Hot! Dallas Melissa Rycroft Wins `dancing With The Stars

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Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012

The previous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader in addition to your ex expert night partner, Tony Dovolani, were named the winners Tuesday with ABC's Dancing With that Stars: All Stars.

The match whip available other finalists (and past champs) actress Kelly Monaco as well as Olympian Shawn Johnson that will lay claim the sparkly mirror-ball trophy.

Fellow contestants on that show's first "all-star" year hoisted the brand new winners on the air conditioning while confetti rained down inside Dancing With the actual Stars ballroom.

On the eve from the last competition, Rycroft mentioned your woman thought self-confident and excited.

"I would like to feel for a champion," the girl said.

Tuesday's two-hour season finale featured tasks with the three finalists and also every single coming back again cast members: stars Pamela Anderson, Sabrina Bryan, Kirstie Alley and also Gilles Marini; performers Joey Fatone and Drew Lachey; race motor vehicle taxi driver Helio Castroneves; actuality TV superstar Bristol Palin; Olympic skater Apolo Anton Ohno; and basketball super star Emmitt Smith.

Six of the contestants - Johnson, Monaco, Lachey, Ohno, Smith in addition to Castroneves - were being earlier Dancing winners.

Rycroft along with Dovolani came up into the final contest which has a pair of perfect scores. Those points were coupled with viewer votes as well as a past couple of judges' scores for an "instant dance" that they had below a couple of hours to prepare.

Rycroft appeared to be a new contestant on The Bachelor in 2009. After "Bachelor" Jason Mesnick chose the woman's at season's end, they famously dumped her around the across the country televised The Bachelor: After the actual Final Rose, stating in which this individual had transformed his / her mind in addition to needed to always be together with runner-up Molly Malaney instead. (Mesnick and Malaney are generally nonetheless some sort of couple.)

After the actual Bachelor debacle, Rycroft seemed on Dancing With the Stars which exact year. The 29-year-old furthermore starred within a reality series previously that year, Melissa & Tye, about the woman marriage that will Tye Strickland and also his or her move to Hollywood hence she could pursue an activity career.