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DENVER, CO - AUGUST 1:  Danika Worthington - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)The Know is The Denver Post's new entertainment site.
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Getting your player ready...

A former Denver Broncos player is about to take his moves from the field to the stage for the 27th season of “Dancing With the Stars.”

Now-retired outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware announced that he was joining the show’s lineup on Twitter Wednesday morning, dancing alongside Lindsay Arnold.

Ware was with the Broncos when the team won Super Bowl 50. He retired in 2017.

The show’s two-night premiere starts Sept. 24. He joins other stars like “The Bachelorette’s” “Grocery Store Joe” Amabile, “Harry Potter’s” Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood and “The Duke’s of Hazzard’s” John Schneider.

The rest of the contenders are:

  • Bobby Bones, country music radio personality
  • Juan Pablo DiPace, “Mamma Mia!” actor
  • Milo Manheim, “Zombies” actor
  • Alexis Ren, model
  • Danelle Umstead, Paralympic adaptive skier
  • Mary Lou Retton, former Olympic gymnast
  • Nancy McKeon, “The Facts of Life” actree
  • Nikki Glaser, comedian
  • Tinashe, R&B musician

 

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