Simone Biles, Nancy Kerrigan compete on 'Dancing with the Stars'

By Gianluca Platania, gianluca at Flickr, from Torino (Turin), Italy (Nancy Kerrigan) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons — American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, intevista (interview) in Piazza San Carlo, Torino (Turin), Piedmont, Italy. Photo by Gianluca Platania, gianluca at Flickr, from Torino (Turin), Italy (Nancy Kerrigan) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Simone Biles, Mr. T, Charo and figure skating silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan are among the 12-member cast announced Wednesday for the spring season of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

The cast also includes the show’s first former Major League Baseball player, recently retired and well-traveled catcher David Ross, dance-pop star and “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” cast member Erika Jayne, Normani Kordei of the girl group Fifth Harmony and Nick Viall from “The Bachelor” franchise.

The other cast members for the series’ 24th season are NFL running back Rashad Jennings, actress Heather Morris (“Glee”), former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Chris Kattan and bull-rider-turned-fashion-model Bonner Bolton.

The spring season of “Dancing with the Stars”‘ will begin March 20 with the series’ 400th episode.

The announcement of the cast was made on “Good Morning America.”

—City News Service

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