{"id":1975401,"date":"2025-08-22T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1975401"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:10:57","slug":"why-did-samantha-harris-leave-dancing-with-the-stars-plus-what-shes-doing-16-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-did-samantha-harris-leave-dancing-with-the-stars-plus-what-shes-doing-16-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Samantha Harris Leave \u2018Dancing With the Stars\u2019? Plus, What She\u2019s Doing 16 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Samantha Harris<\/a> was a short-lived cohost on Dancing With the Stars<\/a>. She was on the show from Seasons 2 through 9 alongside Tom Bergeron<\/a>, who would continue to host the series until Season 28. In 2010, Harris announced her exit from the dancing competition series. Scroll down for a refresh about her decision and to learn more about what she\u2019s up to now. Why did Samantha Harris leave Dancing With the Stars<\/a>? Harris announced her departure from the series in January 2010, just two months before Season 10\u2019s premiere. At the time, she revealed that she was leaving the show to focus on her journalism career and told Us Weekly she was \u201ctaking on expanded responsibilities on The Insider<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samantha Harris was a short-lived cohost on Dancing With the Stars. She was on the show from Seasons 2 through 9 alongside Tom Bergeron, who would continue to host the series until Season 28. In 2010, Harris announced her exit from the dancing competition series. Scroll down for a refresh about her decision and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1975402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1975401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Why-Did-Samantha-Harris-Leave-\u2018Dancing-With-the-Stars-Plus.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}