by Ashley Thompson

Ever wanted to dance around the Griffith Observatory? Shoulda been a professional ballroom dancer.

It's Season 23 of Dancing With the Stars and Tom and Erin are back to host a new lineup of stars. Julianne, Len, Bruno and Carrie Ann are back as judges and three veteran pros are returning to make it the competition of the year.

Marilee and Derek - Jive - 27/40 - Marilu Henner you may know from Taxi but she's here to dance with Derek Hough. She's got the energy and facials for sure, and Derek seems to be really excited to be on stage again.

James and Sharna - Foxtrot - 31/40 - James Hinchcliffe is a racer driver and crash survivor. Like, 230 mph against a wall and big fire crash.

Calvin and Lindsay - Cha Cha - 26/40 - Also known as "Megatron", Calvin Johnson Jr. is a wide receiver. While his fancy footwork on the field is on point, those big feet may not fare so well on the dance floor.

Maureen and Artem - Viennese Waltz - 22/40 - McCormick is best known for being Marhsa Brady on the Brady Bunch. She wants this so much she is constantly in tears. And should we mention that meeting Babyface makes her weak in the knees? AND HER MOVIE MAMA EVEN COMES TO CHEER HER ON! So sweet.

Babyface and Allison - Foxtrot - 26/40 - Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds is a producer, songwriter and artist. C'mon, you know Babyface. We need to just point out that Allison has only taken one season off for the birth of her second child. Get it, girl!

Amber and Maksim - Foxtrot - 24/40 - Amber Rose is a former exotic dancer and probably best known for her shaved head and dating Kanye West.

Vanilla Ice and Witney - Cha Cha - 25/40 - Vanilla Ice is best known for sampling David Bowies "Under Pressure" and making bank off of it with "Ice Ice Baby". Reluctant to dance to his own song, he finally gives in and gives us 90's glory... word to your mother.

Jana and Gleb - Viennese Waltz - 27/40 - One Tree Hill alum and country artist Jana Kramer claims she can't dance but girl's got sexy down.

Jake and Jenna - Jive - 22/40 - Jake T. Austin is best known for Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place and being the voice of Diego on "Go Diego Go". Jenna exclaims her fandom but lovely enough they were born in the same year so is there a love connection in their future? According to Jake, hopefully.

Rick and Emma - Cha Cha - 20/40 - Rick Perry is the former Governor of Texas. Basically he's using Dancing With the Stars to prepare for his daughters upcoming wedding.

Terra and Shasha - Jive - 25/40 - Terra Jole is known as her role on Little Women LA, had a baby a little more than a month ago and is the first little person on any Dancing With the Stars anywhere. I can tell you right now I couldn't have done that a month after the birth of my child.

Ryan and Cheryl - Foxtrot - 24/40 - Ryan Lochte is best known as being an olympic swimmer with 6 gold medals. But you probably know him as the lie heard around the world recently in Rio. After tonight you'll know him as the DWTS star that got bum rushed on stage after his performance. Producers don't take the camera off of Carrie Anne during her critique and quickly cut to commercial, but Ryan is certainly unnerved.

Laurie and Valentin - Cha Cha - 31/40 - Laurie Hernandez should sound familiar to you because she just got back from Rio winning gold in women's gymnastics. Yeah, her. Gymnasts have always done well on DWTS, so we'll be watching this one.

There's a two night event next week so no one goes home until Tuesday.

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