{"id":2385299,"date":"2026-04-23T04:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2385299"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:37:49","slug":"new-celebrity-contestants-revealed-for-upcoming-dancing-with-the-stars-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-celebrity-contestants-revealed-for-upcoming-dancing-with-the-stars-season\/","title":{"rendered":"New Celebrity Contestants Revealed for Upcoming &#8220;Dancing With The Stars&#8221; Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"maincontent\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<p>On the ballroom heels of the announcement of a new spin-off series, we&#8217;re also learning of some new competitors coming to this season of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/p\/dancing-stars-guide-2\/\">Dancing With The Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w1920\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w1280 1280w, https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w768 768w, https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w480 480w, https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/04\/2026-(55).jpg\/w1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, (max-width: 1280px) 75vw, 1920px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the wake of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"the official announcement\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/disney-entertainment\/dancing-with-the-stars-the-next-pro-officially-announced\/\">the official announcement<\/a> of Dancing With The Stars: The Next Pro, we also got a reveal of two cast members coming to the ballroom this season on Dancing With The Stars.<\/li>\n<li>Both Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller were revealed to be joining the competition series ahead of the next season of the show, currently set to debut this fall.<\/li>\n<li>Maura Higgins is an\u00a0Irish television personality, model, and presenter\u00a0who rose to fame as a contestant on\u00a0Love Island UK\u00a0Season 5 back in 2019. She is also known for her bold personality and presenting roles, and has also appeared on\u00a0Dancing on Ice,\u00a0I&#8217;m a Celebrity&#8230;, and\u00a0The Traitors. She is also featured on a lot of the social media for\u00a0Love Island Games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ciara Miller is also known for her appearances on reality television, as well as being a model, and former ICU nurse. She is widely known for her appearance on Bravo\u2019s\u00a0Summer House\u00a0and\u00a0Winter House. Joining the series in 2021, she has become a central cast member, known for her romantic storylines and navigating drama within the show, particularly in recent seasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Set to return this fall to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/w\/abc-tv\/\">ABC<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/tag\/disney-plus\/\">Disney+<\/a>, Dancing With The Stars is <span style=\"color: rgb(18, 18, 18)\">hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, pairing celebrities with trained ballroom dancers to compete in themed choreographed dance routines that are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(18, 18, 18)\">The show wrapped its 20th season late last year, pulling in impressive numbers with t<\/span>he finale serving as TV\u2019s top entertainment telecast since\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/w\/abc-tv\/\">ABC<\/a>\u2019s presentation of The Oscars earlier in the year among both Total Viewers and Adults 18-49.<\/li>\n<li>ABC flexed their performance over rivals NBC and CBS by stating that the finale telecast delivered more Adult 18-49 viewing in one night than the entirety of CBS\u2019s primetime entertainment schedule last week and more than double the combined primetime entertainment programming on NBC during that period.<\/li>\n<li>Devoted\u00a0Dancing with the Stars\u00a0fans had cast nearly half a billion votes throughout the season, and the finale captured a remarkable 53% audience share among Adults 18-34, the largest share of available viewers for any broadcast entertainment series telecast since the\u00a0Friends\u00a0series finale in May 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(18, 18, 18)\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.laughingplace.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the ballroom heels of the announcement of a new spin-off series, we&#8217;re also learning of some new competitors coming to this season of Dancing With The Stars. 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