ABC has confirmed that the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars will have the largest lineup to date.

Executive producer Conrad Green told Entertainment Tonight that they have signed sixteen celebrities for this years extravaganza, I wonder if Paula Abdul is amongst them?

“This is going to be our biggest-ever cast,” he explained.

“We are going to start big, and then about halfway through, we are going to do three double eliminations back-to-back. The middle of the season is going to be brutal when half of our cast goes in three weeks.”

When asked about rumours that Donny Osmond or Lou Ferrigno would be appearing, he replied: “I love the fact that people want to be on the show. If people get in the press and say, ‘I am on the show,’ even if they are not, what can you do?

“I think our celebrity show is the one that most people want to be on because they realise it isn’t degrading or demeaning in any way. You learn a new skill, and it is a wholesome family show.”