Dancing With The Stars returns for its 30th season on September 20th
Tyra Banks is back to host and the judges are your regular favorites: Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.
The just revealed list of lineup of contestants for Season 30 are:
- The Talk’s Amanda Kloots
- Brian Austin Green
- Bling Empire’s Christine Chiu
- Peleton Instructor Cody Rigsby
- Former NBA’er Iman Shumpert
- Jimmie Allen
- JoJo Siwa (Previously announced as being the first with a same sex partner)
- Real Housewives of Atlanta Kenya Moore
- The Bachelor’s Matt James
- The Spice Girls Mel C
- From WWE Mike The Miz Mizanin
- Olivia Jade
- Olympic gymnast Suni Lee (Also previously announced)
Siwa will become one half of the first same-sex couple on the show when she is paired with a female professional dancer.
Siwa, who is pansexual, said that when she received the email asking her to be a part of the show, she was asked if she wanted to be partnered with a man or a woman. It was her choice to dance with a woman.
“I want to make it OK for the people who come after me,” she said. “I want to make everything OK for the people who come after me.”
“There’s a lot of barriers that we’re going to have to break through — who leads, how do you dress, what shoes do you wear? But I think it’s all something that I’m looking forward to,” she added.
Learn more about DWTS here!
I personally was curious how two people of the same sex partnered in a ballroom dance, and while I was searching for an example discovered this excellent TED TALK about the subject. Enjoy!
Susan Saunders 9/8/21
