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Meet the celebrity cast of the 33rd season of “Dancing with the Stars”

Meet the celebrity cast of the 33rd season of “Dancing with the Stars”

The celebrity cast competing for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy in season 33 of “Dancing with the Stars” has been announced.

Good Morning America on Wednesday exclusively announced the full list of celebrities appearing in the ballroom this season, as well as their professional partners.

Celebrities taking off this season include “Real Housewives” star Phaedra Parks, “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Tori Spelling, notorious con artist Anna Delvey and more.

Also in the cast are former “Bachelor” Joey Graziadei, actors Eric Roberts, Reginald VelJohnson and Chandler Kinney, athletes Danny Amendola and Dwight Howard, Olympians Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik, model Brooks Nader and “Bachelorette” Jenn Tran.

RELATED: “Dancing with the Stars” pro Witney Carson returns for season 33

Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough return as co-hosts alongside judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough when the new season premieres Tuesday, September 17 on ABC.

Check out the full list of celebrities competing on season 33 of “DWTS” and see which pro they’ll be dancing with below.

Phaedra Parks

Phaedra Parks is a lawyer and businesswoman who starred on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” for seven seasons between 2010 and 2017. After a meme-fueled appearance on “The Traitors” earlier this year, the Georgia native announced her return to “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” for the upcoming 16th season in July.

Pro Partner: Val Chmerkovskiy

Daniel Amendola

Danny Amendola is a former NFL player who won two Super Bowls during his career as a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. After 13 seasons in the NFL, Amendola retired in 2022. Since retiring, Amendola has competed in the reality series “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” and coached the Las Vegas Raiders for one season.

Pro Partner: Witney Carson

Joey Graziadei

Joey Graziadei, a tennis coach, first came to Bachelor Nation as the runner-up on Charity Lawson’s season of The Bachelorette. He then headlined season 28 of The Bachelor, which ended with his engagement to Kelsey Anderson.

Pro Partner: Jenna Johnson

Ilona Maher

Ilona Maher is a professional rugby player who helped the U.S. women’s rugby team to a bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Maher is the digital cover star of the 2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and has used her platform to advocate for body positivity and bring attention to women’s sports.

Pro Partner: Alan Bersten

Chandler Kinney

Actress Chandler Kinney has played Willa in the Disney Channel Original Movie series “Zombies” since “Zombies 2” in 2020. Kinney also starred as Tabitha “Tabby” Haworthe in “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin” and “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School,” sequels to the popular “Pretty Little Liars” series.

Pro Partner: Brandon Armstrong

Anna Delvey

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin is known as a notorious so-called “fake heiress” whose financial crimes and lavish lifestyle inspired the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “Inventing Anna” and were detailed in the book “My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress.” In 2019, Delvey was found guilty on eight counts, including grand theft and theft of services. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution. She was released on good behavior in February 2021.

Pro Partner: Ezra Sosa

Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts is an actor best known for King of the Gypsies (1978), Star 80 (1983) and Runaway Train (1985), all of which earned him Golden Globe nominations, and for the latter he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is the older brother of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts and the father of actress Emma Roberts.

Pro Partner: Britt Stewart

Brooks Nader

Brooks Nader is a model who has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue several times since winning the Swim Search open casting in 2019. In 2023, she appeared on the cover of the magazine in a Baywatch-inspired photoshoot, alongside fellow cover models Megan Fox, Kim Petras and Martha Stewart.

Pro Partner: Gleb Savchencko

Reginald VelJohnson

Reginald VelJohnson is one of the most popular fathers on television. He played Carl Winslow on Factbook for nine seasons from 1989 to 1997. He is known for his roles as a police officer, including in Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), in which he played Al Powell.

Pro Partner: Emma Slater

Tori Spelling

Actress Tori Spelling is best known for her role as Donna Martin on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which she played in all 10 seasons of the teen drama, which aired from 1990 to 2000. Spelling, who appeared in the films “Troop Beverly Hills” (1989), “Scream 2” (1997), and “Scary Movie 2” (2001), as well as the most recent television movie “Sharknado” (2018), is also a New York Times bestselling author of her 2009 memoir “Stori Telling.”

Pro Partner: Pasha Pashkov

Jenn Tran

Fresh off “The Bachelorette,” Jenn Tran is trading roses for sequins. After first joining Bachelor Nation on Joey Graziadei’s season of “The Bachelor,” she was named the lead of season 21 of “The Bachelorette” and became the first Asian American lead in the franchise. Tran’s journey came to a dramatic end in a heartbreaking finale where she proposed to contestant Devin Strader, only to announce on the “After the Final Rose” special that they had broken up.

Pro Partner: Sasha Farber

Dwight Howard

Dwight Howard is a professional basketball player who played 18 seasons in the NBA, including eight with the Orlando Magic. Howard won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. Since leaving the Lakers, Howard has been playing professional basketball in Taiwan since 2022.

Professional partner: Daniella Karagach

Stephen Nedoroscik

Stephen Nedoroscik, whose participation was announced on “GMA” last month, rose to national prominence at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he won two bronze medals as a pommel horse specialist for the U.S. men’s gymnastics team. According to USA Gymnastics, Nedoroscik has won four U.S. pommel horse titles, setting the record for most pommel horse championships in U.S. history.

Pro Partner: Rylee Arnold

Season 33 of Dancing with the Stars premieres Tuesday, September 17 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+, with episodes streaming on Hulu the following day.

Disney is the parent company of this ABC network, Hulu and “Good Morning America.”

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