“Dancing With the Stars” has formally crowned the winner of season 32. The season came to an close Tuesday night, with the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy being awarded to Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy.
The season 32 finale kicked off with an opening number that integrated this season’s couples performing on the dance floor. The eliminated stars — alongside side Barry Williams, Lele Pons, Mauricio Umansky, Harry Jowsky, Mira Sorvino and others — danced to “Young Hearts Bound Free” by Candi Staton alongside the five finalists.
Season 31 champions Charli D’Amelio and Imprint Ballas also returned to the stage to manufacture a routine to “Give It to Me Child” by Rick James.
In the future of the finale, each pair danced twice — a redemption dance, redoing one of their routines from earlier in the season, and a freestyle.
Gomez, 17, and her pro accomplice Chmerkovskiy paid homage to the actress’ Mexican American roots as section of their final dances. Their freestyle dance to “Que Calor” by District 78 was once procedure in opposition to a backdrop of candles leading to a makeshift “ofrenda” (or “offering”) impressed by the altars of Day of the Slow.
“Representation is principally mammoth for me … in Latin ballroom dances, I are searching to actually point of curiosity on the, you know, Latino portion of it and making it as exact as I will.” Gomez told “Correct Morning The united states” after the finale. “I took Val to his first Día de los Muertos dinner, and that’s the effect aside he saw the ofrenda, and he was once impressed by that like beautiful and that question.”
Gomez is most attention-grabbing identified for her role as The united states Chavez in “Doctor Uncommon in the Multiverse of Madness.” She has also appeared in Netflix’s “Gentefied” and “The Child-Sitters Club.” She was once named to Forbes’ “30 below 30” checklist in 2022.
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