Lisa Ann Walter: ‘Dance Your A** Off’ Season Finale Full Of Big Surprises

On Monday night, “Dance Your A** Off’s” final three – Adamme, LaToya and Michael — will compete for the big $100,000 prize, and according to judge and show creator Lisa Ann Walter, no one is a sure bet to waltz away with the cash.

“They bumped up their performance level for show time, I would say, double,” Lisa Ann told AccessHollywood.com of the reality show’s big finale, which airs at 10 PM on Oxygen.

Season 2 has been full of fierce competitors, but the final three made a big impression on the viewers and the judges.

Adamme started out the competition a big, bubbly personality with a flair for hair, turning up with fantastical follicles at every rehearsal and especially on competition nights. As the weeks went by though, the Las Vegas-based gent began shedding major weight from his original 301.8-pound frame, and in the process ended up looking like an Aztec warrior rocking it out the dance floor.

“I think I was the first one to call him a warrior,” Lisa Ann laughed. “For me it, it came out from him in how he took on the challenges and his attitude. There was never a complaint, there was never a pity party coming from him… He became aggressive about going after the challenge each week and it brought other people to him.”

Michael, the charming Southerner who previously toured with Britney Spears as her “Master of Ceremonies,” also came back from elimination to win a spot in the finals. Upon his return, he not only floored his fellow contestants with his jaw-dropping physical transformation, but with the change in how he presented himself to the world.

“His journey was to have a different idea of himself,” Lisa Ann explained. “He didn’t have a boring sort of character that he created for himself. His world was very exciting. He was touring with Britney Spears, he had a very funny over the top [personality]…

“One of the things he had to challenge himself with was that he could be somebody who also could demand for himself the full experience of being in a relationship, having real love,” she continued “There’s a big look-ism thing with gay men and he had… decided that he was gonna be the funny fat guy and that was gonna define him… You don’t see it on the show, but his back and forth with me on the floor [was about] — ‘You have sexiness, you have power, you have much more than the world that you have decided you are comfortable living in, so use all of it,’ and you see that at the end, it’s really sort of amazing.”

As for LaToya, who started out the competition at 217 pounds, her journey was about finding a confidence she lost.

“I don’t even know if this is about the $100,000 [for LaToya]. It was about proving to herself and to the world: ‘I am a dancer’,” Lisa Ann said. “And I think it goes back to when she quit [dancing at 21]… I think what it was, she created in her head… they were this and they were that and she helped to push herself out and this was her way of finding her way back to dance. It’s her God. It is her way of knowing God.”

While LaToya, Adamme and Michael will strut their stuff on Monday night’s finale, the one thing the show won’t be showing is backstabbing among the finalists.

“The competition on this show, to me, always felt like it was people competing against themselves… They were competing against life long limitations that they put on themselves and ways that they thought of themselves and whatever they were fighting against,” Lisa Ann said. “People are self aware and what they are battling is themselves more than each other.”