Alfonso Ribeiro suffers major injury week before DWTS premiere – details

Dancing with the Stars season 32 could also be cursed – host Alfonso Ribeiro has revealed he has suffered from a concussion, lower than a week before the premiere is ready to air. 

Fresh Prince of Bel Air star Alfonso shared details of the injury throughout an look on Live with Kelly and Mark on September 22, admitting he was at a baseball recreation when the ball struck him on the again of his head. 

“I got concussed last week. I was standing off to the side and I’m putting someone’s number in the phone and boom, a ball to the back of my head. Right in the back,” he detailed. 

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The DWTS host – who additionally gained the ABC​​​​ sequence in 2014 – is dad to 4 kids; 4-12 months-outdated daughter Ava Sue, and sons eight-12 months-outdated Anders Reyn and 9-12 months-outdated Alfonso “AJ” Lincoln with spouse Angela. The 51-12 months-outdated can also be dad to twenty-12 months-outdated daughter Sienna from a earlier relationship. 

He went on to share that the hit left him “down” on the bottom, and out of motion for 3 days. 

“My wife seems to think it was just me saying I didn’t want to do nothing at the house,” he joked. “It wasn’t that. It was a superb hit.”

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Julianne Hough will be a part of Alfonso as host for the brand new season – however though the premiere is ready to happen on September 26 8/7c on ABC and reside on Disney+, new reviews have alleged that executives are trying into suspending the sequence amid the continued WGA and SAG strikes. 

On September 21, Veep actor Matt stepped down from his look on the present, acknowledging that he was “excited to join the show and did so under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement”. 

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“This morning when I was informed by my union, the WGA, that it is considered struck work I walked out of my rehearsal. I have been and will always stand with my union members of the WGA, SAG and DGA. Beyond our union artists, I am sensitive to the many people impacted by the strike and I hope for a speedy and fair resolution, and to one day work again with all the wonderful people I met at ‘DWTS’ who tolerated my dancing,” he stated. 

DWTS’ movie star forged, notably actors and SAG-AFTRA members Alyson Hannigan and Mira Sorvino have all additionally come beneath strain from putting members, with picket indicators exterior rehearsal studios berating them for his or her participation. 

DWTS is roofed beneath the SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting, which permits it to air throughout the strike. It is separate from the movie and TV collective bargaining settlement which is presently being negotiated between SAG and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

However the sequence employs a guild author for the present, to assist Julianne and Alfonso with their to-digital camera scripts. The author won’t be on set, however any writing that could be accomplished by different employees members could be thought of scabbing.