DANCING With the Stars has not yet announced its cast for Season 33, but fans really want an Olympian to be on the show. Pro dancer Daniella Karagach revealed in an exclusive interview with The U.S.
Sun that one will definitely be on this season. There are rumors that Olympic athletes from the 2024 Paris Games will be asked to join, including rugby bronze medalist Ilona Maher, Pommel horse star Stephen Nedoroscik , and gymnast Jordan Chiles – especially after she had to endure the controversy surrounding her bronze medal . Daniella, 31, fueled that rumor even more by claiming that the show usually has one.
"I think there will definitely be someone from the Olympics just because if you look at Dancing With the Stars history, they usually do [include one]," she told The U.S. Sun.
“I don't know who it would be. Oh my God, it'd be so funny if it was the guy with the glasses [Stephen Nedoroscik]. But I literally don't know.
I feel like it's so unpredictable." READ MORE ON DWTS UP IN THE AIR However, Danielle doesn't know yet if she will be back for this season to even meet one of the Olympians, despite being featured in a promo video for Season 33. "It could take anywhere between two weeks before the show airs or three days.
It's hard to tell. We have no idea until the last second," she said. “I think they have a lot of things on their end they need to figure out first before they can even cast the dancers.
" Daniella first joined DWTS in 2020 as a troupe member. Most read in Reality She then won her second season as a pro when she was partnered with former basketball player, Iman Shumpert on Season 30. The Russian dancer was also partnered with rapper, Nelly , on Season 29 (3rd), fitness model, Joseph Baena on Season 31 (11th), and singer Jason Mraz , on Season 32, (2nd).
As she waits for a call from ABC, Daniella wonders “why anyone wouldn't want to be a part of it." “I feel like everyone would love to be a part of the show just because truly Dancing With the Stars, the way they treat us and the way they are with us is the best job in the world. Literally, the best job ever," she said.
The only confirmed returnees right now are co-hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro and judges Carrie Ann Inaba , Derek Hough , and Bruno Tonioli . DREAM PARTNERS If Daniella is asked back, she revealed two celebrities that she would love to be partnered with. I think there will definitely be someone from the Olympics just because if you look at Dancing With the Stars history, they usually do [include one].
“Well, originally it was Zac Efron because I feel like he did such a great job in the High School Musical movies," she said. “I feel like he'd be great..
. I just don't know if he'd ever do the show." "But I would love someone with some swag, like Kane Brown, maybe.
He's a country singer, so I feel like he'd be so fun," the dancer went on. "I don't remember where, but I saw a video of him just kind of dance..
.He just had so much swag and I was like, ‘That'd be so much fun.’" Daniella would also love to dance with Argentinian pro soccer player, Lionel Messi, but that's mostly because her husband is a big fan.
Her husband, Pasha Pashkov, has been a pro on DWTS since Season 28. "I think my dream would be Leo Mess, only because my husband's obsessed with him and he would be able to just say hi to him," Daniella revealed. The last 10 winners of Dancing with the Stars, and their partners, are: Season 22: Nyle DiMarco and Peta Murgatroyd Season 23: Laurie Hernandez and Val Chmerkovskiy Season 24: Rashad Jennings and Emma Slater Season 25: Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold Season 26: Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson Season 27: Bobby Bones and Sharna Burgess Season 28: Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten Season 29: Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev Season 30: Iman Shumpert and Daniella Karagach Season 31: Charli D'Amelio and Mark Ballas Season 32: Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy FROM DANCING TO DIAPERS Speaking of her husband, Daniella and Pasha welcomed their first child together last year.
Before "hopefully returning" to DWTS, the couple is focused on settling into their new home and giving their daughter, Nikita, 1, all the attention they can. “She is the cutest thing in the world..
. I'm obsessed with her. She is currently walking and running everywhere.
She got a taste for walking around two months ago and was a little scared to do so on her own. But now, you can't stop her,” Daniella told The U.S.
Sun. Nikita was born in May 2023, just months before Daniella returned for Season 32, and understands Russian. She told The U.
S. Sun that her daughter is her "father's twin," but has "100 percent of her mother's personality." They may have a future dancer on their hands as Nikita is “wiggling around and pointing her toes, and trying to lift her legs.
” Having a child, Daniella says, has only “amplified everything” in her 15-year relationship with her husband, whom she married in 2014. Once it comes time to compete against each other on DWTS, the couple "doesn't see each other as competition" since they continue to “help each other out.” "If he's in a pickle and he's like, 'I don't know what to do,' I help him.
If I'm in a pickle, he helps me. So we're constantly helping each other, which relieves a lot of stress," she insisted. Read More on The US Sun When asked if her goal is to win the Mirror Ball trophy again this season, Daniella shared, "I'm always wanting to win, but you know what? When you're on it, that's probably the last thing you're thinking about just because we're thinking about surviving.
" The new season of DWTS premieres on Tuesday, September 17, at 8 pm ET on ABC and Disney+ ..
