by Charlotte DeWinter

Created on: May 26, 2010

The final night of the Dancing With the Stars finale started off with a recap of the previous night. Erin Andrews and Maksim performed the “Redemption dance.” Erin and Maks really let it fly with their high energy Samba and delivered a great dance that ended with both planting a kiss on the cheek of judge Len Goodman which he seemed to like a little too much, but it was all cool. They finished out the round with a score of 29 points.

Evan and Anna came out next dancing to Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” which was good but Evan was a little robotic with their waltz which was a big reason they only netted a score of 28. 

Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough who have been the favorites since before the show even aired came out with a rumba for their opening round of the evening. She and Derek need a different scoring scale, because they are just that good. As usual the judges nitpicked her mercilessly because they never seem to want to say she can’t improve and slapped her in the face with a too low score of 28.

Erin and Maks came out to Heart’s “Alone” for their next dance which oozed raw sensuality. Their timing was great, the finishing spin/flip move was awesome, but it seemed a little dead none the less for a freestyle. It was a bit too much of 0 to 60 back to 0 an got muddled. They scored 26 for the round, and that may have been the score that took them out.

Evan and Anna came out performing their freestyle round to “Footloose” and he looked good and smiled and all of that, but he was still robotic and a bit stiff and his spins were not too polished for this point in the competition. Even the judges cited great energy, there was just nothing there and the dance sucked more than a frat pledge on a beer bong opening the door back up for Erin and Maks with their score of  24.

Nicole and Derek had a great freestyle aside from one problem on a lift but were otherwise amazing. Their score of 27 was good - just not great. It is too hard to really find anything wrong with what they are doing aside from a slip on the final lift.

The actual finale began with the competitors that were voted off along with the final three doing an ensemble dance, and to his credit Buzz Aldrin didn’t relieve himself on stage. Even Kate Gosselin almost had a hint of rhythm. With that, it was time to get to the final two dances for each couple.

Nicole and Derek got the party started with the Argentine Tango. Aside

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