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. TF1’s flagship program, once threatened for lack of enthusiasm, enjoyed a second lease of life this year, the last edition having been marked by the coronation of singer Natasha St-Pier against comedian Inès Reg, against a backdrop 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. And the first two names made official by the channel are already causing a lot of talk. We might as well tell you that the 2025 season of Dancing with the stars promises to be sporty, since the first candidate revealed by TF1 is the swimmer Florent Manaudou. The one who again won a medal this summer at the Paris Olympics is launching a new challenge.
The champion 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.
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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 this week triggered strong reactions. At issue: comments deemed inappropriate that he made recently 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 that go.” Comments which shocked many Internet users, believing that the ex-footballer “participated in the cyberharassment of Elsa”.
“It’s sickening to have him participate!”, “I feel like there’s going to be a strange atmosphere this year,” we can 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 composition of the pairs and the details of this 14th season will soon be revealed by TF1.