The "All-Star" cast for season 15 of DWTS has been announced. The 12 confirmed contestants are:

Kelly Monaco (Season 1 winner)
Drew Lachey (Season 2 Winner)
Emmitt Smith (Season 3 winner)
Apolo Ono (Season 4 winner)
Helio Castroneves (Season 5 winner)
Shawn Johnson (Season 8 winner)
Joey Fatone (Season 4 runner-up)
Gilles Marini (Season 8 runner-up)
Kirstie Alley (Season 12 runner-up)
Melissa Rycroft (Season 8 finalist)
Bristol Palin (Season 11 finalist)
Pamela Anderson (Season 10 6th-place finisher)

A 13th contestant will be chosen on-line by the public. Vote @ the DWTS website thru 3pm (ET) August 24th for one of the following:

Carson Kressley (Season 13 8th-place finisher)
Sabrina Bryan (Season 5 7th-place finisher)
Kyle Massey (Season 11 runner-up)

All in all, not a bad cast . . Six former winners, eleven finalists overall and the obvious ratings ploy of Pamela Anderson . . was hoping to see Stacey Keibler again, but not to be.

the rest, meh

but at least nobody I hate

This will be a great season. And I hope the last spot goes to Sabrina Bryan.

Totally agree about Sabrina . . She really had some moves, but had too many better-known people to get by. As I recall, the judges were stunned when she was eliminated so early.

Frankly, I thought all the contestants should have come from the pool of 40+ finalists (so if Kyle gets in, that would be OK). Since they opted not to do that, Sabrina is certainly more deserving than Carson (or even Pamela for that matter)

Helio! the guy just danced in victory lane last week

Kelly Monaco and Shawn Johnson? Hot damn!

SOLD!

Will watch DWTS only for Kelly. Hope she goes far and win.

Bristol Palin? Really?

Shawn will get me to watch.

Doesn't change the fact that this show jumped the shark about 4 seasons ago.

It's an election year. Of course she's on it. (Although she's not too bad looking overall and has a good booty for spandex...) Still, ShawneyJ and Monaco are my pair.