Will Xochitl Gomez be the next teen sensation to win ‘Dancing with the Stars’?

Daniel Montgomery
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At 17-years-old, Marvel actress Xochitl Gomez is the youngest of the final five going into the “Dancing with the Stars” finale on December 5. Can someone so young claim the Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy? Actually, she wouldn’t be the first teenager to win the competition. She wouldn’t even be the youngest winner in the show’s history. That would be gymnast Laurie Hernandez, who was 16 when she prevailed in season 23 back in 2016.

Teens have actually done pretty well over the years on “DWTS.” In addition to Hernandez, the Mirror Ball Trophy has gone to gymnast Shawn Johnson and nature conservationist Bindi Irwin when they were both 17, just like Gomez is now. And Charli D’Amelio won the grand prize last year when she was 18. Other celebs under 20 have made the finals, including Zendaya in season 16, Sadie Robertson in season 19, Milo Manheim in season 27, and JoJo Siwa in season 30.

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And Gomez is lucky to be paired with professional partner Val Chmerkovskiy, who was actually the pro who guided Hernandez to her Mirror Ball victory. He’s a two-time “DWTS” champ — he also won with Rumer Willis in season 20 — and could become just the third pro to win the Mirror Ball Trophy three or more times. Previously Derek Hough, now a judge on the show, won top honors six times, including with Irwin. And Mark Ballas just won his third trophy last season with D’Amelio. So it seems that teens are good luck for the show’s most elite pros.

But the numbers that matter most are the judges’ scores and viewer votes. As it stands, it’s hard to know exactly how popular Gomez has been with the audience at home because she’s always so high on the judges’ leaderboard that her fan base hasn’t really been tested. Over 10 weeks of competition, she got the best score six times, including two perfect scores during “Semi-Finals.” Does that signal that Gomez will be our next champion?

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