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 ABC has officially announced the celebrity lineup for next month’s sixth cycle of Dancing With the Stars:

• Priscilla Presley, late of the King Elvis, and Dallas and the Naked Gun movies, will be the oldest competitor at age 62,.
• Adam Carolla a Howard Stern free-radio successor (and former Loveline and Man Show host)   
• Cristián de la Fuente -  former CSI: Miami lab tech   
• Shannon Elizabeth - American Pie exchange student   
• Steve Guttenberg 1980s box-office force   
• Mario R&B singer (”Just a Friend”)  
• Marlee Matlin Oscar winner (Children of a Lesser God)  
• Penn Jillette the non stop talker of magician team Penn and Teller  
• Monica Seles Tennis (grunter) legend   
• Jason Taylor handsome Miami Dolphins defensive end   
• Jaret Winokur Tony winner Marissa  (Hairspray)  
• Kristi Yamaguchi Olympic figure-skating champ

Eleven of the 12 pro dancers are returning vets of the show: two-time defending champ Julianne Hough, last seen hoisting the mirror ball with racer Helio Castroneves; two-time champ Cheryl Burke; Derek Hough; Anna Trebunskaya; Karina Smirnoff; Kym Johnson; Louis van Amstel; Jonathan Roberts; Edyta Sliwinska; Tony Dovolani; and Mark Ballas.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who took second place beside the Spice Girls’ Mel B last fall, is sitting out the new season, which launches Mar. 17. But he told TV’s Extra he’ll be back next season.

Filling the 12th and final pro dancer spot is Fabian Sanchez. Sanchez will be joined on his maiden voyage by Matlin. The other dance teams include: De la Fuente and Burke, Elizabeth and Derek Hough, Guttenberg and Trebunskaya, Mario and Smirnoff, Jillette and Johnson, Presley and Van Amstel, Seles and Marie Osmond survivor Roberts, Taylor and Sliwinska, Winokur and Dovolani, and Yamaguchi and Ballas. Hough will go for her third consecutive win alongside Carolla, the unnoted hoofer.

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