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"Dancing With the Stars" Announces New Cast

Three Real-Life Couples Will Face Off When the Competition Begins March 9

The coveted mirrorball trophy is up for grabs once again as 13 superstars prepare to team up with professional dancers and face off on television's hit ballroom competition, "Dancing With the Stars." Past seasons have given actors, a racecar driver and two disabled contestants an opportunity to samba, fox trot and tango their way to victory.

Find out the new cast of ABC's hit reality show.

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Season eight, which begins March 9, brings seven men and six women the chance to hoist the super-silvery prize above their heads. And for the first time three real-life couples will face-off on the dance floor.

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Ty Murray may be the King of the Cowboys, but will that make him the King of the Ballroom? The rodeo cowboy has two challenges on his way to the top spot: mastering his ballroom dances ... and his wife.

That's right. Murray will take on his wife, the singer Jewel, in this season's "DWS." Murray, a Phoenix native, is in the Guinness World Records and has held the World All-Around Rodeo championship title seven times.

He's used to bulls bucking, but how well will he handle the judges' critiques?

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