Benjamin Vu
EE Senior Entertainment Editor
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 was a big night for reality competition shows. Both ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and NBC’s The Voice crowned the winners of the show.
The winner of season 10 of The Voice was Alisan Porter. Her coach was Christina Aguilera. This would be the first time that a female judge had ever won the show. In the past, Blake Shelton, Usher, Adam Levine, and Pharrel Williams have all won the show at least once. Shelton and Levine have won multiple times.
Alisan Porter was a frontrunner on the show throughout the season with standout performances week after week. She got all four chairs at her Blind Auditions and had her studio version of her performance reach the Top 10 on iTunes six times.
Before coming onto the show, Porter was a child actress and was known for her lead role as Curly Sue in the 1991 movie, Curly Sue. She was also the youngest participant ever to win Star Search at age five.
The winner of Season 22 of Dancing with the Stars are Nyle DiMarco and his partner Peta Murgatroyd. This was Murgatroyd’s second time winning the show.
DiMarco amazed the judges and the audience with his amazing dance skills every week. In addition to the hard task of learning the dance routines quickly, DiMarco faced an additional obstacle in his path – being deaf. DiMarco had to learn ballroom dances to music he could not even hear.
Despite his disability, DiMarconsistently scored highly and was near the top of the leaderboard. His handicap did not ever stop him and he hoped to be a role model for other deaf people.
Before winning the show, DiMarco was the winner of Season 22 of America’s Next Top Model.