Before the new season of Dancing with the Stars premieres, we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Danica McKellar, who’ll be partnering up with Valentin Chmerkovskiy. DWTS is gearing up for another season of hot ballroom dancing and super-sizzle-sexy flare and will feature some great celebrity dancers. If you missed the announcement, please click here for the full roster of DWTS season 18 cast members. Continue reading for a bit more information on Danica!
“Danica McKellar, best known as Winnie Cooper on “The Wonder Years” and Elsie Snuffin on “The West Wing,” is a New York Times bestselling author with her groundbreaking books, Math Doesn’t Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, McKellar wrote a theorem that has been dubbed, “The Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem,” and was published in Britain’s esteemed Journal of Physics.
“Upon the release of Math Doesn’t Suck, Danica was celebrated as “Person of the Week” on World News with Charles Gibson for her advocacy of girls’ math education and being a positive role model for young girls. Danica also encourages a healthy balanced lifestyle, a part of that being yoga.
Be sure to tune in for the Dancing with the Stars season 18 premiere, which will air on Monday, March 17th (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Tom Bergeron hosts, with Erin Andrews stepping in as his new co-host. What are you looking most forward to this season?