Fab Five perform in "America's Got Talent" finals

Host Nick Cannon chats with the Fab Five. (Credit: NBC)

IT MAY HAVE BEEN their last hurrah, but the Fab Five went out on top of their game on Monday night.

The five clogging Whitear sisters are decided underdogs on “America’s Got Talent,” but you would never have known it from their performance on the finals of the NBC talent show. Veva Ahlstrom, Cambria Gibson, Ayrion Meyers, Shaundalee Morgan and LaChere Vawdrey wowed the crowd and the judges with their high-energy, circus-themed performance — complete with backup dancers/acrobats and bursts of flame.

The judges lavished praise on them, although, truthfully, the judges lavished praise on pretty much all of the 10 acts vying for the top prize. But none of them proclaimed the Fab Five a favorite to win the million dollars and the contract to headline a show in Las Vegas.

“You girls belong in Vegas,” judge Sharon Osbourne said. “However, this competition tonight is so tough.”

David Hasselhoff called them “terrific.” But the judge who gushed over them the most was Piers Morgan, normally the toughest of the three. He remarked that the sisters appeared to be “the best of friends,” and that that has given them a “tremendous chemistry.”

“When you dance together, it’s like you’re one,” he said. “And it’s amazingly infectious. And I also think what we’re seeing is an act that’s put more hours into what they do than probably any other act, and it shows.”

The winner, chosen by viewers’ votes, will be announced in a two-hour episode that airs Wednesday at 7 p.m. on NBC/Ch. 5.