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Dancing With the Stars is back for its 31st season—its archetypal to aerial connected Disney+—and, per usual, the lineup is stacked with a database of celebrities that'll apt crook galore viewers into owls erstwhile it premieres Sept. 19. (You know, due to the fact that owls accidental "who" a lot? We'll spot ourselves out.) The stars see a Real Housewives legend, a TikTok superstar and her mother, America's astir celebrated weatherman and DTWS' first-ever resistance queen contestant. Oh, there's besides Jersey Shore's keto guido and a Hallmark Channel hunk.
It's a wide-ranging and eclectic group, which is wherefore we similar to behaviour our yearly (and, sure, somewhat shady) experimentation to find retired who connected an esteemed sheet of 5 random people—a DWTS super-fan, a hipster successful tech, a Gen-Z assemblage graduate, a earthy vino and bookstore proprietor and a erstwhile amusement reporter—had ever heard of each star.
So, conscionable however celebrated are Dancing With the Stars' season 31 contestants? Let's find out...
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Joseph Baena
DWTS Super-Fan: No clue.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Wrestler?
Hipster successful Tech: RIP CIITTYYYYY, large lad astir apt can't dance.
Recent College Graduate: A wrestler?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Whomst.
Who He Really Is: The fittingness exemplary and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's 24-year-old lad with Mildred Patricia Baena.
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Selma Blair
DWTS Super-Fan: Oh, I emotion her.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Actress. She's Vivienne Kensington, among different unthinkable roles.
Hipster successful Tech: They're going to resistance this mediocre miss retired there?!
Recent College Graduate: Oh, she played the annoying miss successful that 1 movie with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe!
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: OMG SELMA, The Sweetest Thing everlastingly <3.
Who She Really Is: An histrion known for her roles successful Cruel Intentions, The Sweetest Thing and Legally Blonde. Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018 and opened up astir her conflict successful the documentary Introducing, Selma Blair.
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Wayne Brady
DWTS Super-Fan: Oh god, he's from Let's Make a Deal.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Actor from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which perfectly inactive holds up.
Hipster successful Tech: Welp, we cognize who's winning this shit.
Recent College Graduate: Sounds similar a shot player.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: A staple of web TV since Whose Line, deity bless him.
Who He Really Is: An Emmy-winning histrion and comedian known for Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Wayne Brady Show. He is the existent big of Let's Make a Deal.
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Sam Champion
DWTS Super-Fan: ABC's weatherman, transmission 7!
Former Entertainment Reporter: How galore times tin I enactment "TikTok influencer"
Hipster successful Tech: This is simply a fake name, right? Sounds similar the gag sanction of idiosyncratic from Anchorman.
Recent College Graduate: Hm...a contention car driver?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: The Law & Order guy?
Who He Really Is: Good Morning America's weatherman and the the managing exertion of the Weather Channel.
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Charli D'Amelio
DWTS Super-Fan: Is it a feline oregon a girl?
Former Entertainment Reporter: Oh.
Hipster successful Tech: I thought Wayne Brady was enough, literal conflict of the titans. So we're conscionable inviting dancers...to creation now?
Recent College Graduate: HAHAHA nary wayyyyy!
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: I cognize I'm expected to cognize who this is but I don't.
Who She Really Is: The 2nd most-followed idiosyncratic connected TikTok, the influencer stars successful her ain world series, Hulu's The D'Amelios Show.
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Heidi D'Amelio
DWTS Super-Fan: I person nary idea, but is she related to the different one?
Former Entertainment Reporter: Whole family, huh?
Hipster successful Tech: Go away.
Recent College Graduate: AND THE MOM?!?!
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Same.
Who She Really Is: Mom to Charli and her chap influencer sister, Dixie.
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Jessie James Decker
DWTS Super-Fan: She's a vocalist and she's joined to Eric Decker.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Singer, "Wanted" is inactive a apical tier bop.
Hipster successful Tech: You cognize I ne'er knew who this was but ever saw the name. Just different blistery country person.
Recent College Graduate: I person heard of him! Football player, for sure.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: You got me.
Who She Really Is: A state vocalist and manner decorator who starred successful her ain E! world series, Eric and Jessie, with her NFL prima husband, Eric Decker.
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Trevor Donovan
DWTS Super-Fan: I americium going to accidental he's a shot player.
Former Entertainment Reporter: 90210 reboot. Remember that?!
Hipster successful Tech: Absolutely nary hint who you are. Boring sanction too.
Recent College Graduate: No idea, but was helium connected a soap opera?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Nope.
Who He Really Is: After breaking retired on 90210, Donovan went connected to prima successful Hallmark Channel movies earlier making the determination to its competitor, GAC Network.
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Daniel Durrant
DWTS Super-Fan: No clue.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Actor, helium was successful CODA.
Hipster successful Tech: Sorry Trevor. Daniel, I person little of an thought of who you are and your sanction is much boring.
Recent College Graduate: No idea. Maybe a hoops player.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Related to Kevin?
Who He Really Is: An histrion who starred successful the Oscar-winning CODA.
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Teresa Giudice
DWTS Super-Fan: Real Housewives of New Jersey, she conscionable got married. Loved that hair.
Former Entertainment Reporter: "F--KING ENGAGED 19 TIMES!"
Hipster successful Tech: No f--king comment.
Recent College Graduate: OMG. Thank god. Someone to adhd a small flair. I anticipation she flips the judges' table.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: The lone housewife whose sanction I know, probably.
Who She Really Is: The prima of The Real Housewives of New Jersey who infamously flipped a table.
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Vinny Guadagnino
DWTS Super-Fan: Sounds similar he's from the Jersey Shore, but I don't deliberation so?
Former Entertainment Reporter: This amended beryllium Vinny from Jersey Shore oregon other I don't care
Hipster successful Tech: Had to Google this 1 too, should beryllium Teresa's adjunct for her owe income biz.
Recent College Graduate: Is that Teresa's relative oregon nephew? Italians are each connected.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Okay sure, Jersey Shore. I consciousness similar helium would beryllium an good dancer?
Who He Really Is: Fist-pumped his mode into world TV past arsenic 1 of the archetypal stars of the Jersey Shore.
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Cheryl Ladd
DWTS Super-Fan: From Charlie's Angels!
Former Entertainment Reporter: I haven't guessed jock yet truthful putting that here
Hipster successful Tech: Okay, boomer.
Recent College Graduate: Washed up popular star?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: Charlies' Angels, okay!
Who She Really Is: The histrion who replaced Farrah Fawcett successful the 2nd play of Charlie's Angels successful 1977.
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Jason Lewis
Former DWTS Super-Fan: A singer?
Entertainment Reporter: Jerry Smith Jerrod.
Hipster successful Tech: Third time's a charm, atrocious Trevor and atrocious Daniel. THIS is the biggest "no idea" with the astir boring name.
Recent College Graduate: A world TV star. Right?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: A shot player?
Who He Really Is: An histrion champion known for his crook arsenic Smith Jerrod connected Sex and the City.
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Shangela
DWTS Super-Fan: A Housewife?
Former Entertainment Reporter: The 1 and only! She's a erstwhile Drag Race contestant.
Hipster successful Tech: Is this expected to beryllium similar "Zendaya"?
Recent College Graduate: A overseas popular star?
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: A singer?
Who She Really Is: One of the astir fashionable contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race, Shangela went connected to look successful A Star Is Born and is presently the co-host of the HBO world bid We're Here.
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Jordin Sparks
DWTS Super-Fan: The 1 from American Idol.
Former Entertainment Reporter: Singer, erstwhile Idol contestant and I play "One Step astatine a Time" astatine slightest 4 times a week.
Hipster successful Tech: I deliberation she has songs connected the radio? Name seems familiar, nary clue.
Recent College Graduate: Love her! I utilized to ticker her connected Disney Channel but one don't cognize what she is doing now!
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: A singer!
Who She Really Is: The victor of American Idol's sixth season.
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Gabby Windey
DWTS Super-Fan: A TikToker?
Former Entertainment Reporter: I person nary idea, truthful gonna spell with the standby "TikTok influencer."
Hipster successful Tech: What a throwaway casting here. Really scraping the bottommost of the barrel.
Recent College Graduate: Was she an Olympian? Probably a gymnast.
Natural Wine Bar and Book Store Owner: The required Bachelorette appearance, though I consciousness similar she is possibly not coordinated capable for this.
She Really Is: The ICU caregiver and erstwhile NFL cheerleader is the pb of the existent play of The Bachelorette, sharing the duties with Rachel Recchia.
Dancing With the Stars premieres Monday, Sept. 19 connected Disney+.
