“Dancing With the Stars” will develop its empire launching a brand new spinoff to search out its subsequent skilled dancer this summer season.
The spinoff “Dancing With the Stars: The Subsequent Professional” will characteristic recent ballroom expertise, competing for an opportunity to take their skills to the ballroom for the ABC competitors sequence’ thirty fifth season.
The up-and-coming professionals will dwell in a home collectively and compete in a grueling audition course of week after week. The sequence will reportedly air this summer season on ABC and Hulu.
ABC declined to remark to TheWrap.
Wildlife conservationist and Season 34 winner Robert Irwin is in talks to host the sequence, however nothing is official simply but. Mark Ballas and his mom Shirley are being eyed to guage the sequence.
Mark received “DWTS” thrice as a professional, most just lately with social media star Charli D’Amelio, and competed for 21 seasons. His mom Shirley is skilled ballroom dancer in her personal proper, often called “The Queen of Latin.” She has served as the top decide on BBC One’s “Strictly Come Dancing” since 2017.
There might be a 3rd rotating decide becoming a member of the mother-son duo every week that can permit extra members of the “DWTS” franchise to present their two cents on their future collaborator.
Each Ballases have actuality competitors expertise outdoors of “DWTS.” Mark is at present showing on Season 4 of “The Traitors,” whereas Shirley appeared on “Movie star Bear Hunt” simply final yr.
A number of skilled dancers on the ballroom present have been found on “So You Assume You Can Dance,” together with Witney Carson, Jenna Johnson, Lindsay Arnold, Alan Bersten and Ezra Sosa.
This new spinoff will probably emulate the Fox dance actuality program however catered particularly for ballroom performers.
“Dancing With the Stars” additionally introduced Tuesday that it’ll host its first fan conference set to happen late this summer season. There might be two dwell dance performances featured on the ballroom ground, plus interactive dwell panels, displays and Q&A periods for followers.
“Dancing With the Stars: The Subsequent Professional” might be produced by BBC Studios.
