'Dancing With the Stars' Season 19: 'Switch-Up' Twist Will Be Back; Tony Dovolani Would 'Vote Against' It [VIDEO]
The controversial Switch-Up twist is back for Season 19 of ABC's Dancing With the Stars, and the pro dancers are very divided about it.
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Along with the Good Morning America announcement Wednesday revealing which pros would be participating in this fall's edition of DWTS, it was also revealed that the Switch-Up twist would be back. This was a twist enacting in Season 18 where the celebrities were forced to work with a different pro partner during one week of competition.
Before the twist was announced to be returning again for Season 19, Wetpaint Entertainment spoke with dancers Peta Murgatroyd and Tony Dovolani at their recent performance of SWAY: A Dance Trilogy. While Murgatroyd was positive about the twist, Dovolani is still not big on it.
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"I would want to do it again only if they don't change partners for the rest of the time," Murgatroyd admitted. "[Last season] we were all freaking out and thinking we we were going to be stuck with those partners, so we were all so against it, but now we love it."
Dovolani said that he would probably "vote against" bringing the twist back.
"Obviously it threw a wrench in [NeNe's and my] relationship, and people took it and made a lot more of it than it was," he explained. "We're friends still to this day. She'll text me almost once a week. So, that tells you right there that fight wasn't really that big."
Murgatroyd and Dovolani will both be returning alongside Derek Hough, Cheryl Burke, Val Chmerkovskiy, Karina Smirnoff, Mark Ballas, Emma Slater and Witney Carson. Joining this season for the first time are Artem Chigvintsev, Allison Holker and Keoikantse Motsepe.
Dancing With the Stars Season 19 is set to premiere Monday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
