Dancing with the Stars recently announced its 34th season and, with it, another group of reality stars, influencers, musicians, and athletes vying for the mirrorball trophy. The series pairs contestants with professional dancers to tango their way through a dance competition in which one toe-tapping pair is eliminated each week.
The series has featured people like boy band New Kids on The Block’s Joey McIntyre and notorious con artist Anna Delvey. This season has another sparkly crew ready to foxtrot into your hearts. Read on to check out the cast of this latest season via some of the shows and movies they’ve been featured in.
Comedian, writer, and actor Andy Richter is putting his dancing shoes on to compete for this year’s trophy. He’s best known for being Conan O’Brien’s longtime sidekick on the talk show host’s late-night shows.
Richter was ice skating–adjacent in the comedy Blades of Glory (2007), which follows competitive skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder). After the two tie, they get into a brawl that bans them from the sport. Years later, the rivals decide to join forces to become the first male skating duo so they can get back to glory on the ice.
Fifth Harmony, the girl group known for the bop “Work from Home,” has been in the news recently with a surprise reunion at a Jonas Brothers concert — and member Lauren Jauregui has joined this season of DWTS, following in the steps of her bandmates Normani and Ally Brooke. The group has been on hiatus since 2018, although a website update suggests something new may be in the works.
Despite that hiatus, their songs continue to soundtrack moments on television — like “Worth It” playing in the final episode of Inventing Anna, the miniseries about the Instagram heiress and scam artist Anna Delvey. “That’s My Girl” features during a fun fight and kissing montage in Cobra Kai’s Season 2, Episode 9. And their music has also been featured in Easy Season 3, Episode 6, and the teen flick Step Sisters.
Elaine Hendrix has been iconic for decades. She played beloved mean girl roles like Meredith Blake, the evil future stepmother of twins Annie and Hallie (Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan) in 1998’s remake of the classic film The Parent Trap. In Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Hendrix played Lisa Luder, the popular girl who frequently stood up for the titular heroines and understood their sense of style.
Hendrix stars in the remake of 1980s soap Dynasty, by the creators of Gossip Girl, about the wealthy and messy Carrington family. She replaces Nicollette Sheridan as the scheming Alexis Carrington, the ex-wife of Blake (Grant Show) and mother of Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) and Steven (James Mackay). With an upcoming role as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the musical Hello, Dolly, Hendrix should be a force to be reckoned with on DWTS.
If you watched Dylan Efron in this past season of The Traitors, you’ll know that his physicality, if you will, is going to give him a leg (and ab) up on his DWTS competitors.
Before he took social media by storm, Efron (yes, brother of Zac) was a producer on Zac’s two-season reality series Down to Earth with Zac Efron, in which the actor goes around the world on sustainability-focused adventures.
At this point, what hasn’t Corey Feldman done? The ’80s child actor has been in classics like The Goonies and Gremlins. He’s had a music career and done stints on reality television. Those experiences might just prepare him well for DWTS.
One of Feldman’s classic roles is Teddy in Stand by Me, the 1986 coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King. In it, four best friends (played by Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Wil Wheaton, and the late River Phoenix) go on an adventure to find the body of a missing boy — and learn all about themselves in the process.
