The superstar forged competing for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy on “Dancing with the Stars” season 33 has been revealed.
“Good Morning America” completely introduced the total record of celebrities hitting the ballroom this season and their professional companions Wednesday.
The celebrities busting a transfer this season embody “Actual Housewives” star Phaedra Parks, “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum Tori Spelling, infamous rip-off artist Anna Delvey and extra.
Additionally within the forged are former “Bachelor” Joey Graziadei and former “Bachelorette” Jenn Tran of Bachelor Nation; actors Eric Roberts, Reginald VelJohnson and Chandler Kinney; athletes Danny Amendola and Dwight Howard; Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik; and mannequin Brooks Nader.
Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough are returning as co-hosts alongside judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough when the brand new season premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 17 on ABC.
Try the total record of celebrities competing on “DWTS” season 33 and see which professional they are going to be dancing with under.
Phaedra Parks
Professional Companion: Val Chmerkovskiy
Phaedra Parks is a lawyer and businesswoman who starred on “The Actual Housewives of Atlanta” for seven seasons between 2010 and 2017. After a meme-filled activate “The Traitors” earlier this yr, the Georgia native introduced her return to “The Actual Housewives of Atlanta” for the forthcoming sixteenth season in July.
“Everyone is aware of I am sassy, elegant and a few of my pals are a wee bit trashy, however for those who come for this Mirrorball, it can get nasty,” Parks teased to “GMA.”
Danny Amendola
Professional Companion: Witney Carson
Danny Amendola is a former NFL participant who gained two Tremendous Bowls in his profession as a large receiver for the New England Patriots. After 13 seasons within the NFL, Amendola retired in 2022. Since his retirement, Amendola competed on the truth collection “Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at” and served as a coach for the Las Vegas Raiders for one season.
To get within the “Dancing with the Stars” spirit, Amendola stood up and confirmed off a landing dance for “Good Morning America.” He slid throughout the ground with a skip and spiked a soccer on the ground as his co-stars cheered.
Amendola’s former Patriots teammate Rob Gronkowski additionally despatched him a video message of encouragement. “You convey that ‘Dola playoff power to the dance ground, you’ll [for] certain dominate, child,” stated Gronkowski.
Joey Graziadei
Professional Companion: Jenna Johnson
Joey Graziadei, a tennis coach, first joined Bachelor Nation because the runner-up of Charity Lawson’s season of “The Bachelorette.” He then led season 28 of “The Bachelor,” which ended with him engaged to Kelsey Anderson.
Graziadei conceded he feels the stress to dwell as much as the success of former Bachelors and Bachelorettes who competed on the present beforehand, however instructed “GMA” he was centered on making it to the finale.
“That is what we’ll construct in direction of,” he stated.
Ilona Maher
Professional Companion: Alan Bersten
Ilona Maher is an expert rugby participant who helped the U.S. ladies’s rugby crew to a bronze medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics. Maher is the digital cowl star for the 2024 Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Subject and has used her platform to advocate for physique positivity and produce consideration to ladies’s sports activities.
Maher referred to as the Olympics her “life objective,” however stated she’s bracing herself for the ballroom.
“I do know it will be actually powerful and demanding,” she instructed “GMA.”
Chandler Kinney
Professional Companion: Brandon Armstrong
Actress Chandler Kinney has performed Willa within the Disney Channel Unique Film franchise “Zombies” franchise since 2020’s “Zombies 2.” Kinney additionally starred as Tabitha “Tabby” Haworthe on “Fairly Little Liars: Unique Sin” and “Fairly Little Liars: Summer time College,” continuations of the favored “Fairly Little Liars” franchise.
Kinney, who revealed she danced as a baby, instructed “GMA” she was “nervous” and “excited” and complimented the gifted forged and professionals.
“I really like the present as a result of it requires showmanship and a spotlight to element,” she stated. “Everybody on the stage has confirmed they’re greater than able to that.”
Anna Delvey
Professional Companion: Ezra Sosa
Anna “Delvey” Sorokin is called the infamous so-called “faux heiress” whose monetary crimes and lavish life-style impressed the Emmy-nominated Netflix present “Inventing Anna” and was detailed within the ebook “My Good friend Anna: The True Story of a Pretend Heiress.” In 2019, Delvey was convicted on eight counts, together with grand larceny and theft of companies. She was sentenced to 12 years in jail, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay almost $200,000 in restitution. She was launched on good conduct in February 2021.
When requested what she needed viewers to learn about her, Delvey instructed “GMA,” “How good I’m at cha-cha.”
Eric Roberts
Professional Companion: Britt Stewart
Eric Roberts is an actor greatest recognized for “King of the Gypsies” (1978), “Star 80” (1983) and “Runaway Prepare” (1985), all of which earned him Golden Globe nominations and the latter incomes him an Oscar nomination for greatest supporting actor. He’s the older brother of Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts and the daddy of actress Emma Roberts.
Roberts instructed “GMA” that taking over this position was “like a mile and a half” exterior of his consolation zone. He additionally revealed that his household came upon about his “Dancing with the Stars” inclusion in actual time.
Brooks Nader
Professional Companion: Gleb Savchencko
Brooks Nader is a mannequin who has appeared within the pages of the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Subject quite a few instances since successful the Swim Search open casting name in 2019. In 2023, she was featured in a “Baywatch”-inspired picture shoot on the quilt of the journal, alongside fellow cowl fashions Megan Fox, Kim Petras and Martha Stewart.
Nader instructed “GMA” that, whereas she had some dance expertise in highschool, this is able to be “a brand new problem,” including, “I am so excited for it.”
Reginald VelJohnson
Professional Companion: Emma Slater
Reginald VelJohnson is one in every of TV’s most beloved dads, having performed Carl Winslow on “Household Issues” for 9 seasons between 1989 and 1997. He’s recognized for taking part in police officer characters, famously taking part in Al Powell in “Die Laborious” (1988) and “Die Laborious 2” (1990).
“America goes to be shocked,” VelJohnson instructed “GMA” when requested if he’s prepared for his new position.
Tori Spelling
Professional Companion: Pasha Pashkov
Actress Tori Spelling is greatest recognized for taking part in Donna Martin on “Beverly Hills, 90210” for all 10 seasons of the teenager drama, which aired from 1990 to 2000. Spelling, who has appeared within the movies “Troop Beverly Hills” (1989), “Scream 2″ (1997)” and “Scary Film 2” (2001) in addition to the ultimate “Sharknado” TV film (2018), can be a New York Occasions bestselling creator for her 2009 memoir “Stori Telling.”
Spelling spoke about her former “90210” castmates Brian Austin Inexperienced and the late Shannen Doherty, who each competed on the present in earlier seasons. Spelling stated Inexperienced provided phrases of encouragement and that she knew Doherty can be “watching.”
“I do know Shannen shall be watching over, and he or she all the time stated you bought to show your energy on. So, I am doing it now,” she instructed “GMA.”
Jenn Tran
Professional Companion: Sasha Farber
Jenn Tran is recent off “The Bachelorette” and is buying and selling roses for sequins. Having first joined Bachelor Nation on Joey Graziadei’s season of “The Bachelor,” she was named the lead of “The Bachelorette” season 21 and have become the primary Asian American lead within the franchise. Tran’s journey got here to a dramatic finish in a heartbreaking finale the place she proposed to contestant Devin Strader, just for it to be revealed within the “After the Last Rose” particular that they had break up.
Tran instructed “GMA” her expertise on “The Bachelorette” will encourage her to succeed on “Dancing with the Stars.”
“I feel heartbreak is the most effective motivator for fulfillment,” stated Tran. “I am out for blood. I am prepared.”
Dwight Howard
Professional Companion: Daniella Karagach
Dwight Howard is an expert basketball participant who has performed 18 seasons within the NBA, together with eight with the Orlando Magic. Howard gained an NBA championship in 2020 with the Los Angeles Lakers. Howard has performed skilled basketball in Taiwan since 2022, following his departure from the Lakers.
Howard instructed “GMA” he is “been dancing my complete life, however not ballroom dancing.”
On professional associate Daniella Karagach, Howard referred to as her “superb” and stated, “I am undoubtedly going to belief her, observe her lead and have a variety of enjoyable.”
Stephen Nedoroscik
Professional Companion: Rylee Arnold
Stephen Nedoroscik, who was beforehand introduced on “GMA” as a contestant final month, rose to nationwide prominence on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place he notched two bronze medals as a pommel horse specialist on the U.S. males’s gymnastics crew. In keeping with USA Gymnastics, Nedoroscik has gained 4 U.S. pommel horse titles, tying the report for many pommel horse championships in U.S. historical past.
Regardless of getting used to high-stakes competitors, Nedoroscik stated he is “actually nervous.”
“The Olympics was so demanding. It’s totally tough. However I’ve additionally by no means danced, so I am actually nervous about what is going on to occur,” he instructed “GMA,” evaluating the Olympics stage to the dance ground. “I suppose I will discover out after I step out onto the ballroom ground.”
“Dancing with the Stars” season 33 premieres Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+, with episodes streaming on Hulu the subsequent day.
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