PureDWTS Season 21 – Rumor Round-Up
As we’re on the eve of the announcement of the first season 21 celeb in less than 12 hours, I figured it was time to come up with a summary post of all the rumors we’ve covered so far this season.
As usual, here’s my explanation: I’ve divided our potential dancers this season into 5 categories: the “legitimate possibilities”, which are rumors that have surfaced within the last week or so (when most casting leaks occur) and come from sources that are generally pretty reliable when it comes to casting leaks; the “long shots”, which are rumors from less-reliable sources, vague tweets, and ambiguous responses from the celebs themselves – basically, rumors that we aren’t really as confident about; the “wannabes/campaigners”, who are celebs who have expressed interest in doing the show (but haven’t actually been reported as a rumor by any reputable outlets); “pure randomness”, which is for random and slightly interesting observations that may or may not indicate a certain celeb’s possible participation in this season – generally, they mean nothing, but we’re adding them here for sh*ts & giggles 🙂 And then there are the “no’s”, the celebs that have confirmed that they won’t be participating in this season. I’ve added short notes in wherever I’ve found it pertinent.
Legitimate possibilities:
Shay Mitchell
Nick Carter
Kacy Catanzaro
Kaitlyn Bristowe
I’m a just leave this here. ~Heidi
Big announcement coming tomorrow… You won't want to miss it.
— backstreetboys (@backstreetboys) August 24, 2015
Longshots:
Bethany Hamilton
Anthony Davis (said he turned it down – but acted rather wishy-washy about it)
Nick Jonas
Lindsay Lohan
Scott Disick
Pippa Middleton
Marilu Henner
Kobe Bryant or Vanessa Bryant
Wannabes/Campaigners:
Christine Ouzounian
Andy Grammar
Ramona Singer
Terrell Owens
Pure Randomness:
Alison Baver
Boris Kodjoe (was originally supposed to be on season 18, but backed out)
Ricky Martin
Maureen McCormick
Chris Colfer
Christie Brinkley
Nick Lachey
Heather Locklear
Nina Dobrev
Drita D’Avanzo (draw your own conclusions – but it’s interesting)
The Definite No’s:
Rick Schroeder
Jodie Sweetin (personally told me “not this season”, but an interesting person liked my picture of her on Instagram)
Piers Morgan
Caitlyn Jenner
Amanda Bynes
Don’t forget to keep an eye on this post to see the names announced each morning this week on GMA! (NOTE: post won’t be active until tomorrow morning)
Anthony Davis can’t do it his season starts before the season ends.
*eye roll*
If Shay Mitchell is on she’ll be paired with Val and we’ll get another season of showmancing…. Get the tequila ready for the showmance drinking game
If Shay Mitchell is on, I would love her to be paired with Derek! Pairing her with Derek instead of Val-that would be a great plot twist! Would be a bit like when Meryl was given to Maks although she was already friends with Derek and said before the season that she would like him as a partner ;p
Y’all had me at Boris Kodjoe 🙂 OMG Now that would be amazing!!
There’s some great possibilities listed. I would love to see Nick Jonas and also think Kacy would be great too.
Thanks for the updates and all that you do here at Puredwts!! Bravo!!
that tweet made my day.
Would love to see Nick Jonas but I really can’t see that being a possibility. Even with all the teases of a “big cast” and some that “will surprise” us, I can’t imagine someone like him with a big current career coming on this show.
Nick Carter seems like a given, although wouldn’t a cool twist to be if all or most of the Backstreet Boys competed against one another?
The other names all feel kind of…meh. Bethany Hamilton, although she has such a nice personality and story, feels like another Noah Galloway/Amy Purdy gimmick personally. Lindsay Lohan is another one I can’t see being a possibility. Scott Disick…please no, he needs to take care of himself and his family first.
Andy Grammer could be fun. Shay Mitchell just feels like another Janel/Val showmance. And I really don’t want another Bachelor/Bachelorette, especially having Chris last season who made it seem like he hated being on the show, and now that he’s touring with cast members and making $$$ I’m sure he’s now celebrating his time on the show.
I would love to see Shay Mitchell on this show & i believe that she would do it if asked .But I wonder how it would work with her schedule since Pretty Little Liars isn’t done filming yet.
I hope Val does do his go-to showmancing. The audience may be sheep…but they ain’t THAT stupid. You can only go to that well so many times and Val has already been there at least twice.
I bet they could give Val a partner who is a professional dancer, and extremely popular on social media and he probably still couldn’t win. Oh wait, they already did that. my bad lol
I think Chris was perhaps having “relationship” woes when I stop and think about his behavior. He also seemed to be more at ease after someone told Witney to have him walk and clap to the beat..lol. I am so excited that we are ready to go. I think I can stay out of the hospital this season…lol. What a goal huh? Just want to thank the mods for giving us a little something over the loooooong summer break to think about. You all work so hard to keep us informed.
But just try to imagine how much hotness there would be if Shay Mitchell would be paired up with Val… I mean, I wouldn’t care if there’s showmance or whatever…. Just bring it , I’m ready lol……. These two would be fire together. Omg I would “dye” probably… 😀
Hotness is in the eye of the beholder. I think she’d be hotter with Derek, so there you go.
Totally agree Heidi! But, Val would be glad someone recognizes his heartthrob statement 😀
I’d like to see Shay with Artem actually. I think he is due a younger partner this season, plus I think they would make an attractive pair and I kinda get vibes off one of Artem’s former SCD partners in her (Natalie) so I’d be interested to see what he could do with her.
Either way, I’ve gotta say that if Nick and Shay are in this season, they’re two very good bookings and I’ll be excited for both of them!
It will be stupid for DWTS to give Val yet another PLL cast. But then, Val can only win with 1. A dancer/ringer 2. Help from the producers. He didn’t earn his popularity because he is that good as he may think of himself. Like Heidi said he gained popularity because of him getting dancer after dancer. His MBT is a gift (even the producer kind of admitted it on E-news). Val won’t be where he is now if he had partner like Amy Purdy who has < 50 K followers when she started the show.
I love Shay. She’s so gorgeous and sweet and being one of the actual leads of the show would be quite a high profile cast member for DWTS. I agree would love to see her with Derek or Artem, anyone but Val. Let someone else bring the sexy this season and give him an older/married partner to see if he’s more than a one trick pony. On that note, hope cutie Bindi gates Sasha and Mark gets a grown up this season. Another young one for him would be major overkill, IMO.
Er, sorry, but no matter WHO she gets as a partner, Shay Mitchell is neither “high profile” or a “get” for these pros. The very fact that she is willing to do DWTS rather proves that point, IMO. Derek is more famous than her to the DWTS audience.
@backstreetboys – 13 minutes ago
And by “tomorrow” we meant Wednesday… Sorry peeps! Hold tight… ?
And Shay Mitchell is complaining about packing. Gag if she’s with Val. Our only hope is Nick Carter wiping the floor with both of them.
Now, if they would put her with Derek it would be a gorgeous pairing.
You know what I hope Shay does get Val and they do go down the showmance angle. I’d love to see them get booted in a shock elim because the general demographic wouldn’t vote for them. TPTB would have their hands full trying to find ways to drag them to the finale through high scores and immunity.
If Shay gets Val – pass the popcorn. After watching Val’s fans splinter into factions last season (let’s see…there were the Vally shippers, and the Valdaya shippers…the Vanica shippers…the Vajanel shippers…and the Valenrue shippers…oh, and who can forget the Valenna asshats??!) and just seeing how bent outta shape some of Janel’s fans are getting about Shay trying to “copy Janel and steal Val”, I can only imagine the implosion of the fandom that is likely to occur. 🙂
If anyone wants to know Val’s emotion, read his tweet. He’s like a pre-teen boy caught in a man’s body. Derek’s motto: Motion=Emotion. Val: Emotion=Tweets 😀
Shay getting Val will be so predictable and BORING!! God, i hope some miracle happens and Shay is partnered with DEREK instead (please make it happen, i will really ”dye” :P) But seriously, Shay-Derek is my dream pair!
BTW, Court you’re hilarious! You cracked me up big time with the entire ”all the — shippers+Valenna asshats”?! You rule Court! 😛
PS. I still don’t think Shay is doing DWTS this season… her schedule is pretty tight! But let’s see…
More like Val’s “I’m so dope” to Derek’s “How you move directly effects how you FEEL”. LOL
That’s the second time you’ve used the “dye” joke and the second time no one has responded to it. Perhaps no one gets it??
That’s the first time i used the ”dye” joke actually ..it was someone else’s post i saw on this site before…so i thought you guys are probably familiar with it ..thus said for the sake of fun @Heidi. 🙂
No clue…and still have no clue.
When no one got it the first time, or had “fun” with it, what makes you think it would work a second time?
PH, (#25) or Val’s “I’m too schmexy for my shirt” to Derek’s “I have a brain and I use it.” 😀
Court (#22), so true. I never knew which was worse, the valenna asshats or the janelskiy stans actually thinking someone would want to copy JP. Who wants to follow someone down a psych ward? And what is up with this JT dude? At what point do TPTB say enough with the spilling? Isn’t it in their contracts (Henry, Tony, Val, Jenna )- to keep their mouths shut? Are there repercussions for this?
Val’s “Yo, casting, I must have another MBT!!” to Derek’s “I really enjoy teaching someone to dance and their journey on the show.” 🙂
I guess TPTB are rolling out this season this way to create some excitement? I am usually somewhat excited for a new DWTS season and especially to see my favs like Derek but honestly there are enough male and female pros who annoy me now and the fact the show seems to really have a problem finding REAL stars that I can barely pay attention, even with Derek being in this season.
This might not be the place? but I was thinking the other day after seeing Jim Carrey on a talk show–I wish the show would do a 2 to 3 week arc and ask some REAL celebritys (you know at least B-list) to do it for their fav charity or something. I think if they didn’t have to commit so much time and it would not look like they needed the money to do something as “cheesy” as DWTS for publicity but for their fav charity they might be able to get some really interesting stars. Someone like Jim Carrey or Kate Hudson or Bradley Cooper would be so fun to watch learn 1 Latin and 1 standard ballroom dance-judges comments, audience votes and then a contribution is made to their charity. Maybe it could be a “special” b4 or after regular season? I know, desparate right, but these people they are coming up with bore me to tears. Has anyone else ever thought of something like this?
Raine, The British version does something along those lines, although it’s just a one-dance thing. The Strictly Christmas Special supports the British charity Children in Need. I’ve always thought the US could do something similar, but as you say, let the celeb choose their own charity.
Remembering back to Series 2 of Strictly probably half of my life ago, I think it used to be all for Children in Need.
I love that idea of having A-listers commit to a couple of weeks for charity. I know Mark has said before that his dream partner would be Jennifer Aniston – what a fun way to make that kind of thing happen!
Still, the fragile Hollywood ego might not be terribly keen on getting judged/voted on – but I bet there’d be some that would be all for it!
Fig, I’d say if it was only one or two dances with the proceeds going to charities, the judges would be more “charitable” as well. So fragile Hollywood egos shouldn’t take too much of a beating. To do it properly, you’d want more of an “exhibition” feel than a “competitive” one. Not to keep dragging Strictly into the conversation, but the panel on the Strictly Christmas special is pretty generous to the couples with both praise and paddles.
Ah well, this is all just wishful thinking. My guess is TPTB have no interest in expanding the US brand to include this type of event.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Marilu Henner dancing this season. On a recent television show she was put on the spot with the dreaded “Will you Dance?” question. She’s a possibility for sure.
Nick and Drew Lachey have a new reality show premiering on A&E. Not sure how that could work.
So it was just announced that Shay Mitchell is in Atlanta filming a movie.
http://www.thewrap.com/timothy-olyphant-shay-mitchell-britt-robertson-join-jennifer-aniston-in-mothers-day/
Now it’s only a supporting part so her part could wrap in a few weeks time, but this might have been her news.
drew and nicks show already started (3 or 4 weeks back…..only reason I know is becuase of whalburgers and Donny loves Jenny….it’s on tonight actually)…..haven’t watched it but it looks pretty….dull.