The 14th season of Dancing with the Stars is being prepared at TF1. The main names of the 2025 cast are known, the announcement of the broadcast date is imminent.
Dancing with the stars makes its comeback in 2025 for a 14th season. The flagship program of TF1, once threatened for lack of enthusiasm, experienced a second youth last year, the 2024 edition having been marked by the coronation of the singer Natasha St-Pier against the comedian Inès Reg, on background of tensions between the two finalists. The concept for VALLEY 2025 remains unchanged: celebrities will have to learn to dance alongside professionals and try to seduce the jury and the public with rhythms as varied as waltz, salsa or cha-cha-cha.
While TF1 should very soon reveal the date of the return of VALLEYalways kept secret, the first information on the casting is growing week after week. Four new names have been revealed since January 1. And we know, TF1 likes nothing more than to retrain its candidates in its wild dance program. The channel therefore recruited the emblematic adventurer of Koh Lanta Claude Dartois in this casting of Dancing with the stars 2025, he who already has 4 adventure shows under his belt on the front page, with 4 finals to boot. Claude holds the absolute record for individual events won in the history of the game with 22 successes and 4 times on the posts. But not sure that this makes him a great dancer…
Among the recent candidates announced for Dancing with the starswe also find Nelson Monfort, emblematic figure of sports journalism, regularly cited as the French people’s favorite media personality. Still in the front row during the last Olympics, will he be as comfortable on a dance floor as the figure skaters on the ice? The singer Julie Zenattirevealed at the age of 16 by the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, also completed the casting this week. After a 24-year career, 8 albums (including 6 gold records) and a series of tours, VALLEY will be an opportunity to show his talents on stage… and perhaps to do a little promotion for his new album, “Le chemin”, announced in April.
But another singer, Junglewill also be on the dancefloor. At only 16 years old, he is already a complete artist. Author, singer but also composer revealed in 2023 with the single “Petit Génie”, he has built a solid reputation on social networks and even won the “social hit” prize at the last NRJ Music Awards.
Three great athletes in Dancing with the Stars in 2025
The last candidate of Dancing with the stars 2025 announced by TF1 in January is of a completely different caliber. A footballer with 50 caps for the French team, he won the World Cup in 1998 as well as Euro 2000, in addition to 6 national and European titles with the Chelsea club. The front page decided to make people dance Franck Leboeufretired from football among the most media and above all one of the most emblematic French defenders of his generation. Since the end of his career, the player has worked as a consultant (notably for competitor M6) and has played many games off the field, from Fort Boyard et Mask Singer. He also took drama classes in the United States before appearing in a few films and numerous theater plays. An experience which, we hope, will be very useful to him.
Before these candidates, the first names of Dancing with the stars had been made official by the channel between the end of November and the end of December. And we might as well tell you that the 2025 season of VALLEY promises to be sporty, since the first candidate revealed by TF1 was the swimmer Florent Manaudou. The one who was again a medalist last summer at the Paris Olympics had already participated in a bonus of VALLEY in 2014, time for a dance. This time, he will try to shine throughout the competition, he who confided having “always loved dancing” and who wants to “set himself a personal challenge”. His arrival on the floor was welcomed by many viewers.
This is less the case for the other recruit revealed by TF1, who is also a great footballer and a former defender of the Blues and even a world football champion like Frank Leboeuf: the former defender Fair Ramicrowned with the French team in 2018. The announcement of his participation in Dancing with the stars early December triggered strong reactions. At issue: comments deemed inappropriate that he had made on social networks about a controversy surrounding the couple formed by the YouTuber Michou and Elsa Bois.
After the Inès Reg case, new scandal in perspective in DALS 2025
The flagship dancer of VALLEY was the subject of very virulent online harassment in mid-November, after the broadcast of a video where she was seen walking away from her partner to respond to a message on his phone. For the most malicious Internet users, it’s certain: Elsa Bois was hiding things from Michou! And Adil Rami had to get involved by declaring: “She puts her hand, she hides… The fact that it’s live, maybe he has a lucky star so you can open it to him the eyes […]. I’m not letting that go.” Comments which shocked many Internet users, believing that the ex-footballer “participated in the cyberharassment of Elsa”.
“It’s sickening to have him participate!”, “I feel like there’s going to be a strange atmosphere this year,” we could already read among the comments at the end of the year. The casting of Adil Rami is all the more surprising given that his ex-partner Pamela Anderson had herself participated in VALLEY in 2019, reaching the semi-final. Will production decide to pair him with Elsa Bois despite the controversy?
A former Miss France, an actress, a former Star Ac…
At the end of the year, Lénie Vacherformer participant of Star Academy 2023 eliminated just before the semi-finals, was announced in VALLEY. This is also the case for the actress Charlotte of Turckheimfamous for his appearances in Les Sous-doués, La Croisière, or Mince là! Currently casting for the series That’s Paris! on France 2, she wants to take on a new challenge at almost 70 years old.
Finally, Dancing with the stars will also welcome a former Miss France this year. Another one. After Iris Mittenaere, Elodie Gossuin and Valérie Bègue, who have already set the track of VALLEYIt is Eve GillesMiss France 2024, who was announced for casting by TF1. The one who returned her crown and sash in December was also surprised in the middle of the ceremony by the dancer Fauve Hautot, member of the jury of Miss France 2025, who proposed to her live and in front of millions of viewers to join DALS This year ! Faced with the positive response from Eve Gilles, she immediately wished “welcome to the adventure” to the one who always dreamed of participating in the show. The compositions of the pairs and the details of this 14th season will soon be revealed by TF1.
