‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2017 Cast: Meet the Season 24 DWTS Contestants

Bonner Bolton

Champion bull rider Bonner Bolton is paired with Sharna Burgess this season and he's rumored to be dancing the Cha Cha on the premiere episode. Bolton is reported by ABC as the world's number one bull rider and he previously suffered a major injury when he fell on his head during a dismount off of a bull. This resulted in him splintering his C-2 vertebra, leaving him temporarily paralyzed. He overcame the odds after being told he had only a one percent chance of walking again. Bolton later ended up signing with IMG Models and became an international model. According to Cosmopolitan, Bolton has been a professional bull rider for 11 years and he was raised in Texas. His father Toya Bolton was actually a rodeo cowboy for two decades and Bonner previously told Fatherly.com: I had a real rural background, and my dad showed me how to fix the fence, put up a new one, shoot my first rifle, hunt deer. He always took the time to show me how to do the job, rather than just expect me to know how to do it. It was important to him that I could do it so I’d be helpful, and he was so patient. People reports that Bonner Bolton was actually Scott Eastwood‘s stunt double in The Longest Ride. (Instagram/DancingABC)