“Dancing With the Stars”' new pro Rylee Arnold has special connection to show

Dancing With the Stars is ready for a sister act.

Rylee Arnold is the new pro dancer in the ballroom for season 32, but she has a longtime connection to the ABC dance competition series as the younger sister of DWTS alum and Mirrorball champion (with Jordan Fisher in season 25), Lindsay Arnold.

Rylee is making her professional debut on the show dancing with social media and reality TV star Harry Jowsey (Too Hot to Handle), but she's been around the DWTS world since she was a kid. Arnold has said her goal since she was eight was to make it as a pro on the show, and she is now the show's current youngest pro at only 18 years old.

ABC/Andrew Eccles Rylee Arnold and Harry Jowsey on 'Dancing With the Stars'

Rylee also previously placed third at the World DanceSport Championships.

"It feels like a lot of things coming full circle," executive producer Conrad Green says. "She's just 18. And to give you a sense of the heritage of Dancing now, some of her earliest memories are coming into watch Lindsay performing on the show when she was a kid."

Rylee's sister Lindsay was last seen on DWTS in season 30 dancing with former Bachelor star Matt James.

ABC/Andrew Eccles Rylee Arnold

But Rylee has also appeared on DWTS before, Dancing With the Stars: Junior, that is. She competed on the reality spinoff in 2018 when she was only 13, even getting the chance to dance on television with her sister Lindsay, who also served as Rylee's mentor. So far, she is the only pro dancer from Juniors to make the jump to DWTS. Rylee was partnered with Black-ish star Miles Brown, and the duo came in second on the show.

Can she and Jowsey recapture some of that magic for the big dance? Find out when season 32 kicks off at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC, simulcast live on Disney+.

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