{"id":2478808,"date":"2026-06-28T01:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2478808"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:15:50","slug":"dwts-mourns-death-of-harold-wheeler-longtime-musical-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dwts-mourns-death-of-harold-wheeler-longtime-musical-director\/","title":{"rendered":"DWTS Mourns Death of Harold Wheeler, Longtime Musical Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>After the show lost one of its most beloved members, several figures in the DWTS world\u2014past and present\u2014honored Wheeler on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2005, when you first heard the music of @dancingwiththestars, it was coming from Harold Wheeler and his orchestra,&#8221; original host <strong>Tom Bergeron<\/strong> wrote in a June 25 I<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaBngIiyrly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">nstagram post<\/a>. &#8220;Nothing gave me greater pleasure than making him &amp; his orchestra break up during dress rehearsals. Well, that &amp; basking in the brilliance of their talent. #RIP my friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former longtime pro and current judge <strong>Derek Hough<\/strong> praised Wheeler for helping &#8220;build so much of the magic we all know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the Oscars to countless iconic shows, he was a legend,&#8221; he continued in his June 25 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaBymNODkFx\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Instagram post<\/a>, which featured Wheeler and his orchestra playing music while he danced on stage. &#8220;l&#8217;ll always remember sending him ideas in my early seasons and that fun moment when Shawn and I tumbled right into his band pit. Harold, thank you for the music, the kindness, and the memories. Rest in peace, my friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the show lost one of its most beloved members, several figures in the DWTS world\u2014past and present\u2014honored Wheeler on social media. &#8220;In 2005, when you first heard the music of @dancingwiththestars, it was coming from Harold Wheeler and his orchestra,&#8221; original host Tom Bergeron wrote in a June 25 Instagram post. &#8220;Nothing gave me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2478809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DWTS-Mourns-Death-of-Harold-Wheeler-Longtime-Musical-Director.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478808","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=2478808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478810,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478808\/revisions\/2478810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}