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‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 33 Cast Revealed: Who’s Joining?
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‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 33 Cast Revealed: Who’s Joining?

It’s time to put your ballroom shoes back on!

The cast of season 33 of Dancing with the stars was eventually unveiled on Good morning America.

The battle for the Len Goodman mirror ball trophy this season will be: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks dances with pro Val Chmerkovskiy (brother of Parks’ The traitors co-star Maksim Chmerkovskiy); Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling competed with Pasha Pashkov; Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts (brother of Julia Roberts and father of Emma Roberts) partnered with Britt Stewart; and convicted con artist Anna Delvey partnered with Ezra Sosa.

Other contestants include NBA champion Dwight Howard who dances with Daniella Karagach; former NFL wide receiver Danny Amendola who partnered with Witney Carson; Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooks Nader linked to Gleb Savchenko’ and Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher competing with Alan Bersten,

Stephen Nedoroscik, Dwight Howard and Ilona Maher.

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The season ends with 33 participants The Bachelor‘S Joey Graziadei, who will dance with Jenna Johnson; Pretty Little Liars: Summer School star Chandler Kinney alongside Brandon Armstrong; Family matters patriarch Reginald VelJohnson worked with Emma Slater; and The BacheloretteJenn Tran, who just completed her finals, dances with Sasha Farber.

Leading up to the Sept. 4 announcement, fans already knew that Olympic bronze medalist Stephen Nedoroscik would be vying for the mirrorball trophy after he was revealed as the first celebrity competitor of Season 33. Nedoroscik, also affectionately known across the internet as the “pommel horse guy,” helped Team USA win bronze in the men’s gymnastics team finals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — their first medal in 16 years. He will be paired with Rylee Arnold.

Anna Delvey, Reginald VelJohnson and Jenn Tran.

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Ahead of the cast announcement, PEOPLE exclusively confirmed that Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro will return to co-host Season 33, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough will return to the judging panel.

Ribeiro, 52, joined Dancing with the stars as co-host alongside Tyra Banks in Season 31 — the same season that saw the beloved series move to streaming on Disney+ instead of airing live on ABC, where it first debuted. His co-hosting debut comes eight years after he competed in — and won — Season 19.

Julianne, 36, joined as co-host in season 32, just days after ABC announced in March 2023 that Banks would step down as host after three seasons. The actress previously starred as a professional dancer on DWTS from 2007 to 2009. She later returned as a judge for six seasons between 2014 and 2021.

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Chandler Kinney, Danny Amendola and Brooks Nader.

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As for the judges, Inaba, 56, and Tonioli, 68, have been in office since DWTS‘ starts on ABC in June 2005.

Derek, 39, joined the series as a judge in season 29 and has remained on the judging panel ever since. He was originally a professional dancer on the series from seasons 5 through 11. Although he took a hiatus for season 12, he returned for seasons 13 through 21 and again in season 23.

In September 2020, it was announced that he would return to the show as a judge. “This show is and always will be incredibly special to me,” Derek said in a statement at the time. “Coming back feels like coming home and I couldn’t be more excited to be back in the ballroom.”

Joey Graziadei.

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Dancing with the stars is produced in front of a live audience by BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions. Season 33 premieres Tuesday, September 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+, with the episode available to stream the following day on Hulu.