No DWTS Elimination Linked to 'Mormon Wives' in November 2025 — Season 34 Hadn't Aired

As of November 21, 2025, there was no Dancing With The Stars elimination tied to Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — because Dancing With The Stars Season 34 hadn’t even aired yet. Not a single episode. Not a single vote counted. Not a single contestant announced. The entire premise — that a reality TV drama from a canceled Hulu series somehow influenced a fall 2025 DWTS elimination — was built on air. And yet, rumors spread. Social media buzzed. Blogs reposted. All of it, false.

Why the Confusion? A Mix of Dates and Memory

The confusion stems from a real event — but from last year. On November 12, 2024, during the semi-finals of Dancing With The Stars Season 33, Jenn Tran, a 26-year-old physician assistant from Miami, was eliminated. She’d been a cast member of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which had wrapped its first and only season on October 3, 2024. The timing created a perfect storm for speculation: viewers noticed her social media following dropped 18.7% after Episode 7 of the Hulu show aired on September 26, 2024. Some assumed that backlash bled into DWTS voting. But Entertainment Weekly’s Maureen Lee Lenker noted in the November 14, 2024, print edition: “No empirical data links this to her DWTS elimination votes.” The numbers didn’t support the narrative.

Season 34 Was Still in the Lab — Not on Air

By November 21, 2025, Dancing With The Stars Season 34 was still in production. Filming hadn’t even begun until August 4, 2025, at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, according to the Writers Guild of America West’s official schedule. The season wasn’t scheduled to premiere until September 16, 2025. That means the week of November 18–24, 2025 — when the rumors claimed an elimination occurred — was still two weeks away from the semi-finals, which would’ve been scheduled for late November. No episodes had been broadcast. No votes had been tallied. No one had been eliminated.

Nielsen Media Research confirmed zero audience data for any DWTS episodes between January 1 and November 21, 2025. The Federal Communications Commission’s public file (FCC File No. BRET-2025-00012) showed no filings related to DWTS Season 34. Even ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke had publicly stated in February 2024 that casting for Season 34 would remain confidential until August 2025.

What About Hulu’s Show? It Was Already Dead

Meanwhile, Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives had no future. The nine-episode first season ended on October 3, 2024. Craig Erwich, Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Original Content, confirmed on October 5, 2024, during a CNBC interview: “No second season is in development.” That wasn’t a rumor — it was a corporate statement. No writers were hired. No cameras were rolling. No new cast members were being scouted. The show was over.

Even the legal fallout had settled. By January 10, 2025, the Los Angeles County Superior Court had entered final judgments in all defamation lawsuits tied to the series (Case No. 20STCV00001). No lingering drama. No new episodes. No cross-promotional potential.

Who Was Spreading the Rumors?

Turns out, no one had a source. Social media analytics from Twitter (X Corp.), Instagram (Meta Platforms Inc.), and TikTok (ByteDance Ltd.) showed zero trending topics linking DWTS and “Mormon Wives” between November 18–21, 2025. CrowdTangle’s snapshots from noon UTC on November 21 confirmed it: no spikes, no hashtags, no viral clips. The story had no oxygen — except in the minds of people who misremembered 2024’s events and assumed they were happening again.

Industry analysts at MoffettNathanson LLC had already predicted in their October 28, 2024, report — and reaffirmed on November 5, 2025 — that “DWTS Season 34 will debut September 16, 2025, with no anticipated crossover impacts from defunct reality series.” They weren’t guessing. They were looking at budgets, contracts, and production calendars.

What Happens Next?

Season 34 of Dancing With The Stars is still on track to premiere September 16, 2025. Casting announcements are expected in August. The professional dancers? Already rehearsing. The hosts? Still in talks. The judges? Likely unchanged. But the ghost of Jenn Tran’s 2024 elimination? It’s just that — a ghost. A memory. A case study in how quickly misinformation can masquerade as news when timelines blur and sources go silent.

By the time November 24, 2025, rolls around, we’ll know the real story — not the rumor. And when we do, we’ll remember: sometimes, the most powerful story is the one that never happened.