Dancing With The Stars Season 21 Cast, Spoilers, Recap

Oct 07, 2015 06:50 PM EDT

Ever since Dancing With The Stars Season 21 premiere kicked off on ABC last September, viewers have eagerly awaited which couple stands next in line to win the highly desired Mirror Ball trophy.

MLive reports that competitors of Dancing With The Stars will all be doing eye-popping moves and smooth steps that will raise every Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Salsa, Quickstep and Jive dance lover's envy.

The couples vying for the much coveted prize are: Alek Skarlatos & Lindsay Arnold; Alexa PenaVega & Mark Ballas; Andy Grammer & Allison Holker; Bindi Irwin & Derek Hough; Carlos PenaVega & Witney Carson; Chaka Khan & Keo Motsepe; Gary Busey & Anna Trebunskaya; Hayes Grier & Emma Slater; Kim Zolciak Biermann & Tony Dovolani; Nick Carter & Sharna Burgess; Paula Deen & Louis van Amstel; Tamar Braxton & Valentin Chmerkovskiy; and Victor Espinoza & Karina Smirnoff.

So far, the rabid Dancing With The Stars audience has already made their favorite known: Nick Carter is reportedly topping the list with Paula Deen and Gary Busey unfortunately crawling at the tail end.

Meanwhile, the very popular celebrity dance series Dancing With The Stars  took on a very sober note when Bindy Irwin movingly dedicated her performance to her belated father, the much celebrated "Crocodile Dundee" of Australia's Steve Irwin, International Business Times reports.

Steve Irwin passed away in September of 2006 when his encounter with a stingray went awry. During the time of his death, audiences saw Bindy as an adorable little girl.

Bindi performed a stellar dance routine at Dancing With The Stars to the tune of song Every Breath You Take, and in doing so commemorated the memory of the world's most loved crocodile tamer. "What shaped me the most would be when my dad passed away," Bindi reportedly said. "I think that I'm kind of ready to tell that story."

Meanwhile judges were blown away by the couple's dance moves. Julianne Hough said that the performance "took her breath away," while Carrie Ann Inaba called them "a bright light dance with beauty and passion."

Bindi and Derek so far has the highest score of in Dancing With The Stars on Week 4.