Following the departure of Tyra Banks, Dancing With the Stars has discovered a brand new co-host — one who’s doubtless acquainted to viewers of the present.
Julianne Hough, a former professional dancer and decide on the long-running competitors sequence, is rejoining DWTS as a bunch for its thirty second season. She’ll co-host the Disney+ present alongside Alfonso Ribeiro, who’s taking on emcee duties.
Hough may even rejoin her brother, Derek, on Dancing With the Stars. He at the moment serves as a decide alongside Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli.
Julianne Hough joined Dancing With the Stars as one among its skilled dancers within the present’s fourth season in 2007. She and her superstar companions (Apolo Ohno and Hélio Castroneves) had been topped champions in seasons 4 and 5.
She left the present in 2009 to pursue different features of her profession however made a number of visitor appearances earlier than becoming a member of the judging panel from 2014-17. Hough has been a visitor decide a number of occasions in current seasons.
Banks, who has hosted DWTS in 2020, introduced March 17 that she could be leaving the present, telling TMZ, “I feel it’s time for me to really focus on my business and entrepreneurship, but also producing more TV but behind the scenes.”
Dancing With the Stars moved to Disney+ in 2022 after 17 years and 30 seasons on ABC, with Ribeiro — who additionally hosts America’s Funniest Home Videos on ABC — becoming a member of Banks as co-host. The competitors’s thirty second cycle, and second on the streamer, is about to premiere within the fall; the lineup of dancers can be introduced nearer to its debut.
Hough received an Emmy in 2015 for excellent choreography on DWTS and has been nominated within the class two different occasions. She made her Broadway debut final 12 months within the play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Other performing credit embody Fox’s Grease Live, Rock of Ages and Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings.
