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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAlix Earle on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ finale is from Florida<\/p>\n
Alix Earle started as a TikTok influencer while attending college in Miami. Now, she’s going to be on the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ season 34 finale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/story-highlights> Hey, Florida:\u00a0Alix Earle is (still) your “It Girl”<\/a>.<\/p>\n The “Hot Mess” podcast host and influencer is a rising star<\/a>, and in 2025 alone, she’s racked up even more accolades.<\/p>\n This year, she became the Sports Illustrated\u00a0Swimsuit Issue’s first-ever digital cover model<\/a>, a “Dancing With the Stars” season 34 finalist, and even appeared in Adam Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2” alongside a long list of A-list guest stars.<\/p>\n Here’s what to know about Alix Earle, the Florida-based influencer who’s a finalist on \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d season 34 and how to watch the finale live.<\/p>\n Florida ties on ‘DWTS’: <\/strong>Have any Floridians won a Mirrorball trophy on ‘Dancing with the Stars’? See list of stars<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n New Jersey-born Alix Earle isn\u2019t from Florida, but she did go to college here. She graduated from the University of Miami in May 2023, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in marketing. Earle is 24 years old, born on Dec. 16, 2000.<\/p>\n Her primary residence is still in Miami, but she is temporarily living in Los Angeles while filming ABC\u2019s hit reality TV competition “Dancing with the Stars” season 34.<\/p>\n Earle’s degree certainly helped her market herself as an influencer when she started posting to TikTok in 2020. Two years later, in 2022, she had more than a million TikTok followers.<\/p>\n Now, on “Dancing with the Stars,” she dances weekly to the tune of more than six million viewers on average.<\/a><\/p>\n Who\u2019s in \u2018Happy Gilmore 2\u2019? <\/strong>See list of cameos<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Alix Earle shares ‘Dancing with the Stars’ insights at 2025 MTV VMAs<\/p>\n At the 2025 MTV VMAs red carpet, Alix Earle shares details about her preparation and recovery routine for Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n Enterain This!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/media-video><\/div>\n Earle exploded into internet fame after her makeup tutorial and wardrobe-choice videos garnered millions of views and followers, with her viewership seeing its biggest jump in 2022. She launched her “Hot Mess” podcast in 2023.<\/p>\n Her internet fame began to score her courtside seats at Miami Heat games and invites to New York Fashion Week events. She now makes six figures on her slew of brand deals, just from posting promotional content on her Instagram stories,\u00a0according to the New York Times<\/a>. According to Forbes<\/a>, Earle made $8 million in 2024.<\/p>\n Since her rise to fame, Earle has gained an NFL player boyfriend, invites to red carpet events, has walked on the Sport Illustrated catwalk, graced its online cover, and appeared in a much-anticipated Adam Sandler movie (\u201cHappy Gilmore 2\u201d). She\u2019s also scored promotional deals with brands like White Fox Boutique, Revolve, Rare Beauty, Rhode Skin, Tarte, Too Faced, Poppi and Carl’s Jr. Alix Earle filmed two 2025 Super Bowl commercials for prebiotic soda brand Poppi and Carl’s Jr.<\/p>\n\n
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