Introducing: All of the Celebs Who’ve Been Confirmed for ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 35 So Far
Oh, I am SO sat.
We may be months away from the season 35 premiere of Dancing With the Stars, but you can officially get excited for it, because we’ve got our first four confirmed stars. As a reminder: At the Hulu Get Real House event on April 22, Ciara Miller from Summer House and Maura Higgins from Love Island and Traitors were announced as the first two celebrity contestants for the upcoming season.
Then, a few weeks later at the Disney Upfront on May 12, a third contestant was announced: TikTok star and Savannah Bananas team member Jackson Olson, who’d been publicly manifesting this for months.
And then a month after that on June 17, we got our fourth cast member in Jimmy Kimmel’s sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, who announced the news during an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
More to come, of course—but let’s review the cast so far, shall we?
Ciara Miller
Ciara was rumored to be joining the cast for season 34, but this year, it’s finally happening! She even has a dream partner picked out: Val Chmerkovskiy. As she told Us Weekly when the rumors first began, “I want someone who is hard on me. Like, ‘You got to get this down.’ We’d have to work so hard. I don’t want any funny games. We’re in there to work!”
Known for: Summer House, The Traitors, and Love Island USA: Aftersun.
Dance experience: Ciara actually grew up dancing, and revealed to Us Weekly that she took ballet for 10 years.
Maura Higgins
Maura was also rumored for months before her casting was announced. Back in March, she even told The Hollywood Reporter that DWTS would “be a huge challenge,” but one she was willing to take on. “I know I’d throw myself into it and all the looks and glitter,” she added.
Known for: Love Island, The Traitors, and Love Island USA: Aftersun
Dance experience: Maura told THR that she did “a bit of Irish dancing” when she was younger.
Jackson Olson
Back in December 2025, Jackson replied to a fan who asked whether he would “go on Dancing With the Stars next season” with a video compilation of dance clips, which he captioned, “Long story short... yes, yes I would.” Dreams do come true!
Known for: The Savannah Bananas baseball team and TikTok
Dance experience: Though he’s done plenty of choreography since joining the Savannah Bananas in 2022, Jackson surprisingly has no formal dance background.
Guillermo Rodriguez
As Jimmy Kimmel joked when his onscreen sidekick was announced as the latest DWTS season 35 contestant: “Guillermo will become the first-ever parking lot security guard to dance with the stars.”
Known for: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (though he first rose to fame while working as a parking lot security guard at the Hollywood Boulevard Masonic Temple studio)
Dance experience: None that I know of, but I’m excited to see him bust out some moves!
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