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Dancing with the Stars

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The competition sees celebrities perform choreographed dance routines which are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts and voted on by viewers. Enjoy sizzling salsas, sambas and spray-tans as they vie for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy. From TMDB

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Dancing with the Stars is a 2005 reality family TV series, starring Alfonso Ribeiro, Julianne Hough and Derek Hough.

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In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 television shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "unlike So You Think You Can Dance, which is generally more of a city show, Dancing with the Stars is most popular in the countryside. It also has a higher share of 'likes' from viewers aged 65 and up than any other show." Coverage has noted the evolving reception of Dancing with the Stars among younger audiences, particularly Generation Z. The New York Times reported that the show has gained visibility on platforms such as TikTok, where performance clips attract younger viewers. Coverage has also emphasized its continued cross-generational appeal, combining renewed interest from long-time…

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  • Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    "Dancing With The Stars" puts more serious thought into picking a cast than Donald Trump.

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  • Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2026

    Why can’t there be a tv show like Dancing with the Stars but instead of teaching dancing, experts teach contestants math/science/history/literature/art etc and then they get quizzed and someone goes home each week (not a knock on dwts, I just wish we elevated other things as well)

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  • Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    Nancy Mace sold her soul for a paper tiger national profile, a 5th place finish in the SC gubernatorial primary, and a future controversial selection and subsequent early elimination on the next season of Dancing with the Stars.

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  • 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lolBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Watching him dance is like watching arthritis audition for “Dancing with the Stars: Mobility Scooter Edition.”

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  • Andy Richter @andyrichter.coBluesky · Sep 16, 2025

    My sweet Bluesky echo chamber cultists, Tomorrow is the premiere of Dancing With the Stars, & my partner Emma and I humbly ask for you to vote for us. YOU CAN ONLY VOTE FROM 5:00-7:00pm Pacific, 8:00-10:00 Eastern, which is when the show airs live. Online dwtsvote.abc.com SMS: text ANDY to 21523

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  • Pop Base @popbase.tvBluesky · Nov 26, 2025

    Robert Irwin and Witney Carson have won Season 34 of ‘Dancing With The Stars.’

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  • Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”

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  • Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    He served in the ranks of the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 24th Mechanized Brigade. Volodymyr worked as an assistant choreographer in the Dancing with the Stars show and was also an artist of the Kozar Dance Theater (2013-2016), Traum Theater Salome Germany 2017-2019.

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  • New York Magazine @nymag.comBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    Flavor Flav brought the hype to the November 4 episode of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ handing out 9s and 10s to every couple while yelling, ‘Yeah boy!’

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  • Vulture @vulture.comBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    Flavor Flav brought the hype to the November 4 episode of ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ handing out 9s and 10s to every couple while yelling, ‘Yeah boy!’

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  • Chappell (Like The Show) @chappellskickback.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    Topanga on Dancing With The Stars this season

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  • Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Me: Ringo Starr from the train show My mom: Zendaya from Dancing with the Stars

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  • Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.comBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    This season on Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, two of them are filming Dancing with the Stars and one of them is the Bachelorette, so it’s a reality show about people who are filming other reality shows

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  • Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    we're going to end up with seasons of "Dancing with the Stars" filmed in the new White House Ballroom and starring Republican Congresspeople as the people paired with the professional dancers. It'll be intended to humanize the Republicans. It'll be nauseating. It'll be the #1 rated tv show.

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  • Brad @bradwanders.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    Next season on Dancing with the Stars....

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  • Pop Crave @popcrave.comBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui joins the cast of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 34: “I actually learned that I was going to be on the show two days ago.”

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  • pdxmom.bsky.social @pdxmom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    She’ll resign and pop up on Dancing With the Stars. People in charge of casting that show have no shame or morals

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  • 🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    This is President Zelensky on Dancing With The Stars Ukraine which he won I've seen his series but didn't realize he'd won this show also. He is the President of the Free World now that America's been taken over by a Dictators Regime. ://www.instagram.com/reel/DSIgNTmka9R/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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  • Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2026

    Turned on Dancing With The Stars the other day and it was some YouTube fella and a lady who lost on a reality show. Sorry guys. That’s just Dancing

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  • Ryan ☀️🏖️ @crshort81.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2024

    Adore this big gay lug. 🥰 We saw him dance in Seattle with the Dancing with the Stars traveling show, and he’s just a delight. www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/334962

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  • John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2024

    Okay so you’ve heard of Dancing With the Stars. The show I’m pitching here today is like that but it’s Dancing With the CARS. It takes place on the freeway and I’ll be honest here the insurance coverage WILL be expensive.

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  • RTÉ News @news.rte.ieBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    Dancer, choreographer, talent agent and former judge of RTÉ One TV series Dancing with the Stars Julian Benson has died this morning in Dublin aged 54

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  • Grateful-1.bsky.social @grateful-1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Simmons has been a "HAS BEEN" Forever & a Day‼️...He was a Judge on Dancing With the Stars -- HE was RUDE & a Blatant SEXIST -- HE WAS NEVER ASKED TO COME ON THE SHOW AGAIN AFTER HIS UGLINESS TO CONTESTANTS‼️

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  • Sydney is 🦋ON SUB🦋 @booksbysydney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    Dancing With The Stars meets Elsie Silver's HEARTLESS in... 💜THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL🪩 Superfan Taly gets cast in her favorite dance competition show, but as she and her jaded pro partner fake a showmance for votes, the lines between real love and reality tv start to blur. #AG #R #questpit

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  • Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2023

    he is absolutely going to be on some reality show or another within the year, the only question is which one. Probably Dancing With the Stars.

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  • Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    New series idea: it’s like Dancing With The Stars but it’s me screaming at spineless Senate Democrats.

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  • Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    Since the modern Nielsen era started in 1991, no show launched in the fall had seen its ratings go up for five consecutive weeks... until DANCING WITH THE STARS did it this fall. My look at how Disney turned its 20-year-old warhorse into the season's hottest show. www.vulture.com/article/danc...

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  • Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    I just found out Mike Chang from Glee is on Dancing With the Stars this season. How is this allowed? He was one of the best dancers on the show about people who sing and dance. I'd be so pissed if I were Guillermo.

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  • Vulture @vulture.comBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    Tom Bergeron is returning to ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ years after he broke up with the show over Sean Spicer. Bergeron will be guest judging on the show’s 20th anniversary special.

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  • #1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Ain't no fucking way is that who won Dancing with the Stars (a show I watched other people watch.) I'm 2nd-hand upset.

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  • Reality TV News/Updates @realitytvfan.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro premieres July 13 on ABC. The spinoff series focuses on finding the next pro for the flagship show. Mark Ballas and his mom Shirley Ballas will be judges with Robert Irwin set to host. #DWTS

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  • Reality TV News/Updates @realitytvfan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    A Dancing with the Stars spinoff series focused on finding the next pro for the flagship show is in the works at ABC with Robert Irwin in talks to host, Deadline reports. Expected to air this summer, Mark Ballas and his mom Shirley Ballas are also in talks as judges. #DWTS

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  • ZomBev 🧟‍♀️ @beverlyannemichel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    #FantasyIndiesJanuary 3: MC’s Hobbies Chuck likes to watch Dancing with the Stars and play vintage video games. Altho his idea of vintage is the original Spyro series 🤭

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  • Devi 🦇 @deviwestside.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    TikTok: I saw you liked one video about Dancing With The Stars so we changed your entire feed to only show you videos about Dancing With The Stars

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  • Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.comBluesky · Sep 21, 2024

    One or both of RFK Jr and Nuzzi will show up on Dancing with the Stars next year, won’t they?

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  • Bea @beawritessometimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2026

    DANCING WITH THE STARS X CARAVAL In a live-performance reality show, contestants have the chance to win their souls back from the deities that own them. Those that lose, however, will have to face the punishment of their patrons. #Bluepit📖 #A #F #W

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  • Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2025

    First Taylor Swift, now Springsteen. Can someone, like, invite this bloviating, felonious buffoon onto Dancing With the Stars, or to replace Mario Lopez or the overworked Ryan Seacrest on some show? He obviously craves to cover showbiz. Put us all out of its misery ffs!

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  • gwenyourmom.bsky.social @gwenyourmom.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    How soon will she show up on Dancing With the Stars?

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  • Staff and Branch @staffandbranch.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    Whatever they paid Taylor Swift to do a Dancing with the Stars night was not enough as evidenced by my 13 and 11 yo absolutely crushing the season finale right now when they hadn’t even heard of the show a few weeks ago.

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  • The Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    how long before Erica Kirk shows up on Dancing With the Stars or a Bachelorette show.

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  • Vulture @vulture.comBluesky · Nov 6, 2025

    Tom Bergeron is returning to ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ years after he broke up with the show over Sean Spicer. Bergeron will be guest judging on the show’s 20th anniversary special.

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  • Kristyn Burtt @kristynburtt.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    How ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Took Gen Z for a Spin After almost 20 years on air, the reality competition series made changes that brought a surge of younger viewers. #DWRS www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/a...

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  • petey @peteypayless.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Minneapolis is a place where Carly Rae Jepsen doesn't have a show, but the 2027 Dancing With The Stars tour does...so yeah, i'm gonna have to get out of here again...

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  • Reality TV News/Updates @realitytvfan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro was ABC's best summer series premiere of the decade, pulling in 4.42M total viewers and a 0.47 18-49 demo rating (not including streaming numbers). #DWTS #DWTSNextPro

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  • The Hollywood Reporter @thr.comBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    It’s been almost exactly two decades since Dancing With the Stars crowned its first winner. What started as a family-friendly dance competition show for a unique pool of celebrities has transformed into a cultural phenomenon.

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  • Sonya Olds Som (she/her) 💃🏾💜🎶🕊️☔️🖖🏾⚖️💕📚🍿📺 @sonyaoldssom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2026

    I’ve never seen a single episode of Stranger Things (and I’m not going to start watching it now; I’m already too behind on my tv series watching!), ditto Dancing with the Stars, but I am so very glad that new audiences are getting exposed to #Prince 🙏🏾 #Prince4Ever 💜🎶🕊️☔️ variety.com/2026/film/ne...

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  • James @studiousbadger.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    I remember reading in an American newspaper how rich their TV game show culture was, as epitomised by Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Dancing With The Stars and The Chase.

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  • ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    And if they show up on Dancing With The Stars or some shit, industry people need to push back hard. The crackdown on free expression is not a goddamn bit they’re doing

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  • Bry @2totangoatl.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    No but I need all of the Dancing with the Stars male pros to run a train on me after the show 🚂

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  • Chris 🎭 @identitychrisis.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2024

    Hii all looking for moots ofc… MY FANDOMS!!!!! - Life Series/MCYT - Escape The Night - Dancing With the Stars - House - Indie Horror Games (Shipwrecked 64, BATIM, Indigo Park etc) - The Hunger Games - My Little Pony - Until Dawn/TDPA - Bridgerton - Total Drama/Disventure Camp - oc stuff heh…

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  • Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    better funded but this is just “I won’t do Dancing with the Stars yet: the show”

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  • Soap Opera Digest @soapoperadigest.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    General Hospital alum Kelly Monaco was one of the many former contestants in attendance at the Dancing With the Stars 20th anniversary show. #GH #GeneralHospital #DWTS

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  • Vulture @vulture.comBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is seeing a ratings renaissance this season. Here’s how Mormon wives, Andy Richter, and TikTok rocketed the 20-year-old show back to the top of the Nielsen charts.

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  • YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    I might hate that little balloon show as much as I hate the Kardashians or Dancing with the Stars

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  • Devana @devana.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    3/3). But Zelenskyy really danced, even though he wasn't a dancer, but a comedian. He participated in Dancing with the Stars and won the show. It was 2006. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9gm...

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  • UnderpantsWeevil @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 9, 2026

    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania/reviews/verified-audience You'll see conservatives launch activist promotion campaigns for different kinds of call-in shows. Dancing with the Stars was a big one that Republican affinity groups would try to juice people up over. This feels like a lot of the same. Almost certainly some kind of chain-letter style email circulating through some Florida/Texas conservative club saying "If you love our president, go to Rotten Tomatoes and give this movie 5…

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  • Tom Buckner @justanotherant.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    Dancing With The Stars: "Andy, do you want to be on our show?" Andy Richter: "I'm really busy right now, but here's a few hours of my home videos." Dancing With The Stars: "What, you just dance around like this all day anyway?" Andy Richter: "Don't you?"

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  • Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    Here's @tvmojoe.bsky.social on the HUGE ratings success of Dancing With the Stars this season (and beyond) — fueled by Andy Richter, Mormon wives, TikTok and more... www.vulture.com/article/danc...

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  • bretonstripes @bretonstripes.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    How do we get Kurbanov on Dancing with the Stars somewhere? I need that whole podium on a dancing show.

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  • Bia Barreto 🌊⫩ @marinedynamite.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2024

    Looking for mutuals!! ✨️ Pretty Cure and other such magical girl shows ✨️ Animation in general ✨️ Tokusatsu (e.g. Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Power Rangers) ✨️ Just Dance (the video game) ✨️ Dancing with the Stars and similar TV shows ✨️ Music ✨️ Astrology

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