{"id":909109,"date":"2026-09-28T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909109\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:20:09","slug":"dance-moms-stars-abby-lee-miller-cathy-nesbitt-reunite-for-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909109\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Moms Stars Abby Lee Miller, Cathy Nesbitt Reunite for New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/abby-lee-miller\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abby-lee-miller_1\" data-tag=\"abby-lee-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abby Lee Miller<\/a> and Cathy Nesbitt are ready to face off once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dance-moms\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dance-moms_1\" data-tag=\"dance-moms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dance Moms<\/a> stars will reunite for Abby vs. Cathy: Hit the 8, a new shortform series debuting in October on ShortVydz, which touts itself as \u201ca talent-forward new mobile-first streaming platform for shortform reality television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s one of two new shows debuting in October. The other, Crashing Out With Kail, goes behind the scenes with former 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom 2 reality star Kailyn Lowry as she embarks on her international Fatherless Behavior tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe shows unfold in \u201cfast-paced\u201d two-to-four-minute episodes that are designed for mobile viewing. Both shows debut Oct. 27 and will be available on ShortVydz.com and the ShortVydz app. They are the first original offerings for the new platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAbby vs. Cathy: Hit the 8 finds the two dance pros \u2014 they were seen as fierce rivals throughout the run of Dance Moms \u2014 on the same judging panel for the first time. They will be judging a dance competition against each other in a single-elimination bracket. A total of 128 dancers, ages 8 to 16, face off across seven rounds, with no host and no filter, just the panel and the verdict. One final dancer walks away with the title of winner and $10,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCrashing Out With Kail follows the reality star on her tour and promises to feature hotel room chaos, green room tension, business decisions made on the fly and a relationship playing out in real time while seven kids wait at home. Each stop on the tour plays as its own story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShortVydz is a subscription-driven streaming platform built specifically for shortform reality content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve spent our careers building shows around personalities people love,\u201d said ShortVydz co-founder Lindsay Schwartz. \u201cShortVydz gives those fans a new way to follow them, on the device they already have in their hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abby Lee Miller and Cathy Nesbitt are ready to face off once again. The former Dance Moms stars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[477474,64,63,477475,134,427],"class_list":["post-909109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abby-lee-miller","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dance-moms","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}