PureDWTS Season 24 – Glee’s Heather Morris is Dancing this Season **POLL**
So yeah, remember that “ringiest ringer ever” I was hinting at on Twitter the other night? Well the cat’s outta the bag – it’s Glee‘s Heather Morris:
It’s Brittany, b–ch.
Glee star Heather Morris is set to join the Dancing With the Stars cast for its upcoming 24th season, sources exclusively tell E! News. Our sources also tell us The Bachelor‘s Nick Viall is set to compete as well, making him the franchise’s first lead to do DWTS since Chris Soules in 2015.
And because I’m feeling sort-of generous this morning, I’ll also reveal this: her partner is Maks.
Let’s address the elephant in the room here: as far as I can recall, Heather is the first legitimate professional dancer that has been cast as one of the celebs on DWTS. She tried out for season 2 of SYTYCD (but didn’t make the top 20), and she also danced backup for Beyonce. BEYONCE. She was not an actor or a singer when she was brought to the Glee set to teach the “Single Ladies” dance to Kurt – but Ryan Murphy liked her so much that he actually created the role of Brittany for her. But from what I can tell, she hasn’t done much acting or singing since Glee wrapped in 2015.
As I’ve said before – I’m all for ringers, as they (usually) guarantee we’ll see high-quality dancing from season to season. But is the show really so desperate that they’d cast an actual professional dancer??? Say what you will about Nicole Scherzinger – she was primarily a singer, and secondarily a dancer from her girl group days; as was Mya. But I don’t think we’ve ever had someone that was primarily a dancer and had only a bit of experience in some other medium.
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