Glad to see that Val will return as one of the male pros.

Please keep posting the updates.

I wonder if Tony will return now that he finally won. He and Max have a studio together so maybe he has dropped out like Max.

The whole cast:

• Alexa PenaVega partnered with Mark Ballas
• Andy Grammer partnered with Allison Holker
• Bindi Irwin partnered with Derek Hough
• Carlos PenaVega partnered with Witney Carson
• Chaka Khan partnered with Keo Motsepe
• Gary Busey (looking awfully rough) partnered with Anna Trebunskaya
• Hayes Grier partnered with Emma Slater
• Kim Zolciak Biermann (Housewives of Atlanta) partnered with Tony Dovolani
• Nick Carter partnered with Sharna Burgess
• Paula Deen partnered with Louis van Amstel
• Tamar Braxton partnered with Valentin Chmerkovskiy
• Victor Espinoza partnered with Karina Smirnoff
• Alek Skarlatos (National Guard, part of the Paris train incident) partnered with Lindsay Arnold

I see two long-missing pros there...Louis and Anna.

When asked why he was doing this, Gary Busey replied "I have nothing else to do". :rolleyes:

Hardly know any of them. I was happy to see them bring in Alek Skarlatos. Happy to see that they brought in Tony Dovolani, he has always been my favorite dancer.

Hi Darlene,

Tony seemed to always get paired with the worst of the dancing ability of the stars. Not only does he have great dancing skills which he never gets to display due to the limitations of his partners, he seems to have a great personality with patience galore.

I was soooooooooo happy when he finally won the mirrored ball trophy.

This shows the vast difference in their (The Powers That Be) contestant choices. Some have been asked several times and turned down the offer for various reasons (Paula Deen). Alek Skarlatos only became a celebrity weeks ago.

I got to wondering about Kym Johnson, last season's pro with Robert Herjavek. It was strongly hinted they were "a couple" since then, and I found this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-Herjavec.html (I've found other gossip websites saying this). Not sure where I read it, but I saw that Robert was divorcing his wife of 14 years. To me, that's sad.