Conner Leavitt is bringing DadTok to the dance floor.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star will be competing for the coveted Mirrorball Trophy on the upcoming season 35 of Dancing With the Stars, E! News has learned.
E! News has reached out to ABC but did not receive an immediate response.
Conner’s casting comes nearly a year after his wife Whitney Leavitt came in sixth place on the ABC reality competition series last season.
Of course, Conner certainly has plenty of fancy foot work to perfect before he busts a move in the ballroom.
The 32-year-old will be going head-to-head against previously announced season 35 hopefulsSummer House‘s Ciara Miller, Love Island alum Maura Higgins, Jimmy Kimmel Live! sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez and Savannah Bananas’ Jackson Olson. Plus, Bachelor Nation’s Tyler Cameron and actressJenna Dewanalso recently joined the cast, according to reports.
The news comes several months after Conner and Whitney—who share kids Sedona, 6, Liam, 4, and Billy, 22 months—announced that SLOMW‘s upcoming fifth season will be their last. And although the couple is bidding farewell to the Hulu series, the social media influencers have remained booked and busy.
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While Whitney, 33, was busy starring as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago—breaking box office records in the process—Conner made his off-Broadway debut in the dance production 11 to Midnight for a limited three-week engagement in May.
So, it isn’t exactly a surprise that the Utah natives are both tired of dancing around the drama involving their Mormon Wives costars—for now at least. In fact, the real-life legal issues surrounding Tayor Frankie Paul have gotten so tumultuous, Conner recently teased this season of Mormon Wives will be slightly different from the previous four.
“They’ve cut the season short, five episodes only,” Conner shared on the Just Trishpodcast June 25. “So, they’re having everyone go back to basically do interviews, wrap up a couple of things. And I think that’ll be a very abbre.”
And Whitney emphasized how much they want to distance themselves from the conflict.
“We’ve removed ourselves so far from it, like even physically,” the MomTok star added, “that I feel like it hasn’t affected us as much as it may have other cast members.”
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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.”
