Janel Parrish is hopeful she can win Dancing with the Stars' nineteenth season with partner Val Chmerkovskiy, but she thinks one of the two other finalists may stand in her way of the trophy.
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"I've always thought and I still think Alfonso Ribeiro is probably the one to beat," Parrish wrote in her People blog.
Ribeiro is partnered with Witney Carson, while the other couple that remains is Sadie Robertson and her partner Mark Ballas.
"Everybody that is left in the competition is a very strong competitor. Everybody has worked so hard, and everybody wants it just as bad as the next person, so it could really be anybody's game. I'm just really grateful to still be a part of it," said the actress and Pretty Little Liars star.
In fact, Parrish admitted she had never expected to make it this far -- to the actual finale, which airs Tuesday night on ABC.
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"I'm kind of surprised I stuck around this long. Honestly, my goal was just to make it through each week, and now I have a new goal, which is to win. Now that it's actually here and it's in sight, I want to go all the way and I want to go all the way with Val and I want us to win," she explained.
"I'm so proud of all the work I've done to make it this far. Now at this point I think any of us can win... I know that I did everything I could possibly do, and no matter what, I got what I wanted. I wanted to enjoy the journey all the way to the end and that's what I've done, so I'm going to be happy with the outcome whatever it is, but obviously I am hopeful that we will win!"
Parrish said her journey on the show has been "amazing and exciting," and so she's "really sad" for it to come to an end.
Parrish and Chmerkovskiy finished in third place on the judges' leaderboard during Monday night's broadcast of the first half of Season 19's finale. They received 77 out of 80 possible points from the Dancing with the Stars judges, which included a perfect score of 40 points for their intimate contemporary freestyle.
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