‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2015: Rumer Willis One to Watch in Season 20 Premiere
Rumer Willis leads the pack in the season 20 premiere of “DWTS.”
— -- The twentieth season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” competition premiered Monday night with Rumer Willis emerging the strongest of 12 contenders for the mirror ball trophy.
Among the new celebrity cast are TV icon Suzanne Somers, music great Patti LaBelle, football player Michael Sam, "Shark Tank" star Robert Herjavec and U.S. Army veteran Noah Galloway, a double amputee.
Each star and his or her pro partner danced either the cha cha, foxtrot or jive before judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough (Derek Hough’s sister), Bruno Tonioli, and the panel’s head judge, Len Goodman.
The couple with the lowest combined total of judges’ scores and viewer votes will be eliminated from the competition on March 23.
This is the 10th year of the show. According to its website, some couples' rehearsals will be livestreamed through “Dancing With the Stars”: All Access.
This year, the winners of the competition will receive a new golden mirror ball. The previous trophy was silver.
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