Julianne Hough Slaven Vlasic/Getty Photos for Household Equality
Julianne Hough will now not take part within the 2024 Dancing With the Stars reside tour.
“I’ve been so wanting ahead to getting to attach with all our wonderful followers on the highway and carry out reside alongside the DWTS Tour forged for choose dates; nonetheless, because of a change in my manufacturing taking pictures schedule, a battle has come up,” Hough, 35, wrote in an Instagram Story assertion shared by way of the tour’s official web page on Friday, February 9. “I’ll now not be capable of be a part of the tour for my scheduled dates.”
She continued: “I really like our DWTS group and I’m devastated to overlook seeing you all in individual, however I can guarantee you that this forged is delivering an unforgettable present that you simply gained’t need to miss.”
Hough, a two-time mirrorball champion, was initially slated to slide her dancing footwear again on for a restricted variety of dates on the brand new tour. (She has not revealed what manufacturing altered its filming schedule.)
The DWTS 2024 reside present started in Richmond, Virginia, on January 11, hosted by professional Emma Slater. The present’s roster of contributors contains Alan Bersten, Alexis Warr, Artem Chigvinstev, Brandon Armstrong, Britt Stewart, Daniella Karagach, Ezra Sosa, Gleb Savchenko, Rylee Arnold and Pasha Pashkov. Married couple Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy additionally joined the tour for its January and early February dates.
DWTS season 32 champ Xochitl Gomez and fellow contestants Charity Lawson and Harry Jowsey will even carry out throughout choose performances.
Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ Disney/Christopher Willard
Hough returned to DWTS season 32 in 2023, becoming a member of Alfonso Ribeiro as a bunch.
“The friendships which might be made listed below are lifelong. It feels prefer it’s simply gonna be, like, a peek into our friendship and our lives,” Hough gushed to Selection in August 2023. “With this season particularly, we’re all so shut. We’ve been mates for over 10 years.”
The Dancing With the Stars showrunners brought on a stir once they changed hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews with Tyra Banks in July 2020 — but it surely wasn’t the primary time the position had a change of guards. Bergeron served because the fixed host for the dance competitors from its 2005 debut by means of season 28, […]
She continued on the time, “It feels type of nostalgic, like, the band is again collectively. It looks like we’re within the older seasons of Dancing With the Stars, with the knowledge and the information of all of the years of expertise, however with the sense of nostalgia and residential from the sooner seasons.”
Hough changed Tyra Banks as host, who accredited of the casting change.
“The businesswoman in me sees how Julianne is nice on a number of ranges. She’s an expert dancer. She is the sister of Derek [Hough], a DWTS multi-champion, who’s now a stellar decide,” Banks, 50 solely instructed Us Weekly in March 2023. “It’s going to be a household affair in that ballroom which individuals will love to look at. And she or he has a lot persona and powerful opinions backed by experience. She’s an ideal selection! She’s gonna crush it!”
