• Dancing With the Stars is eyeing a brand new sequel centered on the seek for the truth competitors sequence' subsequent professional associate.
• The tentatively titled Dancing With the Stars: The Subsequent Professional is in talks with season 34 winner Robert Irwin to host and longtime professional Mark Ballas to evaluate, Selection experiences.
• The information comes days after EW's unique announcement of the first-ever Dancing With the Stars Con in summer season 2026.

Dancing With the Stars is sashaying into a brand new period.

Following EW's unique announcement of the first-ever Dancing With the Stars Con, the sequence is gearing as much as drop one other potential bombshell: a brand new spinoff.

The tentatively titled Dancing With the Stars: The Subsequent Professional will stage a season-long seek for the principle sequence' subsequent professional associate, in accordance with Variety, which first reported the information. The winner of The Subsequent Professional would earn a spot on the DWTS roster alongside fellow newcomers Jan Ravnik, a backup dancer on Taylor Swift's globe-trotting Eras Tour who joined the present final 12 months, Ezra Sosa, who joined the 12 months earlier than, and Rylee Arnold, who grew to become part of the principle firm in 2023.

The sequence has not but entered manufacturing and has no official airdate, however will reportedly be produced by BBC and air on ABC and Hulu.

Season 34 winner Robert Irwin is claimed to be in talks to host the brand new sequence, making him the colleague of Dancing With the Stars'present internet hosting duo, season 19 winner Alfonso Ribeiro and former professional Julianne Hough.

As for the judging panel, The Subsequent Professional would commerce out long-serving judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, in addition to new appointee Derek Hough for a panel comprised of Mark Ballas and his mom, Shirley Ballas.

Mark has participated in 21 seasons of Dancing With the Stars as a professional, profitable three. Shirley is a legendary English ballroom dancer with a specialty within the Worldwide Latin type, incomes her the nickname "The Queen of Latin." Since 2017, Shirley has additionally served as a choose on Strictly Come Dancing, the English actuality competitors sequence that Dancing With the Stars spun off from.

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Leisure Weekly has reached out to ABC, BBC, and representatives for Irwin and Mark Ballas for remark.

This isn’t the primary time ABC has spun a brand new sequence off Dancing With the Stars.

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The primary try and create a DWTS prolonged universe got here in 2008, with the vigorous competitors sequence Dance Warfare: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann. The figure-skating spinoff Skating With the Stars adopted in 2010, and a 3rd, Dancing With the Stars: Juniors, that includes superstar youngsters contestants, aired in 2018. Every of those sequence was canceled after one season.

The following banner occasion on the packed DWTS calendar is Dancing With the Stars Con 2026.

Described because the "final DWTS fan conference and dwell present," the three-day occasion will reunite previous superstar winners like Joey Graziadei and Xochitl Gomez with execs like Alan Bersten and Emma Slater, fan-favorite celeb contestants like Elaine Hendrix and Danielle Fishel, and judges Inaba and Tonioli.

Tickets for the conference's inaugural version go on sale on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT at www.dwtscon.com.

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