Dancing With the Stars celebrated its twentieth anniversary on June 1, 2025, and it’s exhausting to consider how far the present has come. Along with how a lot the manufacturing worth, costumes, and dances basically have modified, the professional dancers have additionally remodeled fairly a bit since their first seasons on the present.
Whereas not one of the Season 1 execs are on the present anymore, there are such a lot of skilled dancers who turned staples through the years, a lot of whom are nonetheless a part of the forged right this moment. A number of of the professionals have gone on to change into celebrities in their very own rights, together with Derek Hough, Julianne Hough, and extra.
In honor of the milestone anniversary, we’re wanting again at how far a few of our favourite execs have come. Scroll all the way down to see then-and-now pictures of probably the most beloved execs from their first seasons of the present and right this moment.
Dancing With the Stars, Season 34, September 2025, ABC