'Dancing With the Stars' season 31: Charli D'Amelio, Mark Ballas win Mirror Ball - GMA

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TikTok prima Charli D'Amelio and Mark Ballas are play 31 Mirror Ball trophy champions.

The duo was announced arsenic the winners of the 31st play of "Dancing With the Stars," beating chap celebrities Shangela, Wayne Brady and Gabby Windey, who were paired with pro partners Gleb Savchenko, Witney Carson and Val Chmerkovskiy, respectively.

On "Good Morning America" Tuesday, D'Amelio and Ballas opened up astir their win.

"I deliberation for me, I truly conscionable gave everything I had to this travel and I got truthful overmuch retired of it, whether it's assurance successful my dancing, caller friends, you know, memories that I'll retrieve forever," D'Amelio said, adding that she's "so glad" and "thankful" to person had the experience.

Ballas called the experience, his archetypal clip successful the "DWTS" ballroom successful 5 years, "fantastic."

"I had a truly beauteous time, made a large person and had a large clip creating and dancing with Charli," helium added. "And besides to beryllium connected the level with each my comrades, I've grown up with each of them. I loved it. I had a truly beauteous time."

For their last conflict connected the creation floor, which streamed unrecorded connected Disney+, the 4 couples performed a redemption regular chosen by 1 of the judges. The selected routines were ones they performed earlier successful the season.

Read connected to spot however the nighttime panned out.

Show-stopping redemption and freestyle dances

For their redemption routines, Brady performed the quickstep to "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" by Jackie Wilson portion Shangela took connected the quickstep to "Queen Bee" by Rochelle Diamante. Each earned a people of 36.

But it was Windey's Cha Cha to "I Like It (Like That)" by Pete Rodriguez and D'Amelio's Jive to "Grown" by Little Mix that wowed the judges, each earning them a people of 40.

The last 4 couples past participated successful a freestyle round. Brady took the creation level archetypal with his "Superbowl" regular with his creation partner, Carson, to a premix of Bruno Mars' "24K Magic" and Ciara and Chamillionaire's song, "Get Up," which earned him a 40.

TikTok prima D'Amelio besides earned a 40 for her moving freestyle show to "Us Again" by Pinar Toprak, which told a communicative astir her emotion and nonaccomplishment of dance, and past emotion of creation again.

Also earning a 40 was Windey for her sizzling "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago, which Chmerkovskiy's wife, Jenna Johnson, choreographed.

But it was Shangela's electrifying freestyle to "Survivor" by Destiny's Child and "Call Me Mother" by RuPaul, which besides featured Shangela’s partner, Savchenko, successful resistance arsenic Natasha, that brought the full ballroom to its feet.

"I forgot to ballot due to the fact that I was perfectly mesmerized by the full thing," Len Goodman said astatine the extremity of Shangela's performance.

"It adjacent had chicken," helium said, pointing retired the infinitesimal successful their creation erstwhile Shangela tossed him a fried chickenhearted leg.

Cheryl Burke says goodbye

Also taking to the creation level 1 past clip was Cheryl Burke, who announced her status from the amusement implicit the play aft 25 seasons.

The two-time Mirrorball champion delivered a fierce regular to Barry Manilow's "Copacabana (At the Copa)" with 2 of her favourite creation pro partners, Louis Van Amstel and Pasha Pashkov.

Before taking the mic, co-host Tyra Banks called Burke a surviving fable and said Burke was her archetypal representation of "Dancing with the Stars."

"This is my family," Burke began. "Every azygous idiosyncratic that was portion of this cast, down the scenes, anterior to today. Every azygous person, convey you for believing successful maine and convey you for helping maine find my voice. You guys person been a portion of my individuality and I convey each and each 1 of you."

"Pro dancers, celebrities, convey you for pushing maine to beryllium helium top creator that I tin be. I emotion you all," she said arsenic the assemblage began chanting her name.

Len Goodman gets his ain Mirrorball Trophy

Also saying goodbye was Goodman, who announced his status from "Dancing with the Stars" past week. The judge, who has been known arsenic the "tough" 1 connected the show, was honored with a video montage of each of his memorable moments.

"All bully things person to travel to an end," Goodman said successful the video. "For me, it was specified a privilege to beryllium a portion of 'Dancing With the Stars.'"

"I'm gonna miss the judges. Carrie Ann [Inaba] and Bruno [Tonioli], we've been unneurotic since play 1. And past Derek [Hough], I deliberation he's brilliant. I loved being a portion of it -- it was great," helium added. "Thank you truthful overmuch for letting maine beryllium a portion of 'DWTS.' It volition ever beryllium with me. It was truthful memorable."

When the montage ended, co-host Alfonso Ribeiro amazed Goodman with his ain Mirror Ball trophy.

"That is fantastic and convey you truthful much," helium said arsenic the assemblage chanted his sanction and Inaba, Hough and Tonioli held their "10" paddleboards up. "It's been specified a joyousness to beryllium portion of 'Dancing With the Stars.' This is perfectly the cherry connected top."

Throughout the evening, past celebrities who person competed connected the amusement besides paid tribute to Goodman, including Jerry Springer, Shawn Johnson and Kristi Yamaguchi.

"I retrieve however hard Mark and I worked connected that archetypal 10 from you, and erstwhile that yet came, axenic elation. And my precise champion wishes for what's ahead," Yamaguchi said.

"When I came connected the show, I was an insecure small girl, and done your guidance, emotion and support, I became a woman," added Kelly Osbourne, who competed connected play 9 of the show. "And I volition ne'er beryllium capable to convey you enough."

'DWTS' 2023 Tour lineup revealed

If you can't get capable of "Dancing With the Stars," you'll beryllium capable to drawback immoderate of them connected the roadworthy erstwhile they spell connected tour.

During the show, it was announced that Windey volition beryllium performing unrecorded for each circuit stops passim North America. Also performing unrecorded astatine prime cities volition beryllium Charli and Heidi D'Amelio, "CODA" histrion Daniel Durant and "Jersey Shore" prima Vinnie Guadagnino.

"We emotion it truthful much, we're alive, we get to consciousness that vigor and there's truly thing that means much to us," "Dancing With the Stars" pro Emma Slater said. "We can't hold for you to travel and spot it."

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