Dancing With the Stars' Season 35 debut may still be few months away, but it’s never too early to start rehearsing. (The celebs, not viewers.) The upcoming season already has a few celebrity contestants revealed to be competing in the ballroom later in the 2026 TV schedule, including Traitors and Love Island star Maura Higgins. She is preparing early, and longtime pro Val Chmerkovskiy is the pro already whipping her into shape.
It was previously announced that Higgins would be competing on Season 35 of DWTS, fresh off of The Traitors Season 4, where she was the runner-up to Rob Rausch. Higgins expressed interest in wantingTraitors co-star Mark Ballas as her pro partner, especially given his return to the ballroom last year, but it seems like another pro is filling that slot, at least in the video Higgins shared of herself dancing with Chmerkovskiy. They definitely looked pretty great together, as seen below:
