A DWTS contestant made a shocking admission about their drug addiction. They credited drugs for helping their career take off. Keep reading for all the details. Plus, find out everything about the ABC reality competition’s upcoming birthday special.
Dancing With The Stars Turns 20 With Special Celebration, Details
No one expected DWTS to last for two decades when it premiered in 2005. Soap star Kelly Monaco won the first season. ABC is bringing out the big guns to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary next week.
Tom Bergeron, who was fired in 2020 from his hosting job, returns in a special way. Former pro and current judge Derek Hough was tasked with choreographing an opening number that paid tribute to the show’s history. Several OG dancers return for the opening, including Alec Mazo, Ashly DelGrosso, Louis van Amstel, Jonathan Roberts, Charlotte Jorgensen, and Edyta Śliwińska. The network plans to pay tribute to former contestants the show has lost over the years.
But perhaps the biggest twist of all is that for the first time ever, the remaining Season 34 contestants have to take the dance floor without their pro partners. They will reportedly dance with former champions for a special number.
The “20th Birthday Party” airs on Tuesday, November 11.
DWTS Star Makes Shocking Drug Addiction Confession
While past and present stars are expected to return for the special, fans won’t see Brooks Nader. She was a contestant on Season 32. Her on-screen partnership with Gleb Savchenko led to a real-life fling that ended badly.
The model recently opened up to Bustle about her ongoing drug addiction. She admitted on her reality show in September that she was “micro-dosing” the weight loss medicine GLP-1. However, her addiction has gotten worse since then.
She took more of the controversial weight loss medication ahead of a photo shoot with Maxim magazine because she knew she would be nearly naked on the cover.
“I’m still on it. It’s a crutch for me, too. It’s not healthy. I should get off it; I’ll be honest about that,” she told the outlet. But she credited the weight loss drug for helping her modeling career take off.
Brooks Nader reportedly quit Tulane University in New Orleans, Georgia, in 2017 to pursue modeling full-time. But she wasn’t booking any gigs.
“The facts are that when I started GLP-1, my career took off. I’m not saying it’s OK. I’m not saying it’s right,” she said. The DWTS alum added, “I think everybody is different — but I lost 30 pounds, and I booked all the jobs.”
She admitted that she was ashamed of her addiction to the weight loss drug but didn’t share plans to stop using it. Her admission was one of the first addressing an addiction to the weight loss drug that’s swept through Hollywood in the last few years. Share your reaction in the comments.
Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger