“Dancing With the Stars” is back with its milestone 20th year. Season 34 kicked off on Tuesday night with returning hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, and judges Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough. Carrie Ann Inaba announced earlier in the day that she would be unable to attend due to illness.
The premiere kicked off with an opening dance, “Kill the Lights” by Whitney Myer, choreographed by Ray Leeper. The all-new troupe also took the stage for a dance to Tate McRae’s “Just Keep Watching.” The new troupe includes Carter Williams, Onye Stevenson, Jaxon Willard and Hailey Bills — Jenna Johnson’s cousin.
80 minutes into the episode, Ribeiro announced Monday’s episode surpassed the number of voters from the Season 33 premiere. By the end, he shared that the amount of votes doubled last year’s premiere.
The final dance of the night was Robert Irwin and Witney Carson, a routine that Hough said was the best week one dance he’s ever seen. (As a reminder, Hough took home the mirror ball trophy with Irwin’s sister, Bindi.)
Irwin landed at the top of the leaderboard, tying with Whitney Leavitt with a score of 15. In a strange turn of events, both Hough and Tonioli held up 7s for Leavitt, but it was later revealed that Tonioli actually locked in an 8, which gave her a 15, instead of a 14.
While there was no elimination during the premiere, the votes from the first two weeks will be combined with both weeks of judges’ scores to determine which two couples go home next week in a double elimination.
Scroll down for all the dances and the judges’ scores from week one:
