What occurs when 4 athletes, an ex-con and some actuality stars stroll right into a ballroom? Viewers will discover out on “Dancing With the Stars” Season 33!
The pairs {of professional} dancers and celebrities competing within the new season had been unveiled on “Good Morning America” Wednesday morning.
The day earlier than the forged announcement, GLAAD revealed that former troupe member Ezra Sosa has been promoted to a professional for Season 33 — the primary Latin dance professional featured in a number of years. He first joined the collection in 2021 and it modified his skilled and private life.
“After I first joined the present, I had an enormous sense of imposter syndrome as a result of on the time, I wasn’t out… and it wasn’t till this yr after I realized the ability, the ability of being fruity and the ability of simply actually simply being your self,” he stated. “After I first joined the present, it was the primary time I used to be in an setting the place I actually felt accepted. That has an enormous sense of me changing into the individual I’m at this time.”
He additionally stated that JoJo Siwa gave him the braveness to return out after they met when she competed.
This season, he will probably be paired with one of many extra controversial celebrities of the group, Anna Delvey, greatest recognized for going to jail for fraud — a narrative that got here to life in 2022 with the Netflix miniseries, “Inventing Anna.”
The pairs will probably be judged by the returning panel of ballroom specialists, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough. Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro return as hosts.
Season 33 debuts on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesday, Sept. 17, obtainable to stream the subsequent day on Hulu. “Dancing with the Stars” is produced by BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions.
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