Official: Alexa Vega & Carlos Pena, Jr. On DWTS Season 21
As usual, DWTS is not following their model of actually waiting to report the couples on the shows they originally told us they were reporting them on, and ET Online has leaked ahead of time that Carlos & Alexa are, indeed, on DWTS this season…and I already kind of adore having a husband and wife team on the show:
ET caught up with the dancing duo at Disneyland’s Diamond Celebration on Thursday morning to break the DWTS news.
“It’s so exciting,” Alexa, who is also celebrating her 27th birthday today, gushed to ET’s Cameron Mathison. “It’s beautiful, it’s overwhelming, it’s an incredible blessing.”
Alexa and Carlos, who tied the knot in January 2014, will be paired up with separate professional partners and will dance against each other for the mirror-ball trophy. However, the couple is determined to support each other throughout the process.
“It’s so good, though, because he literally rehearses right next door,” Alexa shared. “So he’ll walk over to me and he’ll just give me a kiss. It’s just so encouraging. He is my teammate and my life partner, so I like that encouragement. I need it.”
As we mentioned in this post, our source has confirmed that Alexa is paired with Mark and Carlos is with Witney.
ETA: Thanks to idolxfactor1 for the video! ~Heidi
ETA: Alexa does the Nae Nae. 🙂 She seems cute.
I loovveeee this casting! Alexa Vega has been on my wishlist for forever, so I’m really glad they’re both on. I think they’ll be really great to watch and I’m really happy they were paired up with Mark and Witney!
I think they will be really good but something tells me that Alexa is going to be one to watch out for.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Mark make the finals again and Alexa seems like the kind of partner that he could do something with.
Hopefully, both halves of this spousal unit have enough individual fan support so that they don’t get eliminated before their time because they’re sharing the same voting base.
They are so cute together! May they both do good dancing and get the public on there side for votes when the season starts.
Would they really be sharing a voting fanbase, since they have different working credits to their names? I had heard of Alexa from the Spy Kids movies, but I didn’t know who Carlos was.
It’s not hard to see why Mark was so psyched. To me she looked better Nae Naeing than the female pros. Also looks like she might have a good balance of work and fun.
Cali, I have no idea if they’re sharing a fan base since I don’t follow them or their careers. I was actually kind of posing a question, but I didn’t make that very clear. So I’ll rephrase it.
Do Alexa and Carlos share the same fan base?
If they do, vote splitting by their fans could get them both eliminated.
Okay, I’ve been trying to figure out where I know Alexa from and I finally put Google to good use. She’s on/was on Nashville!
Yes, it was driving me crazy.
@Cidra, i don’t think so …they have their own individual fanbases! Carlos’s fans are mostly Big Time Rush fans..if James/Carlos were on the same season..then i would’ve thought of fans splitting their votes! And Alexa’s fans are mostly from her numerous movies, esp. Spy Kids. But yeah, people do love them together (aren’t they cute as hell?!)…so it won’t be a problem i guess.
But i think Alexa will have an edge over Carlos in terms of popularity.
Yeah, I know Alexa from the movie “From Prada to Nada.” I think I remember Wilmer Valderrama giving an interview about that movie saying the cast would all go salsa dancing together. She’s definitely going to be one to watch! Fanbasewise, she also could have a few major connections – if she’s still close with Wilmer and he & Demi Lovato throw their support her way, Demi’s fans are huge in number and really loyal. According to Wiki, she’s also close friends with Nikki Reed, who’s now married to Ian Somerhalder (Nina Dobrev’s ex, oh young Hollywood!). The VampireDiaries kids can also be a little bit crazy obsessive…
carlos over alexa any day!!…I predict carlos lasts longer that she does
I don’t think that most fans of, say, Nikki Reed, are going to spend a ton of time voting just because Nikki asks them to. There’s little anecdotal evidence that actually works. If you’re not passionate about that person, you’re not going to spend a ton of time voting for them just because someone you are passionate about asks you to.
@DWTSfan, thanks! Yes, they are cute together, and I think they’ll have a good time with the whole wife vs. husband theme the show is going to go overboard with. Hope the Team Alexa and Team Carlos fans can keep it fun too and don’t run over here yelling that their PenaVega is better than the other one.
Just how popular is Alexa and Carlos? Everyone seems to be excited that they are on this season. I had never heard of them before their announcement.
YES…!!!… Alexa is paired with my boy….!!!…YES YES YES…!!!…
ENOUGH, CH. You are a spammer. If you can’t contribute more than that you need to leave.