Alfonso Ribeiro is wanting ahead to a different 12 months of cohosting Dancing With the Stars alongside Julianne Hough.
“I can’t wait to sort out that stage with Julianne. The each of us collectively — particularly during the last 12 months — we’ve gotten to be actually shut associates, and we get pleasure from working with one another,” Ribeiro, 52, solely instructed Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 27, whereas selling his partnership with Bob Evans. “I feel it’s going to be a magical season for the each of us.”
Ribeiro gained season 19 of DWTS alongside accomplice Witney Carson in 2014 earlier than returning to cohost season 31 with Tyra Banks in 2022. Hough, 36, took over for Banks, 50, for season 32 in 2023. Though profitable the mirrorball trophy was thrilling, Ribeiro is completely satisfied to be in his internet hosting period.
“I like internet hosting as a result of that job will get to come back again yearly. Competing, you get one shot at it,” he stated. “I really like this job. Changing into a number has been, actually, I feel what I used to be destined to do from the start. I feel all the opposite jobs I’ve executed in my life sort of led as much as me turning into a number and permitting me to try this particular job.”
Ribeiro added that he loves being a part of “the highs and lows” and attending to “actually join with the professionals and the celebrities” all through the competitors. The Recent Prince of Bel-Air alum is wanting ahead to the season 33 solid reveal and approves of the primary casting announcement: Olympic gymnast and pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik.
Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro Disney/Andrew Eccles
“So excited to have him,” Ribeiro stated of Nedoroscik, 25. “Yearly it’s at all times a terrific solid.”
One enjoyable facet of Ribeiro’s internet hosting job is that his household will get to observe him in motion.
“My spouse [Angela Unkrich] involves just about each dancing present,” he stated. “We used to go collectively once I was [an audience member] between profitable the present and turning into part of the present. We’d go and simply sit within the viewers and benefit from the present.”
Ribeiro’s 4 children — daughter Sienna, 21, whom he shares with ex-wife Robin Stapler, and sons Alfonso Jr., 10, and Anders, 9, and daughter Ava, 9, whom he shares with Unkrich — additionally make appearances within the ballroom.
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“It’s nice to see them within the viewers. It’s good for me to point out them what I do,” the actor stated. “After I’m at dwelling, I’m simply dad. I’m not Alfonso Ribeiro, the host, no matter — I’m simply dad. And so it’s good once I can sort of simply present them, ‘That is what Daddy does.’”
Regardless of his busy schedule, Ribeiro’s precedence is “at all times household first.” In terms of internet hosting household gatherings, like a Labor Day cookout, he loves the comfort and high quality of Bob Evans meals.
“Bob Evans Baked Macaroni and Cheese is at all times a terrific Labor Day meal that everybody’s going to like, and you are able to do something you need with it. You may put bacon in it, you’ll be able to add no matter you need in it,” stated Ribeiro. “I feel the important thing at all times is having the ability to get it executed shortly, straightforward. If you must make extra, you are able to do it shortly. And clearly, the Bob Evans aspect [dishes], you can also make it in 10 minutes … however you’re not decreasing your high quality of style and delight. [It’s] all in regards to the folks that you’ve over and sharing day and [the] assist of your loved ones and associates.”
Season 33 of Dancing With the Stars premieres on ABC and Disney+ Tuesday, September 17, at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Sarah Jones