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.
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