'Dancing with the Stars' 2018 cast includes Evanna Lynch of 'Harry Potter,' Bachelor Nation's 'Grocery Store Joe'

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'Dancing with the Stars' 2018 cast includes Evanna Lynch of 'Harry Potter,' Bachelor Nation's 'Grocery Store Joe'
Sandy Kenyon reports on the new cast of "Dancing with the Stars."

Dancing with the Stars fans don't have much longer to wait -- a new season of the ballroom dancing competition arrives Monday.

These are the stars competing for the Mirror Ball this fall:

Evanna Lynch will be dancing with Keo Motsepe

"Grocery Store Joe" Amabile will be dancing with Jenna Johnson

Mary Lou Retton will be dancing with Sasha Farber

Nikki Glaser will be dancing with Gleb Savchenko

Nancy McKeon will be dancing with Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Alexis Ren will be dancing with pro Alan Bersten

Bobby Bones will be dancing with pro Sharna Burgess

Danelle Umstead will be dancing with Artem Chigvintsev

DeMarcus Ware will be dancing with Lindsay Arnold

John Schneider will be dancing with Emma Slater

Juan Pablo di Pace will be dancing with Cheryl Burke

Milo Manheim will be dancing with Witney Carson

Tinashe will be dancing with pro Brandon Armstrong

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Legendary gymnast Mary Lou Retton will be dancing.

As with past seasons, the stars come from all over: Movies, television, music and sports. It includes Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films. Also dancing is Danelle Umstead, a paralympic alpine skier who is visually impaired and has Multiple sclerosis.Then there's Joe Amabile, a fan favorite from The Bachelorette known by fans as "Grocery Store Joe" because he owns a grocery store in Chicago. Get to know the cast better in the gallery above.

Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews return as co-hosts, and Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli return as judges.

Watch Dancing With the Stars on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET | 7 p.m. CT on ABC, beginning September 24.

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