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Dancing With the Stars has officially found its new, well, star.

The ABC reality competition series’ search for a fresh season 35 cast member came to an end during DWTS: The Next Pro‘s season one finale Aug. 31 as finalists Selena Hamilton, AJ Pritchard and Adele Zaikman found out their fates.

When it came time for host—and season 34 champion—Robert Irwin to announce which hopeful was crowned the winner by judges Mark Ballas and Shirley Ballas, it was Adele whose fancy footwork earned her a spot on the forthcoming season of the flagship series.

“I just feel like this is a celebration of all the sacrifices that I’ve done,” Adele, a Blackpool Dance Festival champion, said following her win. “It’s just like a big ‘I made it’ moment.”

For his part, AJ was the runner-up, while Selena came in third place.

Earlier in the finale, guest judge Derek Hough was in awe at Adele’s skill.

“Adele, you could just walk across the floor and you would be captivating,” he said. “If you became a pro, you wouldn’t just fit in; you would elevate the rest of the Dancing with the Stars cast. I really believe that.”

Adele will now join the season 35 cast of Dancing With the Stars, and her celebrity partner will be revealed Sept. 2, along with the rest of the cast.

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Heading into the Next Pro finale, it was anyone’s game following a season of show-stopping stunts, killer choreography and unforgettable performances.

After nine emotional eliminations, only AJ, Adele, Selena and Allen Genkin remained. But after giving it his all during a jive performance with Witney Carson, Allen was sent home on Aug. 24 just one week prior to the finale episode.

And while Allen won’t be salsa-ing with a celebrity partner when season 35 premieres next month, he’ll forever treasure the advice he received throughout the experience, not to mention the lifelong friendships he formed.

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“I’m feeling really grateful and blessed to be a part of Dancing with the Stars,” Allen said in an Instagram video posted Aug. 25. “I’m going to take this opportunity to grow as a choreographer, to grow as a dancer, to grow as a leader, to grow as a person. That’s the whole beauty of it all.”

The So You Think You Can Dance? alum also shouted out his fellow season one contestants, noting “we’ve become a big family.”

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Allen concluded, “This is not the last you guys have seen me, for sure.”

Don’t miss the Dancing With the Stars season 35 premiere Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m. on ABC.

In the meantime, keep reading for surprising BTS secrets about the making of the show.

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How Much Do the Celebrities Get Paid to Be on Dancing With the Stars?Citing multiple sources, Variety reported in 2019 that Dancing With the Stars contestants make $125,000 for the rehearsal period and first two weeks of the show. If they progress beyond that point, the outlet continued, they earn more money each week. At the time, sources told the publication stars could earn a maximum of $295,000.However, Bobby Bones said he made more than this when he won season 27 with Sharna Burgess in 2018.”That show pays OK,” the radio personality said on a Sept. 2025 episode of Jason Tartick‘s podcast Trading Secrets. “Like, first episode, no money. Second episode, $10,000. I think it’s like, $10,000, $10,000, $20,000, $20,000. It ends up being $50,000 an episode if you last.”Also receiving a base salary of around $110,000, Bones continued, “I ended up making close to $400,000 from that show.”ABC has not publicly confirmed any of these figures.

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What Do the Pros Get Paid on Dancing With the Stars?Similarly, little has been shared publicly about how much the pros get paid. But as with the contestants, it seems like the longer they’re on the show, the more money they can make.But even if a pro is eliminated in the first round, they’re not leaving the ballroom empty-handed.”You’re guaranteed until a certain amount of weeks,” Jenna Johnson said on a June 2025 episode of Kelly Stafford and Hank Winchester‘s podcast The Morning After. “I think there’s different contracts though. I can’t speak for everybody.”

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Do Pros Get Paid More If They Win Dancing With the Stars?Apparently not.While Johnson—who won season 26 with Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, as well as season 33 with The Bachelor‘s Joey Graziadei—says the pros don’t get a larger paycheck if they take home what is now called the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy, she noted there’s still an incentive to make it to the finale (besides bragging rights, of course).”If you make it all the way to the end, you’re getting paid the whole season, which is amazing, and you get a bonus on top of that for making it to the finale,” she explained on The Morning After. “If you win, it’s not like you win a $1 million and split it with your partner. You’re just getting a cute trophy together.”

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Do the Troupe Members Get Paid as Much as the Pros on Dancing With the Stars?That doesn’t appear to be the case.On a 2022 episode of Trading Secrets, Lindsay Arnold recalled how her salary was cut “more than in half” when she was demoted from pro to troupe member.

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How Are Pros and Celebrities Paired Together on Dancing With the Stars?The pros get little input when it comes to being matched with a celebrity.”You get no say,” Lindsay said on a May 2025 episode of Maggie Sellers‘ Hot Smart Rich podcast. “It’s very much just, ‘Here’s your partner. Make it work.'”In fact, Jenna said the pairing is often a secret until the last minute.”They really want to keep it a secret until you meet them live,” Jenna said on The Morning After. “They want that genuine reaction. So I think people always think we know who we have and we’re keeping it a secret. Absolutely not. They do not tell us. They really don’t even want us to know the cast. It gets leaked a lot, but they want it very hush-hush until you walk in and meet your partner.”As for what the Dancing With the Stars team looks for when making these matches?”It’s based on height, build and personality and compatibility,” former showrunner Rob Wade told E! News in 2015. “We don’t pair people who aren’t going to get on. It’s too intense. It’s not like The Bachelor or something, we couldn’t do that. That would just be miserable experience for the celebrity, for us and the viewer. You don’t want to see two people who don’t like each other and, quite frankly, we have made that mistake pairing people up who didn’t get on so well.”

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How Often Do the Pros and Celebrities Practice on Dancing With the Stars?Put simply, a lot.”Every day we have four-hour rehearsals,” Rylee Arnold, who was partnered with Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik on season 33, shared on a September 2024 episode of the Lightweights Podcast With Joe Vulpis. “It’s either 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m.”But the work doesn’t stop once the rehearsal wraps. Rylee noted she might then meet with producers or the creative team, work on choreography or study dance videos.”Literally my whole life is devoted to it,” she continued, “but it’s my passion and it’s what I love. So, it makes me so happy.”Indeed, it’s a no-days-off kind of gig.”We have our show day on Tuesday and then it’s Wednesday to Sunday, straight rehearsals,” Rylee added. “And then Monday we have camera blocking and then Tuesday’s show day again.”

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Do the Pros Get to Pick the Songs Each Week for Their Dance With Their Celebrity Partner?”Mostly yes,” Emma Slater and Britt Stewart revealed in a September 2025 Instagram video, “though it’s a collaboration with producers.”

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What’s the Process Like for Making the Costumes for Dancing With the Stars?If you thought the quickstep was fast, just wait until you hear about the pace of the costume department.”We meet with the set and lighting designers, dancers and talent and create a story [for each pair],” costume designer Daniela Gschwendtner told TV Insider back in 2017. “Then we sketch out ideas. We have five days, max, to make all the outfits. That’s half a day per costume, not including all the rhinestones. The fitting and trimming we do later. We have about 20 people in our department and then we have a separate tailor shop. It’s a big enterprise.”In fact, costume designer Steven Norman Lee said pairs usually try on their costumes for the first time just hours before showtime. And while the department “might use a pair of pants again for the boys,” he continued, everything is generally made custom each week.As Gschwendtner added, “We do reuse things for group numbers or promo shoots, but not for the competition. We don’t reuse things unless there’s a specific reason to do so. We try to keep everybody fresh and new in something different every week, so it stays interesting.”

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