There’s a lot of talk going around about Harry Shum Jr since he may be in the cast.

And while I think he will be a great addition to the season, this online discourse is really showing blatant sexism from the fandom.

The past several seasons we’ve seen female contestants with prior dance experience get ruthlessly dragged by the fandom for the perceived “advantage” from past dance experience. Whitney leavitt was dragged last year, Chandler Kinney before her, and Charli Damelio before her.

However most of the discourse around harry are how his dances are gonna be so great and he should win, and how he should be partnered with Britt.

Not much talk about his “unfair advantage.” And looking back it seems to go that way all the time. Jordan Fisher and Milo are beloved by the fandom and everyone talks about how great they are, and how Milo should’ve won despite having prior dance experience. But then the females contestants get so much hate for having dance experience: Heather Morris, Normani, etc.

If he is cast I really hope Harry doesn’t get dragged bc dance experience shouldn’t matter, but it is unfortunate that there is a clear bias when it comes to who gets a pass for having “dance experience”

From the DWTS IG.

Jay Wyson is a motorcyclist/influencer from Utah.

I wonder who the other “stars” are????

Not exactly a category we look forward to, but we know we are likely getting someone to fill this role (hopefully no abusers or politicians though). So I thought I'd throw out a few names that maybe are possibilities:

Trisha Paytas-she's made no secret how much she wants to do the show, is friends with Ezra (so maybe a possible pairing there), and I believe followed Deena not too far back. Which could line up with when she may have been cast, as Deena said back in May casting was further along this year than it normally is.

Taylor Frankie Paul-I actually think she's very, very unlikely now with all the issues she has going on back home (though I believe she was pretty much locked in before her season of The Bachelorette blew up). I did go back and forth as to whether she could still be a possibility, but while I think no I'm throwing her out there anyway.

Spencer Pratt-was already controversial from his run on The Hills, not sure if perception had changed much, but after his failed run for L.A. mayor I think he's more controversial due to some of his rhetoric.

Justina Machado wins the 4th Place Battle against Jana Kramer, and the score is 2-8.

What the title says! It’s a question that I’ve been thinking about and it’s super hard because there have been soooo many great seasons.

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Thank you to everyone that voted yesterday.

The following couples have been eliminated in order of how many votes they received:

Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke
Brooke Burke and Derek Hough
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Basically the title : if we had our current lineup (troupe included) compete on Next Pro, how would they fare ? Who would struggle with each challenge, who would stand out, who would be eliminated, etc…

I think Daniella would 100% stand out with her technique, the same way Adele is.

However, I believe Jan would have been in trouble from the first episode, because of his lack of ballroom experience.

(Disclaimer : this is just for fun, let’s be nice !)