Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season 33 finale of Dancing with the stars.

And the mirror ball goes to…

Dancing with the stars Season 33 finally announced a winner on Tuesday, November 26th after eight exciting weeks of competition.

Former NFL pros Danny Amendola and Witney Carson, Bachelorette Joey Graziadei and Jenna Johnson, actresses Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong, Olympic rugby players Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten, and Olympic gymnasts Stephen Nedoroscik and Rylee Arnold all went in hopes of becoming To emerge victorious, into the final.

At the end, it was announced that Danny and Witney had placed fifth, Stephen and Rylee had placed fourth, and Chandler and Brandon had placed third.

This left Jenna and Joey and Ilona and Alan as the last two contenders.

Finally, in the final minutes of the finale, it was revealed that Joey and Jenna were the winners of season 33.

“This means everything, this whole experience has been incredible,” Joey said after his win. “Thank you for putting up with us. I did my best, I promise!”

Each couple performed a routine with additional dancers as well as a release dance. Joey, 29, and Jenna, 30, revisited a cha cha for their release dance, Danny, 39, and Witney, 31, opted for a tango and Stephen, 26, and Rylee, 19, opted for a quickstep. Both Chandler, 24, Brandon, 30, and Ilona, ​​28, as well as Alan, 30, performed a jive for their judges’ redemption number.

At the end of the evening, Joey and Jenna topped the leaderboard after a perfect release dance and a 29/30 in their free skate.

At the start of the evening, Joey and Jenna, as well as Chandler and Brandon, were at the top of the leaderboard since the start of the season. Stephen and Rylee and Ilona and Alan weren’t far behind them. After a few weeks, Danny also found his footing and made him and Witney top contenders for the Mirrorball.

“We watch a lot of video,” the former wide receiver told PEOPLE in October about how he and Witney improved over the course of the season. “Honestly, it sounds like a football interview, but we watch a lot of film and try to study other dancers – what they’ve done – and we try to tweak it ourselves a little bit and just put together a good performance on Tuesday night. ”

All five couples reached the final after host Alfonso Ribeiro surprised them at the end of last week’s semi-final by announcing that no one would be going home.

Kinney told PEOPLE after the Nov. 20 show that she was “shocked” and “grateful” that everyone was able to advance to the finale. “It’s such a great group of people,” she said. “I don’t think any of us here wanted any of us to go home. We were all just excited for each other.”

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Maher told PEOPLE that after the tough competition, she was “not sure if we would make it to the finals.”

“I didn’t know how far we would go,” Bersten added. “The very first time we danced was the day before we went to New York Good morning America. We didn’t really know what we were doing, but I knew we were getting bagels afterward and I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be fun.'”

Along with unforgettable dances and emotional moments on the dance floor, season 33 of Dancing with the stars showed two possible love relationships. Model Brooks Nader and her partner Gleb Savchenko had instant chemistry at the start of the season and continued dating after their elimination on October 15. Although Brooks, 27, shared that Gleb, 41, broke up with her via text message later that month, the two continue to spend time together and post with each other on social media.

Bachelorette Jenn Tran and her Season 33 partner Sasha Farber have also developed a close bond and have often spent time together following their elimination on October 29. The 27-year-old reality star even mentioned that they were moving in together.

“Right now I need to find an apartment, and that’s probably Sasha’s couch,” Tran told Tish and Brandi Cyrus on the Nov. 14 episode of their podcast Sorry, we’re Cyrus.

Tran added that if she lives with the 40-year-old dance pro, “He’ll let me cook and clean every day. “I don’t know what to think about that, but I don’t have to pay rent.”

Both couples returned to the ballroom for the November 26 finale, as did convicted con artist Anna Delvey, who famously said she got “nothing” from the show after being the first to walk out. In the finale, she made fun of her comment by dancing to Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.”

“I really didn’t get much out of this experience,” Delvey, 33, said on the Sept. 28 episode of Tori Spelling spelling errors Podcast. “I think I had to be on the defensive, especially after all the backlash I received when I was cast on the show, even though the producers (tried to) defend me. And I think all the cast members were generally very nice to me. But in the end, I don’t know.”

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