Tyler Cameron and Jenna Dewan are ready to step up on the dancefloor.
The Bachelor Nation alum and Rookie actress are joining season 35 of Dancing With the Stars, multiple outlets confirmed.
E! News has reached out to ABC but did not receive an immediate response.
While Cameron, 33, may be relatively new to the ballroom, Dewan has famously showcased her dance talents as a backup dancer to Janet Jackson as well as in the mega-popular film franchise Step Up. Now, it’s time for the 45-year-old—mom to 12-year-old daughter Everly with ex Channing Tatum, as well as her and husband Steve Kazee‘s son Callum, 5, and 2-year-old girl Rhiannon—to put that fancy footwork to good use.
The reality competition series‘ forthcoming season is shaping up to be fierce competition as previously announced cast members include Summer House‘s Ciara Miller, Love Island‘s Maura Higgins, Jimmy Kimmel Live! sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez and Savannah Bananas player Jackson Olson.
The rest of the celebrity competitors, along with the professional dancers they’ll be partnered with, will be revealed next month.
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However, ABC has already revealed one pro who is lacing up their dance shoes once again: Reigning Mirrorball champ Witney Carson.
The 32-year-old—who just announced last week that she’s pregnant with her and husband Carson McAllister’s third baby—will be paired with Rodriguez as they attempt to samba their way to the Mirrorball Trophy.
Carson—who won season 34 with partner Robert Irwin—will make history as the first pro to enter a DWTS season pregnant, a milestone she previously called “scary but also exciting.”
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“My plan is to, as long as the baby is healthy and as long as I’m doing well, then we will compete again on this season on Dancing with the Stars,” she told People in an interview published Aug. 17, “which is very exciting because I love being a mom more than anything, and I also love to dance. I love both. And so if I can do both, then that’s what I want to do.”
So, Rodriguez won’t be the only one on their team with a learning curve this season.
“It wasn’t on my bingo card to compete on Dancing with the Stars and be four months pregnant, but I think that it’s a beautiful thing,” Carson said on Good Morning America in an Aug. 17 interview. “Hopefully Guillermo will be right there beside me and we can work as a team.”
While fans wait for the full cast reveal, keep reading for behind-the-scenes secrets about Dancing With the Stars…
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However, Bobby Bones said he made more than this when he won season 27 with Sharna Burgess in 2018.
“That show pays OK,” the radio personality said on a Sept. 2025 episode of Jason Tartick’s podcast Trading Secrets. “Like, first episode, no money. Second episode, $10,000. I think it’s like, $10,000, $10,000, $20,000, $20,000. It ends up being $50,000 an episode if you last.”
Also receiving a base salary of around $110,000, Bones continued, “I ended up making close to $400,000 from that show.”
ABC has not publicly confirmed any of these figures.
But even if a pro is eliminated in the first round, they’re not leaving the ballroom empty-handed.
“You’re guaranteed until a certain amount of weeks,” Jenna Johnson said on a June 2025 episode of Kelly Stafford and Hank Winchester’s podcast The Morning After. “I think there’s different contracts though. I can’t speak for everybody.”
While Johnson—who won season 26 with Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, as well as season 33 with The Bachelor’s Joey Graziadei—says the pros don’t get a larger paycheck if they take home what is now called the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, she noted there’s still an incentive to make it to the finale (besides bragging rights, of course).
“If you make it all the way to the end, you’re getting paid the whole season, which is amazing, and you get a bonus on top of that for making it to the finale,” she explained on The Morning After. “If you win, it’s not like you win a $1 million and split it with your partner. You’re just getting a cute trophy together.”
On a 2022 episode of Trading Secrets, Lindsay Arnold recalled how her salary was cut “more than in half” when she was demoted from pro to troupe member.
“You get no say,” Lindsay said on a May 2025 episode of Maggie Sellers’ Hot Smart Rich podcast. “It’s very much just, ‘Here’s your partner. Make it work.'”
In fact, Jenna said the pairing is often a secret until the last minute.
“They really want to keep it a secret until you meet them live,” Jenna said on The Morning After. “They want that genuine reaction. So I think people always think we know who we have and we’re keeping it a secret. Absolutely not. They do not tell us. They really don’t even want us to know the cast. It gets leaked a lot, but they want it very hush-hush until you walk in and meet your partner.”
As for what the Dancing With the Stars team looks for when making these matches?
“It’s based on height, build and personality and compatibility,” former showrunner Rob Wade told E! News in 2015. “We don’t pair people who aren’t going to get on. It’s too intense. It’s not like The Bachelor or something, we couldn’t do that. That would just be miserable experience for the celebrity, for us and the viewer. You don’t want to see two people who don’t like each other and, quite frankly, we have made that mistake pairing people up who didn’t get on so well.”
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