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Summary
- ABC announces Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik as first cast member for Dancing With The Stars season 33.
- Stephen Nedoroscik gained fame as “Pommel Horse Guy” during the 2024 Summer Olympics.
- Dancing With The Stars season 33 premieres on September 17 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
ABC announced the very first cast member who will hit the dance floor this fall on Dancing With The Stars. When Dancing With The Stars season 32 aired in fall 2023, Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy were announced as the winners, beating out Jason Mraz and Daniella Karagach, Ariana Madix and Pasha Pashkov, Charity Lawson and Artem Chigvintsev, and Alyson Hannigan and Sasha Farber. Anticipation has been building in recent weeks for the eventual cast announcement for Dancing With The Stars season 33, with speculation that ABC might cast some Olympic athletes after the recently-concluded 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
After much speculation and anticipation, the first Dancing With The Stars season 33 cast member is none other than Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik, who went viral on social media at the 2024 Summer Olympics and earned the nickname “Pommel Horse Guy.”
While appearing on Good Morning America during the cast announcement, Stephen said, “I want to bring some of that gymnastics. Maybe a backflip or handstand.”
Dancing With The Stars season 33 premieres September 17 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
Sources: Dancing With The Stars/Instagram, Good Morning America/Instagram
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing With the Stars is a popular dancing competition reality TV show airing on ABC and Disney+. The series features various celebrities who pair with professional dancers to compete in front of a panel of judges. The US version of the UK TV show Strictly Come Dancing premiered in 2005 and was originally hosted by Tom Bergeron for its first 28 seasons.
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