Lance Bass settles for third-place finish on "Dancing With the Stars"

Hard to believe the season is over! And I barely watched any of it. Prop. 8 and the election just made things like reality shows not real important to me suddenly.; But I did monitor Lance's progress as the first openly gay celebrity to compete on the show. Remember the silliness over whether or not he'd dance with a MAN?

On the end, ballroom bragging rights belong to first-place winner to Brooke Burke with football great Warren Sapp.

Lance and partner Lacey Schwimmer were always pushing boundaries which did not make them popular with the judges but the viewers loved them.

"This has been the most fun I've ever had in my entire life," Lance, who will be heading out on the DWTS tour this winter, said afterward. "You got me here," Lacey, capping off a successful debut, told him. "It's my first season, and I couldn't be more proud of you. I love you."