In what should come as no surprise, Tonya Harding will be one of the celebrities competing on this season’s all-athlete edition of “Dancing With the Stars.”
You had to see this one coming. Harding, best known for her calamitous rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan before and during the 1994 Winter Olympics, re-surfaced on the pop-cultural radar last year with the release the Oscar-nominated film, “I, Tonya.”
Kerrigan competed on season 24 of “DWTS,” but failed to crack the top five finishers.
Reports have it that 2018 Winter Olympians Adam Rippon, a figure skater, and Jamie Anderson, a snowboarder, will also be part of the cast.
The charismatic Rippon became an Olympic darling as he helped the U.S. win a bronze medal in the team figure skating competition in South Korea. Anderson won gold in the women’s slopestyle competition and silver in big air.
Athletes, including Bay Area figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, have often been competitors on the reality show. The full cast of “Dancing With the Stars: Athletes” will be announced on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on April 13.
