Dancing With the Stars 2024 Cast: Meet All the Season 33 Contestants
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From Olympians to Real Housewives to Bachelors to supermodels, the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast has it all — but which celebrity will take home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy? Read on for what each Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast member’s claim to fame is and which contestant has already been met with controversy.
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Meet the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast
Stephen Nedoroscik
Pro partner: Rylee Arnold
Job: Olympic gymnast
Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik was the first Dancing With the Stars Season 33. The two-time Olympic bronze medalist from Worcester, Massachusetts—who is best known for competing in the pommel horse—was announced as a Dancing with the Stars contestant on Good Morning America on August 22, 2024. “I want to bring some of that gymnastics — maybe a backflip or handstand. I want to have fun with it,” he told Good Morning America at the time. Nedoroscik—who was compared to Clark Kent / Superman for his glasses and strength during the Olympics—is paired with professional partner (and former pro Lindsay Arnold’s younger sister), Rylee Arnold, who joined Dancing With the Stars in Season 32.
Eric Roberts
Pro partner: Britt Stewart
Job: Actor — The King of Gypsies; Runaway Train
Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts—best known for movies like Runaway Train, Star 80, King of the Gypsies, The Pope of Greenwich Village, and Best of the Best—was announced as an official cast member on Dancing With the Stars Season 33 on September 4,2024. He was previously rumored to be a contestant by Entertainment Tonight. He is also the brother of actor Julia Roberts and father to actor Emma Roberts. He’s paired with professional partner Britt Stewart, who joined in Season 29.
Joey Graziadei
Pro partner: Jenna Johnson
Job: Reality TV star — The Bachelor
Joey Graziadei, a reality TV star best known as the Season 28 Bachelor, was officially announced as a Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast member on September 4, 2024. Graziadei, who was also the runner-up of The Bachelorette Season 20, will compete on Dancing With the Stars with his ex, Jenn Tran, who was a finalist on his Bachelor season and was the lead of The Bachelorette Season 21. Prior to his official announcement, Graziadei was asked about whether he would compete on Dancing With the Stars in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “Possibly. Like I said, I just did a year of reality TV so I’m okay taking a little break,” he said. “But if that call comes, we’ll talk it over; we’ll see if it could happen.” He’s paired with professional partner Jenna Johnson who joined in Season 23.
Ilona Maher
Pro partner: Alan Berstsen
Job: Olympic rugby player
Olympian Ilona Maher, who won a bronze medal as a member of the U.S. women’s national rugby sevens team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, was also announced as a Dancing With the Stars for Season 33 cast member on September 4, 2024. She was among several Olympians rumored to be a part of the cast, along with gymnast Jordan Chiles following he post-medal controversy. Maher also sparked rumors she was joining Dancing with the Stars when she followed the show’s official Instagram account. She’s paired with professional partner Alan Bersten who joined in Season 25.
Phaedra Parks
Pro partner: Val Chmerkovskiy
Job: Reality TV star — The Real Housewives of Atlanta; The Traitors
Phaedra Parks, best known as a reality star on Bravo shows like The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Married to Medicine, is an official cast member on Dancing With the Stars Season 33. She’s paired with professional partner Val Chmerkovskiy, who joined in Season 13 and was last season’s winner with actor Xochitl Gomez. Parks, who was a traitor on The Traitors Season 2, also competed with Chmerkovskiy’s brother, Maks Chmerkovskiy, on The Traitors and was one of the contestants who eliminated him.
Danny Amendola
Pro partner: Witney Carson
Job: NFL player — New England Patrios
Danny Amendola is a former NFL player who won two Super Bowls as a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. He retired in 2022 and has since competed on reality shows like FOX’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. He was also a coach for the Las Vegas Raiders. He’s paired with professional partner Witney Carson who joined in Season 18 and returned for Season 33 following a two-year hiatus from Dancing With the Stars.
Chandler Kinney
Pro partner: Brandon Armstrong
Job: Actor — Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin
Chandler Kinney is an actor who is best known as one of the main cast members of Max’s Pretty Little Liars spinoff, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. She’s also starred in Disney Channel’s Zombies franchise. She’s paired with professional partner Brandon Armstrong, who joined in Season 27.
Anna Delvey
Pro partner: Ezra Sosa
Job: “Fake Heiress”
Anna Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, went viral in 2018after she was the subject of a Vanity Fair article in which her former friend, writer Rachel DeLoache Williams, wrote about her alleged scam of businesses and friends by pretending to be a wealthy heiress—thus her nickname as the “Fake Heiress.” Delvey—who was also the subject of Netflix’s show Inventing Anna—was convicted on eight counts, including grand larceny and theft of services, in 2019. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison and was released in February 2021 on good behavior. Following Delvey’s announcement, many fans criticized Dancing With the Stars for casting a convicted criminal. “The DWTS producers have honestly lost their minds since Anna Delvey is on house arrest pending potential immigration….” a Reddit user wrote. Another user commented, “So let’s all boycott. I’m not watching the show until she’s eliminated. What a poor choice of casting. We can say no though and we need to start putting our foot down. They are nothing without viewers, so don’t watch until she’s gone.”
Brooks Nader
Pro partner: Gleb Savchenko
Job: Model
Brooks Nader is a model who is best known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated‘s Swimsuit Issues, which she has posed for multiple times. She was most recently featured in a Baywatch-inspired photoshoot on the cover of the magazine along with Megan Fox, Kim Petras, and Martha Stewart in 2023. She first posed for the magazine after winning its Swim Search open casting call in 2019. She’s paired with professional partner Gleb Savchenko, who joined in Season 16.
Reginald VelJohnson
Pro partner: Emma Slater
Job: Actor — Family Matters
Reginaold Veljohnson is an actor best known for playing Carl Winslow on the TV show Family Matters for nine seasons between 1989 and 1997. He also famously played police officer, Al Powell, in 1988’s Die Hard and its 1990 sequel, Die Hard 2. He’s partnered with professional partner Emma Slater who joined in Season 17.
Tori Spelling
Pro partner: Pasha Pashkov
Job: Actor — Beverly Hills, 90210
Tori Spelling—who is best known for playing Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, throughout the show’s whole 10 seasons—is paired with professional partner Pasha Pashkov, who joined in Season 28. Spelling has also starred in movies like Troop Beverly Hills and is the daughter of film and TV producer Aaron Spelling. She filed for divorce from her husband, Dean McDermott, in 2024 after 18 years of marriage.
Dwight Howard
Pro partner: Daniella Karagach
Job: NBA player
Dwight Howard is a professional NBA player who has played with the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won the NBA championship in 2020. He left the Lakers in 2022 and currently plays for a team in Taiwan. He’s paired with professional partner Daniella Karagach, who was the runner-up of Season 32 with singer Jason Mraz. Karagach joined in Season 29.
Jenn Tran
Pro partner: Sasha Farber
Job: Reality TV star — The Bachelorette
Jenn Tran was the lead of The Bachelorette Season 21. She was announced as the final Dancing with the Stars Season 33 cast member on September 4, 2024, following her finale, which saw her and her winner and ex-fiance, Devin Strader, break up. Tran is paired with professional partner Sasha Farber, who joined in Season 17.
Who Were the Rumored Dancing With the Stars Season 33 Cast Members?
Cris Judd
The speculation about the possible end of Jennifer Lopez’s marriage to Ben Affleck reportedly made her exes look pretty attractive to Dancing With the Stars producers, according to The Daily Mail. The first of those was Cris Judd, who the pop superstar met when he was hired to dance in her music video “Love Don’t Cost a Thing back” in the year 2000. It was a whirlwind romance for Lopez and Judd who got married in September of 2001 and split in June of 2002.
Casper Smart
The other JLo ex who was reportedly in the mix for Dancing With the Stars Season 33 is Casper Smart, per The Daily Mail. He dated JLo back in 2011, for way longer than Judd, five years – even if the two never tied the knot. Another dancer, Smart met JLo when he was a backup dancer on her tour, so at least we know he would’ve fit right in on the dancing competition.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Blanchard, a Munchhausen-by-proxy survivor, rose to prominence when she was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of her mother Dee Dee, who subjected Gypsy-Rose to lifelong physical, mental, and medical abuse. Blanchard was released from prison in December 2023 and has released a book and appeared on The Kardashians. Her appearance on Dancing With the Stars seemed unlikely, however, as Blanchard is currently pregnant, and due to give birth in January 2025.
A Baby Reindeer Cast Member
One of the biggest shows on Netflix this year, Baby Reindeer stars Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning were both on the radar for Dancing With the Stars Season 33, per The Daily Mail. Gadd wrote the Netflix drama, and also plays the lead character, while Gunning plays his real-life stalker. The show is on track to become one of Netflix’s most popular shows of all time.
Joan Vassos
According to The Daily Mail, the first Golden Bachelorette, Vassos was reportedly also in the running to compete on Dancing With the Stars. The 61-year-old, who left early on in Gerry Turner’s season to take care of her daughter, would’ve pulled double duty on ABC with her Golden Bachelorette season airing at the same time as Dancing with the Stars.
Caitlin Clark
A WNBA player and former college basketball star, Clark was reportedly one of the show’s number one targets. But Clark also reportedly said no to the possibility of being in the show, per The Daily Mail. To be fair, there might be some overlap between the show and the WNBA season, which ends in mid-September.
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Shohei Ohtani
Another athlete the show was rumored to be interested in was Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, per The Daily Mail. However, with the MLB season going until the end of September, and the Dodgers in first place in the National League West, which puts them in a pretty good position to qualify for the postseason, Ohtani’s participation in Dancing With the Stars seemed pretty unlikely from the start.
Sutton Stracke
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Stracke was also rumored to be heading to the ballroom. And anonymous source on the gossip site Bravo and Cocktails read: “ABC has signed the newest Southern fan favorite of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills up to dance on Dancing with The Stars, her huge popularity and quirky personality will keep people entertained next season.”
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Parvati Shallow
The Traitors took the reality TV world by storm, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see someone who recently appeared on that show on Dancing With the Stars. (That someone happened to be Phadedra Parks). However, Dancing With the Stars sparked theories Shallow was joining when its official Instagram account favorited a video of the reality TV star, a Survivor alum, back in December.
A TikTok Star
There was plenty to choose from, but the Daily Mail reported that several TikTok stars were in contention for a chance to star in Season 33 of the show. Considering the other stars rumored to be on the show, adding a TikTok star would’ve brought something different to the cast. Maybe someone like Alix Earle or Jake Shane for next season?
Biden, Harris, or Trump Relative
This one is self-explanatory. With the elections coming up in November, The Daily Mail reported that the show would love to get a relative of either Biden, Harris, or Trump in the show – even if it’s not a close relative. Someone like Mary Trump would’ve been an obvious choice, but there was also Ella Emhoff and even one of Biden’s granddaughters.
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