The 14th season of Dancing with the Stars is being prepared at TF1. The first names of the 2025 casting have leaked, causing very contrasting reactions.
Dancing with the stars makes its comeback in 2025 for a 14th season. The flagship program of TF1, once threatened for lack of enthusiasm, experienced a second youth last year, the 2024 edition having been marked by the coronation of the singer Natasha St-Pier against the comedian Inès Reg, on background of tensions between the two finalists. The concept for DALS 2025 remains unchanged: celebrities will have to learn to dance alongside professionals and try to seduce the jury and the public with rhythms as varied as waltz, salsa or cha-cha-cha.
While TF1 is keeping for the moment the date of the return of DALS secret, the first information on the casting is starting to filter out. The latest names revealed to date are female names. Lénie Vacher, former participant of the Star Academy 2023 eliminated just before the semi-finals, was thus announced in DALS in December. This is also the case of the actress Charlotte de Turckheim, famous for her appearances in Les Sous-doués, La Croisière, or Mince là! Currently casting for the series That’s Paris! on France 2, she wants to take on a new challenge at almost 70 years old.
Dancing with the stars will also welcome a former Miss France this year. Another one. After Iris Mittenaere, Elodie Gossuin and Valérie Bègue, who have already set the track of DALSit is Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, who was announced for the casting by TF1. The one who returned her crown and sash in December was also surprised in the middle of the ceremony by the dancer Fauve Hautot, member of the Miss France 2025 jury, who proposed to her live and in front of millions of viewers to join DALS This year ! Faced with the positive response from Eve Gilles, she immediately wished “welcome to the adventure” to the one who always dreamed of participating in the show.
Two great athletes in Dancing with the Stars in 2025
Before these three candidates of Dancing with the starsthe first two names were made official by the channel between the end of November and the beginning of December. And we might as well tell you that the 2025 season of DALS promises to be sporty, since the first candidate revealed by TF1 is the swimmer Florent Manaudou. The one who was again a medalist last summer at the Paris Olympics had already participated in a bonus of DALS in 2014 for a dance. This time, he will try to shine throughout the competition, he who confided having “always loved dancing” and who wants to “set himself a personal challenge”. His arrival on the floor was welcomed by many viewers.
This is less the case for the other recruit revealed by TF1, who is also a great sportsman and even a world football champion: former defender Adil Rami, crowned with the French team in 2018. announcement of its participation in Dancing with the stars early December triggered strong reactions. At issue: comments deemed inappropriate that he had made on social networks about a controversy surrounding the couple formed by the YouTuber Michou and Elsa Bois.
The flagship dancer of DALS has been the subject of very virulent online harassment since mid-November, after the broadcast of a video where she is seen walking away from her partner to respond to a message on his phone. For the most malicious Internet users, it’s certain: Elsa Bois is hiding things from Michou and even cheating on him! And Adil Rami had to get involved by declaring: “She puts her hand, she hides… The fact that it’s live, maybe he has a lucky star so you can open it to him the eyes […]. I’m not letting this go.” Comments which shocked many Internet users, believing that the ex-footballer “participated in the cyberharassment of Elsa”.
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“It’s sickening to have him participate!”, “I feel like there’s going to be a strange atmosphere this year,” we could already read among the comments. The casting of Adil Rami is all the more surprising given that his ex-partner Pamela Anderson had herself participated in DALS in 2019, reaching the semi-final. Will production decide to pair him with Elsa Bois despite the controversy?
Dancing with the stars 2025 will complete this casting in the coming weeks and several other highly anticipated names are circulating. The tiktoker Bach Buquen, the sports journalist Nelson Monfort and the singers Maëlle and Julie Zenatti are expected. The compositions of the pairs and the details of this 14th season will soon be revealed by TF1.