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‘Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro’ Bosses Break Down the Real Stakes Behind the Summer Spinoff
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“Dancing With the Stars” has boomed within the last several years with a rise in Gen Z viewership and social engagements.
Katz admitted that this show was a much “more thorough” audition process than any of the professional dancers on the show went through.
“Our professional dancers are a coach, a mentor, a choreographer, a big brother, a therapist,” she said.
Just one week before the premiere of the spinoff series, “Dancing With the Stars” received its first primetime Emmy nomination in over a decade.
(Katz said “The Next Pro” host and Season 34 mirrorball champ Robert Irwin broke the news to her).