Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is a reality dance competition television series that premiered 1 June 2005 on ABC. It is the American version of the British series Strictly Come Dancing. The thirty-second season premiered 26 September 2023.

Format

Each celebrity is paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges points and audience votes is usually eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

Some weeks have special themes such as Latin Night or Halloween Night. On Disney Night, the contestants dress as Disney characters and dance to songs from Disney films, sometimes with the animated characters joining them.

Cast

Hosts

The show is currently hosted by Season 19 champion Alfonso Ribeiro and co-host Julianne Hough, who replaced Tyra Banks (who hosted in Season 29 and 30) after longtime host Tom Bergeron and co-host Erin Andrews for Season 29 of the show. Erin Andrew joined the show as a co-host back in 2014 for its eighteenth season. Lisa Canning was co-host in the first season, Samantha Harris co-hosted Seasons Two through Nine and Brooke Burke-Charvet in Seasons Ten through Seventeen.

Judges

Name	Seasons
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Carrie Ann Inaba	Main
Bruno Tonioli	Main
Len Goodman	Main																					Main									Main
Julianne Hough																			Main				Main
Derek Hough																													Main

The current judges are Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, Derek Hough, Len Goodman retired as head judge after Season 31.

Several former contestants appeared as judges in Episode 200 in Season 11, including Hélio Castroneves, Mel B, Drew Lachey, Gilles Marini, Kelly Osbourne, and Emmitt Smith. Other celebrities and past contestants have appeared as a fourth judge or in the absence of one of the main judges. These include Paula Abdul, Donnie Burns, Nick Carter, Cher, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Joey Fatone, Michael Flatley, Kevin Hart, Jessie J, Rashad Jennings, Baz Luhrmann, Ricky Martin, Idina Menzel, Abby Lee Miller, Mandy Moore, Olivia Newton-John, Kenny Ortega, Donny Osmond, Pitbull, Redfoo, Leah Remini, Alfonso Ribeiro, Robin Roberts, David Ross, Shania Twain, and Zendaya.

Dance Troupe and Musicians

In Season 12, the show introduced a troupe consisting of professional dancers who perform on the show but are not paired with celebrity partners. The first troupe included Oksana Dmytrenko, Tristan MacManus, Peta Murgatroyd, Kiki Nyemchek, Nicole Volynets, and Ted Volynets. Members of the Season 27 troupe were Artur Adamski, Hayley Erbert, Britt Stewart, Morgan Larson and Vladislav Kvartin. Other past troupe members include Brandon Armstrong, Lindsay Arnold, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Henry Byalikov, Witney Carson, Brittany Cherry, Daria Chesnokova, Artem Chigvintsev, Sasha Farber, Shannon Holtzapffel, Dennis Jauch, Jenna Johnson, Kiril Kulish, Tristan MacManus, Keo Motsepe, Sonny Fredie-Pedersen, Gleb Savchenko, Emma Slater and Julz Tocker.

Key:

     Active member of the troupe

     Professional partner

Seasons

• Dancing with the Stars 1
• Dancing with the Stars 2
• Dancing with the Stars 3
• Dancing with the Stars 4
• Dancing with the Stars 5
• Dancing with the Stars 6
• Dancing with the Stars 7
• Dancing with the Stars 8
• Dancing with the Stars 9
• Dancing with the Stars 10
• Dancing with the Stars 11
• Dancing with the Stars 12
• Dancing with the Stars 13
• Dancing with the Stars 14
• Dancing with the Stars 15
• Dancing with the Stars 16
• Dancing with the Stars 17
• Dancing with the Stars 18
• Dancing with the Stars 19
• Dancing with the Stars 20
• Dancing with the Stars 21
• Dancing with the Stars 22
• Dancing with the Stars 23
• Dancing with the Stars 24
• Dancing with the Stars 25
• Dancing with the Stars: Athletes
• Dancing with the Stars 27
• Dancing with the Stars 28
• Dancing with the Stars 29

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