"Dancing With The Stars" will have Karina Smirnoff for Season 21. The dancer has recently announced of her return to the realty dance show.
Us Weekly reports that the pro had previously announced that she would leave the ABC's reality show "Dancing With The Stars" in Feb. 2015. But after last season, she will be coming back to DWTS for season 21.
Looking back, the pro joined DWTS Season 3 in 2006. While in the reality show, she competed with various famous personalities like Sean Avery, Aaron Carter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mario Lopez, to name a few. When competing with J.R Martinez in season 13, they won the Mirrorball Trophy. She also finished several season ending a couple of 2nd places, and a third place.
TV Guide says that Karina Smirnoff left the show last season to concentrate on her other projects, like promoting her book entitled "We're Just Not That Into You: Dating Disasters from the Trenches" and also shooting the indie pic "Tango Shalom" wherein she is one of the cast.
Karina revealed in her interview with Entertainment Weekly that she was actually anxious not being able to dance for a season. She admitted that though she has other things to do in her life but not going back to DWST makes her feel like trying to see if she could walk with her own 2 feet. She said she missed being in the show.
Aside from Karina, EW says that other pros who are part of season 21 are Val Chmerkovskiy and Witney Carson. Chmerkovskiy who danced with Rumer Willis is the champ of season 20. The rest of the pros for season 21 are yet to be announced, but the showrunner says their name will be revealed this week. The dancers also do not know yet who they will be dancing with this coming season since the casting is still underway.