DWTS Season 25 Cast Announcement – LIVE Blog
Well, partially alive. Just woke up with a sore throat. Boo.
Reminded yet again of how much I dislike GMA.
Yay – Mark and Emma dancing during them teasing the announcement!! And I think that was Hayley with Artem? Couldn’t tell. Went by too fast.
Courtney says that was Britt and Artur…I’m not awake yet. 🙂
Anyway, I feel like we have all the couples, but I guess we’ll see if we got any of them wrong.
Troupe looking good dancing behind Lara.
I hope everyone in Florida is battening down the hatches.
Oh goodie, lets feature the C-bros cuz no one else counts. Just what we need to see in the morning. Ugh. Besides that, good number. How about we focus on the original pros, Cheryl, Mark and Maks?? That would be much better. I’m at my mom’s and she made a disgusted noise in her throat when she saw Maks. I didn’t even teach her to do that. 🙂
Then she said, “Is that his brother?” to which I responded, “Yes, “that” is.” She left to take a shower. LOL.
I remember the good old days when Derek’s face was the first we saw…much more pleasing to my eye, but he was partying with his former Footloose castmates at an LA movie premiere last night. Yes, I checked because I was living in fear that he would get bored and decide to grab a partner for this season. :::shiver::: Until they announce the cast I will have that fear.
Here we go…Season 25!
Drew Scott
Sasha Piertse
Barbara Corcoran
Derek Fisher
Victoria Arlen
Jordan Fisher
Nikki Bella
Terrell Owens
Frankie Muniz
Debbie Gibson
Lindsey Stirling
Nick Lachey
Vanessa Lachey
Yes, there will be spelling errors, I will fix them later.
Drew being cute with Nick and Barbara flirting with Keo like crazy. First question they ask is if anyone has had dance lessons. I see a few hands but NOT Nick Lachey – wonder if Peta trained him already. Lindsey raised her hand as did the girl next to her. (That was Debbie Gibson)
Making a big deal over the married couples. :::rolls eyes::: Gotta have those folks down in front.
They also talk about Frankie’s speeding tickets. Debbie’s music video – she did raise her hand when asked about dance lessons. Debbie has Lyme disease>!? Awful. Calls Alan very nurturing and sweet. She shows everybody an 80’s move. LOL.
Derek says it’s very exciting to be on the show. Loves the pros. And commercial. Guess we find out who else is worthy of talking after the break.
Okay, back to the troupe dancing.
But we’re going back to Houston because this show does occasionally do “news”. The Houston Animal Shelter story is pretty awesome though.
This segment is making me weepy.
Another commercial…love Hayley’s shorter hair style.
First DWTS commercial – Vanessa looks good. Hayley and Britt getting some serious screen time. Good for them! They’re both stunning. Ginger, please. :::rolls eyes:::
Nikki talks about Bella Buster – and how Artem hasn’t experienced it yet. She tries to “fight him” every rehearsal.
Time to gush over Victoria. Paralyzed for a decade, started walking a year ago. She’s very cute. Says it’s a dream come true. Says learning to walk again was easier than learning to dance. She seems very sweet.
Next they talk to Sasha and PLL. Who’s her competition? She says it’s fun and it’s a new chapter and they have a lot of competition. She says her competition is herself.
Jordan talks Hamilton – he started in gymnastics because of a girl and that lead him to drama club and dancing, etc.
Tom takes it over to T.O. Talk abut the pronunciation of his name. Ask about his moves on the field – he asks for pom noms. LOL. Ooookay.
Lindsey on her violin and dancing with it. (Only dancing with it? Technically accurate I guess) Apparently her hands become claws.
Next is Derek Fisher talking about basket ball. Kobe has a message from him about him not being a guy on DWTS – he was shocked. Wishes him luck.
Rashad is there!! Emma and Drew go over and hug him. Drew says “teach me your ways”. 😀 I love Rashad. “Don’t take yourself too serious(ly).”
I love Drew. LOVE him. I think I like Lindsey better as a red head, honestly.
Looks like they’re going to play a game next.
Pros versus Celebs. Guess what dance they are doing.
Drew versus Alan. Pros win.
Vanessa versus Witney. Vanessa not clear on what she’s doing.
Jordan versus Val. Jordan killed that, Val looked kinda weird.
Barbara versus Emma. No idea what Barbara is doing. That was not a chicken. LOL. I get the feeling that Barbara is going to be the cast clown and is going to be very entertaining…or very annoying this season.
Barbara wins and is licking her MBT. LOL
And…the end. Was Barbara the only one they didn’t talk to during the segments?? Drew kinda made them talk about him, but he had his own segment on another show.
Ty for the live blogs!!! I have to go to work and can’t watch live sadly!! I’m happy to have Mark at least for some good choreo!!!!
I think it’s Artur & Hayley:
https://instagram.com/p/BYsttINB9tP/
I’m in Florida and we are all prepping for the hurricane.
I’m not able to watch the live announcement because are local abc affiliate is broadcasting Irma coverage.
Hopefully there will be a video up soon.
Wow! I love how they all came out dancing! Looking good too.
I’m so sorry on the hurricane, Caroline. Stay tuned for a video in a new post shortly after the announcement. Please stay safe!
I am actually very excited for the cast this season. Hey Mrs. Courtney do you still do the preliminary power rankings? Or is it not worth it because it’s so close to the premier? Your power rankings are my favorite. 🙂
Barbara already looks like she is having a blast. Only ones that gave me some fear that they bit awkward to watch is Derek and to a slight extent Sasha.
Great cast this season. So many to root for. Except for Maks, Peta, and Val (sorry partners).
Of course Maks and Peta are in the front row. Why not have our 2 returning pros up front and center?
I think eliminations are going to be tough this season.
@Caroline – Stay safe. My ex is down there and my kids are quite worried. He lost everything a few years back from a previous hurricane.
Wow, I’m surprised they featured someone who’s been around the longest and another who currently has the most MBs, both who happened to be fan favorites. Maybe they should have had Keo who has only made it past week two once, and the new guy who no one knows front and center!
Mark was on solo, last week, right? Was Cheryl on yesterday solo?
They married couple thing is a story. There’s one every season!
Has anyone tried the DWTS Fantasy League site for their official League yet? It seems positively broken…what a fail! Can’t believe they announced that but it completely does not work; It sends you in a loop of confirming your email address for an ABC.com account…weird!
This year’s teams look…interesting. Can’t say I’m excited for any of them really. I think I know who the front runners are, but can’t quite find the ringer (Unless its the guy from Hamilton/Disney Star or the Pretty Little Liars girl…)…We shall see!
So it’s Debbie Gibson? Another one for the “Wait….she hasn’t done the show yet?” list. Can’t believe it took her or the producers 25 seasons to get here. Charo still wins that award though. And Nick Lachey also goes ahead of her.
rooting for the Jordan & Lindsey right now but I don’t hate anyone on this cast so I think that’s a definite positive
I think front row is about the Lacheys. We’ll see, but I suspect they had to make promises in order to attract them. Thank you for posting all of this, saved me the trouble of setting my DVR this morning lol.
Safe to say Drew is life of the party, although Vanesssa right there with him. Val and Peta look lost, and I’m not sure how to describe Maks lately. I guess I would say different, that goofy persona doesn’t work for me, but msybe his lady fans like it.
#3Caroline, wishing you safety and comfort!
Mama Heidi (Or should I say Queen?!????) sounds like she’s got Val’s number.
I couldn’t watch live this morning so thanks for the detailed and funny commentary on it.
Derek has the most MBTs Jill so I’m not sure who you’re talking about. No reason to not feature Mark and Cheryl again, seeing as how they have two MBTs each and have been around far longer than Val – and who are far more successful than Maks and who are also fan favorites by any yardstick.
There certainly is NOT a married couple every season – what show are you watching? And am I going to have to block you for being a total bitch this season?? Let me know soon so I can do it before the season starts.
You don’t “wait and see” who the ringers are, Tori, you have to research it because no one is able to tell who a true ringer is just by watching the show. That implies that it’s based on how well someone does – AND IT’s NOT.
Yeah, the front row is likely about the Lacheys, Rose1 – just so over the married faux drama shit though.
Queen Heidi has *Maks’* number – she has never ever liked him. Ever. She doesn’t even know who Val is. 🙂 I told her that if she had to pick one, knowing her, she would pick Maks over Val any time. I think I frightened her. 🙂
Excited that Canada can vote this year as per Hello Canada’s tweet, but sad because Hinch could have also benefited from this as well or maybe even won. Guess ABC can do as they please without reason but at least make it a fair playing ground shouldn’t matter if it was Hinch – race car driver or Drew, who happens to have TV show. Give equal opportunity
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I’m really excited for Lindsey & Mark. I think that is going to Music Magic for all of our ears. I bet they will do a dance where they both play their violins and it’s just???? So good. Also Lindsay and Jordan are probably the couple to beat. He’s sooo good and charismatic.
Then my personal obsession is Nikki Bella and Artem. I didn’t really know her before the announcement. I knew she did wrestling and that’s about it. But after watching videos of them, thy are going to bring the chemistry.
I wasn’t aware that Mark played violin…Val does though.
The songs and dances has been releaseD on people.com