Since Peta Murgatroyd can’t win “Dancing with the Stars” anymore, she hopes Hannah Brown does. The pro, who was eliminated in Week 4 with Lamar Odom, tells Yahoo Entertainment that while she considers Brown and James Van Der Beek the front-runners, she’s pulling for the ex-Bachelorette, with whom she became fast friends on the show.

“I definitely have a special friendship with Hannah that started from the very beginning,” Murgatroyd revealed. “I think she’s a great girl. She’s such a hard worker. It’s insane the amount of hours that she is putting in and also coming from a reality show, ‘The Bachelorette,’ and coming on to another one, I think she has handled that so well. I’m rooting for her, because she’s got everything it takes to be the winner of ‘Dancing with the Stars.'”

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Still, the two-time champ believes “a lot of other people” could sneak up to claim the Mirrorball trophy, though she didn’t name names. Murgatroyd says it’ll come down to who handles crunch time the best in the last three weeks. “How you handle the stress? How is your partnership standing up and your friendship? Can you go the full ride together?” she said. “It is all about how close you can connect and stay connected with your partner and not get distracted by all the craziness that is surrounding you.”

Murgatroyd will be at the Nov. 25 finale and will reunite with Odom for the first time since their elimination. They’ve kept in touch, but haven’t seen each other because the former NBA star has moved back to Atlanta. “We’ve been texting each other, saying ‘Miss you, miss you,’ and I can’t wait to see him again,” Murgatroyd said. “And next time he’s in L.A. we’re gonna do, like, a double date sort of situation.”

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