Julianne Hough to host ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ changing Tyra Banks
Julianne Hough is able to take the stage on “Dancing with the Stars” – this time as a co-host.
The two-time “DWTS” champion, who beforehand served as a judge and professional on the show, will take over for Tyra Banks, who began internet hosting in 2020.
USA TODAY has reached out to ABC and Hough’s reps for remark.
Controversial co-host Banks is leaving the present, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
“Dancing with the Stars,” which streams on Disney+, took to Twitter Monday to announce its new co-host, serving alongside Alfonso Ribeiro, who joined the show last year.
“We’re so excited to welcome @juliannehough as co-host of #DWTS Season 32 together with @alfonso_ribeiro!” DWTS wrote, sharing a picture of Ribeiro, 55, subsequent to a photograph of Hough, 34.
Hough additionally took to social media Monday to share the information.
“It’s such an honor to be rejoining ‘Dancing with the Stars’ as co-host,” Hough wrote on Instagram, sharing the quote she gave Selection concerning the internet hosting modifications.
Hough received the fourth and fifth seasons of “DWTS” with velocity skater Olympian Apolo Ohno and racing driver Helio Castroneves, respectively. As knowledgeable dancer on the present, her listing of dance companions additionally included nation artist Chuck Wicks and actor Cody Linley.
She was a choose on the present between 2014 and 2017 and was a visitor choose in 2021.
Banks joined “DWTS” in 2020 as this system’s first Black feminine host and the primary particular person to host this system solo.
Her three-year run wasn’t precisely easy. From her early episodes, Twitter critics denounced her efficiency and known as for the return of Tom Bergeron, who hosted the collection since its 2005 debut, and Erin Andrews, who entered the ballroom for Season 18 in 2014, till Banks was named host.
“Change is difficult, change is sophisticated, change is painful typically,” she informed USA TODAY in 2020. “So I respect their problem with change, however I additionally respect the a number of hundreds of thousands extra individuals which might be coming and watching the present with the modifications too.”
“DWTS” has had different latest staffing modifications: In November, skilled dancer Cheryl Burke announced her departure, and Mark Ballas shared his decision to leave earlier this month. Choose Len Goodman said he would be exiting after Season 31, as nicely.
Hough’s resume replace comes on the heels of different reveals modifications. Final yr, the ballroom dancing competitors present relocated to its present house to streaming on Disney+, after years of dwell airing on ABC.
Whereas Hough’s historical past with “DWTS” is lengthy, it isn’t her solely expertise with actuality tv.
She was a judge on “America’s Got Talent” till her 2019 exited, across the identical time former choose Gabrielle Union left, after a report from Variety surfaced citing “poisonous tradition” on set.
And Hough apologized for criticism surrounded the scrapped TV actuality “The Activist,” after public backlash for turning activism into a contest.
Hough, who was slated to serve as a co-host together with Priyanka Chopra and Usher, mentioned on the time that the present “missed the mark.”
“I heard you say that the present was performative, promoted pseudo-activism over actual activism, felt done-deaf, like ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Starvation Video games,’ and that the hosts weren’t certified to evaluate activism as a result of we’re celebrities and never activists,” she wrote.
Hough additionally addressed her personal controversial previous: She wore blackface whereas dressing as Uzo Aduba’s “Orange Is the New Black” character, often known as “Loopy Eyes,” for Halloween in 2013.
“Carrying blackface was a poor selection based mostly by myself white privilege and white physique bias that harm individuals and is one thing that I remorse doing to this present day,” she mentioned. “Nevertheless, the remorse that I dwell with pales compared to the lived experiences of so many. My dedication has been to replicate and act otherwise.”
Contributing: Jenna Ryu, Erin Jensen, Bryan Alexander
