Television personality Brooke Burke has become the third female participant on “Dancing with the Stars” to take home the coveted mirror-ball trophy, joining Kelly Monaco and Kristi Yamaguchi.

It did appear that any of the three remaining dancing couples could win the much desired title this seventh season of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” yet it was television host and model Brooke Burke and her professional dancing partner Derek Hough who received the mirror-ball trophy from the judges and audience.

The other two pairs, NFL star Warren Sapp and his professional dancing partner Kym Johnson, and former boy band member Lance Bass and his partner Lacey Schwimmer were crowd favorites as well, had excellent scores and words of praise from judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.

The samba and freestyle Burke and Hough performed on Monday’s show earned them 58 out of 60 points and Tuesday’s dance, the Viennese waltz to close the season, won them another perfect score. The pair obtained 88 points out of 90 for their last three dances. Viewers, who account for 50 percent of the total score, were also clearly on their side as well.

Sapp and Johnson finished second, performing the hustle on Tuesday and earning 80 out of 90 points in the final round of dances. Judge Len Goodman consoled them by saying they were the public’s champion. Bass and Schwimmer finished third, despite beating Burke in a previous episode. The final jitterbug they performed earned them a total of 81 out of 90 points.

Brooke Burke is only the third female participant to take home the mirror ball trophy, after season one’s Kelly Monaco and season six’s Kristi Yamaguchi. Amazingly enough, the athletic looking and slim 37-year-old is mother to four children, having given birth to her youngest, a son, in March.

Other celebrity participants this season were comedian Jeffrey Ross, television actor Ted McGinley, reality star Kim Kardashian, actresses Cloris Leachman (at 82, the oldest participant ever on “Dancing with the Stars”) and Susan Lucci, actor Cody Linley, Olympic gold medalists Maurice Greene and Misty May-Treanor, singer Toni Braxton and celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito.