Across 31 seasons and countless talented celebrities, read on to see EW’s favorite dance champions.
After all, how can one pick the very best when it’s so hard to choose?
Did your favorite make the list?
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Did we, in fact, end up putting Baby in a corner?
Here are our picks for the bestDancing With the Starswinners, ranked.
But she more than lived up to the challenge and finally emerged with a well-deserved Mirrorball trophy.
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(It wasn’t just us, right?)
I Still Love You) is another winner whose victory put a few fans' noses out of joint.
This was a contestant who knew he was destined to win from the very first performance.
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Proving it to the world, ultimately, was little more than a formality.
She even had her own Hans Gruber in the form of showdown rival Riker Lynch.
These two kept going neck-in-neck, trading perfect scores in a back-and-forth battle for victory.
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After all, she had competed for much bigger stakes than the Mirrorball: Olympic glory.
(Who wouldn’t bet on the former world champion ice dancer to win a dance competition?)
Was it fair to pit less qualified performers against her?
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But we wouldn’t trade the entertainment value of each flourish-filled dance for… well… an Olympic medal.
Fortunately, season 10 winnerNicole Scherzingerhad that sparkle on and off the stage.
In fact, his stellar moves were like a kind of television karma.
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Nyle DiMarco (season 22)
Obviously, any ranked list is subjective.
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