Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt join Dancing With the Stars season 34

Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt, stars of Hulu’s hit reality series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, are set to compete on Season 34 of Dancing With the Stars this fall. The announcement was made during the show’s reunion special on Monday night.

Affleck and Leavitt have been part of Mormon Wives since its September 2024 premiere. The series quickly became Hulu’s most-watched unscripted program. When Season 2 launched on May 15, it surpassed the debut season’s success, garnering five million views in just five days.

Leavitt, who was cast as the group’s “villain” in Season 1 for distancing herself from the #MomTok influencer circle, worked to reconcile with fellow cast members in Season 2 — with mostly positive results, aside from holdout Mikayla Matthews.

Affleck experienced a more turbulent second season. She and husband Zac Affleck faced marital challenges early on, but reconciled after learning they were expecting their third child. Affleck later exited filming due to prenatal depression. As of a June 27 Instagram post, she revealed she was in labor during a nail appointment, but has not confirmed the birth publicly.

Taylor Frankie Paul, another central figure on the show, recently told Variety that the group is ready to welcome Affleck back. “She stepped away for her mental health and is taking it step by step,” Paul said. “We’re very welcoming to her.”

Affleck and Leavitt are the third and fourth celebrity contestants confirmed for the upcoming season, joining Robert Irwin and Alix Earle. Dancing With the Stars will return this fall on ABC and Disney+, with next-day streaming on Hulu. Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough will co-host, while judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough return to the panel.