The cast is announced. The big news – Derek is back! (But no Maks!)
The big WTF star is Andy Dick. Seriously, Andy Dick?
And Tristan got Dorothy Hamill.
Wynonna Judd (paired with Tony Dovolani)
D.L. Hughley (Cheryl Burke)
Jacoby Jones (Karina Smirnoff)
Lisa Vanderpump (Gleb Savchenko)
Andy Dick (Sharna Burgess)
Victor Ortiz (Lindsay Arnold of “So You Think You Can Dance”)
Zendaya Coleman (Disney Channel, “Shake it Up”; with Val Chmerkovskiy)
Aly Raisman (Mark Balas)
Ingo Rademacher (“General Hospital”; with Kym Johnson)
Kellie Pickler (Derek Hough)
Dorothy Hamill (Olympic star, figure skating; with Tristan McaManus)
Heh. There’s a list lower down on the linked page where rumored contestants are listed, with IDs –
Andy Dick – Comedian, “Celebrity Rehab”
Lisa Vanderpump – Appears on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
D.L. Hughley – Comedian
Wynonna Judd – Country music star
Kellie Pickler – Former “American Idol” singer
Aly Raisman – One of U.S.A. Olympic team’s “fierce five.”
Jacoby Jones – Baltimore Ravens wide receiver
Victor Ortiz – Boxer
Kelli Pickler is from the 2006 Idol season and she also went on to be a country singer like Wynonna. So far Kelli has released three albums and I look forward to seeing both her and Wynonna show the world what they have on the dance floor.
That’s two country stars, right? Hopefully, they’ll split the country vote and/or at least one will have rhythm.
Surprised that Derek is back. And it seems like they’re stacking the deck for Mark to win. Placing Andy Dick (who is an awful personality) with a new pro seems mean. And Tristan gets another “woman of a certain age.”
One of the professional dancer’s credits was that she was 8th on So You Think You Can Dance. Guess any cross-over audience is a good thing. Anybody remember LINDSAY ARNOLD from SYTYCD?
Dorthy Hamill should do really well if she’s still in reasonable shape. Is she still in the Ice Capades shows? I know she bought the Ice Capades and was starring as Cinderella in 1993.
Mark gets the gymnast this season. She’ll be tough to beat.
I’m a fan of Pickler. Love her music. I hope there’s some dance talent there.
Watch out for Jacoby Jones. I’m expecting that he’ll be as good as Hines Ward. Especially with Karina training him. They should be fun to watch.
Kym is on this seasons Australian Apprentice. She’ll have to return for the live finale filming in a couple months.
Did some checking and Dorothy is still skating. She should be in good shape. She’s not in her thirties like Kristi Yamaguchi was on dwts, but I think Dorothy will surprise people… I’m looking forward to seeing Tristan with a good partner.
First, please don’t change my words inside of quotes.
Second, I like Sara Evans’s music and Billy Ray Cyrus’s attitude but both of them were awful dancers whose fanbases kept them in far longer than their dancing ability and/or improvement warranted. I would personally rather like to see all of the contestants dance well and get better from week to week. However, if someone really, really, unquestionably doesn’t, I do get a bit annoyed with their fans who keep voting for them anyway.
Sorry; I thought that the parentheses was a permitted (and understood) convention. I wasn’t trying to change the OP’s meaning, merely to indicate a pattern I thought I had spotted.