Well, wasn't that another fabulous season of Dancing With The Stars? And to top it all off we now have our winner – the sensational Alfonso Ribeiro, who after 10 weeks of flawless performances was quite rightly crowned this year's DWTS champion. He and his partner Witney Carson went into the evening as clear frontrunners and thankfully came out as winners. But at this point, was anyone really surprised? We still can't get our head around last week's Paso Doble!
But last night's finalists didn't bow out without a good fight. All three routines managed to rack up a trio of perfect 40s. Sadie Robertson and her partner Mark Blass' quickstep was by far their best routine of the season and we all have to agree that there really is no one who has grown so much throughout the competition. She may have played it safe last night with her simple quickstep but she played it brilliantly, which didn't go unrecognised as Len Goodman said she represented the show's “Cinderella story”.
Janel Parrish and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy were next and despite their perfect 40 from the judges, we weren't as blown away by their foxtrot as the panel. No real faults, just a bit, meh. But it's those judges who count, who found their performances – which we've seen a thousand times over – “riveting,” according to Julianne Hough who said that she wished the pair just kept on going. We're kind of glad they didn't.
And saving the best for last, Alfonso strode out on to the dancefloor for his cha cha and tango, loving every single minute of it. Technically he's superb but honestly, when have you had so much fun watching anyone on Dancing With The Stars ever? Bruno calls the Fresh Prince sidekick a "dancing legend", which as we all know couldn't be truer. And to think, their whole routine was put together in just 24 hours. Bananas!
Alfonso celebrates DWTS win (Instagram)
In between routines from last night's finalists and others we were sad to see go earlier in the contest there were huge performances from some proper celebs to wet our appetites. Jennifer Hudson killed it as per, Nick Jonas sexed it up in a suit and Meghan Trainor brought booty back with her smash hit All About That Bass and her new single Lips Are Moving.
If you couldn't tell, we're over the moon with the 19th Dancing With The Stars winner. He even pulled out ‘;The Carlton'! Let's just hope his back will be ok. But who was your winner?
