Dancing with the StarsCrowns a New Winner! Find Out Who Took Home the Season 33 Mirrorball Trophy

Mar. 15, 2025

Warning: this story contains spoilers from the season 33 finale ofDancing with the Stars.

And the Mirrorball goes to…

Dancing with the Starsseason 33 finally named a winner on Tuesday, Nov. 26, following eight, exciting weeks of competition.

In the end, it was announced that Danny and Witney had placed fifth, Stephen and Rylee placed fourth, and Chandler and Brandon landed in third place.

This left Jenna and Joey and Ilona and Alan as the final two contenders.

From left: Alan Bersten and Ilona Maher and Jenna Johnson and Joey Graziadei.Disney/Andrew Eccles

Disney/Andrew Eccles

Finally, in the last minutes of the finale, it was revealed that Joey and Jenna were the season 33 winners.

“It means everything, this whole experience has been unbelievable,” Joey said after his win. “Thank you for bearing with us. I tried my best, I promise!”

Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson crowned ‘Dancing with The Stars’ Season 33 winners.Disney/Eric McCandless

Disney/Eric McCandless

Each couple performed a Freestyle with additional dancers, as well as a redemption dance. Joey, 29, and Jenna, 30, revisited a Cha Cha for their redemption dance, Danny, 39, and Witney, 31, went with a Tango and Stephen, 26, and Rylee, 19, opted for a Quickstep. Both Chandler, 24, and Brandon, 30, and Ilona, 28, and Alan, 30, performed a Jive for their Judges’ Redemption number.

By the end of the night, Joey and Jenna topped the leaderboard after a perfect redemption dance and a 29/30 on their freestyle.

Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson on ‘DWTS’.Eric McCandless/Disney

Eric McCandless/Disney

Entering the evening, Joey and Jenna and Chandler and Brandon found themselves atop the leaderboard from the beginning of the season. Stephen and Rylee and Ilona and Alan were not far behind them. After a few weeks, Danny found his footing too, making him and Witney top contenders for the Mirrorball.

“We watch a lot of tape,” the ex-wide receiver told PEOPLE in October ofhow he and Witney improvedthroughout the season. “Honestly, it sounds like a football interview, but we watch a lot of film and we try to study other dancers — what they’ve done — and we try to tweak it ourselves a little bit and just put a good performance together on Tuesday night.”

From left: Danny Amendola and Witney Carson; Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold; Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong.Andrew Eccles/Disney (3)

Andrew Eccles/Disney (3)

Kinney told PEOPLE after the Nov. 20 show that she felt “shocked” and “grateful” for everyone to be moving on to the finale. “It’s such a great group of people,” she said. “I think none of us here wanted any of us to go home. We were all just stoked for each other.”

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Maher told PEOPLE she “wasn’t sure if we were making it through” to the finale after the stiff competition.

“I didn’t know how far we would get,” Bersten added. “The very first time we danced was a day before we went to New York forGood Morning America. We didn’t really know what we were doing, but I did know that afterwards we went and got bagels and I was like, ‘Oh, this is going to be fun.’”

‘Dancing with the Stars’ season 33’s Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten.Disney/Eric McCandless

Along with memorable dances and emotional moments on the dance floor, season 33 ofDancing with the Starsfeatured two possible love connections. ModelBrooks Naderand her partnerGleb Savchenkohad instant chemistry at the beginning of the season and kept dating after being eliminated on Oct. 15. Although Brooks, 27, shared that Gleb, 41,broke up with her via textlater that month, the two have continued tospend time togetherand post with one another on social media.

BacheloretteJenn Tranand her season 33 partnerSasha Farberalso formed a close bond and have hung out often following theirOct. 29 elimination. The reality star, 27, even mentioned that they’d bemoving in together.

Sasha Farber and Jenn Tran at the L.A. premiere of ‘Wicked’ on Nov. 9, 2024.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

“Right now I gotta find a place to live and that’s probably Sasha’s couch," Tran toldTish and Brandi Cyruson the Nov. 14 episode of their podcastSorry We’re Cyrus.

Tran added that when she lives with the 40-year-old dance pro, “He’s going to make me cook and clean every day. I don’t know how I feel about that, but I don’t have to pay rent.”

“I reallydid not take away muchfrom this experience,” Delvey, 33, said on the Sept. 28 episode ofTori Spelling’smisSPELLINGpodcast. “I think I had to be on the defensive, especially after all the backlash that I received being cast on the show, even though the producers [tried] to defend me. And I think everyone on the cast was generally very nice to me. But in the end, I don’t know.”

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source: people.com