“This Feels Like a Betrayal”: Fans Erupt After DWTS Cuts Beloved Pro from Season 34 Lineup

   

The full cast announcement is less than two months away.

DWTS Season 25 cast.

Dancing With the Starsfans have taken to Reddit to react to Parade's report that Artem Chigvintsev will not be part of Season 34.

"He won’t be on 'Dancing With the Stars' this season, but he is working by teaching at conventions and things like that," a source recently told Parade.

Fans seem to have mixed reactions to the report, but the vast majority seem to be okay with not seeing Chigvintsev back on the show.

"I’m not surprised tbh and not because of what happened in his personal life," one person wrote.

 

"I hope this is accurate. Regardless of what happened between him and Nikki it was time to let him go. His choreography was nothing to write home about, and he had zero emotional connection to his partners. I do think he was the beginning of the show starting to filter out their veteran pros for the next generation. Also it really isn't appropriate to ask a woman to dance with a man who was arrested for DV, regardless of if he's guilty or not," someone else said.

"Tbh I would rather have him than Gleb. Why is Gleb still there," a third comment read.

"I used to really admire him before the whole DV scandal came out… now I honestly don’t know what to feel. It’s hard to judge when we don’t know what actually happened. But I do respect that the other pros still hang out with him and his kid," a fourth Redditor added.

Fans weren't sure that Chigvintsev's status would be after he wasn't asked to be part of Season 33. After the cast announcement was set, Chigvintsev was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence following a disagreement with then-wife, Nikki Garcia.

Ultimately, Chigvintsev was not charged in the case, Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley said in a statement on September 24. However, his future on Dancing With the Stars was still uncertain.

The full cast for Season 34 will be revealed on Good Morning America on September 3.