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'Dancing With the Stars' winner Jennifer Grey: 'My doctors kept putting me together'
For "Dancing With the Stars" Season 11 champ Jennifer Grey, the show was an uphill battle until the last 10 minutes of the 2-hour finale. Just 24-hours earlier, she ruptured a disc during a performance.
Zap2it was in the ballroom when Grey and partner Derek Hough spoke with the press after their win, and both seem plenty relieved that the 50-year-old could finally take it easy.
"I think it might have been one of those flips or kicks or splits," Grey says, with a blue icepack slid behind her tasseled pants. "When you dance with a 25-year-old, it's a risk you take."
But now that show is over, so is any anxiety over the toll on her body. Thanking Derek, her family and the fans, Grey is quick to point out the small group who really kept her in the game. "My doctors kept putting me together," she says.
Looking back on the experience, Grey says that, win or lose, she got what she wanted from the series. "The destination for me was the journey," she says, "and in the truest since of the word, this journey was the gift... It's so much fun, glamour and sillyniess. It's a great gift to be part of a show that gives people so much joy."
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I didnt watch the whole show. When everyone reported on the pop vote margin between Bristol and Jennifer - small with Bristol ahead - i knew that the judges had an opportunity to equalize that. Since they couldnt give less than an 8 the least anyone could get was 24 and the most ws 30...now i was for Kyle but his first dance was sloppy - looked tired - Bristols was improved and Jennifers as as good as before but she looked off too - so when Kyle was scored over Bristol and Jen got that 30 i knew how it was going to come out and i'm not really a Christine Aguilera fan so i went to be.
Thank goodness, in the end, the viewers did the right thing and the right pair won. Congrats to Jennifer and Derek on a well-deserved 1st place finish!
so happy the best & most deserving couple won!Loved Derek's choreography & Jennifer was amazing & a pure joy to watch graceful & stunning as always. She made season 11 so very special.Jennifer & Derek is the the best couple ever on DWTS!!!!
Jennifer deserved all the perfect scores from the judges.Obviously millions of viewers feel the same way, she won the trophy after all the hard work & perseverance.On you tube,her amazing Viennese waltz has reached over a million views, her other dance routines have quite a great number of viewers too.Derek's chreography was amazing & Jennifer is phenomenal & amazing!.
will surely be missing Jennifer Grey n DWTS upcoming season & all others thereafter.She and Derek were awesome on season 11.