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Ilona Maher was Encantos Luisa on Dancing with the Stars

The fans applied pressure all season like drip, drip, drip, and finally they did it: Olympian and TikTok favorite Ilona Maher performed EncantoLuisa Madrigal continues on the Disney evening Dancing with the stars. “I really like Luisa. I also grew up a bigger woman,” she said in the rehearsal package during the Oct. 22 episode. “She’s big and wide, but she’s so beautiful. She never tries to shrink herself for the world. I’m so happy that I’m sharing this with people now.”

During the jazz routine to “Surface Pressure,” Maher carried the weight of the world – and the weight of her donkey partner Alan Bersten – on her shoulders to earn her first nine of the season from judge Carrie Ann Inaba. Now we all know that Disney loves a live-action remake. We haven't heard anything about adjustment plans yet Encanto But if it does happen, we have a humble request: No people dressed as animals, please. Forget Bruno, it should be Bersten's terrifying look further down that we're not talking about.