Dancing With the Stars: Veep’s Matt Walsh ‘Taking a Pause’ From Competition Amid Ongoing WGA Strike — Will Season 32 Premiere Be Delayed?
Dancing With the Stars‘ Sept. 26 premiere is looking unlikely — and at least one celebrity intends to sit out the competition for the duration of the writers’ strike.
TVLine has confirmed that Veep vet Matt Walsh is “taking a pause from Dancing with the Stars until an agreement is made with the WGA.”
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Additionally, our sister site Variety is reporting that ABC is poised to delay Tuesday’s Season 32 premiere unless the writers’ strike is resolved by end of day, amid increasing pressure from striking WGA members for celebrities such as Walsh, Alyson Hannigan and Mira Sorvino to pull out of the competition.
Read Walsh’s full statement below:
“I am taking a pause from Dancing with the Stars until an agreement is made with the WGA. I was excited to join the show and did so under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement. This morning when I was informed by my union, the WGA, that it is considered struck work I walked out of my rehearsal. I have been and will always stand with my union members of the WGA, SAG and DGA. Beyond our union artists, I am sensitive to the many people impacted by the strike and I hope for a speedy and fair resolution, and to one day work again with all the wonderful people I met at DWTS who tolerated my dancing.“
TVLine has reached out to ABC for comment.
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