Dancing In DWTS Season 29 – A “YES” For Kaitlyn Bristowe And A “NO” For Olivia Newton John
Wow, never did we expect this news so soon. According to ET Online, Kaitlyn Bristowe is dancing in the new season of Dancing With The Stars.
Kaitlyn Bristowe’s dancing dreams are coming true! The former Bachelorette got quite the surprise on Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! when Chris Harrison told her she’d be competing on the upcoming 29th season of Dancing With the Stars.
The news comes three years after Bristowe claimed that she was offered a contract for DWTS, but was blocked from appearing on the show at the last minute by Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss, who allegedly “said he didn’t want people wanting fame after his show.” Bristowe was visibly shocked on Monday night when she found out she’d finally get her shot at the mirrorball trophy.
More at ET Online. However. it’s a “no” for Olivia Newton John. Dang, I would love to see her dance on the show. More in the video below and at ET!
ETA: I saw the part with Chris Harrison asking Kaitlyn last night when I was already in bed – corny. Here’s a bit of it, along with the piece from GMA this morning, thanks to Linz on twitter. She’s SOL on the Derek thing, not that I blame her. 🙂 ~Heidi
We’re catching up with @kaitlynbristowe on life after @bacheloretteabc, finding love and being the newest contestant on @dancingabc! pic.twitter.com/kAg2oSyEhM
— Good Morning America (@GMA) June 16, 2020
ETA 2: Court here, just adding some links to previous posts we’ve done about Kaitlyn with regards to DWTS – one about her Twitter rant exposing Mike Fleiss for not letting her do DWTS back in 2015, and one conspiracy theory about how she might have played a role in the season 21 cast shakeup.
I don’t know much about Kaitlyn, other than what I’ve heard about her wanting to be on the show and feeling her chances were sabotaged by the Bachelor producers. So I’m happy it’s finally happening for her. And I really miss this show, so having any sort of announcement this early was exciting.
So I’m pumped. She seems normal and just very happy all the time. The world needs that in general 🙂
As I’m happy as a Canadian she’ll be representing us but abc please give her to pasha would love to see what he can do considering what he did with Kate plus with both them not being single less
Chance of a showmace
I’m thinking pasha or Val for her partner just purely based on that would be one hell of a good looking couple on the dance floor either way.
I hope kayltin is paired with Shasha or Mark ballas or Derek hough season 29 dwts
Kaitlyn seems really nice, but I get the feeling she’s gonna possibly be the first bachelor franchise contestant to really wow us. Nothing against Hannah, but she didn’t fully connect with the audience until the end. Good for her, she was very sweet, but Kaitlyn seems more grounded. Hope she does well, but I’m hoping Keo gets her as a partner. She gives me chill vibes and it reminds me of a lot of Keo’s former celebrities like a mix of Jodie’s goofiness, Evanna’s graceful yet quirky personality, and Jennie’s ability to put her foot down when things aren’t okay with her.
Overall as a contestant I’m quite interested to see what she’ll bring to the table. I hope maybe one or two more celebrities get leaked, but this also really sets a tone for the cast when you go out of your way to spoil the first contestant almost less than three months from showtime. It excites me, yet also worries me she could attract certain people to say yes now that it’s been confirmed she’s doing the show. I hope that made sense.
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