Dancing With the Stars is given an official premiere date

Channel Seven has finally revealed when Dancing With the Stars will be returning to TV screens.

The hit competition show is set to premiere at 7pm on Sunday, April 11, and will air on both Channel Seven and 7plus.

This year’s series will air over just two weeks, with a celebrity contestant eliminated every night. 

A teaser trailer released last month showed returning fan favourites like Bec Hewitt and Manu Feildel recreating some of their signature dance moves.

Set to a rendition of Whitney Houston’s hit single, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Bec, 37, was seen confidently striding out onto the dance floor. 

It then cut to the former Home and Away actress recreating one of the dance routines she performed on the show when she first appeared back in 2004.

Other stars who recreated their past dance moves in the trailer included Tom Williams, Kyly Clarke, Manu Fieldel and Ada Nicodemou.

Luke Jacobz, Fifi Box, Lincoln Lewis, Erin McNaught and Jamie Durie also return to the Channel Seven series.

There’ll also be a variety of new contestants, with Jessica Gomes, Matthew ‘Matty J’ Johnson, Renée Bargh and Schapelle Corby all joining this year’s cast.

And it’s not just the show’s past contestants who are returning to the beloved series.

Original hosts Daryl Somers and Sonia Kruger are also set to make a comeback in the new series.

The show will also feature the original judges, Helen Richey, Todd McKenney, Paul Mercurio and Mark Wilson, who all featured when the series first aired in 2004.