The thirty-second season of Dancing with the Stars premiered on ABC and Disney+ on September 26, 2023, and is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu[1] and concluded on December 5, 2023.

[3] On August 21, 2023, The Bachelorette star Charity Lawson was announced as the second celebrity participant during the season 20 After the Final Rose special.

[5] On September 12, 2023, it was announced that Jamie Lynn Spears was the fourth celebrity participant to join the cast and would be partnered with Alan Bersten.

[26] Three days later, it was announced that Julianne Hough would be joining the series as co-host, with Alfonso Ribeiro assuming Banks' previous role.

[32] On October 23, it was announced that Billy Porter would serve as a guest judge on the November 14 episode, which celebrated the music of Whitney Houston.

Color key: Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Bruno Tonioli.

[14][15] Individual judges' scores in the charts below are listed in following order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Michael Strahan, Bruno Tonioli.

Siblings Derek & Julianne Hough, Kym Herjavec, Anna Trebunskaya, Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Śliwińska, Tony Dovolani, Louis van Amstel, Maks Chmerkovskiy, and Mark Ballas returned alongside the current professional dancers to perform a tribute waltz to "Moon River" in honor of Len Goodman.

Individual judges' scores in the charts below are listed in following order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Niecy Nash-Betts, Bruno Tonioli.

Individual judges' scores in the charts below are listed in following order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Paula Abdul, Bruno Tonioli.

Individual judges' scores in the charts below are listed in following order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Billy Porter, Bruno Tonioli.

Ariana & Pasha were exempt from the dance-off, but they automatically received three bonus points for having finished first at the end of the first round the previous week.

Individual judges' scores in the charts below are listed in following order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Mandy Moore, Bruno Tonioli.

A Mariah Carey Christmas number featuring Witney Carson, Hélio Castroneves, Hannah Brown, Rashad Jennings, and "the song and dance styles of Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough" was performed as well.