Vanilla Ice to Dance on DWTS Season 23!
OMG – hilarious. From US Weekly – thanks to DWTSGossip for the heads up:
Ice, ice baby! Vanilla Ice is set to join the season 23 cast of Dancing With the Stars, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
The ’90s rapper, 48, is the latest to join the celeb-filled upcoming season, which will also star Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, Amber Rose, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Jake T. Austin, Maureen McCormick, Little Women: L.A. star Terra Jole, soap opera actress Emma Samms and Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte.
Too funny. I do watch his DIY Network show.
this season’s cast is beyond amazing. cant wait for the season premire
OMG love it. He’ll be fun!
Vanilla Ice did a UK reality show called Dancing on Ice back in 2011 (youtube it). He wasn’t the greatest in the world but he made up for it with his charisma and he certainly worked hard. In fact I remember he had a really serious cut after he smashed his head on the ice in rehearsals but still went on. He finished 6th overall which was a pretty good effort. He probably looks like the joke act on paper, but I’m sure he’ll work hard and do right by his partner. Can certainly see him getting to the halfway stage if he’s an anyway decent dancer on the floor.
Was Emma Samms confirmed? So far we know Laurie Hernandez (Val), Maureen McCormick (Artem), Terra Jole (Sasha), Amber Rose (Maks), Marilu Henner (Derek). And Babyface Edmonds (Allison), Rick Perry (Emma), Calvin Johnson? (Lindsay), Jake T. Austin (Jenna) Race car driver (Sharna), Ryan Lochte (Cheryl?).
And now another guy so Vanilla Ice and Witney? Or it could be Ryan/Witney and Cheryl/Vanilla Ice?
Gleb was confirmed but we don’t know who he’s paired with. Jo Jo Fletcher? Emma Samms? Beverley Mitchell? So 12 pros confirmed and 11 probably matched already. And one more female pro for Mr. Ice. Out of supposedly 13 pairs this season? So unless there are 14 couples, no Mark Ballas?
Pro watch has been updated, Colleen.
Thank you Princess Heidi. I’ll go right there.
Vanilla Ice and Witney….. YES!!
Now that is a match. I can’t get over how much I love this season and the pairs. I’m so looking forward to this season. I can hardly wait.
Yes! Yes! Yes! “Ice ice baby” is my fav song of all time besides “without me” by Eminem. I love this already. New fav couple of the season for me 🙂
Colleen – I was really looking forward to Emma Samms but she denied on Twitter a few days ago that she was doing DWTS and she’s still home in the UK where she’s been tidying up her house (tweeting about some of the things she’s found like old scripts etc which she’s sending to fans) so I don’t know why certain publications are continuing to claim that she’s doing the show as surely she’d have to be in LA now as everyone else has probably met their partner and begun rehearsals or is about to any day now.
I wonder who dropped out at the last minute to warrant Vanilla Ice coming aboard? Not a slight against him. Just a last minute addition like this brings to mind Melissa Rycroft and John Ratzenberger both of whom replaced someone who either got injured or quit when they realized how much work was involved.
Maria – I agree. Vanilla Ice and Witney seem like a much better pair than her and Ryan Lochte. I think their personalities will mesh much better.
@Vin I’m with you. This is definitely my new favorite couple of the season!
I know he’s not Alfonso, but there’s something about it that has a similarity to me. Depending on Van Winkle’s personality a few decades later, this could be the team to beat. If he comes off as the older, wiser, brother type to Witney coupled with his nostalgic fan base and they both click and have fun, it’ll be hit.
Thanks so much telling me about Emma Samms Kerenza! I wasn’t assuming everything you see on Twitter to be true as our lovely mods so often remind us. Emma could have denied because she was told to because she was an early rumor.
So that leaves Gleb plus Jo Jo Bachelorette and Beverley Mitchell still in the rumor pool. But they could surprise us with a different partner for Gorgeous Eyes yet!
Wow! This season’s cast has so many amazing possibilities to be amazing. Eliminations are going to be tough this season.
Glad he’s doing the show!
What makes you so sure that Vanilla Ice is last minute?? Just because we didn’t find out until today? That’s a tad faulty in the logic department.
Dare I say that I am more excited about most of these older celebrities than I am the Olympians … Okay I’ll duck now.
LOL Vin. I hope Vanilla Ice does a dance to that “Ice Ice Baby” song. I love it.
PH – I assumed Vanilla Ice was last minute because, up until the afternoon before the cast reveal, there hadn’t been even a rumor of his involvement and not even a hint of it on this site which breaks the news first.
And the fact this very site referred to the casting each fall as being “fluid”.
With Pure DWTS’s contacts, did anyone running this site know about his casting before this afternoon? I ask because Courtney (I think it was her) seemed to know about Rick Perry plus Derek Hough days before the respective announcements.
Courtney also mentioned possibly having to moderate the comments after tomorrow due to someone’s casting which naturally made me think the casting would be controversial and nobody controversial has been cast. So perhaps Vanilla Ice is a last minute replacement for that controversial cast member?
I agree with Sandy this cast is quite a knockout. Also I would love for Wit to be Vanilla Ice’s partner. We only got a glimpse of what she could do with an older and charismatic partner when she did the switch up a few seasons ago with Drew Carey. Speaking of comedians/Comediennes I would love to see another funny guy or gal grace the ballroom, at this point I don’t see it, but who knows!!! Only tomorrow and the seventh will tell.
@vogue: Its just one of those cant help but dance to it songs for sure. That music video is a blast too. Makes me glad that some 90s fashions went away and hopefully never come back lol.