Dancing With the Stars Ends Predictably After an Unpredictable Season
After what seemed to be the most unpredictable season with many twists and turns and the best dancing so far of all five seasons of the ABC reality show, tonight the winner of Dancing With the Stars was crowned. Predictably, the Disco Ball Trophy went to Indie Race Car Driver Helio Castroneves and his professional partner Julianne Hough, winning now for her second year in a row in just her second season on the show.
Whenever ABC announces the lineup of upcoming seasons of Dancing With the Stars, I’m never very thrilled, thinking it sounds like an unexciting cast, and this season was no different. Yet, after watching the entire season, I can’t imagine ity being any more exciting. Usually the first to be eliminated is a middle-aged man or beautiful model with no rhythm, and this season that chore fell to Josie Moran. The second week fell to unpredictability, as one of the more talented men in the competition, Albert Reed, was voted out, and already we were seeing better dancing than in any other season on the show.
Another three men fell to votes, Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton , boxer Floyd Mayweather, and entrepreneur Mark Cuban. None were very surprising. The big shock came the following week when Cheetah Girl Sabrina Bryan was voted out over some much more deserving folk. This news was so shocking that it had judge Carrie Ann Inaba in tears. The big talk had been who would be in the final two, and basically what everyone was asking was who was going to be dancing alongside Sabrina and here she was the one cut. As frequent guest on the show Jimmy Kimmel noted, the show seems to have something against the more beautiful women on the show, as they get voted out before their time often.
After more drama than we saw out of her on Dr. Quinn, Jane Seymour was voted out next after seemingly doing the same dance week after week, and after suffering through the death of her mother and food poisoning, of all things. Soap star Cameron Mathison left the following week after making huge weekly improvements, and he was followed out the door by Jennie Garth, another to improve dramatically on the show after falling during her first week on the show.
This left us with a final three of wholesome Marie Osmond, Spice Girl Melanie Brown, and race car driver Helio Castroneves. None were one hundred percent solid during their performances on the finale, but if one was to shine, it would have to be Helio, as it was pointed out that Marie was the ultimate entertainer, Mel B brought the technical aspect, and Helio somehow managed to combine the two. The first to hear her results and leave was Marie who had similar struggles to Jane during the season, with another parental death with that of her father and a bout of fainting live on the air while she was getting her critiques from the judges.
The final two then standing before us were Mel B and her professional partner Maxsim Chmerkovskiy, and Helio and his partner Julianne Hough, the youngest dancer ever on the show, just 18 when she started last season. After all those twists and turns in this crazy season, after two parental deaths, after food poisoning and a fainting spell, and after one huge early dismissal, Helio and Julianne because the winners of season five of Dancing With the Stars, as he joined the ranks of winners such as Kelly Monaco, Drew Lachey, Emmitt Smith, and Apolo Anton Oho. Julianne joined some ranks as well, with herself and Cheryl Burke the only professionals on the show to win back to back seasons.
ABC will have to struggle to come up with another season as exciting as this one, but first up is a spinoff series, Dance War, with judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba both heading up teams of people that both sing and dance, with the two teams competing against each other. The host will be the season two winner of Dancing With the Stars, Drew Lachey. After he filled in for Samantha Harris for a few weeks this season while she ended her maternity leave, I have to say I’m looking forward to this new show.
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Nancy | Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
HELLLLLIOOOOOO WOOOOHOOOOOOO
alll the way well deserve
extraordinary season
I am very very happy with the
results
TheGrizz | Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
I actually have say that I found this to be the worst season yet. I mean everyone left is really not much of a dancer. But that is just my opinion. thank you for the article thought.
Sue | Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
well I voted for him and thought from the get go it would be he and Sabrina in the finals. Honestly if Sabrina was there she would have won, but how that girl got voted off? Who knows?? but then again, I didn’t vote for her that week. I felt she was safe and helped others which is wrong. I love this show and glued to it weekely and yearly and will continue. Remember… it’s a show about professionals who CAN’T dance. It’s nice to see an Indy Driver win. Mel B was great, loved her, but she did fail in the finals. She should have had 2 stronger routines and the Freestyle war horrible for her and that did her in. But then again she’s a dancer as well. She has the skill coming in, but didn’t dance “Ballroom”. It’s tough choosing just 1 person when we all like so many. Sorry Mel, being 2nd is the worse place to be in. I’d take 3rd or last any day than the hurt of being so close, but not close enough to win.
I can’t wait until next year. I so wonder who will be in the list of new prospects to dance???
TheGrizz | Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
Yeah any chance of finding that out for us? Who is going to dance in the next one?
LauraBelle | Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
That’s kind of the thing with reality shows, though. Competitively, there’s always a big shock that leaves. And it’s always left to the people on message boards to question if they did enough to keep them. It’s one thing that makes people tune in the next week. As far as who is dancing in the next DWTS, it hasn’t been announced yet. They always come out with a big announcement a few months beforehand, usually making the announcement on Good Morning America.