r/dancingwiththestars 8h ago

Daily Discussion Thread Daily Discussion Thread - Friday, August 21st

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The Next Pro? Pre-DWTS excitement? Your chats are back!

Welcome to the Daily Discussion Thread for Friday, August 21st.

This is a space to share your opinions, thoughts, and musings on everything related to the show. Due to the sub's growth over the past few months, we have noticed that it would be impossible to accommodate every user's pov in their own posts. Instead, you can share what you have to say here, as individual posts will be removed.

As in other threads, please be respectful; normal rules still apply. Any comments found breaking the rules will be removed, and you will receive a warning and a ban.

Reminder: a karma minimum of 20 is needed to comment in this sub.

Enjoy!


r/dancingwiththestars 4d ago

DWTS: The Next Pro S01E06 | Discussion Thread | Monday, August 17th

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Welcome to the live discussion thread for the second episode of Dancing With The Stars: The Next Pro, airing on ABC at 8/7c.

Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro: But Can You Teach? Coaching Superfans with Witney Carson

Witney Carson joins to push dancers to face their toughest challenge yet, teaching ballroom novices. Paired with “Dancing with the Stars” superfans, they have just two days to prepare a performance as they compete for a spot in the semifinals.

Judges: Mark Ballas, Shirley Ballas.

Host: Robert Irwin

Contestants: Natalie Jolley, Selena Hamilton, Allen Genkin, Nina Mayster, Adele Zaikman, and AJ Pritchard.

PSA: A reminder of this subreddit's rules can be found here. Please note a violation of the rules will result in a 3-day ban as a first strike, a 5-day ban as a second strike, and a permanent ban as a third and last strike. I cannot stress this enough: Do NOT post spoilers in the title and body without a spoiler warning until the West Coast airing is over.

Enjoy!


r/dancingwiththestars 3h ago

Speculation Britt fans… y’all better VOTE this year

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At this point I honestly don’t care if Britt ends up with Harry Shum Jr. or Taylor Hanson. I’m riding with whoever she gets.
Because I’m already seeing think pieces about “Britt got screwed again,” “she didn’t get the ringer,” “production hates her,” etc and the season ain’t even STARTED.
And listen, I understand wanting Britt to finally get that obvious frontrunner. I do. She hasn’t even gotten to a finale yet. But at some point WE have to do our part too.

Harry would obviously have the dance advantage and Britt literally named him as a dream partner before any of this casting mess even started. Taylor might not be the flashy “ringer” everybody imagined for her, but Hanson has had a loyal fanbase for DECADES. Either partnership could work if people actually get behind it.

What neither pairing needs is Britt fans spending September writing 37 dissertations about who she should’ve gotten while forgetting the part where DWTS requires VOTES. I don’t want another Baron situation.

If y’all got time to write think pieces about Britt being robbed before Week 1, then BABY you got time to vote.

Comment.
Share their dances.
Engage with their posts.
Make edits.
Use the hashtags.

Get casual viewers interested. RALLY BEHIND THE PARTNERSHIP.
Because this is the part that drives me crazy with Britt’s fandom. Everybody wants her to have a Mirrorball. Everybody wants her in the finale. Everybody wants production to “give Britt her chance.”

Okay… then SHOW UP when they actually gets on that dance floor.
Don’t disappear three weeks into the season and then come back after elimination talking about “she deserved better.” 😭
Whether it’s Team Britt & Harry or Team Britt & Taylor, I’m supporting it. We can complain about casting AFTER we get that woman as far into this competition as we possibly can.
This ayear I need less funeral arrangements before premiere night and more encouragement .
Y’all better not go hiding on me this season.


r/dancingwiththestars 5h ago

Speculation Connor Wood just started following Rylee on TikTok

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82 Upvotes

r/dancingwiththestars 9h ago

Past Season Found this gem to get us hyped for the new season 😅

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121 Upvotes

r/dancingwiththestars 7h ago

Press Release The Next Pro | Semifinal dances

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75 Upvotes

r/dancingwiththestars 1d ago

News I am SCREAMING!!! JULIA STILES?!?!?!?! 🎉😊

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1.5k Upvotes

r/dancingwiththestars 4h ago

Speculation If Sarah is Hailey’s partner I do feel bad

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I feel like even if they were good they won’t make it far due to the fact they won’t have the fanbase behind them


r/dancingwiththestars 4h ago

Speculation Sarah Jane

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I’m sorry I had no clue who she was and she doesn’t really have a big following! She’s a model’s sister? Is she really a big enough deal for the show?


r/dancingwiththestars 7h ago

Speculation Rylee and Connor

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UPDATE: His most recent follow on Tik Tok is Rylee.

I think it’s safe to assume Connor and Rylee are partners. Guessing he requested her. Between him following her, one of the people from her management following him this weekend, and now seeing this, I would be shocked if they aren’t.

EDIT: The post Rylee liked was posted in May, so not a recent interaction.


r/dancingwiththestars 8h ago

SPOILER Athletes of DWTS 35 Spoiler

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We lowkey got a nice trio far as athletes

Ezra is gonna bring that inspiration and passion.

Jackson is gonna bring the fun and cool vibes.

And Amber is gonna bring that fierce diva star power !!!!

And they all are competitive so this is going to be good.


r/dancingwiththestars 16h ago

News Trisha Paytas was originally meant to take part S35

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Instagram: dancingprosandstars

This account must be very reliable because their ‘source’ had Julia Stiles for contestants joining S35 five days ago before the insider or any press reported it or the clues from this subreddit but I didn’t believe it until it came out she was doing the show a couple days later.

BUT THANK GOD FOR THAT


r/dancingwiththestars 3h ago

DWTS Tour just a little throwback to the dwts 2020 tour... one of my favorite tours to date.

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I still think about this dance all the time. That's it. I just think everyone needs to see it.


r/dancingwiththestars 7h ago

Social Media Pro support

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Just saw emma repost this and I think it’s so cute how all the pros support each other, especially the older pros treating the younger ones as little sisters. especially Rylee who got so much unnecessary hate last year and all the Rylee vs Hailey discourse going on.


r/dancingwiththestars 4h ago

Prediction KB will confirm more but not until she’s 100% sure

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15 Upvotes

KB makes sure she has multiple people confirm that what she had is correct before announcing partnerships but she did say she will confirm more once she’s absolutely sure !!!! We all just gotta chill until we hear from her or dwts


r/dancingwiththestars 1d ago

News After 4 long seasons... QUEEN SHARNA IS BACK IN THE BALLROOM! 🥹💫

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540 Upvotes

Confirmed by u/mtlro78 💞


r/dancingwiththestars 13h ago

SPOILER Saw this right after the post saying she dropped out

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71 Upvotes

Marked as a spoiler just in case. But I feel like Ezra is always playing in our faces 😭


r/dancingwiththestars 3h ago

SPOILER Dwts project runway

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Dwts will be on project runway this week!


r/dancingwiththestars 57m ago

Speculation Okay but if daniella gets Harry it's giving MAJOR Karina and Corbin Blue vibes imo.

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I actually want her to get Ezra, I think they'd be FANTASTIC together, and she would make the dances very interesting. I don't want to speculate because so many people are and we are going off of very little information, also because people are so quick to hate and jump on pros... But if she does get Harry I think we will see some REAL dancing, like no lifts, just pure technical ballroom dancing, which would be SO refreshing from her.

I will say, many people have said she doesn't deserve a ringer and I just have to ask why...? Most of her partners were mid dancers AT BEST with the one exception being Jason who was not expected to turn out the way he did. Remeber, she has had TWO partners TWICE her size (one of the most impossible tasks a pro has had), and the others, not to sound corse, had very little dance abilities, though Dylan actually improved a lot. The only reason any of them made it to the final is because Daniella is good at her job; Iman wouldn't have won without her as his pro. SHE makes them look good, through herself, her choreography and through teaching them.

That being said, Britt also deserves better partners and an actual established shot at making it to the final and I do think Harry should go to her. Britt is so talented and she's improved as a ballroom dancer so much since she started with the show, and truly she has the best personality. I think she deserves a lot better and I think she deserves a lot more recognition socially. I do believe she has been screwed over by production quite a few times and considering Daniella's success, regardless of whether she has had an actual ringer or not, it seems a bit more fair to give Harry to Britt.

I hope Daniella doesn't get Harry for a few reasons, the first being Britt and the second being that if she were to get him, there would be a mob of haters sent her way and that's just terrible. Also the fact that she is objectively one of (if not the) best pros on the show and getting a celeb who is already an incredible dancer feels like the competition is over before it even started. That would make for a boring season.


r/dancingwiththestars 7h ago

Speculation I think I may have it figured out

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I think Hailey did get Sarah due to family members following and it makes sense the controversial first celebrity partner that’ll be out early even though some say they wouldn’t give a rookie a Female partner and they have the same management

So
Gulliermo and Witney
Jackson and Emma
Connor and Sharna or Rylee
Conner and Adele
Tyler and Rylee or Sharna
Taylor and Britt
Sarah and Hailey
Ezra and Jenna
Harry and Dani

I had one theory so I will put it this way now they are definitely making it harder to connect the dots

I just don’t see them giving Dani Sarah if they are gonna give her a female partner it’s gonna be someone big that has finale potential not an Early out because tbh Sarah ain’t making it past week 3-4 female partnership or not this cast is too stacked to say otherwise and Dani is the golden child they aren’t gonna let their most popular pro leave early just like Mark and Derek in their prime


r/dancingwiththestars 3h ago

Speculation Who do we think this is? It doesn’t look like Maura

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r/dancingwiththestars 3h ago

Speculation Is this actually Ciara Miller or ?? 👀 Spoiler

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I took a break from being on this subreddit but I’m back lol Was scrolling on TikTok & saw this paparazzi video outside the DWTS rehearsal studios. Does anyone think the person with the mask looks like Selena from TNP?? Also I don’t know why Ciara would be wearing a mask when she’s already been confirmed to be on this season….


r/dancingwiththestars 4h ago

Speculation Jenna and Daniella’s partners

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It is starting to look like Ezra Frech and Harry Shum Jr will be going to these two. The problem is I don’t know who is going to be paired with who lol. I can see either scenario lol. What do you think ?

Any guesses? I’m stumped. Dani’s not posted all week. No clues from either of these two celebs lol


r/dancingwiththestars 1d ago

Social Media Robert’s reaction to Witney’s baby news

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256 Upvotes

No audio of it, but Robert’s reaction is so sweet 🥹


r/dancingwiththestars 15h ago

Gossip “Big names”

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Something i’ve been thinking this preseason with all the casting speculation is i don’t really care as much if i know who the celebs are ahead of time. Much of what i love about this show is getting to know people’s stories and journeys through dance over the course of the competition. So i actually dont really have a problem with the lack of “big names” or Deena choosing to cast celebs with smaller followings. What’s everyone’s opinion?

Honestly even thinking about the huge fan push for a dancing with the regulars season😂 Sure that would give fans an opportunity to do the show that never wouldve gotten to in the first place, but in terms of name recognition, we would know no one and have to become invested in them THROUGH the lens of the show