{"id":148762,"date":"2025-09-16T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148762\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:06:06","slug":"carrie-ann-inaba-to-miss-dancing-with-the-stars-season-34-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148762\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Ann Inaba To Miss Dancing With The Stars Season 34 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe ballroom will be without one familiar face for the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dancing-with-the-stars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancing-with-the-stars\" data-tag=\"dancing-with-the-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing with the Stars<\/a> Season 34 premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLongtime judge <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/carrie-ann-inaba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carrie-ann-inaba\" data-tag=\"carrie-ann-inaba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Ann Inaba<\/a> will miss the first show due to illness, she revealed Tuesday morning on her social media. Sources tell Deadline that there will be no replacement judge in Inaba\u2019s place, meaning the Season 34 contestants will only hear from judges Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI wanted to share that I will not be at the show tonight as I am feeling quite under the weather. I\u2019m resting up and can\u2019t wait to be back next week in good health,\u201d Inaba wrote in her post. \u201cIn the meantime, I wish all the contestants the very best of luck. I\u2019ll be cheering you on from home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe competition series returns for its milestone 20th anniversary on September 16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> unveiled the full cast, which includes The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt, Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui, Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying, Reality TV star (and brother to Zac Efron) Dylan Efron, Olympic gold medalist Jordan Chiles and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-reveal-season-34-2025-1236504833\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the full cast list and their pro dancing partners here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to the three returning judges (sans Inaba for night one), Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough will host once again this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDWTS\u00a0will simulcast live on ABC and Disney+ and will be available the next day on Hulu. The show is produced by BBC Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ballroom will be without one familiar face for the Dancing with the Stars Season 34 premiere. Longtime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2086,49,48,79152,65324,75],"class_list":["post-148762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abc","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carrie-ann-inaba","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}