When you’re a reality competition show that has aired for 31 seasons and has presented over 300 contestants, there’s bound to be a few lost in the mix, whether they were eliminated in week one or made it to the end of the show.
Dancing with the stars had notable celebrities like Alfonso Ribeiro, Donny Osmond, and most recently the Season 31 winner Charlie D’Amelio hit the dance floor and take home the mirror ball, but there were plenty of celebrity contestants who, despite their epic dance, are less remembered.
Bill Nye
bill nye, Better known to Millennials as Bill Nye, the science guy became famous for its successful educational program of the same name in the early 1990s. But many may not remember that this science enthusiast was also once a dancer on Season 17 of DWTS.
Nye was partnered with the year-old Pro Dancer Tyne Stecklein and only lasted three weeks on the show before being eliminated, but he memorably made his dancefloor debut with a cha-cha routine to “Weird Science.” Oingo Boingo
Carol Baskin
Everyone remembers the way King of the Tigers took over the world during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, but many may forget that one of the docuseries stars took the dance floor of Dancing with the Stars that same year.
Carole Baskin, best known as an animal activist, performed with a professional partner Pasha Pashkov, debuted on the dance floor with a paso double right through to the song “Eye of the Tiger”. survivor. The star danced to other cat songs like “What’s New, Pussycat?” from tom jones and “Circle of Life”. The Lion King before their elimination in week three.
Priscilla Presley
actress and business woman Priscilla Presley proved her late husband Elvis wasn’t the only one who could wiggle, rattle and roll when she competed in Season 6 of Dancing with the Stars in 2008.
Joined by pro dancer Louis van Amstel, Presley made it into week five of the competition after performing dances like mambo, foxtrot and rumba, but the two left the building when they were sadly eliminated before she had a chance to dance to any songs past Elvis.
Wayne Newton
If you ask your grandma about it Wayne Newton, She will say that he was a phenomenal singer of hits like “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” and “Danke Schoen” in the ’60s. But for DWTS fanatics, he was a contender in Season 5.
Along with DWTS legend Cheryl Burke, Newton memorably danced the quickstep to “Viva Las Vegas.” Elvis Presley regarding the singer’s notable stay in Vegas, but was eliminated in the third week of the competition after a tango to “La Cumparsita”. Gerardo Matos Rodriguez.
brandy
Whether you love her as a singer, as Karla in the slasher sequel, I still know what you did last summer or from her memorable portrayal of Cinderella alongside Whitney Houston in the 1997s Cinderella, You probably don’t remember brandy from her time with Dancing with the Stars.
The singer and actress competed with a professional partner in Season 11 Maxim Chmerkowski, He made it to the semi-finals of the competition and eventually finished fourth, despite being considered the front-runner by both viewers and judges thanks to dances such as the cha-cha, waltz and his final Argentine tango dance.
Riker Lynch
Riker Lynch is best known for his time as a band member R5 next to famous family member Ross Lynch, and most recently known as the performer of the runner-up song NBC’s American Song Contest, but not so long ago, the singer-songwriter turned professional dancer.
Lynch danced along So you think you can dance Contestant turned DWTS Pro Allison Holker where second place became his home again, losing the win to the Season 20 Champions Rumer Willis and Valentin Khmerkovsky, although they performed unforgettable dances like their week 5 Pirates of the Caribbean-thematic pasodoble.
Buzz Aldrin
Everyone knows Buzz Aldrin, whether it be as one of the first people to land on the moon or as the guy the Space Ranger originated from toy story is named after. And after such a distinguished career, the former astronaut swapped his spacesuit for dancing shoes.
In season 10 alongside other celebs like Nicole Scherzinger and niecy nash, Aldrin and Pro Partners Ashly DelGrosso-Costa danced on the show during the final season of DelGrosso-Costa, finishing in 10th place, but not before foxtrotting to “Fly Me To The Moon.” Frank Sinatra.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Many sports stars have come and gone and even won over the 31 seasons of Dancing with the Stars, but the greatest of them all must have been a basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar hit the dance floor during the 2018 spin-off Dancing with the Stars: Athletes.
Despite his extraordinary work on a basketball court, Abdul-Jabbar proved he should stick to the sport as he danced with pros Lindsey Arnold. He was eliminated in the second week of the competition after only dancing cha-cha and salsa. Despite being eliminated early, the basketball player made DWTS history as the first seven-footer to compete on the show.
Margaret Cho
comedy, drama, music, podcast hosting, LGBTQ+ advocacy; Margaret Cho did everything. And being no stranger to reality competition shows, Cho joined DWTS in 2010 alongside stars like Season 11 Florence Henderson, winner jennifer grey, and the first to be eliminated, David Hasselhof.
Cho had partnered with another LGBTQ+ and DWTS alum, Pro Dancer Louis van Amstel. The pair survived only the first three weeks of competition, dancing a Viennese waltz, a jive and a samba to low scores before being eliminated and finishing in 10th place.
Kim Kardashian west
Long before she was a pop culture princess, she was part of the famous but dysfunctional family the kardashians, Kim Kardashian west was a lesser-known influencer who worked her way up to superstardom when she took part in the show’s seventh season in 2008, just a year later Keeping up with the Kardashians Premiered.
Kardashian has teamed up Markus Ballas, who won the previous season with a celebrity partner Kristi Yamaguchi but ended up third with the reality TV star after just three dances compared to her brother Rob Kardashian, who competed in Season 13 and finished in second place.
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