Two actuality stars from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are becoming a member of the season 34 cast of Dancing With the Stars.
Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt each have dance backgrounds, and Affleck has lengthy expressed her want to look on the ABC present.
The ladies are the third and fourth members of the season 34 cast to be introduced.
It is time for the E-book of Dancing With the Stars.
On Monday night time’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Reunion Particular, host Nick Viall revealed that not one, however two of the present’s stars are headed to the ballroom for season 34. Each Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt might be competing for a shot at the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.
“We’re virtually out of time, however I promised you all a giant shock and I obtained it proper right here,” Viall teased to the cast. “Tonight, we’re gonna be asserting who’s gonna be on subsequent season ofย Dancing With the Stars. I heard most of you auditioned not too long ago whereas filming season 3. I imply, I gotta know who needs it the most.”
Whitney Leavitt and Jen Affleck on ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’.
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Leavitt then jumped in and mentioned that she thought it was her and Affleck who needed it most. Fellow cast member Taylor Frankie Paul added, “I believe Jen simply because it has been her life’s dream since she was little.”
Certainly, Affleck has usually shared movies of herself dancing, significantly round her residence, on her TikTok โ and she or he’s mentioned since season 1 of the Hulu actuality sequence that it is her dream to look on DWTS.
“However like out of anybody, Whitney was an precise dancer, such as you’ve danced your complete life,” Paul added of Leavitt.
Viall then introduced that Affleck could be becoming a member of the cast first. “That is like all she’s needed,” Secret Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura mentioned in response to the information, whereas Paul added, “She’s talked about this since day one.”
Leavitt was sport, saying, “I am glad for Jen. Like, I will be there entrance and heart rootin’ you on, lady.”
Jen Affleck of ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’.
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However Viall shocked everybody when he then introduced Leavitt would even be becoming a member of the season 34 cast.ย
“I’ve yet one more shock announcement for you,” he mentioned. Because it seems, since you girls are so adored, they’re gonna be sending two of you toย Dancing With the Stars. Are you prepared for that second announcement? Whitney Leavitt, you’llย Dancing With the Stars.”
Leavitt embraced her husband earlier than locking fingers with Affleck and leaping up and down in pleasure. “We’re shifting to L.A.! I hope you are happening! Simply kidding. Convey it on,” Affleck proclaimed, whereas Leavitt’s husband Connor quipped, “Effectively, know I am not voting for you, Jen.”
Whitney Leavitt in ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’.
Disney/Fred Hayes
Affleck, nonetheless holding Leavitt’s hand, then mentioned that she hopes it is her and Leavitt in the closing two. Leavitt has usually been perceived as the villain of Secret Wives, and her drama with many of the girls was the inciting incident in the present’s first season.
Affleck not too long ago welcomed her third youngster along with her husband Zac.
Leavitt and Affleck join the beforehand introduced social media star Alix Earle and conservationist Robert Irwin, son of well-known Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. Usually, the ABC sequence casts round 12 or 13 stars to compete every season, although it is uncommon for them to disclose a lot of the cast this far prematurely.