“Dancing With the Stars” is sending 5 dance {couples} into the finale for the second season in a row!

On the finish of Tuesday evening’s reside “Semi-Finals,” co-hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro shocked viewers once they ready to ship one pair dwelling — solely to announce simply moments later that there can be no elimination in spite of everything.

Due to this fact, the {couples} advancing to the Season 33 “Finals” subsequent week are Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong, Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson, Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten and Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold.

“We had been all simply so grateful [that no one went home] as a result of we’ve actually loved the group that’s nonetheless left,” Graziadei completely informed Web page Six within the ballroom after the present. “And now all of us get to go dance once more! We get to place our greatest on the market subsequent week.”

Johnson mentioned she, too, is “excited” in regards to the alternative, calling the elimination twist “the cherry on prime” of the entire season.

“I really feel like this forged, on the whole, is so particular,” she gushed. “So the truth that 5 of us [couples] get to go exhibit a freestyle within the finale goes to be actually epic.”

Throughout subsequent Tuesday’s “Finals,” the 5 remaining {couples} will every carry out a “freestyle” dance, during which they’ve full inventive freedom to do no matter they need — together with all the pieces from their dance strikes to costumes, stage props and extra.

The problem will mark one final effort for the finalists to impress judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli — and, in fact, viewers at dwelling — earlier than the Season 33 winner is asserted.

Johnson informed us the choreography she has ready for her “Bachelor” alum accomplice will “pay tribute to his roots,” whereas Carson described NFL star Amendola’s routine in three phrases: “iconic, memorable and enjoyable.”

Bersten teased that his choreography will deliver out “each facet” of his skilled rugby participant accomplice.

“Her character is one thing that’s unmatched,” he shared. “So we wish to deliver out the character, the facility, the sexiness, but additionally her vulnerability and her softness.”

In the meantime, Kinney and Armstrong plan to pay tribute to their history-making season as they’re the primary Black dance duo to make it into the “Finals.”

“It’s a primary for lots of issues which are necessary to us and other people which are necessary to us, so we’re going to be dedicating it to that trigger and tradition,” Armstrong defined to Web page Six.

“For us, it’s far more than what the judges are going to attain us or what folks at dwelling will vote on or any of that. We’re doing it for one thing greater than all of that.”

Kinney added, “It completely, I feel, transcends past this ballroom and is a second that I feel we’re actually, actually proud to be part of.”

Following the sure-to-be-epic “freestyle” routines, one dance duo shall be topped the Season 33 winners of “Dancing With the Stars.”

Who will take dwelling the coveted Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy has but to be revealed — however the finalists have already got some concepts on the place they might maintain the shiny prize in the event that they win.

“I’m going to place it proper subsequent to my Lombardi [trophies],” mentioned two-time Tremendous Bowl champion Amendola, with Maher declaring, “On, like, a shelf, perhaps?”

Graziadei mentioned he “must see it first,” whereas Armstrong — who has by no means gained a mirrorball in all his seasons as a professional — will deliver it to his “mama’s home” if he and Kinney are victorious.

“I don’t the place [I’d place mine]. Someplace I can have a look at it,” the “Fairly Little Liars” actress added. “Simply because I do know what it should characterize.”

The three-hour Season 33 finale of “Dancing With the Stars” kicks off Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and Disney+.

NOTE: Nedoroscik and Arnold had been pulled early from Tuesday evening’s press line and had been due to this fact unable to reply the questions we requested their fellow contestants.