Will Dancing With the Stars have a new judging panel in 2025? Season 34 is still far away, but fans have already been talking about a possible replacement in the judging panel — one that has remained mostly intact ever since the beginning of the show.

At the end of the "Dancing with the Stars" semifinals last Tuesday, the stars and pros anxiously stood on stage waiting to hear who would be going home when the hosts shocked everyone by announcing that all five semifinalists would continue on to the finale.

After the emotional dance which had Gomez herself in tears, judge Derek Hough was visibly moved, even getting choked up at one point. "You know, I was thinking about how important