Witney Carson And Lindsay Arnold Announce They’re Not Returning For This Season Of ‘Dancing With The Stars’: ‘Hope It’s Not A Goodbye’

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Witney Carson and Lindsay Arnold are updating “Dancing with the Stars” fans about their fate as pro dancers on the upcoming 32nd season.

The two, who’ve been longtime pros on the reality dance competition series, both took to TikTok last week, sharing separate announcements on their respective accounts about their decisions to skip this season.

On Sunday, Carson posted a video stating that the decision was not one her family “took lightly at all.” READ MORE: ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Judge Derek Hough Marries Hayley Erbert In Romantic Redwoods Ceremony “We definitely thought and prayed about it for awhile but we will not be doing ‘Dancing with the Stars’ this season and, as much as that pains me to say, I just feel very at peace with it,” she shared with her followers. “You guys know that family is the most important thing to me and we just really felt that moving our entire family across the country right now was not for us.” The 29-year-old, who recently moved from Utah to Florida, went on to explain that her toddler, Leo, “is at an age where he needs consistency and dependability and he hasn’t had that ever since he’s been born.” “I also feel like I’m not quite mentally and physically ready for what the show calls for,” the mom of two added. READ MORE: Charity Lawson Joins ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Season 32 After Giving Her New Fiancé The Final Rose On ‘The Bachelorette’ Finale “I love dance.

That is my passion. So this was definitely a hard decision,” she reiterated, before sharing her excitement for the upcoming season. “I definitely think this is just a break.