Craig Sjodin/ABC(LOS ANGELES) — First comes love, then comes reality TV romance, then comes Dancing with the Stars. The Bachelor Chris Soules is joining the show’s season 20 cast.
“Instead of moving to Arlington, [Iowa], we are going to be moving to LA for a couple of weeks at least to be on Dancing with the Stars,” Soules announced Tuesday on ABC’s Good Morning America.
“It’s the worst kept secret ever,” Soules joked, alluding to rampant rumors about his casting.
Soules proposed to Whitney Bischoff, a 29-year-old fertility nurse from Chicago, on the show’s season finale, and now he is paired up with another Witney, reigning pro champ Witney Carson, who won season 19 with actor Alfonso Ribeiro.
Soules, nicknamed Prince Farming, joins a competitive lineup of celebrities, including Olympian Nastia Liukin, television icon Suzanne Somers, music great Patti LaBelle, football star Michael Sam, Shark Tank mogul Robert Herjavec, U.S. Army veteran Noah Galloway, model Charlotte McKinney, Hunger Games actress Willow Shields, artist-actress Rumer Willis, “Party Rock Anthem” singer Redfoo and R5 singer-songwriter Riker Lynch.
The season 20 celebrity cast was announced last month on GMA and the competition is shaping up to be one of the fiercest yet.
The 10th anniversary season of Dancing with the Stars is being billed as the biggest ever. Producers will bring back Disney and Latin theme nights and introduce a new Spring Break special night. Another new element is the addition of all-access cameras in the rehearsal studios, which will be made available on a live stream.
Season 20 premieres on Monday, March 16, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Here is the list of the celebrities and their pro partners:
- Noah Galloway with Sharna Burgess
- Robert Herjavec with Kym Johnson
- Patti LaBelle with Artem Chigvintsev
- Nastia Liukin with Derek Hough
- Riker Lynch with Allison Holker
- Charlotte McKinney with Keo Motsepe
- RedFoo with Emma Slater
- Michael Sam with Peta Murgatroyd
- Willow Shields with Mark Ballas
- Suzanne Somers with Tony Dovolani
- Chris Soules and Witney Carson
- Rumer Willis with Valentin Chmerkovskiy
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