Dancing With the Stars Season 33 Cast: Meet the Frontrunners to Compete For Next Year’s Mirrorball Trophy

Who’s in the Dancing With the Stars Cast for 2024?

Now that Season 32 is over and done with, fans have set their sights on the Dancing With the Stars cast for 2024 and the DWTS Season 33 contestants who could be competing for the Mirrorball Trophy next year.

Dancing With the Stars is a reality TV dance competition series based on the United Kingdom’s Strictly Come Dancing. The series, which premiered in 2005, pairs celebrities with professional dancers. The couples then compete against each other for judges’ points and audience votes. The couple with the lowest combined judges’ points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only one champion pair remains. That couple is declared the winner and receives the coveted Dancing With the Stars Mirrorball Trophy. 

The most recent season of Dancing With the Stars, Season 32, premiered in September 2023 and aired its finale in December 2023.  The season featured 14 contestants including Grammy-winning singer Jason Mraz; Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino; supermodel Tyson Beckford; and Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears. 

Season 32 is also the first season in years with three judges — Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli — after the death of former judge, Len Goodman, in April 2023. Season 32 also celebrates the return of former pro and judge Julianne Hough, who joined co-host Alfonso Ribeiro as the new co-host of the show following the exit of former host, Tyra Banks, at the end of Season 31. 

Season 32 also featured a rare five contestants in its finale: actress Alyson Hannigan; former Bachelorette Charity Lawson; Vanderpump Rules star Ariana Madix; Marvel star Xochitl Gomez; and singer Jason Mraz. The competition was fierce, and now that it’s over, fans are already looking toward next year at the ballroom. 

So who’s in the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 and who could be the DWTS contestants in 2024? Read on for the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast we’d like to see and which stars could compete for the Mirrorball Trophy in 2024. 

Gerry Turner

Job: Reality TV star 

Best known for: The Golden Bachelor

Gerry Turner, the first Golden Bachelor, is a shoo-in for the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast. As of writing this, 12 Bachelor Nation alums have been contestants on Dancing With the Stars including two Mirrorball Trophy winners: Season 28’s Hannah Brown and Season 29’s Kaitlyn Bristowe. Gerry got engaged to his winner, Theresa Nist, in The Golden Bachelor Season 1 finale, which was the highest-rated Bachelor franchise episode in almost three years. He’s also set to marry Theresa in a Golden Bachelor wedding special on January 4, 2024. If he was a part of the Dancing With the Stars Season 33 cast, Gerry would also be among one of the oldest contestants in the series’ history at 72 years old. 

“I would be open to any and all opportunities because as much fun as I’ve had up to this point, and as much fun as my family has had coming along with me on this journey, I wouldn’t say no to anything,” Gerry told The New York Post in November 2023 about whether he would join Dancing With the Stars. “I would have to kind of get more information before I committed to something. But gosh, I mean, how much fun could that be?”

Amy Robach

Job: News anchor

Best known for: Good Morning America; 20/20

Amy Robach, a former news anchor on 20/20 and Good Morning America, became a household name in late 2022 when news broke of her reported extramarital affair with her GMA3: What You Need to Know co-host, T.J. Holmes. The drama led ABC to take both Robach and Holmes off the air on December 5, 2022. They were fired for their relationship on January 27, 2023. Robach and Holmes are making a comeback, however. They launched their podcast, “Amy and T.J. Podcast,” in December 2023, in which they described themselves as”the folks who lost the jobs we love because we love each other.”

TJ Holmes

T.J. Holmes

Job: News anchor

Best known for: GMA3

If there was a couple to compete on Dancing With the Stars on the same season, let it be Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes. When they were fired from GMA3, Robach was the more famous name, but we wouldn’t mind seeing her and Holmes go head to head with separate pros for the Mirrorball Trophy. Given their notoriety, Robach and Holmes would make the perfect contestants on Dancing With the Stars Season 33. The only thing stopping them is that Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC, the same network that fired them from GMA3. 

Pat Sajak

Job: Game show host

Best known for: Wheel of Fortune

Pat Sajak broke the hearts of millions of households across America in June 2023 when he announced he was leaving Wheel of Fortune after more than 40 years as the game show’s host. Now that he’s free to take on other projects, we can see him competing in a competition show a change instead of just hosting it.

Kelsea Ballerini

Job: Country singer

Best known for: 2023 EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat

No one loves a comeback story more than Dancing With the Stars, and country singer Kelsea Ballerini had one heck of a year. She divorced her husband, country singer Morgan Evans, in August 2022. Ballerini used her divorce as inspiration for her breakthrough EP, Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which was released in February 2023 and was nominated for a Grammy. Following her divorce, Ballerini also went on to date actor and Outer Banks star Chase Stokes. After hitting rock bottom, Ballerini is on the rise, and a Mirrorball Trophy would be just another step on her way to stardom. 

Lindsay Hubbard

Job: Reality TV star

Best known for: Summer House

Speaking of a comeback, could Summer House’s Lindsay Hubbard be following in the footsteps of her Bravo sister, Vanderpump Rules’ Ariana Madix? Hubbard made headlines in September 2023 when news broke that her fiance and Summer House co-star, Carl Radke, called off their engagement weeks before their wedding. The breakup is set to air on Summer House Season 8 in 2024, but we can already see Bravo fans being Team Lindsay in the same way they rallied around Maddix following Scandoval. Could Dancing With the Stars be in Hubbard’s future?

Coco Gauff

Job: Professional tennis player

Best known for: 2023 US Open Win

Professional athletes are no stranger to the Dancing With the Stars ballroom, and if there’s one athlete who had a moment in 2023 it’s professional tennis player Coco Gauff. Gauff became a household name after she won the 2023 US Open, defeating Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka. At only 19 years old, she would be a force to be reckoned with if she competed on Dancing With the Stars.

Fran Drescher

Job: Actor

Best known for: The Nanny

Fran Drescher may be best known as Fran Frine in the CBS sitcom The Nanny, but she was also a powerful changemaker in 2023 as the SAG-AFTRA president that led the union to a history-making deal in November 2023 following one of Hollywood’s longest-running strikes. Drescher’s speech against Hollywood studios went viral in July 2023, and we can’t imagine that similar passion on the dance floor.

Addison Rae

Job: Social media personality

Best known for: TikTok

Ever since TikTok star Charli D’Amelio won Dancing With the Stars Season 31, the show has been steadily featuring more social media personalities in its cast, with the inclusion of Lele Pons and Harry Jowsey in Dancing With the Stars Season 32. TikTok star Addison Rae would make the next understandable choice. She has a dance background, and with 88 million followers on TikTok, she’s sure to bring in the younger demographic Dancing With the Stars has been chasing ever since streaming the show on Disney Plus.

Jason Kelce

Job: Professional football player

Best known for: Philadelphia Eagles center; Travis Kelce’s brother

By far, the most talked-about celebrity couple of 2023 was Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. While both Taylor and Travis are far too famous to be on Dancing With the Stars (Season 32 did have a Taylor Swift Night), but Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce, could have the right level of fame. Jason is a center for the Philadelphia Eagles and Jason’s older brother. If he was on Dancing With the Stars Season 33, let’s hope to see his famous brother and brother’s girlfriend in the audience.

Lacey Chabert

Job: Actress

Best known for: Hallmark; Mean Girls

Known as the Queen of Christmas, Lacey Chabert has starred in more than 30 Hallmark movies. She’s, by far, one of the most famous Hallmark actors, and with the new Mean Girls musical movie coming out in January 2024, Chabert (who played Gretchen Wiener in the original 2004 film) is at the top of her game. It’s time she take her fame to the dance floor on Dancing With the Stars.

Mark Harmon

Job: Actor

Best known for: NCIS

Mark Harmon played NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs from Seasons 1 to 19 of NCIS. He left the series in 2021 and hasn’t been up to much ever since. As fans await to see what Harmon will do next, we’d love to see him compete on Dancing With the Stars and take Gibbs’ same fierceness to the dance floor.

Taylor Kinney

Job: Actor

Best known for: Chicago Fire

Better known as Lieutenant Kelly Severide to Chicago Fire fans, Kelly Severide is one of the One Chicago franchise’s most beloved actors. He scared fans in January 2023 when news broke that he was leaving Chicago Fire to deal with a “personal matter” in the middle of Season 11. While he’s set to return for Chicago Fire Season 12, his days could be numbered at Firehouse 51. He was to leave the series, Dancing With the Stars could be the perfect rest stop in between Chicago Fire and Kinney’s next role.