Center who won Paris Olympic bronze joins cast including convicted con artist Anna Delvey for 33rd season of TV hit
The US Olympic rugby sevens star Ilona Maher will compete on Dancing With the Stars, ABC announced on Wednesday, continuing a remarkable run of publicity coups for the 28-year-old from Vermont.
“My dance skills, I don’t think, are really up to par. My dance-with-my-friends vibe skills are OK, my ballroom is zero. Hopefully, having-fun-with-my-friends vibes can translate into this ballroom.” Maher also said she was looking forward to “the glitz and glam” of the show, because, “I love getting dressed up. It’ll be really fun to wear more sparkles and more sequins.”for the 33rd season of Dancing With the Stars showed Maher with her partner for the show, Alan Bersten. In one shot, both flexed their biceps.
A 5ft 10in, 200lb center, Maher is widely celebrated for her unabashed physicality on and off the field, her strong runs and stiff-arm dismissals of opponents garnering headlinesMaher took up rugby at high school in Vermont then won three US national titles with Quinnipiac University, from Connecticut. She first played sevens for the US in 2018 and has been to the Olympics twice.
She also said: “If my cellulite was lower in that perfect range, I wouldn’t be doing what I could do. I wouldn’t be that powerful for it I just really think sports have been so helpful.”she was “so excited” to be “led by my amazing dance partner”. Bersten said, “So grateful to be doing this with Ilona Maher. Let’s go!”
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