DWTS Season 13 – Pro Watch!! August 3, 2011
Did someone say Pro Watch?? Why yes, Courtney did. 🙂 Every season we do a post that keeps a running update on which pros appear to be confirmed for Season 13. Keep in mind that we post it how we hear it – unless a Pro says “Yes, I am on DWTS Season 13”, the rest is all conjecture and guessing and hoping and inference and gossip. We try very hard to label guesses and hopes as just that – guesses and hope. 🙂 Ain’t nothing wrong with a good bit of hope – we just try to call it straight up.
I’m not going to continually update this particular post – when it’s time to do a bit of live updating, I will let you know. I think it’s a bit too soon. My boy Tommy B tweeted today that the cast announcement will be August 29th (which Court was “psychic” about), which means we are getting down to the wire and the rumors and pro confirmations will start flying fast and furious. 🙂 But the “for sure” pro cast list (aka “leaks”) is probably still two weeks out. At least. 🙂
The MEN
Derek Hough – YES, per Deena Katz on Ryan Seacrest’s Radio Show
Maksim Chmerkovskiy – Most likely, per Maks’ twitter
Mark Ballas – Unknown
Louis Van Amstel – Unknown
Tony Dovolani – Unknown, but a recent interview could be taken as an affirmative – but just a guess, IMO
Dmitry Chaplin – Unknown
Corky Ballas – Unknown
The WOMEN
Cheryl Burke – I’d be shocked if not
Kym Johnson – unknown
Chelsie Hightower – strong possibility
Lacey Schwimmer – unknown
Karina Smirnoff – unknown
Anna Trebunskaya – unknown
Ballroom Battlers – confirmed by Louis
Lacey Schwimmer
Mark Ballas
Tony Dovolani
Louis Van Amstel
Cheryl Burke
Karina Smirnoff
For the record, I do NOT believe that taking part in the Ballroom Battle is indicative of the pros’ participation in DWTS with a celebrity one way or another. I’ve also heard that BB is NOT going to be that time consuming, to the point that it would preclude those pros from competing.
The Troupe
Oksana Dmyrenko
Tristan MacManus – Yes
Peta Murgatroyd
Kiki Nyemchek
Nicole Volynets
Ted Volynets
I assume all the same troupe members will be back – but I will update them as required. As always, give me the heads up if you hear anything that I’ve missed – I’m not stingey with credit. 🙂
YAY! Have I said how great it is to have you back?!!! 🙂
Maks is a definite yes. How much more confirmation do u need?
Hope all of this is true, though I wouldn’t cry if Mark sat out a season just for a simple attitude adjustment!
Why, because you say so, Maddy? When Maks says “I will definitely be on DWTS 13”, then we will change it. Until then, there’s no need for you to play whiny backseat driver.
Before anyone asks (because there will inevitably be people who aren’t in the know that exclaim “But what about Edyta/Alec/Jonathan/Julianne?!”), here’s a preemptive strike to anyone reading the comments of this post: EDYTA, ALEC, JONATHAN, & JULIANNE ARE NEVER COMING BACK. At least as regular pro participants with celeb partners. The first 3 have said it outright on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume from Julianne’s growing fame that she has moved on to bigger & better things. I think we can safely assume most of the one-time pros from the earlier seasons (Charlotte, Andrea, Jesse, Elena, Fabian, etc) aren’t gonna be back, either. There will undoubtedly be people that still say “But Heidi, you forgot Edyta!” or “You left off Jonathan!” At which point I will refer them to this comment. 😀
I’m still not totally sold that Tony is 100% in for this season. “I’ll be on next season” is ambiguous – it could just mean that someone is going to be appearing on the show in some capacity, i.e. pro dances, demos, etc. From what I’m hearing from the bf, it sounds like Tony is going to be doing the bulk of the work getting he & Maks’ new studio off the ground. Another interesting fact: he & Elena used to be featured on all the promotional advertising for Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studios, but they’ve since been ousted, since Tony has broken off to start his own studio.
Maddy, you best watch your step. I’ve just about had it with you and have let you slide far longer than you deserve. I’ve already explained how I make my calls – how much more explanation do YOU need, eh?
I just read something that makes me think that Lacey is seriously thinking of jumping, to focus on her music career….. In any event, she definitely doesn’t know if she is going to be on or not.
Heidi, I will gather it up and email to you shortly, I’ve been away too, and haven’t quite been able to catch up yet.
I think that for Lacy music is a backup plan since she isn’t guarenteed a spot on DWTS. I think that her not being cast one season and a second season was only used as a replacement was a wakeup call to her that she had better not leave all her eggs in one basket–ala DWTS.
I think that can be said for most of the regulars–they are trying to branch out. Jonathon has been gone long enough to know that he probably wasn’t gonna get asked back and Edyta and Alec burned their bridges with the way they departed the show.
Only problem, Cori, is that Vogue has a post scheduled where Lacey implies that she has to choose between the two. Like she might give up on DWTS in order to further her singing career – which would be moronic. Who does that? If someone is already giving you boatloads of money to sing, fine – but Lacey has ONE single. One. Even Mark recognizes the benefits of DWTS to a singing career.
You left out one word, Heidi – “horrendous”. Lacey has ONE HORRENDOUS single…complete with thinly-veiled references to semen. 😉
You clearly haven’t looked at Vogue’s scheduled post to see my tacked on commentary. 😉 I await the hate mail with bated breath. 🙂
If I had to guess who is coming back based on past seasons and current news/twitter stuff/interviews, etc, I would say that the cast would conssit of the following:
1)Derek (thank goodness he is a yes 🙂 )
2)Mark (can’t see him not do it really since this music thing isn’t working out too well to be honest)
3) Maks (he is one of the most popualr pros and he knows it)
4)Louis (I justh ave a bad feeling he is coming back)
5) Tony (he hasn’t missed a season since he started on the show….odds are he isn’t missing season 13)
6) Damien or Dymetry (I’m guessing this is based on who they cast since if the female celeb is tall Dymetry is in and if the female celeb is medium heighor short than it’s gonna be Damien).
7)Cheryl (honestly can’t see the show withouth her)
8) Kym (She is the returning champ and one of them ost popular pros)
9) Anna T (same reason as Cheryl)
10) Chelsie (didn’t she confirm she is coming back?)
11)Karina (if she is part of ballroom battle I’m guessing she is copmpeting as well)
12) Lacey (this is tricky one since she is undecided about music or the show. I’m guessing yes for the hsow since she is a ballroom battler BUT if it isn’t her please be Ashley delgrosso or Peta since they are great….leaning towards Ashley though since she is just so likeable).
As for the troupe, I would love to see them all return but with more people as well (like Pasha from SYTYCD or Anya from SYTYCD). I can see every troupe member competing in the future as the others start to leave and do whatever (music, studios, movies, etc. The only one I don’t see competing as a competitor in the future is KiKi since I don’t really think he isn’t as well known or popualr as Teddy and Thristan….the same can be said for Oksana (who I think is great but she doesn’t have that many fans) ).
Being the returning champ is no guarantee – remember last time Kym won? She sat out the next season and we’re not sure whether it was her idea or not.
@Princess Heidi: I can see where you are coming from with that. Hopefully the producer don’t make the smae mistake twice.
Yep, Heidi – I remember the story about “contract negotiations” that was later amended – It’s at http://www.eonline.com/news/last_seasons_champ_wont_be_dancing_with/169350
Then, Kym tweeted something about “pursuing other things” that season. I sure hope Kym is back this time around – love her choreography, love her concentration on the celeb, love the no-drama approach… and since hubby LOVES to watch her, it means he watches DWTS with me! 🙂
I love watching Kym as well. She is stunningly gorgeous to watch on the dancefloor. I hope that Kym is part of the female pro lineup for Season 13, its not the same without her.
Man, How glad am I to see PRO WATCH back??? It’s awesome! I love these posts and look forward to this month of rumors and speculation xD I like and alot of wish Mark could take a break for a season and wouldn’t mind seeing Lacey sit out for Ashly just not both sit out in the same season thats two BIG personalities and loosing both in one season might be too big of a hit to the show. Btw when did Jonathan publicly say ” Im not coming back to DWTS? ” I didn’t know that. Also is it bad that it took me a minute to figure out who Tommy B was?
Zach, I remember Jonathan tweeting about it on Twitter saying something like “Just so you all know, I am never coming back to compete on DWTS. I will come back for pro dances if they ask me…” something like that. He got flooded with fans wishing him well too.
If I get ambitious, I might try and find the tweet later, but I think Jonathan tweeted it about midway through last season (so maybe April-ish?) and it was just basically “Hey guys, just wanted to let you know I won’t be coming back to DWTS. Too many other things going on” and then he went on to say he might be back for some pro dances or demos if he was asked, but he was not going to be participating with a celebrity partner again. I know Jonathan is very active competing in pro-am events with his students – my boyfriend has run into him at several comps this year. He also seems to be traveling a lot to teach – I can imagine it probably wouldn’t be easy for him to plan ahead for both of those things if he was waiting for “the word” from TPTB that he would or wouldn’t be participating in a particular season. And since they haven’t used him since season 8 – I’m thinking he was like “You know what? Nevermind. I’ve got plenty to keep me busy, and I can’t be playing the waiting game with DWTS anymore, especially if this is all just lip service.” Can’t say I blame him – I often get the feeling from some of the pros’ tweets that they are literally waiting to hear if they’re in or not before planning any other activities. Would suck to be waiting with baited breath, only to be told at the last minute “Sorry, but we just don’t have a partner for you this year!” and then trying to fill your time with other things. Guess that’s the nature of the show, though.
I guess the one thing that could be said in Evelyn’s favor is that a lot of people who watch DWTS probably don’t watch Basketball Wives, so what they’ll see is a pretty woman who’s not a spring chicken dancing with a little bit of ‘flava’ (I’m assuming she’d be an okay to very good dancer especially for the Latin dances since she’s Latina and from the Bronx). She’d probably smile a lot and be really nice (and hold back on the drama and profanity-laced tirades). Also, I guess I’m assuming that the person she is on Basketball Wives is her real persona, when it may not actually be – people ‘perform’ on these personality-driven reality shows just as much as or more than on scripted shows because they need the attention to keep the paychecks and the publicity flowing. So it’s possible her ‘real’ personality is nicer and more 3-dimensional than we see on BW.
Cheryl Burke is on the season premiere of What Not to Wear on TLC this Tuesday, August 16, showcasing her sister who must be the fashion disaster. I love Stacy and Clinton so I will be tuning in.
Sandy, I believe it’s her ASSISTANT, getting the make over, not her sister. 🙂
Oops, Sorry.. The clip was so quick I thought they said her sister. Either way I’ll be watching….
I saw a bunch of pics today of Cheryl and her sister on vacation and her sister looks a lot like her! Her style is similar too, I think. (If one can judge by beachwear. *LOL*)