The stars are dancing with Professors are waiting for the news just like us.

"Usually, once we have a list of professionals that will be on us at one point, we will have the opportunity to listen to who (in the show)," host Alphoso Ribeiro Has been mentioned exclusively Our weekly In September of 2025. "But it's never finalized, isn't it? It's always changed, and there were some pairs that were different three weeks ago (this year)."

According to Ribero, new contestants have signed in and show producers have continued to "developed" the casting as they match their pro choreographers rosters.

"You understand, 'Oh, actually, this pair is better than this pair' 'and they work on it just until they meet each other (stars and professionals) till the final day," Ribiro Show said the executives aimed at the executives Dina Katz, Conrad Green And Rob Mills "Always get it correctly" with partnership. "They discover it. I don't know how they do it, but they always put the right people together they can always understand they are the magical."

However, the last -minute matches can mean that professionals only learn about their slots in the season roster a few hours before the formal casting announcement.

Put scrolling for all things Dwts Professors say about the casting process:

Brandon Armstrong

Armstrong Season 34 learned two days before the Cast announcement She will dance with Fifth Harmony alum Lauren JuruguiThe

Armstrong says “I was actually walking in the middle of the road i Ours In September of 2025. "He's like that, 'I have got you partner' (he) who told me, and me was very excited.

Brandon's wife, Brily ArmstrongClaimed in a tiktok video that month She knew she would come back 34 for the season "by the end of July."

Brilli said, "It's been a few years where he received the call before and it was a few years of time where he received a lot of calls," said Brilli. "No one has promised to give a spot on the show. They have to get a celebrity (who) will be available for a large part of the year it is like three to four months, so it has to work on their schedule just. The pair is tied for the actual partnership. A large height (and) personality."

Jurgui learned for his part, in the same week 2025 - to attend New York a day before starting in New York Good morning america For the entire cast release.

Pasha

Pashkov said Ours That in June 2025 Professionals are in the dark For most of the casting process.

"Sometimes people think that we know (in advance cast) and we don't. When we find we find," he said A few months before being partner Daniel Fishel 34 for season. "A few days before you meet your celebrity, when you know if you are in a season."

John Johnson

Johnson published the Podcast "after Morning" in an episode of June 2025 Professionals have "different contracts".

"I can't talk for everyone, but if you do it in all ways in the end, you are getting paid the whole season, which is amazing," he said. "It has got a bonus on top of it you won you if you won a million dollars and it's not like splitting it with your partner you're you are just getting a nice trophy together."

Johnson also said that professionals do not find who their partners are until the first rehearsal.

Johnson said, "I think people always think we know who we are and we're keeping it a secret. They are not absolutely not they tell us," Johnson said. "They really don't want to know our cast. It gets a lot of leaks, but they want it so hush, hush as long as you enter and you meet your partner."

Sasha Farber

Farber and former Bachelorett Jane Train Their season is looking for 33 partnerships just 45 minutes before catching a flight in New York City GMA.

"I got a call, it was very early in the morning, 'you need to get on a flight in 45 minutes. And I was going down to the airport. I didn't have a ticket," Farber Stated Ours In September 2024The "I haven't even met him. I see him running in security i was like this I was like, 'Jenner is definitely good. I need to stay wherever he is going.'

Tran said on his behalf that he was crying in the (her) dressing room after him " After the final rose When the producers published the tapping he would have to get on a flight less than an hour later.

Riley Arnold

Riley, whose sister Lindsay Arnold He himself is a former proIn 2023 when he joined the show at the age of 18.

"The opportunities were coming forward in the autumn. I was going to live in UTA (in my city city) or going down to LA," he remembered "lightweights" Podcast In September 2024. "It was okay, like, 'I don't know what I am doing,' but I was expecting for the best."

Finally, Riley got a phone call from Casting Director Katz, who shared that he would be a pro on the show.

"Usually, when he calls, his means business," Riley said quietly. "It could have gone differently. ... he was, 'I am giving a place for you as a pro on the show.'

Every time, Katz did not share details about Riley's partner. She has been pair Harry Zaussie, Stephen Nedorosic And Scott WhingRespectively