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What does one do after spending about 14 weeks working on Dancing With the Stars?

Get some much needed rest.

"I definitely need a break to allow my ankle to heal properly for about a couple of weeks," Mya told me earlier today during a break from rehearsing tonight's finale.

Mya and partner Dmitry Chaplin proved last night why they are this season's best dancers. They nabbed two perfect scores for their paso doble and the megamix, and a 27 for their Hairspray freestyle.

And Mya is also fun to talk to—no matter how tired she may be. I'm going to miss waking up to her voice every Tuesday morning. Read on for the last of our exclusive weekly chats.

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It's happy feet time!

With just a couple of days to go until the disco ball trophy is handed out on Dancing With the Stars, we thought we'd check in with some DWTS vets to find out what they think will go down when Mya, Donny and Kelly waltz as if their lives depended on it…

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Mya definitely wants to make it to next week's Dancing With the Stars finals, but she's also kinda looking forward to the day when it all comes to an end.

"I'm very nervous because if I make it to the finals, we have four dances next week," Mya told me earlier today. "It's going to be another hell week, and our bodies are so broken down."

But not so broken down that it prevented her from coming in first place last night with an 87 out of a possible 90 between three different dances. But the best part has to be that she and her partner, Dmitry Chaplin, have really won over Mr. Grumpy Len Goodman.

Read on to find out what Mya thinks about Len admiring her backside, the possibility of Dmitry going completely shirtless and why she needs to watch the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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Sure, Mya and Dmitry Chaplin grabbed a perfect 30 with their '70s-themed samba on last night's Dancing With the Stars, but the singer says Donny Osmond was the real star of the night.

"Donny and Kym Johnson rocked the house," Mya told me earlier this morning. "It was hilarious with Donny and his Jheri curl. He was like Michael Jackson, George Michael, Prince and Boy George all wrapped up in one."

But Chaplin's mustache also made quite the impression. Read on for more of this week's installment of my exclusive morning-after chats with Ms. Mya…

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It seems Len Goodman has it out for Mya and Dmitry Chaplin. Week after week, the resident grumpy judge of Dancing With the Stars always finds something wrong with their performance.

But Mya isn't letting it get to her. "If I fell on my face I might be embarrassed, but I'm happy and proud of myself for coming this far," she told me this morning. "I don't care what other people have to say."

Besides, Mr. Goodman isn't Mya's biggest concern right now—the flu is! It's already struck Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer. Donnie Osmond also talked last night about feeling a bit under the weather.

Yikes!

Find out what Mya has to say about staying healthy, meeting Cloris Leachman and next week's plan to perform two dances.

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Mya and Dmitry Chaplin knew going into last night's Dancing With the Stars that they probably wouldn't be getting a perfect 30 for their jitterbug.

They correctly predicted that judge Len Goodman would have a problem with Mya's feather-dusting and Dmitry's sweeping at the start of their performance.

"We were like, 'Oh, well!' " Mya told me this morning during our weekly exclusive morning-after chat. "Last week they said we lacked character, so this week we gave them characters. It was, Let's do a little bit of acting for the audience and people at home."

That's not all I have for you from Ms. Mya. Read on to find out why Dmitry is in pain, what's it like meeting Michael Jackson's mother and why the group dance-off at the end of the show almost left Mya hurlin' her cookies.

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Kelly Osbourne wasn't the only one hurting from last night's Dancing With the Stars.

Mya tells me the Argentine tango has left her and Dmitry Chaplin painfully black and blue. "My body is very sore from kicking each other," she told me this morning during our exclusive weekly postperformance chat. "There are tons of bruises on my legs. That's why I wore fishnets."

As for Dmitry, Mya clocked him where it really hurts at least five times during rehearsals. "My focus last night was, don't step on Dmitry's feet and don't kick him in the nuts," Mya said. "I was so nervous because a guy can't dance through that. He'd be hunched over."

Luckily, she avoided contact with the family jewels during their performance. Even so, Mya says she may be picking up a special gift for Dmitry to prepare for next week's jitterbug. Read on to find out what it is, plus get more details on Kelly O.'s injury… 

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If anyone out there is still holding out hope that Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff will get back together, there's probably a better chance of seeing Tom DeLay doing a jive on next week's Dancing With the Stars.

It just ain't happenin', folks!

Maks made that pretty clear when we caught up with him at last night's Free the Slaves Freedom Awards at the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium in L.A.

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Mya has no plans to pull a Miley Cyrus and ditch Twitter.

Even if it means getting tweets from men who are in...prison?!

"After our lambada last night, it was like, um, 'Oh jeez,' " Mya laughed earlier this morning during our exclusive weekly chat. "I didn't know they have Twitter in jail. The messages were off the train!"

Even so, she says, "I'm staying on Twitter."

I've got more Mya for ya. Read on to find out why she's kinda starting to ignore judge Len Goodman, what she wanted to do to Derek Hough's nipples last night and her thoughts about that rumored on-set showmance between Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff...

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Happy almost birthday, Mya.

Friends threw our Dancing With the Stars pal an early surprise party for her 30th last night at L.A. hot spot Coco De Ville. (The actual big day is Oct. 10.)

"We were just having dinner at STK and we came over and it was, 'Happy Birthday!'" Mya said. "There were balloons everywhere and some old acquaintances that I hadn't been in touch with in a while."

But, of course, there was a gaggle of new friends from DWTS…

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Mya and her Dancing With the Stars partner, Dmitry Chaplin, have a lot to live up to next week. Their high-spirited jive landed them in a first-place tie last night with Aaron Carter and Karina Smirnoff, with a near perfect score of 27.

They'll be dancing a rumba next. "I'm not sure if it can be as impactful," Mya says. "It's not a fast number, so…to actually entertain a crowd with a slower song, I'm not sure. I'm kind of nervous."

The rumba, however, is a much sexier and sensual dance. "Dmitry is not a hard person to look at, so that's very helpful," Mya says with a laugh. "You just put yourself in a zone and start thinking about crushes to try and get into the moment."

That's not all I have for you from Ms. Mya. Read on to find out about her DWTS-related bruises, why she's seeing a doctor on a regular basis and her new, carb-loaded diet...

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Dancing With the Stars resident grouch Len Goodman came down hard last night on Mya and Dmitry Chaplin's Viennese waltz because he thought it wasn't traditional enough.

His words may have been harsh, but Mya didn't know what the heck he was growling about, especially since Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba raved about their performance.

"I don't know what to say, because I don't even know what he's talking about," Mya says. "He was talking in technical terms, and I don't understand any of it. Dmitry has to translate for me."

That's not all we have for you from Ms. Mya. In the first of our exclusive postperformance chats with the 29-year-old singer, we talk about her stitched-up finger, getting a much needed massage and…Dmitry's nipples.

Read on for all the Dancing details…

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