Season 34 of Dancing With the Stars is shaping as much as be one of the best but.
The whole forged of celebrities and execs was introduced throughout the Wednesday, September 3, episode of Good Morning America forward of the September 16 season premiere following a high-energy efficiency from Jenna Johnson, Derek Hough and extra DWTS favorites.
The newly revealed celebs be a part of beforehand introduced Robert Irwin as the primary forged member for season 34. The wildlife conservationist, 21, will observe in his sister Bindi Irwin's footsteps after she received season 21 with Hough.
“This has been a dream of mine since I used to be a bit child watching my sister's unimaginable journey on the present again in 2016,” Robert wrote through Instagram in April. “I can't consider it's about to turn out to be a actuality. So grateful 🙌🏼.”
The next month, Good Morning America revealed Alix Earle because the second forged member of the season.
“That is so surreal,” the TikTok star, 24, mentioned on the time. “I imply, I've all the time been a fan of Dancing With the Stars. I used to observe it after I was so younger with my grandma. … I used to be so in love with dance. When this chance got here to me, it was like, ‘What can I do subsequent? The place can I take this?' I imply, I'm able to problem myself, I feel it's gonna be a whole lot of enjoyable. It was a really apparent reply to say sure.”
In July, Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt discovered throughout the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives reunion that they'd each be competing on season 34 of Dancing With the Stars.
“I hope you're taking place,” Affleck, 26, joked to Leavitt, 32, as the 2 celebrated their casting. “Simply kidding. Carry it on.”
Dancing With the Stars premieres on ABC and Disney+ September 16 at 8 p.m. ET, with new episodes streaming the subsequent day on Hulu. Hold scrolling to fulfill the celeb dancers and their execs:
Jen Affleck (With Jan Ravnik)
Jen Affleck is a social media influencer and actuality tv star recognized for her function in Hulu's hit actuality TV collection The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. When she just isn't filming her TV present or her subsequent viral TikTok, she and her husband, Zac Affleck, are spending high quality time with their three kids.
Affleck began her profession as a profitable content material creator with virtually 4 million followers throughout all her social platforms. She gained recognition by means of her #MomTok content material, which showcases her bubbly persona and each day life as a Mormon mom, resulting in her present journey in tv. Regardless of going through challenges from psychological well being to relationships, Affleck stays devoted to her household and religion, utilizing her platform to construct a group filled with enjoyable and pleasure.
Hilaria Baldwin (With Gleb Savchenko)
Hilaria Baldwin is an entrepreneur, host and writer. She was the Host of The Baldwins, a actuality present on TLC in regards to the behind-the- scenes have a look at her and husband Alec Baldwin's lives with 7 kids. She's additionally the writer of Guide Not Included; Glowing Up: Recipes to Rock Your Pure Magnificence together with her daughter Carmen; and The Dwelling Clearly Methodology. Hilaria lives in NYC together with her husband Alec and 7 youngsters.
Jordan Chiles (With Ezra Sosa)
Jordan Chiles is a famend gymnast and two-time Olympian. On the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she helped safe a silver medal for Crew USA with a standout efficiency. A passionate advocate for physique positivity and psychological well being, Chiles evokes younger athletes across the globe. In 2022, she grew to become one in every of solely three Black gymnasts to brush the rostrum on the U.S. Gymnastics Championships; and the next yr, she earned two NCAA particular person titles with UCLA whereas embarking on a brand new chapter as a Nike athlete. Returning to elite competitors in 2024, Chiles performed a key function in main Crew USA to a gold medal on the Paris Olympics, cementing her standing as a trailblazer within the sport.
Baron Davis (With Britt Stewart)
Baron Davis is a two-time NBA All-Star, serial entrepreneur, investor and creator of thought-provoking content material and digital platforms. Davis is the founding father of a number of corporations, together with Sports activities, Life-style in Tradition (SLiC), Enterprise Contained in the Sport (B.I.G.), UWish, and Extra Than Us; every combines artistic expertise with authentic publication and manufacturing to develop and supply academic and empowering tales that attraction to world audiences of all ages.
Davis additionally served as producer of a number of acclaimed documentaries, together with Crips and Bloods: Made In America, 30 for 30: Sole Man and The Drew: No Excuse, Simply Produce. Along with his manufacturing firm, No Label, Davis was the manager producer of the Hulu Originals present WTF, Baron Davis; and he directed, wrote, and stars within the upcoming comedy, Domino: Battle of the Bones.
Since season 4 of Dancing With the Stars, Olympic athletes have been on the prime of the listing in the case of celebrities to forged. Apolo Ohno was the primary Olympian to compete, taking residence the mirrorball trophy alongside professional associate Julianne Hough in 2007. Ohno's win acquired him invited again for the all-stars season […]
Alix Earle (With Val Chmerkovskiy)
Alix Earle is a main world social media persona, acclaimed for her incomparable on-line engagement which has been described by media and types because the “Alix Earle [sold out] Impact.” Her speedy rise in recognition and her distinctive potential to attach with mass audiences throughout a number of demographics are a results of her surprising actuality and candid humor, paired together with her genuine magnificence, vogue and way of life ideas. Earle has collaborated with and invested in manufacturers together with poppi and SipMARGS, appeared in main model campaigns and Tremendous Bowl spots, and launched her personal philanthropic initiative, Serving in Heels. She can be the creator and host of the hit “Sizzling Mess” vlog-style podcast.
Dylan Efron With (Daniella Karagach)
Dylan Efron is a producer, content material creator and outside fanatic recognized for his compelling presence throughout digital media and tv. In 2025, Efron was topped the winner of the third season of The Traitors, the place his authenticity and sharp gameplay earned him a Critics' Selection nomination for Male Star of the Yr. Initially from California, Efron started his profession behind the scenes on main movies like American Sniper and A Star Is Born, earlier than getting into his personal highlight as a creator, athlete and media persona whose work continues to interact and encourage a world viewers.
After gaining widespread recognition because the co-producer and co-star of Netflix's Emmy Award-winning eco-travel collection All the way down to Earth with Zac Efron, which premiered at No. 1 globally, Dylan continues to supply compelling digital content material that showcases his ardour for sustainability, exploration and immersive storytelling. Most not too long ago, he launched the 2025 documentary The Village That Saved a Fish, which follows a distant Guyanese village working to guard an endangered species. The movie surpassed 1 million views in its first week. He additionally has hosted Stream State, a collection that paperwork excessive bodily challenges and adrenaline-driven storytelling.
Corey Feldman (With Jenna Johnson)
Corey Feldman started his appearing profession at simply 3½ years previous when he auditioned for a McDonald's industrial — which went on to earn a Clio Award and aired for eight consecutive years. By the point he was 4, he was already filming usually, and now, Feldman is proudly celebrating his fiftieth anniversary in leisure. From a profession that has garnered over 100 theatrical movies — 18 of which had been No. 1 on the field workplace — together with over 100 tv appearances, 5 TV collection, 20 U.S. excursions with varied bands, three Billboard Prime 40 hits, a number of viral movies, and a historic At the moment Present efficiency that grew to become the most-viewed musical act on the present on the time, Feldman's legacy continues to evolve.
As one of many authentic stars of The Goonies, Feldman can be serving to to have fun the movie's fortieth anniversary by co-producing a brand new docuseries that chronicles the refurbishment of the long-lasting Goonies home — a nostalgic landmark for followers throughout generations. Behind the digicam, Feldman has produced two documentaries in addition to a function movie about his life for the Lifetime channel. He's additionally the writer of the New York Instances bestselling memoir Coreyography.
Danielle Fishel (With Pasha Pashkov)
Danielle Fishel is greatest recognized for her iconic function as Topanga on the '90s TGIF staple Boy Meets World. She would later reprise the function for Lady Meets World, a millennial reboot that ran for 3 seasons on Disney Channel. Since 2017, Fishel has moved behind the digicam, directing over 50 episodes of multicamera tv, together with Disney Channel's Wizards Past Waverly Place and Raven's Dwelling (for which she was nominated for 2 Emmys), ABC's Shifting Gears and NBC's Lopez vs. Lopez. She additionally cohosts the hit iHeart podcast “Pod Meets World,” alongside her greatest mates and former costars Will Friedle and Rider Sturdy. Moreover, Fishel is captivated with her clear and reasonably priced hair care line, Be Free by Danielle Fishel, which is offered on-line and thru QVC.
Elaine Hendrix (With Alan Bersten)
An icon to generations, Elaine Hendrix is beloved for her unforgettable roles in Disney's The Guardian Lure, SNL's “Celebrity,” and the cult traditional Romy & Michele's Excessive College Reunion. She additionally dazzled because the legendary Alexis Carrington on The CW's hit Dynasty reboot and continuously collaborates with Denis Leary in initiatives like FX's Sex & Medicine & Rock & Roll, Common's Erase, and Fox's Tremendous Bowl marketing campaign “Canines Taking part in Poker.”
Her work contains fan-favorite TV exhibits (Mates, Two and a Half Males, CSI, Prison Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles, Clear), acclaimed movies (Undertake a Freeway with Ethan Hawke, SXSW Jury Award winner Slanted), and she or he not too long ago reunited with Lindsay Lohan for a cameo in Disney's smash hit Freakier Friday. On stage, she has starred in Designing Ladies, Metal Magnolias and A Streetcar Named Need, is at the moment coproducing the buzzworthy off-Broadway sensation Ginger Twinsies and can quickly headline as Dolly Levi in OFC Creations Theatre Middle's 2026 manufacturing of Howdy, Dolly!
Scott Hoying (With Rylee Arnold)
Scott Hoying is a three-time Grammy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, arranger and artist. Whereas finding out music at USC, he found his ardour for a cappella and began the a cappella group, Pentatonix. The vocal quintet shortly rose to worldwide fame and has collaborated with Kelly Clarkson, Dolly Parton, Maren Morris, Jennifer Hudson, Stevie Marvel and Andrea Bocelli, amongst others. With Pentatonix, Hoying has received three Grammy Awards, offered greater than 13 million albums and acquired a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.
Robert Irwin (With Witney Carson)
Robert Irwin is a passionate wildlife conservationist who is set to guard wildlife and encourage others by means of his work behind and in entrance of the lens as a nature photographer and TV presenter. Irwin and his household dwell at Australia Zoo and in addition function the nonprofit charity, Wildlife Warriors. There may be nothing he enjoys greater than heading out into the Crocoseum to take part in each day croc demonstrations, the place he has the chance to share his love and data of his favourite animal, crocodiles.
Celebrities {and professional} dancers alike are days away from competing on Dancing With the Stars season 34, and followers are eagerly awaiting to see which stars might be hitting the ballroom. Forward of the season premiere, some forged members have already been introduced — and others have brought on loads of hypothesis. Robert Irwin, son of […]
Lauren Jauregui (With Brandon Armstrong)
Multiplatinum Cuban American singer-songwriter Lauren Jauregui started as one-fifth of the award-winning, arena-filling and chart-dominating Fifth Concord. Projecting her voice throughout standard tradition, she has collaborated with everybody from Halsey and Steve Aoki to Ty Dolla $ign and Diane Warren. She dropped her first solo single, “Expectations,” throughout 2018, producing over 100 million streams, and contributed Invisible Chains to Birds of Prey: The Album.
Outdoors of music, Jauregui is an activist for social justice initiatives and environmental consciousness, together with human rights, girls's and LGBTQ+ rights, and look after our planet. She embraced freedom of expression each personally and creatively on her unbiased debut, Prelude, showcasing each aspect of herself with no scarcity of spirit, sensuality, type and soul for an unfiltered and simple depiction of who she is. Her first solo album is at the moment within the works for 2026 and anticipated to be one of the crucial unforgettable releases of the yr.
Whitney Leavitt (With Mark Ballas)
Whitney Leavitt — the “breakout star” (Vulture) of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — touts an viewers of three.1 million-plus throughout TikTok and Instagram. She simply wrapped season 2 of the present, which premiered with 5 million views after 5 days of world streaming. The 32-year-old mother of three has been featured by Vulture, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! Individuals Journal, Glamour and extra.
Andy Richter (With Emma Slater)
Andy Richter is an actor, comic and author, greatest recognized for his years as Conan O'Brien's sidekick on Late Evening, The Tonight Present and CONAN. He's at the moment the host of “The Three Questions” podcast, in addition to the SiriusXM present “The Andy Richter Name-in Present.” As an actor, he has appeared in movies akin to Elf and Madagascar, in addition to tv exhibits akin to Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Andy Barker, P.I. and Arrested Improvement.
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