"Dancing With the Stars": And the winner is...
"Dancing With the Stars" handed out the ugliest trophy in the business tonight and it went to...
Apolo Anton Ohno and his partner Julianne Hough, who defeated the early favorites Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson.
Laila and Maksim finished in third place. And if it looked like Laila didn't have as much shake as she did the first time she performed that dance, it might be because she's been suffering from a wrenched back ever since she picked up Apolo during the group dance...
As for the result, Apolo had the moves and was not afraid to take chances and Julianne had the choreography to take advantage of that. As much as I like Joey, Apolo really deserved it.
It's been a rough week for Julianne, the youngest contestant in the history of the show, as she has had to deal with the reaction to her calling off her August wedding. She and her fiance are still together (He was in the audience Monday night.), they just wanted to wait until things were a little less crazy. But of course people have presumed that the cancellation was because there was something else going on between Apolo and Julianne besides dancing...
Even her fiance admits that if he didn't know any better, he would think something was going on since they have such a white-hot chemistry together...
Julianne will be on the "DWTS" tour, but Apolo will now go back to concentrating on his speedskating.
"DWTS" will return this fall...