'Dancing With the Stars' Season 23 Cast: Ryan Lochte Reveals Who He Thinks Will Win [VIDEO]
Ryan Lochte is predicting which celebrities will make it to the Dancing With the Stars finale.
Lochte and his pro dancing partner, Cheryl Burke, were eliminated from Dancing With the Stars on Monday, coming in seventh place overall. With six couples left in the competition, Lochte already has his three he thinks will go all the way.
"I honestly think Laurie Hernandez could win this season, just because she's a 16-year-old ball of energy," Lochte wrote in his Yahoo blog this week. "But James Hinchcliffe is the best male dancer they've seen on this show, so he could possibly win. And then Calvin Johnson, the improvements that he's showing every week have been amazing. If I had to choose who will make it to the finals it would be Laurie, James, and Calvin, but you never know. Anything can happen."
That leaves out Marilu Henner and Derek Hough, Jana Kramer and Gleb Savchenko and Terra Jole and Sasha Farber. Each of these other three couples has had a standout moment thus far on the show, including Henner's Viennese waltz, Kramer's Argentine tango and Jole's contemporary. But these three are also at the bottom right now, with Hernandez, Hinchcliffe and Johnson all receiving perfect scores on Monday.
As the competition goes on, Lochte is already reflecting on what the experience meant to him, especially following the media frenzy over his gas station vandalism at the Rio Olympics.
"Being on this show has made me realize more things about myself that I didn't know, and also it made me go back into the public eye and made me feel comfortable and confident in myself," he wrote in his blog. "Being surrounded by so many positive people is definitely something that I'm going to remember forever."
Dancing With the Stars airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
