CAST ANNOUNCENT – DWTS Season 29!!
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Yep we’re having trouble with PureDWTS this morning so here we are until it’s back up. Nice opening number!!
Vernon Davis
Monica Aldama (Cheer)
Jeannie Mai (??)
Nelly
Jesse Metcalf (hot)
Nev Schulman
Kaitlyn Bristow
AJ McLean
Chrishell Stauss
Skai Jackson
Anne Heche
Justina Machado
Johnny Weir (finally!!)
Charles Oakley (basketball)
Carole Baskin
That’s an interesting cast although they give the announcement short shrift these days. We have football, basketball, skaters, actors, singers….the whole nine yards. But not credit to Tyra for this…I credit COVID.
This dude on GMA doesn’t know who anyone on the cast is. Vernon is a pretty handsome man! And Johnny just heaved a big sigh on camera….he wants to TALK. 🙂
And Johnny finally gets to talk…but first a video of him being crazy on the ice. Tries to claim no advantage due to skating. That’s okay, he might get my vote anyway.
Skai Jackson is sooo pretty!! Nev Schulman from Catfish the TV Show…him I’ve heard of. Kind of. Jeannie Mai is already (for fun) trash talking. I didn’t know her name, but I recognize her as well. Geez, Charles is 6’8″?? Wow.
Zone of terror, AJ?? No idea what Cheer is. At all. Someone educate me. I love this dude cheering on Monica, though.
Our ringers are Johnny, Kaitlyn, AJ and possibly this Cheer lady. I’ll have to research them. Not that it matters, now that Derek is no longer on the show to take the heat. Thank god. You CAN tell who needs better internet, though (Jesse).
Annnd they just out Kaitlyn with her dance experience on TV. Doesn’t look that impressive though.
Jeannie Mai is a host on the talk show The Real.
OMG JOHNNY WEIR – I’m so excited now.
Overall a good cast. I even know several of them haha.
OMG JOHNNY WEIR! I’m dying here!!! WOWWWWWW
At this point I think this is a guys to lose. Obviously I haven’t seen everyone dance, but just a feeling. Skai is the only one of the ladies I can see winning right now.
And yeah, an article I read even mentioned COVID is why some people were able and willing to do the show this season. I don’t think this cast is much different than most seasons. The only thing we’re missing is a Real Housewife.
I believe Kaitlyn also has dance experience. And AJ definitely has a leg up.
I am vary surprised by this cast. I was not shore what kind of cast they where going to get with Covid. Someone said it’s a guys Mirror ball to lose and they are right. Come on you got AJ Nelly and Johnny. My top lady Catherine but that’s only because I really don’t know to much about lady’s to talk about them. P.s. why Carol
this is a great cast. I’ve been pretty excited about AJ since he was announced, but adding Johnny Weir…I’m torn. i predict a Johnny & Jeannie friendship blooming – both over the top personalities. Gotta cheer for my Canada girl – Kaitlyn too.
Skai is super cute – hope for pairing with Brandon.
would have preferred Jerry from Cheer over Monica. Carole, Anne & Charles will be first out in my opinion.
Wow, that’s a 15 person cast and I know like 13 people. And a lot of people will too. Definitely their most sort of kinda real “celebrity” season in a while. Most of these people still have a real current celebrity status. B-, C list and below, but you still KNOW them.
You don’t know what Cheer is thanks to Covid. The show was released on Netflix and was quite the “phenomenon” for a while. But Covid hit and their sure fire way to the top was the cheerleading competitions that never happened. So their rise to fame got cut short.
This Sheryl Crow look-a-like is the coach. She got her 15 minutes too before Covid. The most famous of the squad was the one being rumored weeks ago.
Is just me or does this cast seem to skew a lot older than normal. Like Skai is 18 and then the next youngest people are Kaitlyn and Nev at 35. The vast majority of the cast is in there 40s and 50s. Do young people no longer want to be involved with DWTS?
I love Justina and ODAAT is one of my favorite shows right now! I’ve quite enjoyed Jeannie on The Real as well.
Might watch DWTS this year just to see Johnny Weir tear it up
I think Skai Jackson is gonna surprise a lot of people just like Frankie Muniz and Milo Manheim did. So I’m not counting her out, especially considering she might have Alan
I wonder if the rumors of a same sex partnership are true? If so, Johnny would definitely be the one to pull it off.
Good cast, I think. Is it epic? meh. but I am excited about AJ and Johnny (it’s about time). Curious about Anne. Will Carol be this year’s train wreck? Vernon & Charlie are going to do just fine. with Nelly I’m on the fence – the spec sheet says he should do very well, but ballroom may not be his groove; we’ll see. The others i’m not very familiar with, but i suspect Skai will be really good.
agree with those here who said: (a) FINALLY, at long last, Johnny Weir! (b) we have COVID to thank for some of these folks (like Johnny) to be available to do DWTS
looking forward to premier night. I think i read that we won’t know the pairings until the premier, but i have a feeling the pros here at DWTS will sletuth them out ahead of time 🙂
I think the men’s side is pretty epic, but the females are pretty weak. Should be an interesting cast to watch though.
I’ve seen a bunch of rumors on the pairings but I’ve not mustered the energy to post. 🙂 And honestly, I find the celebs more interesting than the pro pairings.
Been a long time since I’ve hopped on here, but with the cast being announced I had to come on and say hi. I hope everyone is well and staying safe in this uncertain times!
Don’t understand why they are waiting until the premiere to reveal the partnerships. I understand it’s a ratings grab, but ultimately I’d say they are better off generating publicity by revealing them now. Either way, the cast is a lot better than I thought it would be. I could never have seen people like Jesse Metcalfe and Johnny Weir doing the show, but as said above Covid has probably played its part. Just a crying shame they fired Tom and Erin, otherwise it really would look like an exciting series.
Johnny and AJ will obviously both be brilliant dancers. Kaitlyn will be great as well providing she hasn’t got Gleb! You’d imagine Monica being head coach of a cheerleading team would be great and Vernon looks like the classic NFL guy that does well on the show. I do think the men look far stronger than the women in terms of both dance ability and vote appeal and we could have a male heavy final in comparison to last season.
I don’t think I’ll be watching live, but I’ll catch up on the dances on Youtube and vote online if I remember. Will pop on here again as the season goes on. My best wishes to everyone!
I’m not surprised to see Johnny Weir on here (he just did the last season of The Masked Singer) and I’m excited to see him on. I honestly only know like 5 of them, but I’m always open to learning about new people.
@Missy, the revealing of partners during the premiere last season wasn’t a ratings grab, although most of the partnerships were figured out before the premiere. This season the partnerships are already leaked except for Johnny and Charles. So I don’t think it’ll help ratings this season, either. If anything, I miss seeing the pros and their celebs interacting and doing interviews together before the premiere.
@kara 100% agree on the partnerships not being revealed. I miss getting to see rehearsals and get to know the partnerships before the premiere. Also it prevents us from being part of picking team names and I think some of the names they picked last year were stinkers. I just don’t see the point of hiding it.
kara 100% agree on the partnerships not being revealed. I miss getting to see rehearsals and get to know the partnerships before the premiere. Also it prevents us from being part of picking team names and I think some of the names they picked last year were stinkers. I just don’t see the point of hiding it.
Interesting cast, and I agree with what Sara said about the cast skewing older. Carole is the only one I’m just not a fan of right now.
I wonder if the fact that two of the more ringer celebs (Kaitlyn and Johnny) are similarish to two celebs that have won pretty recently (Hannah and Adam) is going to hurt them or feel like a redux to some people.
One person I am very interested about Nev. It looks like he formally studied dance for years, so that could give him a stealth leg up if he isn’t pegged by TPTB as a ringer.
I wasn’t planning on watching because the loss of Tom is made worse for me by how absolutely grating Tyra is as a host but with COVID and nothing on TV maybe I’ll give it a shot.
@Taryn I agree as well, it’s so fun to watch them interact and develop as a partnership before the premiere. It’s annoying how they try to pretend it’s a big epic reveal when the partnerships get leaked anyway, all they’re doing now is depriving the fans from behind-the-scenes stuff because they’re too stubborn about doing the “big reveal”.