Whereas many Dancing With the Stars professionals and contestants select to lace up their dancing sneakers one last time for a batch of dwell exhibits, not each ballroom persona has been featured on the lineup.
On the heels of many DWTS seasons, the professionals hit the highway for a dwell tour with a choose crop of ex-mirrorball hopefuls.
“I believe performing in entrance of a dwell viewers is sort of a drug,” Gabby Windey, who was a finalist on season 31 and hosted the next tour, advised the Cincinnati Enquirer in February 2023. “However, sleeping on the tour bus is a problem. Not everybody has that drawback, however I do. Aside from that, it’s actually enjoyable.”
Season 33 winner Joey Graziadei, for his half, famous by way of Instagram in April 2025 that his favourite recollections have been “having the ability to share the stage” with the entire skilled dancers night time after night time.
“This was really a particular group of individuals and I can’t wait to see how every of you proceed to shine sooner or later,” Graziadei wrote. “The help that we felt all season was unbelievable and it was so wonderful to have the ability to tour across the U.S. and really feel the power and love head to head. I imply it once I say this was the expertise of a lifetime.”
Not each DWTS alum, nonetheless, has been invited to carry out throughout the dwell exhibits. Hold scrolling to learn their remarks about skipping the DWTS tour:
Rylee Arnold
Rylee Arnold and Harry Jowsey in season 32. Eric McCandless / ABC / Courtesy Everett Assortment
Professional Rylee Arnold abruptly left the spring 2025 exhibits after struggling an ankle harm.
“My physician didn’t OK me to get again to dancing proper now, and I cannot be returning for the extension of the tour, which is simply so unhappy,” Arnold stated in an April 2025 social media video. “I’m going to be resting and therapeutic right now to be sure that my ankle correctly will get healed and returns again to the way in which it was.”
She continued, “I’m unhappy I can’t do these final 9 exhibits for you guys, however I do know that I must take this time to heal, be sure my ankle will get again to the place it must be. Your whole guys’ love and help has meant absolutely the world to me and I can’t wait to see you guys once more and to get again dancing.”
Arnold returned for the following season of DWTS, the place she carried out with Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying. She subsequently opted to take a seat out of the 2026 tour.
“This 12 months, I needed to make the laborious choice to take a seat it out and deal with my well being, particularly with managing my Kind 1 diabetes, which will be tough on the highway,” Arnold, who was identified when she was 15 years previous, revealed by way of her Instagram Tales in October 2025. “I’m going to overlook it a lot, however I’ll positively be cheering everybody on and may’t wait to observe.”
Gleb Savchenko
Gleb Savchenko and Mel C in season 30. Christopher Willard / ABC / Courtesy Everett Assortment
Fellow professional Gleb Savchenko additionally determined to not go on tour in early 2026.
“It’s a transition. It’s good to have an amazing season. I’m not occurring tour. I’m gonna go see my children for a couple of weeks over the vacations,” Savchenko, whose two daughters dwell in Hong Kong with their mom, solely advised Us Weekly in October 2025. “I’m simply specializing in myself.”
Julianne Hough
Former mirrorball-winning professional Julianne Hough, the cohost of DWTS since 2023, was initially scheduled to carry out throughout a handful of 2024 dwell exhibits.
“I’ve been so wanting ahead to getting to attach with all our wonderful followers on the highway and carry out dwell alongside the DWTS Tour forged for choose dates,” she stated in a February 2024 social media assertion. “Nonetheless, resulting from a change in my manufacturing capturing schedule, a battle has come up. “I’ll now not have the ability to be part of the tour for my scheduled dates.”
Sasha Farber
Sasha Farber and Alyson Hannigan in season 32. Eric McCandless / ABC / Courtesy Everett Assortment
Sasha Farber, a former DWTS professional, revealed on a December 2024 episode of Joe Vulpis’ eponymous podcast that every tour was “so wonderful” to see how a lot the followers benefit from the competitors sequence. After doing “all of the excursions,” he opted to take a seat out of the winter 2025 tour.
“I wished to only emotionally have a break, and take a pause from the tour,” he defined. “I believe [on] this tour, they’ve their peeps. … The tour is so robust, the dancers are so robust [and] Mandy Moore, the choreographer, is on level. She is aware of precisely what the followers need and all the time delivers.”
Jenn Tran
Farber’s season 33 accomplice, former Bachelorette Jenn Tran, claimed weeks earlier that she wasn’t even requested to affix the tour.
“I obtained a name about [the] tour, and I gained’t be occurring tour, which is actually unhappy as a result of I actually wished to go,” Tran stated in a November 2024 Instagram video. “I felt like with tour, I used to be gonna have the ability to maintain onto this sense a bit of bit longer and maintain onto this dancing second that I’ve been having.”
Based on Tran, she “began sobbing” when she discovered that she was excluded from the forged record.
“You realize the saying, ‘Don’t cry as a result of it’s over. Smile as a result of it occurred.’ And it truly is true,” she concluded. “I actually did have the very best two months of my life dancing.”
As a substitute of Tran, the 2025 tour featured winner Graziadei and finalists Chandler Kinney, Ilona Maher and Stephen Nedoroscik.
