Season 20 Bachelor contestant Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson are formally the Season 33 winners of Dancing with the Stars! This win comes on the heels of Graziadei’s very profitable Bachelor season amid the 2024 TV schedule, which means he had a longtime fanbase and new fiancee alongside for the journey. Whereas that will have impacted his associate selection, it did not have an effect on the scores, and it was a protracted exhausting struggle for the Mirrorball Trophy. Now, Graziadei is taking the time to thank Johnson, his fiancee and extra.
Season 33 featured a tricky competitors, with all 5 {couples} from the semi-finals pushing by way of to finale evening. Runner-ups Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten have been favorites to win (definitely mine), largely due to their viral bestie TikToks all through the season and the rugby participant’s constant enchancment week to week. But I can acknowledge Joey Graziadei’s effort and talent all the time produced excessive scores. Now, I additionally respect the Instagram submit Graziadei shared and the way he kicked off his caption:
After a couple of days it’s lastly beginning to settle in that this season of [Dancing with the Stars] has come to an finish and we’re champions… Jenna, from the underside of my coronary heart I wish to say THANK YOU. Thanks for crafting the expertise of a lifetime. Thanks for pushing me to be higher than I assumed I might ever be. Thanks for believing in me and making me really feel like I belonged in a room filled with exceptionally proficient individuals. I imply it after I say that you’ve got modified my life for the higher. Nobody can query your inventive genius and expertise. You really deserve this and I couldn’t be happier for you.
It’s true, they’d fairly the season, and the So You Suppose You Can Dance alum’s choreography by no means didn’t amaze. Their Tarzan routine exploded on-line following Disney evening, and their modern dance to Hozier’s “Work Music” really was one among my favorites this season. Evidently, they put their blood, sweat and tears into this win. The Bachelor alum’s pleasure when the winners have been introduced was priceless and can absolutely follow me for some time.
Each Jenna Johnson and her husband additionally appeared happy that the trophy could be staying in the home. Her hubby, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, partnered with Marvel star Xochitl Gomez to win Season 32 of DWTS, and it was a extremely candy second watching him hand his spouse the trophy this 12 months. After all, the previous winners didn’t miss the possibility to remind everybody of why they landed on high final season, with a tremendous routine to “Pink Pony Membership” by Chappell Roan.
I truthfully can’t wait to see the profitable duo return for his or her victory lap on the finish of subsequent season, and I want Joey Graziadei had another imminent TV appearances on the way in which. He needs to be one of many sweetest and respectable Bachelors in current TV historical past, and his DWTS run additional proved that. Being the kind-hearted man he really is, he additionally didn’t cross up the chance to thank fiancee Kelsey Anderson and the followers, as he additionally wrote:
Final however not least, I wish to thank my stunning fiancée, my loving household, and associates. And thanks to all of YOU! This might have by no means been attainable with out the help and love of all of you every week. Thanks for believing in me, voting for me, and bringing a lot pleasure to my life. I really like you all. ❤️
The casting division at ABC really didn’t miss with this newly minted actuality TV star. I’m excited to see what he does subsequent however, for now, take a look at what he is already completed by watching his IG video under:
I can admit that I wasn’t actually a DWTS earlier than this season, however the present actually hooked me. All in all, I used to be intrigued by each single duo within the dancing competitors this 12 months, each on and off-screen. Not solely was there a lot expertise, however the leisure issue pulled by way of this season with a number of shut relationships forming between the professionals and celebrities.
As for Joey Graziadei, I am hopeful that I am going to see him again on my TV display screen very quickly. He does, nonetheless, deserve some relaxation and high quality time with Kelsey Anderson after his DWTS victory. These of you who haven’t watched his and Jenna Johnson’s show-stopping battle for the trophy but can accomplish that by watching the finale now with a Disney+ subscription.