Paula deen, gary busey, paris train hero alex skarlatos headline ‘dancing with the stars’ new season

Politics, controversy and headlines have been cast into the next edition of _Dancing With The Stars _when it returns to ABC’s primetime on September 14.  Next season’s biggest “get” is Alex

Skarlatos, the Army National Guard specialist who just made headlines when he and his pals overpowered a man suspected of being a terrorist who’d opened fire on a Paris-bound train. Joining

Skarlatos is Paula Deen, whose TV career took a nosedive when she acknowledged in a deposition she’d used a racial slur in the past, and her network and sponsors bailed. In its bio of Deen

for this morning’s announcement, ABC made no mention of the incident. Gary Busey, one of now-presidential-candidate Donald Trump’s most colorful _Celebrity Apprentice_ participants, is back

on reality competition TV, as Busey had already revealed on ABC’s _Jimmy Kimmel Live. _The full cast was revealed this morning on _Good Morning America_, in keeping with tradition. This

season also is the first in which a married couple competes: _Spy Kids_ star Alexa PenaVega and husband Carlos PenaVega. The new season’s list, in alphabetical order by first name: * Alek

Skarlatos partnered with Lindsay Arnold * Alexa PenaVega partnered with Mark Ballas * Andy Grammer partnered with Allison Holker * Bindi Irwin (daughter of late _Crocodile Hunter_ Steve)

partnered with Derek Hough * Carlos PenaVega partnered with Witney Carson * Chaka Khan partnered with Keo Motsepe * Gary Busey partnered with Anna Trebunskaya * Hayes Grier partnered with

Emma Slater * Kim Zolciak Biermann partnered with Tony Dovolani * Nick Carter partnered with Sharna Burgess * Paula Deen partnered with Louis van Amstel * Tamar Braxton partnered with

Valentin Chmerkovskiy * Victor Espinoza (jockey) partnered with Karina Smirnoff