The 33rd season of “Dancing with the Stars” premieres tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC22, featuring a new all-star cast including Vermont’s Ilona Maher, the bronze medalist in women’s rugby at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Maher, the show’s first rugby player, is paired with Alan Bersten, a Latin ballroom dancer who won season 28 of DWTS with ‘The Bachelorette’ star Hannah Brown.

According to ABC, Maher and Bersten’s first dance will be a Cha Cha, performed to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”

Maher has been a social media sensation since returning from the Paris Olympics, appearing on talk shows and posing for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Other stars vying for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy include “Real Housewives” star Phaedra Parks, two-time Super Bowl champion Danny Amendola, former “Bachelor” star Joey Graziadei, actress Chandler Kinney and Anna Delvey, the infamous so-called “fake heiress” whose financial misdeeds and extravagant lifestyle inspired the Netflix show “Inventing Anna.”

Alfonso Ribeiro and co-host Julianne Hough return for the 33rd season, as do judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.

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