‘Dancing With The Stars’: Xochitl Gomez & Val Chmerkovskiy Discuss Their Season 32 Victory
06.12.2023 - 08:07
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Xochitl Gomez isn’t ready to leave the Dancing with the Stars ballroom.
“I don’t want this show to end, and I think it’s gonna be really good for me to keep coming back,” she joked after her big win during the finale. Her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy added: “We’ll be back here next week, just streaming on our socials.”
After redeeming their foxtrot and bringing it home with a fiery freestyle, Gomez and Chmerkovskiy received two back-to-back perfect scores from the judges. With their scores from the semifinals also included in their judges’ totals Tuesday night, they were the only couple to earn a perfect score of 120 across all four dances.
“Gosh, I didn’t think that [we did that]. I forgot until there had been like a little thing that said, this is your score something out of something, and it was the score. I was like, ‘What? We did that?’ Yeah, we did that. I’m proud of that,” Gomez said.
Ahead of Tuesday night’s performances, judge Bruno Tonioli visited Gomez and Chmerkovskiy in the studio to reassign them the foxtrot and give the Marvel star some pointers on how to improve in the dance style. Tonioli said during rehearsals that he was hoping to see more “refined sophistication” than the couple’s first attempt at the foxtrot in week three.
Gomez was the last to grace the stage for the redemption round, but certainly not the least. She made her latest foxtrot look effortless, earning praise from all three judges, including Tonioli, who told her she is a “delight” to watch.
Gomez told Deadline the judge’s advice in rehearsals was invaluable to be able to perfect her foxtrot, especially when it came to lengthening her arms.
“That was one of the things that I tried to do, but I was never that successful. And I tried a