DWTS Season 12 Cast Rumor – Chris Jericho Redux
Well, this guy has been rumored before – prior to Season 11 – and we did a good bit of reporting on the subject at the time, both when I found some random tweets, and when talking about how DWTS tends to typecast. There are several other articles about him on this site, if you want to do a search.
Now, it’s WrestleHeat.com’s turn to spread the Chris rumor:
PWInsider.com is reporting that Chris Jericho will be competing on the 12th season of ABC’s number one rated series, Dancing With The Stars, which starts in March. Jericho has ties to ABC as he previously hosted a game show for the network last year. The cast for the season will be officially announced on 2/28.
In my personal opinion, Chris would be a good member of the cast – why not. And for you skeptics out there, how many times have we seen old rumors become reality several seasons after the original rumor? Well, Jennifer Grey was one of many. 🙂
Florence Henderson was another name we had heard for several seasons and had all but given up on when she cropped up on season 11 🙂
I agree – I think Chris would be a good addition to the cast. I don’t think we’ve ever had a wrestler before, and Chris seems to be pretty good-natured and best of all, he knows how to laugh at himself. Not terrible on the eyes either 🙂 I think he’d be a good partner for Anna – she seems to do well with the tough guys with a heart of gold (Kurt, Chuck, Jerry). My only worry is that this may just be somebody regurgitating an old rumor from a previous season because there aren’t any really good rumors floating around right now – I hope it’s legit, though.
Cool! I’m game…and hey, I may just get my husband to watch this show if Chris is dancing (which would be a hoot!)
I could see this happening. I could see him paired with cheryl more though. And Stacey Kiebler was a wrestler so he would be the second one on the show but first male wrestler to compete.
He probably is part of the cast. Florence, Jennifer, Brandy were all rumored a season or two before they appeared on the show. This doesn’t seem like a name rumored for publicity either. If Louis is on this season, there is either a big personality type female celeb cast or maybe they are going to give him a more talented, younger, shorter celeb? The type that Mark gets. I just hope Karina is back. I think she is an amazing dancer and has done pretty well with some tough partner assignments.
Ive seen him on various tv shows and VH1 countdowns so that means that he can a least count backwards from 100, which is good for a wrestler; very good! 🙂 Haha I kid, he seems to have a good head on his (extremely large) shoulders and would be a nice addition. I’m hoping that this is true, even though I can’t imagine him doing particularly well…
He has a big persoanlity on WWE and is really funny as well. He could be mr. showmanship if he does the show. Plus, the man has a huge fanbase. Even when the WWE tried to make him the “bad guy”, the fans really stuck by him. That’s saying something if a wrestler can survive that switich on multiple ocassions.
@Courtney. Well There was Chuck Liddel? Even though hes more mixed martial arts. Chris would be a hoot and he would do great with Anna T. Anna T was awesome with Evan and Kurt but im ready to see her tough kick butt side again like with Chuck in season 9. 🙂 GETTING EXCITING!!!!
My exbf was big into wrestling back in the late 90’s early 2000’s and I was often forced to watch with him. Chris Jericho was definitely one of the more amusing, coherent, and charismatic wrestlers and I think he’d be a great addition. He would probably move a bit better than some of the other big name wrestlers out there, too.
@Zach – I don’t know if you’re into mixed martial arts or not, but it’s very, very different that WWE wrestling 🙂 I feel like the latter is more about showmanship & entertainment (both qualities that would help Chris on the show), while MMA is more about technique and method. Probably explains why Chuck wasn’t really all that great at capturing the emotion of each dance, but was more physically capable than some of the other contestants on his season.
Courtney i am actually a black belt martial artist but i dont know heck about wrestleing. xD So thats why I thought about Chuck. I still am excited about the possibility of Chris competing though.
It would be a breath of fresh air to have a contestant this year I have heard of – at the moment it’s only him, Wendy and Kendra.
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