Dance 10, Plus 3

Thirteen new celebrities will take to the dance floor next month when Dancing With the Stars returns for a seventh season. The line up was officially announced on Good Morning America earlier today, but practically the whole line-up was leaked by gossip sites over the past few days. Among the contestants, notable names include:

• Lance Bass, pop star of N'Sync fame, he is the first openly gay celeb on the American DWTS (and no, he will be paired with a female partner, as it should be).
• Cloris Leachman, the 82-year-old Oscar winning dynamo and John Stamos stalker.
• Susan Lucci, Emmy Award winning queen diva of the soaps.
• Ted McGinley, the frequent sitcom star filling the Steve Guttenberg ubiquitous actor/punchline slot.

Rounding out the cast are Grammy winning chanteuse Toni Braxton, model/TV host Brooke Burke, celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito and comedian Jeffrey Ross, plus three athletes ("World's Fastest Man" Maurice Greene, Olympic volleyballer Misty May-Treanor and Superbowl champ Warren Sapp), the show's youngest competitor Cody Linley (another Hannah Montana star) and sextape starlet Kim Kardashian.

The next round of Dancing With the Stars begins its three-night "premiere event" September 22 on ABC.