Nancy Kerrigan and Fifth Harmony? The DWTS Season 24 Rumors Continue…
I would be down with Nancy Kerrigan and a member of Fifth Harmony, I think. Variety says that Nancy is in along with a member of Fifth Harmony plus they reiterate Mr. T, Nick Viall and Simone as we previously reported.
With less than one month until the Season 24 premiere of “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC is setting the new cast of celebrity contestants.
Nancy Kerrigan will compete on the upcoming season, along with a member of Fifth Harmony, a source tells Variety. Our insider also tells us that “The Bachelor” Nick Viall will more-than-likely be a contestant.
Mr. T. and Simone Biles will also compete on Season 24, our source says, confirming the participation of the wrestler and Olympic gymnast, who was courted to dance on the competition series last year, but was unable to due to scheduling. (Her Rio teammate Laurie Hernandez competed and won last season).
ETA: Fifth Harmony held a Dancing With The Stars Chat last season. Watch this and see who their favorite dancers are on the show. Several of them said they’d like to dance with Val. They like Derek too. More below courtesy of Haley Alexandra….
I’m good with Nancy Kerrigan and a girl group member! So Artem or Maks for Kerrigan and Val for the singer?
Don’t think I can take a season of Harmonizers to be honest. Nancy Kerrigan would be good for someone like Maks or Gleb. I’d like to see Artem with the 5H member because it would be intriguing and we’d get to see once and for all what he can do with a serious contender. She’ll probably get one of Val, Gleb or Mark though.
I think 5h has a tour date in Singapore during season 24.
Nancy Kerrigan would be quite the contender!! Even better if she got paired with Mark;) He won with Kristi Yamaguchi(sorry if I’m misspelling) why not win again with another skater? I’d take that!
A member of fifth harmony? Yeah I’m a bit old for these girl groups lol-I suppose if it’s true, maybe she’d be paired up with Val or Maks? Hmmm…..
Fans of 5th Harmony are saying Camila Cabello since she’s no longer a part of the group.
Sorry, Fifth Harmony.. 🙂 BET she goes to Mark or Val..
I think Nancy Kerrigan could be amazing! She still skates and looks like she is in great shape. I would love to see her with Mark if he returns. Mark has never had an older partner, and in the right hands I think Nancy could actually be a strong contender.
I know nothing about fifth harmony but it screams Val or Gleb to me.
I’m hoping the 5th Harmony Member is normani kordei she’s by far the best dancer of the group!
Oh wow, I will be so happy if Nancy is dancing!
I’m happy with any of the 5th Harmony members so I’m just hoping that its either artem, gleb, or val. Saying that I wouldn’t be shocked if Val get her but I wouldn’t be against that pairing either since he can deliver when he wants to. as for Nancy, I am thinking maks or gleb. They seem like they would gel well with her.
if nancy is on the show, she proberly would get maks. i want the fifth harmony member to be partnered to artem but proberly go to val
I saw Nancy Kerrigan skate in the Colgate skating and gymnastics show (I watched it on tv, not in person), and she was still really great! I hope she does it. It would be a breath of fresh air to have a ringer who wasn’t under the age of 30 (nothing against ringers under the age of 30, I just like variety).
I’m going out on a limb and say the Nancy Kerrigan rumor makes sense. She competed on Flea Market Flip with host Lara Spencer. So the connection could be there.
My 5th Harmony rankings would start with Lauren, then Normani (She’d be a pure ringer who skill wise could give Simone a run for her money), then Dinah, and then Ally.
I hadn’t really factored Camila in, but that would be her dominant storyline for the season. The break up is so fresh, she hasn’t really had the chance to bomb out as solo artist yet.
Nancy K. feels like an Artem match up if true…
Ohh… Nancy Kerrigan! Wonder if Tonya Harding will compete too… Or too soon?
I can see Camila Cabello since she is just starting out on her solo career. Needs the publicity. By the way, Val follows her on twitter, though it has been a few months since he started.
@Shawn I feel like they probably won’t give Nancy to Artem because it seems like he normally gets people who have pretty much no chance of making it to the finals, and Nancy actually moves really well still. I would really like to see her paired with Artem, though, because I’d like to see how he does with a partner who has good skill and ability.
Another person who I’d really like to see Nancy paired with is Val. I don’t say this because I want him to get another ringer. It’s more just being realistic because I know they’d never give Val a partner who has no prayer of going to the finals. Given that this is the case, I’d really like to see Val with a 47 year-old woman who has great talent because it would force him to diverge from his two favorite approaches: trying to be the “mentor” for some young person and showmance. I’ve grown a bit tired of those two types of season with Val.
I looked at the Fifth Harmony tour dates online and there travling to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines and a bunch of other places over seas during the season. I think the only member that would be able to do the show is the girl who left the group Camila. I wonder how the Harmonizers would respond to her doing the show, as in would they still vote, I think a lot of them were pissed off she left the group. If she were to do the show I picture her partner with either Val or Mark assuming there back this season.
@Kelly A – Didn’t she leave the group cause she got busted for trying to board a plane with a bag of weed or something? lol
#m While she wasn’t 47, I do think Elizabeth Berkley Lauren was 40ish, a trained, talented dancer/actress and happily married when she was partnered with Val. Tamar Braxton was late 30’s when she was on DWTS. And I think they might have been 2 of Val’s weakest seasons. Certainly not fan favorite seasons like Zendaya/Val and Janel/Val, Rumer/Val.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t visible social media votes show that fans wanted Val to be paired with Paula Deen for switch up week yet mysteriously it was announced on air that America chose Bindi for his partner? TPTB aren’t going to give Val Precious (or Gleb) a 47 year old partner. I actually think it more likely that they would be paired with a younger, more conventionally hot woman even if she doesn’t have the obvious talent of a champion ice skater.
So PEOPLE mag just tweeted it’s Normani Kordei from Fifth Harmony.
@winter Yes!!!!!
I think that the producers aren’t going to risk showing Val’s lack of competence with someone like Paula Deane or someone older or otherwise physically challenged. Not after they’ve worked so hard to mold him into the “star” (cough) of the show.
AH, now that’s an explanation that makes even more sense than that they accede to his demands to keep him “happy.” “Cause I totally believe that Val asks for “good” partners. It wouldn’t even occur to him that he might have something to prove or to want to prove his prowess. Val believes his 2 MBT and the times he was “cheated” out of them prove his greatness……
Val better watch himself. I don’t think he lives up to his own hype and if he’s too much of a pain in the ass they might just let him go. If I were him, I would look at the addition of Gleb as a warning shot.
Serious question: The four female celebs (Normani, Erika Jayne, Simone, and Nancy) seemingly “in” all have serious dance/athletic training. Has that ever happened before? I remember seasons when we’ve had two or three, but not four. The match-ups could be really interesting.
@Colleeen I agree that it is a lot more likely that they’d give Val a young, hot woman without as much dance training instead of a 47 year-old ice skater, but that was just me being optimistic. Nancy Kerrigan is about as far outside of the typical Val box that I could see them going for him, so I’m just being optimistic and hoping they would give him someone a little different than what he normally gets. That’s probably a really long shot, though…
@m My idea of wishful thinking is Val would take a season off or pull something and have to! Barring that, that he’d find some reason to actually WORK his way to the finals with a partner that either wasn’t trained AT ALL before or who is older/less known.
But as Chasye points out so far we have the reigning queen of gymnastics and a 20 year old girl group member with a fanatic following, a mid 40’s, still in shape ice skating champion, a mid 40’s reality show star who is also known as a dancing queen and if we get Ashley Benson, she’s not only trained in several types of dance, she competed! The ladies, at least on paper might be very competitive this season! If I were as smart as Val claims he is, I would have been nervous since they sought out Gleb and not only brought him back but they have been pushing him as the sexy guy. TPTB and the judges engineered a trip to the finals for him over fan favorites Terra and Sasha. So it should be very interesting to see the partnerships and if/who TPTB are pushing.
For goodness sake when will you pick Carla Hall from ABC’s The Chew to be on DWTS?! Also it’s really insulting to bring dancers on The Chew. She certainly deserves to be on before the zero pert Brothers.