‘Dancing with the Stars’ Finale: Who Won Season 33

Warning: this story contains spoilers from the season 33 finale Dancing with the stars.

And Mirrorball goes to…

Dancing with the stars season 33 finally announced a winner on Tuesday, November 26 after eight exciting weeks of competition.

Former NFL pro Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, Bachelorette Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson, actress Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong, Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten, and Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold entered the finals hoping to to walk away the winners.

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

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

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

“It means everything, this whole experience has been incredible,” Joey said after his win. “Thanks for putting up with us. I’ve tried my best, I promise!”

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.

Before the evening, Joey and Jenna and Chandler and Brandon topped the leaderboard from the beginning of the season. Stephen and Rylee and Ilona and Alan weren’t far behind them. After a few weeks, Danny also found his footing, making him and Witney top contenders for Mirrorball.

“We see a lot of bonding,” the former wide receiver told PEOPLE in October about how he and Witney improved throughout 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 together a good performance on Tuesday night.”

All five couples made it to the final after host Alfonso Ribeiro surprised them at the end of last week’s semi-final by announcing that no one would be going home.

Kinney told PEOPLE after the Nov. 20 show that she felt “shocked” and “grateful” that everyone advanced to the finale. “It’s such a great group of people,” she said. “I don’t think any of us here wanted any of us to go home. We were all just excited for each other.”

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Maher told PEOPLE she “wasn’t sure if we were going to make it through” to the finals after the fierce competition.

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

Along with memorable dances and emotional moments on the dance floor, season 33 of Dancing with the stars featured two possible love connections. Model Brooks Nader and her partner Gleb Savchenko had instant chemistry at the beginning of the season and continued to date after being eliminated on October 15. Although Brooks, 27, shared that Gleb, 41, broke up with her via text later that month, the two have continued to spend time together and post with each other on social media.

Bachelorette Jenn Tran and her Season 33 partner Sasha Farber also formed a close bond and have been hanging out often since their elimination on Oct. 29. The reality star, 27, even mentioned they wanted to move in together.

“Right now I have to find a place to live, and it’s probably Sasha’s couch,” Tran told Tish and Brandi Cyrus on the Nov. 14 episode of their podcast. Sorry, we’re Cyrus.

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

Both couples returned to the ballroom for the final on November 26, as did convicted con artist Anna Delvey, who notoriously said she took “nothing” from the show after being the first out. In the finale, she made fun of her comment by dancing to “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston.

“I really didn’t take much away from this experience,” Delvey, 33, said on the Sept. 28 episode of Tori Spelling’s spelling mistake podcast. “I think I had to be on the defensive, especially after all the backlash that I got for 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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