{"id":1999734,"date":"2025-09-05T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1999734"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:47:27","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-alfonso-ribeiro-reflects-on-going-from-contestant-to-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dancing-with-the-stars-alfonso-ribeiro-reflects-on-going-from-contestant-to-host\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dancing With the Stars\u2019: Alfonso Ribeiro Reflects on Going From Contestant to Host"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan since it first came on,\u201d admits a smiling Alfonso Ribeiro<\/a>, chatting during a break from this TV Guide Magazine cover shoot for the competition series\u2019 20th anniversary. \u201cA dance show on TV \u2014 I was like, \u2018Ooh, I got to check this out!\u2019\u201d the charming host says of falling in love with Dancing. \u201cIt took 19 seasons for me to get on as a contestant and now to cohost with Julianne [Hough], it\u2019s incredible.\u201d When Dancing premiered in 2005, Ribeiro<\/a> had plenty of acting and directing gigs under his cummerbund. He\u2019d been dancing since he began his career at 8 years old in Broadway\u2019s The Tap Dance Kid.<\/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":"

\u201cI\u2019ve been a fan since it first came on,\u201d admits a smiling Alfonso Ribeiro, chatting during a break from this TV Guide Magazine cover shoot for the competition series\u2019 20th anniversary. \u201cA dance show on TV \u2014 I was like, \u2018Ooh, I got to check this out!\u2019\u201d the charming host says of falling in love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1999735,"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-1999734","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\/09\/\u2018Dancing-With-the-Stars-Alfonso-Ribeiro-Reflects-on-Going-From.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999734","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=1999734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}