3 Final compete on "dancing with the Stars"; Could take Kirstie & Maks price?

LOS ANGELES, California. -It was a rip-roaring ride full of fireworks, elevators freestyle, sequins, mambo, tiny tops pants and torso men naked on "Dancing with the Stars", but although the finalists of the season 12 to withdraw every trick in the book, it might be that anyone is at stake.

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his partner, Kym Johnson and Disney star Chelsea Kane and his "Dancing" hunk, Mark Ballas, spent two tours for the other point to point, both ending the night with a total of 60 points 59, but this was Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who may have fired at the heart of America just enough rope to stealthily in and steal the mirrorball.

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60 Years and his professional partner actress 31 - year, squeaked through the first round of the standard way, shaking their hips to a fine 27 points for their samba, but it was their freestyle which has made its mark.

Kirstie had promised antennas on the show last week, and in their packaging pre-dance, Maks said that he will be faithful to his words.

"If I would like to or step, I am lifts free because they are expected," he said, adding that they had to because that "age does not exist in this competition."

When the couple hit Ballroom, Kirstie was in a Brown robe, almost sack-like, with little embellishment and certainly not adjusted as his first round outfit - a thigh skimming, belly shaking orange sparkling number.

A few bars-pink "[Expletive] perfect" - Kirstie tore cumbersome outfit reveal was sub - a black top and skin-tight pants style corseted sassy, hugging the body.

Full of life, the energy and personality of the Kirstie, the pair then shook themselves across the dance floor - sometimes, Maks throw Kirstie on his shoulders, others, both corresponding to another stage for a step in a Latin ballroom style.

"" To finish the night my friend,"a show of misplaced co-host, said Tom Bergeron, as judges could not help but agree.

"Ten weeks, I would have never even thought you even try to ski lifts and things that you did tonight, and you need to really appreciate what you have accomplished," a proud Bruno Tonioli said as the pair earned 27 pointsbringing their total of 54 to 60. "Respect the girl." "Respect".

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MAKS told Access Hollywood Live Billy Bush and Kit Hoover last week that the pair freestyle show Kirstie "transformation" in the season and Carrie Ann Inaba seems to recognize this idea, commenting, "that dance kind of embodies what I think you have become - the new child displays for how life should be." lived at the age of 60 years: unpredictable free, loving, floating, crazy, zany and everything above and then some. ?

Although Kirstie trip drew to emotion, even if the competition is, could not things become warmer than the battle between Hines and Chelsea, which saw the two celebrities and their partners to end the show in a restraint device.

Chelsea and Mark came first, at the opening of the final with a samba, a number chosen for them by the judges.

"Hot!" Hot! Hot, "said Carrie Ann dance, which saw Chelsea in a confident costume in the stomach and Mark in a shirt open, ab-confident." "Chelsea is on fire." You got down, you got dirty, you have sensual and it worked.

The pairs won 29 of the 30 points, the same score picked up by Hines and Kym to the choice of their dance judges - a quickstep, an updated version of the one, they have done earlier in the season.

Kym repeated in a neck brace, the result of the harm she has suffered in repetition, two weeks ago, but on the dance floor, she seemed sharp and effervescent, alongside his partner of football.

"It was so much fun! Carrie Ann raved.

Chelsea and second Mark number, they performed a hip-hop inspired freestyle, with a few Latin detours.

Bruno called "wonderful", and Len Goodman said that it was "fantastic" as the pair earned an all 30 points, bringing their total to 59 60.

A short while later, Hines and developed new Kym their passion to perform in the Ballroom with a freestyle inspired by half-time shows ' Hines never gets to see his career as football player usually trapped in the locker room during this period.

Complete with live drums, the two exploded with a scary routine which saw Hines dressed as a drum major and Kym dressed somewhere between a dancer of the drill team and a pom - pom girl.

"It was risky," Carrie Ann said, trying to keep a right face. "This was not really a show at halftime, which was a Super Bowl set." I thought it was fantastic! ?

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A Look Back: Big "Dancing" Transformation of Kirstie Alley; Maksim Chmerkovskiy will return next season?

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- She had a season like no other contestant before, and with the transformation witnessed by America, Kirstie Alley just might pull an upset on "Dancing with the Stars."

On Monday night's final's round, Kirstie and her professional partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, earned 57 out of 60 points, just two points less than her competitors -- Hines Ward and Kym Johnson; and Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas -- but she was in fighting form after the show.

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"Look, I think our freestyle was amazing and we should have gotten 10s and so did the audience and that's why they were booing like lunatics," Kirstie told Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson Monday night, referring to the loud audience response to the three 9s from the judges.

"I loved that," Kirstie said of the ballroom's response. "It was a bit of a revolt."

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Although always feisty with her words, Kirstie wasn't always an obvious choice for the finals.

Her first outing in the ballroom with Maks (on March 21) earned 23 out of 30 points and landed the pair in second place (Ralph Macchio and Karina Smirnoff topped the leaderboard with 24 points), but her struggles with weight quickly became a focus.

Just days after cha cha-ing to Cee Lo Green's "Forget You," to which judge Bruno Tonioli predicted, "we are just scratching at the surface of what you can do," comedian George Lopez took aim at the former star of Showtime's "Fat Actress."

"She did a nice job, her little hooves tapping away," the comedian said on "Lopez Tonight" even though, at the time, Kirstie had recently lost 60 pounds.

But Kirstie struck back.

In response to a fan's Tweet calling George a "pig" right back, Kirstie suggest he looked like, "lol...a drunk pig...hehe," and the late night host later apologized.

As Kirstie moved through the season, she and Maks hit another kind of stumbling block in Week 3, when Maks fell to the floor while swinging the actress around.

It was an injury to his leg, but lest anyone think it had to do with the star's weight, Maks insisted multiple times it was all his fault.

"My thighs just gave up. Any dancer would know. It happens. Muscle strain and all that, but it's nothing to do with her. I apologize," he said on the show at the time.

One week later, on April 11, again shaking her confidence, Kirstie had a dance floor mishap, losing her shoe during a waltz.

"I want to be good, I do," Kirstie told Access after the incident, revealing the frustration she felt after another accident on live television. "I don't want to be doing comedy without knowing it."

Something changed, however, on April 18, when the pair decided decided they would no longer allow accidents to happen (thanks to a little help from "Dance Doctor" John Travolta).

They came out with an explosive performance, and the woman who once hit Oprah Winfrey's stage in a bikini, opted for something equally sexy on "DWTS" - a midriff baring top and low slung retro pants (to match Maks' shirt-free, leather pants look).

It was an outfit that seemed to say, "I'm sexy, I'm proud and I'm going to do this!"

After that night, Kirstie was unstoppable - her outfits became tighter, and she and Maks climbed back up the leaderboard. And then, her weight took center stage again.

This time though, it was Maks who was criticizing the star in rehearsal footage shown on "Dancing" for not eating as they practiced - something that caused her to grow faint and lose her footing, and something that made Maks end rehearsal altogether.

"I'm not doing it intentionally," the actress told Access Hollywood after the show on May 9, confirming she had lost weight, but declining to reveal how much.

"I'm not going like, 'Oh! I'm not going to eat!' I just wasn't paying attention... It was a very intense time trying to get something right and I just didn't notice that my blood sugar had dropped," she added.

Pledging to eat, Kirstie continued on and the problem caused by not enough calories subsided as she continued through, inching out Ralph to make it to the finals.

As she prepared to head into what would be her final week of practice with Maks, Kirstie revealed to Access that her friends - including John Travolta - had originally advised her against doing the competition -- a show that would end up giving her so much.

"I thought, 'Screw all my [friends] I don't care.' I really don't care what anybody says," she told Access as she rehearsed on May 19 in Los Angeles. "One thing I'm good at is introspection, and I knew that I had gotten in a bad place -- sort of complacent. I was boring myself, let alone anybody else! I was boring. I was like, 'This will 'unbore' me.' It did 'unbore' me!"

She also didn't let Maks' insistence to Access Hollywood Live's Billy Bush and Kit Hoover - also on May 19 -- that he was going to revise her "DWTS" pledge to do "aerials" in their freestyle on the final competition night.

"Aerials! What did I say," Kirstie smiled after Monday night's finals round, before joking she was heading to Cirque du Soliel.

"I'm going to train with them in New York," she laughed. "I'm going to trapeze school."

Beyond the aerials, Kirstie's final dance on Monday night was also the perfect embodiment of her transformation - both mentally and physically on the show.

She hit the stage in a heavy brown dress to Pink's "[Expletive] Perfect," before ripping it off to reveal a much slender version of herself in skintight black pants and a corseted top.

And while Carrie Ann Inaba said it was a template for how people should be at 60, the ever-feisty Kirstie was a little offended.

"She said, 'at 60' and I was [upset]," Kirstie told Access. "I was like, 'Can I be an example of how life can be lived period?' I mean, shouldn't you be living it flat out? I think you should be living it flat out, because for me, the reality is, when I was 24, I was older than I've ever been in my entire life."

Maks summed up Kirstie's transformation by saying it actually promoted change within himself too.

"She walked in, I go, 'OK, this is gonna be fan-based, and we're just gonna have fun.' That lasted about a week and I realized she wants me to do more than just have fun," Maks told Access on Monday of his first impression of how he thought the season would work out. "And you know? I turned into my usual training self and next thing you know she's shedding weight, I'm locking her in the room so she has no choice, she has to do the dance, you have to finish it... It's been amazing."

So amazing, Maks isn't sure he'll be returning to "Dancing."

"How do you top it?" Access' Shaun asked Maks on Monday of "Dancing" after Kirstie.

"I don't top it," he said.

"What does that mean?" Shaun asked.

"It means, I don't top it," he said.

"It means I'm Mount Everest," Kirstie laughed.

Ralph Macchio waltzes through pain on "Dancing," calories Limitations come under The Spotlight of Kirstie Alley

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -He was in incredible pain - wincing as he headed down the stairs to compete on Monday's "Dancing with the Stars", but Ralph Macchio didn't let his injury stop him from carrying on in the competition.

In the days leading up to Monday night's show, Ralph was diagnosed with a ruptured cyst on the back of his knee, and tendonitis, and it cut his rehearsal time with professional partner Karina Smirnoff down to around nine hours instead of the usual 40, but they still pulled of a Viennese waltz on the show, which judge Carrie Ann Inaba praised.

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"You inspired so many people when you played the role of Daniel LaRusso in 'the karate Kid,' and I think tonight, once again, that spirit of Daniel LaRusso lives on," she said.

The lack of practice time meant the pair only managed 25 out of 30 points for the number. It was the lowest first round score of the night, but Ralph and Karina were pleased to have made it on to the dance floor at all - even moreso when they hit the ballroom for the return of the "Instant dance" in Round 2, a number they had just minutes to prepare for.

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While the other couples used area in the run up to Monday to sketch out their dances to an unknown song (they were given the tune on Monday night after Round 1), Ralph's injury prevented him and Karina from working out their number until moments before the dance.

Despite the lack of rehearsal, the couple pulled out a cha cha with a charming twist.

Karina opened the dance copying Mr. Miyagi in "the karate Kid," rubbing her hands together and placing them on Ralph's leg, before he hit the floor for the number - a crowd-pleasing move.

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"I admire your perseverance and dedication," judge Len Goodman said as the pair netted an additional 21 points, for a total of 46 out of 60, the lowest score of the night.

"I made it to the end of the show," Ralph said with a hope viewers keep the pair in the competition another week. "that was my goal."

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At the other end of the leaderboard - at the top - was Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas, who scored a whopping 55 points for the night.

Their first number - a waltz - was elegant and musical and netted them 29 points, while their "Instant dance", a salsa to Sean Paul's "get busy" was branded "hot" by Bruno Tonioli and awarded an additional 26 points.

Hines Ward and Kym Johnson landed in second place, scoring just one point less overall - 54 out of 60.

Their opening number, a fancy foxtrot took 28 points, while their "Instant dance" - to "Chantilly Lace" - was awarded 26 points and a comparison - by Bruno - to the penguin animated film "happy feet."

The third leaderboard spot was taken by Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, but it was a rehearsal PSAT - Kirstie's lack of calorie consumption over - that grabbed attention for the pair.

Maks was caught ending a practice session in the days leading up to Monday's show because Kirstie was slipping up on the moves, something he blamed on the former "cheers" star not eating.

"I m not stopping this rehearsal because you can't," Maks told Kirstie, who looked weak, sitting on the floor. "I'm stopping this rehearsal because your body's telling you that we're done." I think it's time to put a lid on a bit of the dieting. "How many calories are you on?"

Kirstie admitted she was consuming just 1,400 calories a day (although she admitted to camera that before the rehearsal she'd had just 150 calories so far before they hit the dance studio).

"I don 't think it's enough," Maks said.

While her rehearsal time was shortened due to her lack of calories, when they eventually performed - year tango Argentina - they caught the eye of the judges.

"vampish!" Bruno said as the pair took 28 out of 30 points. "Your body's shrinking." "your talent is huge."

Backstage, however, Kirstie attempted to insist she wasn't cutting calories in a serious way.

"I think my blood sugar dropped," she told show co-host Brooke Burke, explaining away the rehearsal. "I wasn't intentionally not eating." "I forgot!"

"She doesn't eat," said to Maks camera. "She's not eating."

Their second dance - a salsa to "cobrastyle" - brought them a further 25 points for 53 out of 60 overall.

Romeo and Chelsie Hightower took fourth place.

Their opening number, a tango, was scored well - 27 out of 30 - but they lost points for their salsa to "Tequila," which took just 25 points.