PureDWTS Season 24 Rumor Round-Up
The next 48 hours leading up to the cast announcement are likely to be pretty hectic, so I thought I better get this posted sooner rather than later. Here’s the list of all the cast rumors we’ve heard/reported on for season 24 – as always, they’re divided into categories. Legitimate possibilities are rumors that we think have some validity, based on who is reporting them; long shots are rumors from a source that we don’t necessarily trust, but it’s possible they could be valid; pure randomness is general observations/weird stuff we’ve noticed that may or may not indicate anything, but is interesting nonetheless; wannabes/campaigners are celebs that have expressed interest in doing the show, but we have no reason to believe they’ve actually been asked to do the show; and the definite “no’s” are celebs that have specifically said they won’t do the show.
If anything new crops up between now & the announcement, I’ll do my best to update…but no guarantees. Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, and I’ve got hella king cakes to get ready 😎
Legitimate possibilities:
Normani Kordei
Simone Biles
Mr. T
Chris Kattan
Erika Jayne
Nancy Kerrigan
Nick Viall
Heather Morris
Charo
Bonner Bolton
Rashad Jennings
Longshots:
Someone from Pretty Little Liars/Ashley Benson
Someone from Property Brothers/Jonathan Scott
Someone from Storage Wars/Barry Weiss
Rachel Lindsay
Russell Brand
Usher
Billy Bush
Pure Randomness:
Shemar Moore
Victor Cruz
Gracie Gold
Ricky Schroeder
Jose Medina
Wannabes/Campaigners:
Mary Lou Retton
Stassi Schroeder
Dina Parise
The Definite No’s:
i know this is nothing but keo recently started following lori greiner from shark tank. i would not be surprised to see someone from shark tank on dwts because shark tank recently reached 100 millon in deals
Dude, somebody has already mentioned this in another thread, and it was clarified that Keo just filmed an episode of Celebrity Family Feud where the DWTS pros were up against the Sharks on Shark Tank. That’s how he met her.
Hoping Mary lou retrain is on the show eventually. I don’t think it’s happening this season but hopefully the fall.
Autocorrect is My enemy. Retton*
Good job, Court. Love how you did this post!
Thank you for this post, Courtney. I hope we get a good set of celebs this season. I sure need a lot of motivation to watch DWTS live.
Luv how you categorized the possibilities-makes things a lot clearer!!
Great breakdown of the list of potential celebs; thanks! Had to look a few of them up, but knew the majority. Anyone know when the DWTS Pros episode of “Celeb FF” will be airing? And who else besides Keo is on? That would be fun to watch.
@courtney: feel free to send me a king cake 🙂 love those. A bakery by me used to sell them (as well as the struffuli) all year round but then they stopped.
First comment here 🙂
Thank you for this great post! I love this site so much and have been an anonymous reader since a few season. Thanks for all you do for us fans.
Since I’m a great bachelor fan, I can say that Rachel Lindsay can’t be on this season. Filming for the bachelorette starts in week 1 of dwts and lasts around 6 weeks. But maybe next season?
Also Realitysteve tweeted 2 hours ago that Nick Viall is definitely on. Sorry in advance if someone else already posted this.
A bit of personal pure speculation-I wonder if Kym is coming back to partner shark Daymond John. I’m happy she’s back regardless of her partner, but as someone else said, I hope it isn’t a short-timer.
If we’re looking at the potential celebs right now, it LOOKS like they’ll be stronger female celebs than males. Kinda bummed because I was hoping this would finally be my girl Sharna’s year! It could still be though, you never know.
I think out of all the ringers DWTS has ever had, Heather is probably the biggest one simply because she’s a professional dancer. But wasn’t Sabrina Bryan a pro dancer also? I mean she was more credited as an actress but I’m pretty sure I remember hearing or reading back then that she’s a pro dancer. And of course they would give her to Maks. He is the most buzzed about comeback kid right now, right?
Speaking of Maks, I really hope he steps it up this season, because pro dancer or not, he still needs to put in some sort of effort with the choreo to really showcase her. I don’t believe she is trained in ballroom so I’m sure there will be technicalities that need to be fixed there. Who really knows with Maks? He might just phone it in again and rely on her dance background to have them skate by. How unexciting.
Here’s the hoping some of the males will be a sweet surprise.
No, Sabrina was not a pro dancer – although I”m sure in some dark corners of the internet they’ll be working hard to make her into one.
I do not count members of girl bands/singers who happen to dance while they sing as “professional dancers” – their primary function is singing, therefore any dancing they do automatically takes a backseat to the singing, and must be changed accordingly to accommodate the singing…thus, the dancing is not going to be as vigorous, as to allow for proper breathing.
Thus, Sabrina = not a professional dancer.
If the “Legitimate Possibilities” list ends up confirmed, I’m preparing myself that it likely means Mark is not coming back?. Taking into consideration the other 5 male pros already confirmed, I don’t see a pairing for him amongst those 6 ladies, whereas I can see a couple for Artem.
I agree that professional singers who dance during their performances are not professional dancers. Most of the singers aren’t rigorously trained in the proper mechanics and techniques of modern dance, they are just taught some choreography to do to get the crowd going. Even the professional singers who are considered to be the better dancers amongst singers are most often not trained in dance technique.
I’ve been wanting Victor Cruz to be on for a long time. Hard to believe they’d have 2 guys affiliated with the Giants though.
Really excited about Nancy Kerrigan.