She pushed hard, but Jordan Chiles wasn’t the one to lift the Len Goodman Mirrorball trophy. ‘The Princess’ aced the judges’ round and had perfect scores throughout the night except for a 29/30 in the Instant Dance. Her final score was 89/90. She now stands at the third position behind Robert Irwin & Witney Carson and Alix Earle & Val Chmerkovskiy. Despite missing the trophy, the gymnastics star played a key role in Dancing With The Stars’ history making finale.

This year’s Dancing With the Stars finale was indeed one of a kind. According to Nielsen Ratings, the Season 34 finale drew 9.24 million viewers. This is the show’s most-watched finale in over a decade. It also marked a season high, easily surpassing the 7.22 million viewers recorded the previous week. The last time the show hit numbers this large was in November 2016, when the finale reached 10.97 million viewers.

The adults seemed to have loved this season’s finale, and the numbers prove it. The show delivered its strongest adults 18–49 finale ratings since 2015 and its best performance among adults 18–34 since 2011, marking a rare double high for the franchise in the modern era. That’s not all, the fan voting shattered the records as well, as per the data, over 72 million votes cast on the finale, reaching half a billion votes this season.

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