{"id":1991592,"date":"2025-09-01T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1991592"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:25:26","slug":"why-dwts-pro-lindsay-arnold-wont-return-to-dancing-with-the-stars-season-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-dwts-pro-lindsay-arnold-wont-return-to-dancing-with-the-stars-season-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Why DWTS Pro Lindsay Arnold Won\u2019t Return To Dancing with the Stars Season 34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Season 34 of <strong><span>Dancing with the Stars<\/span><\/strong> will be starting soon, so speculation about who will be in the ballroom is ramping up. We know that conservationist <span>Robert Irwin<\/span> and influencer <span>Alix Earle<\/span> will be competing. And two stars from <span>The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/span>, Jen Affleck and <span>Whitney Leavitt<\/span>, will also show off their moves. However, DWTS pro <strong><span>Lindsay Arnold<\/span><\/strong> is sitting out this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lindsay <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2022\/09\/02\/lindsay-arnold-leaves-dancing-with-the-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:left the show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">left the show<\/a> ahead of Season 31 after competing on the series for 10 years. Lindsay decided to prioritize time with her husband and growing family. And the dancer has again decided to skip Season 34.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Lindsay Arnold won\u2019t be a pro on DWTS Season 34<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lindsay addressed her possible participation in Season 34 via a TikTok. \u201cThe answer is no, I will not be doing Dancing with the Stars this next season,\u201d Lindsay said as she applied her makeup. \u201cMy reasons for not doing the show feel even more relevant than they did in the past.\u201d Lindsay is married to Samuel Cusick, and they share two daughters, Sage and June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, \u201cIt\u2019s currently just better for me to be home with my family. My girls have so many things going on this fall, and it\u2019s so exciting.\u201d Lindsay added, \u201cI just know that I\u2019m exactly where I need to be and where I should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, Lindsay also revealed that she has not been contacted by DWTS producers since she exited the show. \u201cFirst of all, I am not being asked to come back. The producers are not reaching out to me, and I\u2019m turning them down, saying, \u2018No, I don\u2019t want to do it,\u2019\u201d Lindsay explained. \u201cLike, none of that has happened.\u201d However, she is pumped to watch <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/dwts-alum-lindsay-arnold-shares-134031619.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the upcoming season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">the upcoming season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, a new pro, <span>Jan Ravnik<\/span>, is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/taylor-swift-heartthrob-dancer-jan-144652549.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:joining the ranks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">joining the ranks<\/a> for Season 34. Jan was one of <span>Taylor Swift\u2019s<\/span> backup dancers for her The Eras Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc.com\/show\/f66d60e7-29f2-49cf-85dd-44a11bce42e4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dancing with the Stars;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dancing with the Stars<\/a>\u00a0Season 34 will premiere on Tuesday, September 16, at 8 p.m. on ABC and Disney+. It will stream on Hulu the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>TELL US \u2013 DO YOU MISS LINDSAY ON DWTS? IS SHE MAKING THE BEST DECISION FOR HER FAMILY?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2025\/09\/01\/why-lindsay-arnold-wont-return-dancing-with-the-stars-dwts-season-34\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why DWTS Pro Lindsay Arnold Won\u2019t Return To Dancing with the Stars Season 34;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why DWTS Pro Lindsay Arnold Won\u2019t Return To Dancing with the Stars Season 34<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reality Tea;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars will be starting soon, so speculation about who will be in the ballroom is ramping up. We know that conservationist Robert Irwin and influencer Alix Earle will be competing. And two stars from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt, will also show off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1991593,"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":[25172],"tags":[41508,344313,359960],"class_list":["post-1991592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-dwts-season","tag-lindsay-arnold"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Why-DWTS-Pro-Lindsay-Arnold-Wont-Return-To-Dancing-with.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991592","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=1991592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}