It takes two to tango—and to be eliminated.
When Dancing With the Stars premieres across two nights on Sept. 15 and 16, the stakes will have never been higher. It was revealed on Hulu’s Get Real podcast that one female celebrity pairing and one male celebrity pairing will be eliminated during the episodes, which will see all the men compete one night and all the women on the other.
For pro Mark Ballas—partnered with Traitors’ Maura Higgins—he’s definitely feeling the pressure.
“I don’t think I was even on the show when that happened,” he said during the Sept. 10 podcast episode. “It’s not an even playing field, right? It’s like the cast is split in half and someone’s going. It’s kind of like boys over there, girls over there, one of you is going from each group, right?”
He added with a grimace, “So that’s—that’s a little different.”
And while this season’s celebrity cast features some seasoned dancers—such as Jenna Dewan and Harry Shum Jr.—Maura would not place herself in that category, despite her appearance on Dancing on Ice in 2020. (She was eliminated in week 7 of the British competition series.)
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