‘Dancing With the Stars’ Caps Off Season 35 Premiere With the Female Celebrities and an Elimination: See the Scores, Who Went Home

[This story contains spoilers from the season 35 premiere of Dancing With the Stars.]

It’s ladies’ night on Dancing With the Stars, as the female celebrities are hitting the ballroom for the first time.

Season 35 of DWTS began with a special two-night premiere split by gender; Tuesday night saw the eight male stars perform, while Wednesday night was reserved for the women.

Coming off season 34, the cast is full of reality stars, Olympians and (ABC) television stars a plenty. For both nights of the premiere, stars danced to a No. 1 song from the year they were born, and one celebrity will be eliminated each night.

Competing on Wednesday night are The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Tatyana Ali; celebrity chef and Food Network host Giada De Laurentiis; The Rookie and Step Up star Jenna Dewan; Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn; reality star (Love Island, The Traitors) Maura Higgins; Summer House star Ciara Miller; Love Thy Nader reality star Sarah Jane Nader; and 10 Things I Hate About You actress Julia Stiles.

The Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron; Paralympic gold medalist Ezra Frech; “Hanson” band member Taylor Hanson; Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt’s husband Conner Leavitt; Savannah Bananas baseball star Jackson Olson; Jimmy Kimmel Live! star Guillermo Rodriguez; Grey’s Anatomy actor Harry Shum Jr.; and influencer/comedian Connor Wood all competed on Tuesday night.

Harry finished at the top of the leaderboard amongst the men, earning a 21/30 with his partner Jenna Johnson. Conner Leavitt became the first eliminated celebrity at the end of Tuesday’s premiere episode. He was partnered with Adele Zaikman, the first-ever winner of Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro.

Just ahead of Wednesday night’s episode, preliminary Nielsen ratings showed that the first DWTS premiere episode drew 6.67 million viewers, marking a 24 percent increase from last year’s debut (5.38 million). The season 35 premiere also marked the most-watched premiere since season 29 in September 2020.

Voting online via ABC’s website during the first premiere episode on Tuesday night also crashed during the live show; because of the crash, Alfonso Ribeiro said the show was only accepting votes via text for Tuesday night’s premiere.

The couple with the lowest combined total of judges’ scores and viewer votes is eliminated at the end of each DWTS episode. Live voting takes place during the East Coast airing of each show and ends shortly after the final performance is completed; that means if you’re a West Coast viewer and want to vote, you must do so between 5 p.m. PT to roughly 6:45 p.m. PT, as voting ends after the final performance.

See the full list of scores for the second premiere episode of DWTS season 35, featuring only performances from the female stars, below.

Tatyana Ali and Jan Ravnik
Giada De Laurentiis and Alan Bersten
Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy
Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov
Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas
Ciara Miller and Brandon Armstrong
Sarah Jane Nader and Hailey Bills
Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa

Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars premieres on Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m., simulcasting across ABC and Disney+, and streaming the next day on Hulu. Check out all of The Hollywood Reporter‘s DWTS coverage here.