Five couples will compete tonight in the 32nd season finale of “Dancing With the Stars,” including Latina actress Xochitl Gomez.
The show is known for having Hollywood stars, musicians and athletes compete, partnered with ballroom dance professionals, to be crowned champion at the end of the season.
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Gomez, one of the finalists, is of Mexican descent and made her professional acting debut in 2018 with the show “Raven’s Home,” a spinoff of “That’s So Raven.”
In 2022, Gomez joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” as a queer Latina superhero, America Chavez. She has also starred in “The Baby-Sitters Club,” “Gentefied” and “Ursa Major.”
If Gomez and her dancing partner, two-time “DWTS” winner Val Chmerkovskiy, are victorious, she will become the second woman of Latino descent to win the competition.
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The other couples competing in the finale are Jason Mraz and Daniella Karagach; Ariana Madix and Pasha Pashkov; Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev; and Alyson Hannigan and Sasha Farber.
The first woman of Latino descent to win the competition was U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez in 2016. Hernandez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, won the show with Chmerkovskiy.
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In 2007, Brazilian racecar driver Helio Castroneves won, making him the first person of Latino descent to win the competition. A few years later JR Martinez, an Army veteran, won the 13th season of the show in 2011.
The finale will air on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC and Disney+.
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