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

'Dancing With The Stars' Cast: Paula Deen, Gary Busey, Alex Skarlatos & More You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content September 2, 2015

7:00am SERVICES TO SHARE THIS PAGE. 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 6 Comments JavaScript is required to load the comments. MARKETPLACE SITE

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