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Dancing with the Stars contestants are preparing to have fun the show’s twentieth birthday with some acquainted faces.

The last seven contestants – Robert Irwin and Witney Carson, Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas, Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy, Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten, Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa, Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach, and Andy Richter and Emma Slater – might be battling it out to get to the semifinals, and it also occurs to be the show’s twentieth birthday. To have fun the big day, viewers will reunite with six former champions.

Each champion might be assigned a couple to dance half of the routine. The celebrities will dance without their skilled companions, instead becoming a member of forces with a returning Mirrorball champion to carry out a Quickstep, Viennese Waltz or Jive.

The winner of each relay will earn two bonus factors apiece.

Some viewers had been left confused when they seen only six champions had been back and not seven. Whitney and Mark acquired immunity and is not going to have to take part in the relay dances. They routinely acquired two bonus factors as half of their immunity.

Despite Whitney and Mark’s absence, the show must go on. Alix Earle might be teamed up with Season 34 Champion Joey Graziadei, Andy Richter and Season 29 Champion Kaitlyn Bristowe, Dylan Efron and Season 20 Champion Rumer Willis, Elaine Hendrix and Season 24 Champion Rashad Jennings, Jordan Chiles and Season 4 Champion Apolo Anton Ohno, and Robert Irwin with Season 32 Champion Xochitl Gomez.

The “20th Birthday Party” episode will also characteristic a visitor look by former host Tom Bergeron. Dancing with the Stars is presently hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough. They have been co-hosting the show since season 32, which started in 2023 after Tyra Banks left the show to focus on her business ventures in 2022. She hosted the show for three seasons beginning in 2020.

The show, which first aired in 2005, will take a look back at its most memorable dances and moments.