‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 35: Cast, Premiere Date & More to Know
Dancing With the Stars Season 35 is just a couple of weeks away. It was confirmed that the show would be returning for a 35th season in April, and updates have been rolling in throughout the months since.
On September 2, the full cast list was revealed, along with which professional partners all of the celebs will be hitting the ballroom floor with. Now, the pairs have just two more weeks to work on perfecting their dance skills before premiere night.
Scroll down for everything we know about the upcoming installment of DWTS.
When will Dancing With the Stars Season 35 premiere?
Dancing With the Stars season 35 premieres on Tuesday, September 15, at 8/7c. It will be a two-night premiere, with a second episode airing on a special night, Wednesday, September 16, at 8/7c.
After that, the show will continue airing in its usual two-hour slot on Tuesdays at 8/7c.
For the past three seasons, DWTS has been airing on Tuesday nights, although it used to be a Monday night program, and aired on Mondays and Tuesdays when there was still a results show. Since ABC’s programming slate only has one night of DWTS (aside from premiere week), the results show is not returning for Season 35, despite Bergeron’s plea.
Before 2019, Dancing With the Stars aired two seasons a year (one in the spring and one in the fall), but starting with Season 28, there’s only been one season a year.
Who is in the Dancing With the Stars Season 35 cast?
The full cast is:
Tatyana Ali (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) and Jan Ravnik
Tyler Cameron (The Bachelorette) and Sharna Burgess
Giada de Laurentiis (Food Network) and Alan Bersten
Jenna Dewan (The Rookie) and Valentin Chmerkovskiy
Ezra Frech (Paralympian) and Daniella Karagach
Amber Glenn (Olympian) and Pasha Pashkov
Taylor Hanson (Singer) and Britt Stewart
Maura Higgins (The Traitors) and Mark Ballas
Conner Leavitt (The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives) and Adele Zaikman
Sarah Jane Nader (Love Thy Nader) and Hailey Bills
Ciara Miller (Summer House) and Brandon Armstrong
Jackson Olson (Savannah Bananas) and Emma Slater
Guillermo Rodriguez (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) and Witney Carson
Harry Shum Jr. (Glee and Grey’s Anatomy) and Jenna Johnson
Julia Stiles (Actress) and Ezra Sosa
Connor Wood (Podcaster) and Rylee Arnold
Who are the Dancing With the Stars Season 35 judges?
Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, and Bruno Tonioli have all been on the panel since Season 29 and are back as judges. Tonioli and Inaba have judged every season of DWTS since it began in 2005, while Hough joined toward the end of Len Goodman‘s tenure (the third OG judge died in April 2023).
Generally, the permanent judges’ panel only has three people on it, although there was a two-season overlap with Goodman and Hough. Derek’s sister Julianne Hough was also a judge for five seasons, four of which also had four judges. There are often guest judges brought in throughout the season as well, but those aren’t usually announced until the week before their appearances.
Dancing With the Stars, Season 35 Premiere, Tuesday, September 15, 8/7c, ABC
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M
"Dancing With the Stars" is the only "reality" show I watch, so influencers and "reality" show alumnae might as well be random people off the street. That said, I still immensely enjoy the show. I get to know the "stars" as we go along, I enjoy the dancing, I enjoy the judges and the hosts, and I enjoy seeing the occasional celebrity that I recognize and can root for going in (like Robert Irwin).
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We don’t watch it for the stars. We just watch it for the dancing.
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J
I love this show, particularly Derek and Julianne Hough. Many of the pros make it worth watching.
I do agree it would be nice to have some more famous guests.
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Q
I don’t agree, it’s very challenging and not everyone has to be a superstar! Better than catty phoney rich wives back stabbing each other!
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G
I honestly think this show has outlived its usefulness. There are no STARS on this show and haven’t been forever
Send it out to pasture
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M
It seems as though they are raking the bottom of the barrel to find celebrities. Using all these reality and Tik Tok people that no one is familiar with. Where are the real celebrities?
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K
Did other people get a chance to perform dancing stars let them shine let them be the stars who they are who they are supposed to be any age to 16 to 20. Let them be who they are. Let them be dating in the stars show who who you are let them hear you.
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I just want to know when inaba is going to show us her moves and put her money were her mouth is she is such a annoying critic but I have yet to see her dance everyone else has done it even Bruno .... and she is the only one that just opens her mouth but I want to see her professionalism in dancing...
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Q
She actually was a champion ballroom dancer and I have seen her dance over the years!
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I totally agree! The dancing they do now is not what ball room dancing once was! There’s more acrobatics than dancing!
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F
I like the pros on DWTS.as soon as Robert Irwin was gonna dance in s 34 knew who was gonna win. It needs new judges and Hosts
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T
They get older people dancing on the show that have no chance of beating out the young great in shape young people.. They hug and get a bit to touchy feely.
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whitlee hall jun 17 why we miss happened jun 18
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This show was useful?
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