‘Dancing With the Stars’ host Tyra Banks gets a co-host

Alfonso Ribeiro arrives at the Disney/ABC 2018 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Ribeiro will join Tyra Banks to co-host "Dancing With the Stars" on Disney+ this fall. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

When “Dancing With the Stars” resumes this fall for season 31, Tyra Banks will have a co-host.

ABC announced yesterday that Alfonso Ribeiro, who won season 19 with dancer Witney Carson, will join the cast as co-host when the show moves to Disney+ this fall.

The cast for the new season will be revealed on Sept. 8 on “Good Morning America.”

“Good Morning America” reported that Ribeiro said, “‘Dancing with the Stars’ has been such an important part of my life for so many years, and I am ecstatic to officially re-join this tight-knit family as co-host.”

GMA also reported that Banks and Ribeiro have known each other for years. Banks said she has known him since she was 19. “Having such a fun-loving, longtime friend as co-host warms my heart. Bantering back and forth with him live is going to be so much fun!”

Banks appeared with Ribeiro in 1993 on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” She was Jackie Ames, a former girlfriend of Will Smith’s character.

It also was revealed that Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough will return as judges.

Disney+ streaming service is $7.99 a month or $79.99 for a year. A bundle with Hulu (no ads) and ESPN+ is $19.99 a year.

Alfonso Ribeiro, shown dancing with Witney Carson, busts out his trademark “Carlton dance” on a 2014 episode of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

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