The wait is finally over! The Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast was announced on September 4, 2024, on Good Morning America. Find out which of your favorite stars and pros will compete for the Mirrorball trophy this fall on DWTS.
Dancing With the Stars, ABC's long-running dance competition that premiered in June 2005, is set to return for Season 33 on September 17 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+. Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough will co-host once again, and Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough will return as judges.
Stephen Nedoroscik, who won the nation’s hearts at the 2024 Paris Olympics by helping Team USA secure a bronze medal, was announced as the first celebrity contestant for Season 33 in late August. “I’m very excited,” the gymnast said on GMA, adding that he answered “yes” to the opportunity to be compete in the ballroom right away.
Leading up to the cast announcement, pro dancer Witney Carson confirmed she was returning to DWTS as a pro in a video for Good Morning America on August 29, 2024. Former pros like Artem Chigvintsev (who was recently arrested for domestic violence), Peta Murgatroyd, and Lindsay Arnold will not be appearing on the show this season.
Last week, Arnold shared with me over Zoom that she’s focused on spending time with her family and two daughters but hasn’t ruled out a possible return in the future. “I’ve always said from the second I stepped away it’s never a goodbye,” the Utah native. “We’ve got a lot of crazy things on the schedule, and I just love having this time with them, soaking up every moment.” Instead, she’ll be cheering on her sister Rylee Arnold from the sidelines as she returns for her second year as a pro.
Check out the full cast of Dancing With the Stars Season 33 below.
Dancing With the Stars Season 33 Cast
Stephen Nedoroscik
Professional partner: Rylee Arnold
Known for: Nedoroscik helped the USA Men’s Gymnastics Team secure a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics with his pommel horse routine.
Anna Delvey
Professional partner: Ezra Sosa
Known for: Delvey is a convicted con artist and fraudster who inspired Netflix’s Inventing Anna.
Phaedra Parks
Professional partner: Val Chmerkovskiy
Known for: Parks appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta from 2010 to 2017 and Season 2 of Traitors.
Joey Graziadei
Professional partner: Jenna Johnson
Known for: Graziadei was The Bachelor on Season 28 of The Bachelor on ABC.
Eric Roberts
Professional partner: Britt Stewart
Known for: Roberts is a Hollywood actor who starred in Wall Street, The Dark Knight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He’s also Emma Roberts' dad and Julia Roberts' brother.
Ilona Maher
Professional partner: Alan Bersten
Known for: Maher is an American rugby union player and two-time Olympian who won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She also has 2.3 million followers on TikTok.
Danny Amendola
Professional partner: Witney Carson
Known for: Amendola is a former NFL player who won two Super Bowls as a wide receiver for the New England Patriots.
Chandler Kinney
Professional partner: Brandon Armstrong
Known for: Kinney stars in the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise “Zombies” and Pretty Little Liars reboot franchise, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.
Brooks Nader
Professional partner: Gleb Savchenko
Known for: Savchencko is a model who has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issues since winning 2019’s Swim Search open casting call.
Reginald VelJohnson
Professional partner: Emma Slater
Known for: VelJohnson is an actor who played Carl Winslow on Family Matters for nine seasons from 1989 to 1997.
Tori Spelling
Professional partner: Pasha Pashkov
Known for: Spelling is an actress best known for portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 2000.
Jenn Tran
Professional partner: Sasha Farber
Known for: Tran was the Bachelorette for the most-recent 19th season of ABC’s The Bachelorette.
Dwight Howard
Professional partner: Daniella Karagach
Known for: Howard is a professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the NBA.
The New Pro
The day before the cast announcement, GLAAD revealed that former troupe member Ezra Sosa has been promoted to a pro for Season 33 — the first Latin dance pro featured in multiple years. He first joined the series in 2021 and it changed his professional and personal life.
“When I first joined the show, I had a huge sense of imposter syndrome because at the time, I wasn’t out… and it wasn’t until this year when I realized the power, the power of being fruity and the power of just truly just being yourself,” he said. “When I first joined the show, it was the first time I was in an environment where I truly felt accepted. That has a huge sense of me becoming the person I am today.”
He also said that JoJo Siwa gave him the courage to come out after they met when she competed.
This season, he will be paired with one of the more controversial celebrities of the group, Anna Delvey, best known for going to prison for fraud — a story that came to life in 2022 with the Netflix miniseries, “Inventing Anna.”
The Judging Panel
The pairs will be judged by the returning panel of ballroom experts, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough. Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro return as hosts.
Season 33 Premiere
Let's Get Ready to Dance!
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