Dancing With The Stars Cast Announced: From Tom Delay to Macy Gray

The cast for Dancing With the Stars’ ninth season has been announced and, with 16 contestants, is the show’s largest to date. They are:

• Tom DeLay: Former House Majority Leader known as “The Hammer”
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Tom DeLay is the name DWTS executive producer Conrad Green expected to have “most people splattering on their cornflakes” following this morning’s announcement on Good Morning America. How did it come about? “I know it will sound stupid, we just asked him,” Green tells EW. “We usually throw a few Hail Marys every season to people we don’t think are gonna say yes, but we think, oh, why not ask him. Occasionally, they come off. As it turns out, Tom DeLay likes to do a bit of the Two Step, he likes dancing with his wife. His daughter is a country dancing champion, I believe. He actually really enjoys dancing. Now I don’t know whether that translates into him being the next Mario Lopez on the dance floor, but I think he’s gonna come into it with a big smile on his face and probably surprise a lot of people cause he’s gonna embrace it so much.”

Is DeLay the dancer you’re most excited to see when DWTS returns with a special three-night premiere on Sept. 21? Vote in our poll after the jump. Will he make it to the three back-to-back double elimination episodes in Weeks 5, 6, and 7 (which host Tom Bergeron is already referring to as “the ballroom bloodbath”)? Who will take home the Season 9 trophy? Predictions welcome in the comments section.

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After spitting coffee all over my laptop I burst out laughing at this one. The son of a bitch will get booed off the stage! I'll bet good money he backs out before the first show because of the simple threat of getting booed off the stage.

So DWTS wants to have an indicted felon on their show. I'd watch just to watch the booing and laugh.

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to dance around the truth.

Right on the money and DUzy worthy

:applause:

another repuke on a repuke-loving network and will be introduced as honorable and upright.

The average American will have never heard of him anyway, and will be clueless as to his formidable scumbag credentials.

You can only watch one Week 1 performance, whose would it be?

Tom DeLay 12%

Donny Osmond 15%

Macy Gray 3%

Kelly Osbourne 5%

Debi Mazar 3%

Mya 8%

Melissa Joan Hart 12%

Michael Irvin 4%

Ashley Hamilton 1%

Aaron Carter 4%

Kathy Ireland 5%

Natalie Coughlin 5%

Louie Vito 1%

Chuck Liddell 12%

Mark Dacascos 8%

Joanna Krupa 3%

But it doesn't mean I'd like it.