation alongside Pasha Pashkov. Unfortunately, the 2 past lone 1 week and was chopped from contention successful a treble elimination alongside Anna and Ezra.
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Danny Amendola
The NFL pro and spouse Witney Carson are definite to people a touchdown connected the creation floor.
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Dwight Howard
The NBA prima is hoping to basal caput and shoulders supra the contention with spouse Daniella Karagach.
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Stephen Nedoroscik
The Olympian has his sights acceptable connected different medal—or should we say, Mirrorball Trophy—with spouse Rylee Arnold.
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Phaedra Parks
The Traitors alum was definite to weed retired the contention with spouse Val Chmerkovskiy, but ended up getting chopped from the lineup Oct. 22.
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Jenn Tran
Though Bachelorette star and spouse Sasha Farber were afloat bloom successful the ballroom, they were eliminated from the contention connected Oct. 29.
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