Meet the celebrity cast for the new season of Dancing with the Stars!

September 2, 2020

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JUST ANNOUNCED: Meet the celebrity cast for the new season of Dancing with the Stars:


It’s time to dust off those dancing shoes!

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Live on Good Morning America, ABC today announced the Dancing with the Stars season 2020 celebrity cast. The series, featuring new host and executive producer Tyra Banks, will return to the ballroom with a lineup of celebrities including a Grammy® winner, a Bachelorette, a big-cat lover-turned-reality TV star and a football legend, to name a few. The new celebrity cast will add some glitzy bling to their wardrobe and break in their dancing shoes as the show kicks off live on Monday, September 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

The celebrities heading to the ballroom this season are as follows:

Head coach Monica Aldama (CHEER)
Animal activist Carole Baskin (Tiger King)
Kaitlyn Bristowe (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette)
Super Bowl Champion Vernon Davis
TV and film actress Anne Heche
Disney Channel actress Skai Jackson
Actress Justina Machado (One Day at a Time)
Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean
Emmy® Award-winning host of The Real and sideline correspondent on Holey Moley Jeannie Mai
TV and film actor Jesse Metcalfe
Grammy-winning rapper Nelly
TV host Nev Schulman (Catfish)
NBA superstar Charles Oakley (The Last Dance)
Actress Chrishell Stause (Selling Sunset)
Olympic figure skater and on-air commentator Johnny Weir

The professional dancers heading to the ballroom this season are as follows:

Brandon Armstrong
Alan Bersten
Sharna Burgess
Cheryl Burke
Artem Chigvintsev
Val Chmerkovskiy
Sasha Farber
Jenna Johnson
Daniella Karagach
Keo Motsepe
Peta Murgatroyd
Pasha Pashkov
Gleb Savchenko
Emma Slater
Britt Stewart

Tune in to the premiere to find out which celebrities and professional dancers have been paired together. Judges Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli will also be returning this season, and episodes will be available the next day on demand and on Hulu.

So what do you think? Will you be watching?

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Michele Atwood Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Main Street Mouse
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