ABC Announces Upcoming Celebrity Competitors on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

ABC has unveiled the celebrity cast for the upcoming fall edition of “Dancing With the Stars.” They include an “American Idol” mentor, the first-ever blind contestant to take part in the show, an alumnus from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a Duke of Hazzard, an Olympic Gold medal-winning gymnast and a Bachelor Nation favorite, among others. And they are, in alphabetical order, as follows: 

-Alexis Ren with Alan Bersten
-Bobby Bones with Sharna Burgess
-Danelle Umstead with Artem Chigvintsev
-DeMarcus Ware with Lindsay Arnold
-Evanna Lynch (“Harry Potter”) with Keo Motsepe
-Joe “Grocery Store Joe” Amabile with Jenna Johnson
-John Schneider (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) with Emma Slater
-Juan Pablo Di Pace (“Fuller House”) with Cheryl Burke
-Mary Lou Retton with Sasha Farber
-Milo Manheim with Witney Carson
-Nancy McKeon (“The Facts of Life”) with Val Chmerkovskiy
-Nikki Glaser with Gleb Savchenko
-Tinashe with Brandon Armstrong

The new season of “Dancing With the Stars” begins on Monday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. ET.