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<\/p>\nAnd the Season 32 winners of \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d are\u2026 Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy!<\/p>\n
The actress and her pro partner\u00a0took home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy\u00a0Tuesday night, beating out\u00a0Jason Mraz and Daniella Karagach\u00a0(second place),\u00a0Ariana Madix and Pasha Pashkov\u00a0(third place), Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev (fourth place) and\u00a0Alyson Hannigan and Sasha Farber\u00a0(fifth place).<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt hasn\u2019t [sunk in yet]. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to sink in until tomorrow!\u201d Gomez exclusively told Page Six in the ballroom after the show, with Chmerkovskiy saying it \u201cfeels great\u201d to end the competition with a win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels like the culmination of a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifice,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m just proud that this young lady, so early in her life, was able to prove to herself that when you put your mind to something, and you\u2019re willing to work really hard at it, you can accomplish anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gomez, 17, had an incredible journey on the dance competition series and reflected on how much she\u2019s grown over the past 11 weeks during our interview. When asked what\u2019s the biggest change she\u2019s seen in herself since premiere night in September, the Marvel star said it was just learning to \u201cembrace\u201d her laughter and be herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always really been who I am and not really cared about what other people thought, but at this point in my career, there\u2019s just a certain thing that you need, and this show is exactly what I needed,\u201d Gomez, who portrayed heroine America Chavez in \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,\u201d admitted.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd just having the support, the family, the friends, and just people caring about me was really nice. It was just something I guess I just didn\u2019t realize, so being here I was like, \u2018Wow, like, people care and love me!\u2019 And also just having someone like Val who was really protective and also really kind and thoughtful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Their victory marked a historic one for the show, as Gomez and Chmerkovskiy are the recipients of the\u00a0first-ever \u201cDWTS\u201d trophy renamed in Goodman\u2019s honor. The beloved head judge\u00a0died in April\u00a0at the age of 78 following a private battle with bone cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor. Len Goodman was a champion of ballroom dance for many years as an ambassador on this show, as an adjudicator,\u201d Chmerkovskiy, 37, explained. \u201cHe\u2019s passed on a lot of his wisdom to me and it\u2019s an incredible honor to pass it forward to Xochitl.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that it\u2019s \u201creally fitting\u201d for Gomez to have been the first celebrity to win it as she has introduced a whole new generation of viewers to the show with her legion of young fans on social media. Plus, she\u2019s been a big fan of the show herself for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTruly, through her, I think a lot of kids got a chance to learn about ballroom dance,\u201d Chmerkovskiy said, with Gomez adding, \u201cJust to see [my fans] be so excited about each week \u2026 ahh, it just brings me joy!\u201d<\/p>\n
Chmerkovskiy previously won Season 20 with actress Rumer Willis and Season 23 with former Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, while his wife,\u00a0Jenna Johnson, took home the Season 26 trophy with former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Tuesday\u2019s finale, the pro dancers\u00a0shared adorable pics\u00a0of their son Rome posing alongside the trophies via Instagram. Now, their little one will have another accolade to add to\u00a0his<\/em>\u00a0collection.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, this is going into Rome\u2019s room,\u201d Chmerkovskiy confirmed. \u201cSo that he can wake up and be inspired to win this thing [one day].\u201d<\/p>\n As for Gomez, she plans to keep her trophy safe and in clear sight in her bedroom.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a drawer that\u2019s like right across the room from my bed and it\u2019s going to be right there,\u201d she excitedly told us. \u201cSo every time I go to sleep it\u2019s going to be there and [ahhh!].\u201d<\/p>\n And fans won\u2019t have to wait too long to see Gomez back in her dance shoes as she\u2019s officially joining the\u00a0\u201cDancing With the Stars Live 2024\u201d tour, which kicks off Jan. 11, 2024, in Richmond, Va.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so excited!\u201d the \u201cBabysitter\u2019s Club\u201d star gushed. \u201cAnd I\u2019m so happy that Val and Jenna are going as well, so is little Rome, and maybe I\u2019ll get to have my babysitting journey there.\u201d<\/p>\n Season 32 of \u201cDancing With the Stars,\u201d which originally aired on ABC and Disney+, is available for streaming on Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And the Season 32 winners of \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d are\u2026 Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy! The actress and her pro partner\u00a0took home the Len Goodman Mirrorball… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}