Abby Lee Miller is giving followers a primary have a look at her new Dance Mothers spinoff, Abby Lee Dance With Me!
On Thursday, the controversial former actuality TV star took to her Instagram to drop a model new teaser trailer for the present, which the 58-year-old has been advertising and marketing to her fanbase as season 9 of the hit Lifetime collection which made names for dancers like Maddie Ziegler and JoJo Siwa.
“It was a cultural phenomenon that captured the eye of tens of millions of viewers world wide,” Miller says in a voiceover at first of the video. The audio of the dance teacher’s voice performs over clips from the Dance Mothers collection, which ended its run on Lifetime in September 2019.
Whereas the teaser begins with clips of the unique stars together with Mackenzie Ziegler and a notably blurred-out Christi Lukasiak, it rapidly transitions to scenes from the newly shot collection, full with new dancers and, after all, new mothers.
“All proper, let’s do that,” Miller says to the brand new crop of recruits. “Now, 12 years later, after all of it started, I am again and higher than ever.”
In accordance with Miller, the present will observe her traversing the US to seek out the subsequent technology of unbreakable dancers who she hopes to coach into champions. To be able to do this, she should find only a handful of rivals who she thinks have the expertise and the grit to make it by her rigorous coaching — and fixed critiques — in an effort to win.
“I can’t wait to share this unbelievable expertise with the World! An ideal large hug goes out to all of the splendidly proficient youngsters who have been chosen to take part on this present! I cherished working with every one among you,” the dance teacher wrote within the caption of her submit, including the hashtags “Abby Lee Dance With Me” and “Season 9.”
Miller beforehand dropped a preview of the present on her YouTube channel in December, exhibiting simply 40 seconds of what’s to come back from the extremely anticipated follow-up to her beloved Lifetime collection. Followers instantly went wild on the announcement that she would quickly be heading again to the small display to battle it out with dancers and their mothers alike. Miller, nonetheless, has but to disclose the discharge date or the place the present will stream.
In 2023, ET spoke with Miller about her actuality TV return and ambiguously described the then-unnamed present as a brand new iteration of Dance Mothers that “has nothing to do with that community.”
“It isn’t like I am going again. That is all new,” she shared. “It is traditional ‘Abby Lee Miller’ however there are little ones and their mothers, and the expertise is nuts.”
The brand new present comes as Lifetime is getting ready to air extra Dance Mothers protection of their very own within the type of a particular reunion that includes nearly all of the present’s authentic dancers and their mothers. Dance Mothers: The Reunion will air on Might 1 and embody appearances from Siwa, Kendall Vertes, Brooke and Paige Hyland, Chloe Lukasiak and Kalani Hilliker in addition to their respective moms.
Amongst those that selected to not attend have been Nia Sioux and each Maddie and Mackenzie Ziegler, which the opposite ladies bluntly addressed in a clip shared by ET final week. Within the video, the women and their mothers criticized the trio for opting to skip the reunion and speculating on why they did not really feel the necessity to present up for the occasion.
“I believe everybody is aware of who’s not right here,” Kendall stated whereas sitting subsequent to her former solid members. “Possibly they only do not suppose they wanted this.”
“They selected to not be right here and on the finish of the day, they’ve achieved a number of interviews that [they] say they do not even need this part of their life,” stated Kira Girard, Kalani’s mother.
JoJo — who conceivably has the perfect relationship with Miller practically 5 years after the present ended — stated she was upset that Nia, Mackenzie and Maddie selected to not attend, pointing to Kelly Hyland and her daughters as a major instance of why they need to nonetheless have proven up. Kelly, Brooke and Paige memorably left the collection in season 4 after the mother obtained right into a bodily altercation with Miller.
“It is form of unhappy to see ‘trigger I have a look at, particularly your youngsters being right here, simply going off of the way you exited the present and for you to have the ability to come right here and be like, ‘Look, I nonetheless care about this,’ it is actually cool to see and it is such as you nonetheless care about your previous,” JoJo stated.
She added, “Them not being right here is form of like, ‘Let me erase my previous, faux it by no means occurred and shove it down the drain’ when it is like, that is why you’re who you’re.”
Dance Mothers: The Reunion airs on Lifetime on Might 1.
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