AJ Pritchard wedding postponed and the reason is now tied to competition: he is one of eight contestants left on Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro. His place in the field keeps him in line for a prize that goes beyond the current season — a professional dancer role on Dancing With the Stars this fall.
That setup makes the stakes practical, not sentimental. If he wins, he moves from contestant to one of the professional dancers on Season 35, and that shift is the real deadline hanging over the postponed wedding narrative.
Strictly Come Dancing to Season 35
Pritchard was a pro dancer on Strictly Come Dancing from 2016 to 2019, so his current run is not a first step into TV competition but another turn in a career built on elimination formats. He has also competed on Britain's Got Talent, I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, the U.K.'s version of The Challenge, and more.
That history matters because Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro rewards a performer who can handle a public vote, a pressure-cooker format and a role that depends on staying visible. He is not arriving as a blank slate; he is arriving with a record that already spans dance and non-dance TV.
Eight contestants left
Eight contestants remain in the contest, which means every appearance now carries direct consequences for who gets the professional slot. The pool is small enough that each round changes the odds quickly, and Pritchard is still inside that narrowing group.
The headline talk around a postponed wedding sits beside a simpler fact: the story currently on-screen is his competition status, not his private life. Readers looking for a relationship update do not get one here, which leaves the public conversation split between the personal headline and the on-air result.
Dancing With the Stars this fall
The winner of Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro will join Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars this fall, turning this contest into an entry point rather than a side project. For Pritchard, the immediate task is staying among the last eight long enough to reach that switch from contestant to pro.
That is the clean reading of the situation: the postponed wedding is the attention-grabber, but the competitive prize is what now defines his next move. If he keeps advancing, the fall season becomes the target; if not, the personal story remains separate from the result that decided his TV future.
