The 33rd season of Dancing with the Stars will premiere at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+ — and sports personalities are among the biggest and brightest.
Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough are back as the hosts and welcome 13 contestants to this season. The cast includes former NFL wide receiver Danny Amendola, Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher, NBA star center Dwight Howard and Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik, known as “Mr. Pommel Horse.”
Nedoroscik and Maher achieved viral social media fame for their success at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. But whether that success will translate to the dance floor remains to be seen.
This season also marks a return from hiatus for the popular dancing competition, as the previous season aired in the fall of 2023.
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Dancing with the Stars results tonight
This section will be updated when the show begins airing. Scores will carry over from Week 1 to Week 2 with no eliminations in Week 1.
| Contestant Name | Judge Score | Audience Score |
| Joey Graziadei | 21 | TBD |
| Brooks Nader | 18 | TBD |
Who was eliminated on DWTS?
This section will be updated once contestants begin getting eliminated from the show.
There will NOT be an elimination in Episode 1.
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How does Dancing with the Stars scoring work?
The show’s scoring is divided into two categories: judges and audience. During the episode, the panel of judges gives the dancers a score from 1 to 10. This season, Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli return as judges. Before the audience votes, the judges give the dancers a maximum of 30 points.
This is where the scoring can get confusing. It isn’t exactly the number of points a dance gets, but how that number relates to the total number of votes the judges gave out. Let’s say the judges give out 100 points throughout the round; dancer A gets 10, and dancer B gets 20. Before audience votes are tallied, dancer A will have 10% of the judge’s vote and dancer B will have 20%.
Let’s say dancer A got 35% of the public vote, while dancer B only got 5%. Dancer A’s final score would be 45% of the vote, and dancer B would have gotten 40%. In this example, dancer A would move on, and dancer B would be eliminated.
Scoring is the percentage of the judges’ votes added to the percentage of the audience’s votes, for a total score.
How to vote for Dancing with the Stars
You can cast your vote for your favorite dancers either through ABC’s website or text messages. A number will pop up on the screen during the broadcast, and you can text the dancer’s first name to that number to register a vote.
Usually, you are limited to casting up to five votes or the number of contestants remaining, whichever is higher. If that method is continued in season 33, you should be able to vote 13 times for the first episode. This year, you get 10 votes per couple, per voting method.
Voting is only live during the original DTWS broadcast in the ET/CT slot.
