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Next ‘DWTS’ lineup

LOS ANGELES

Grammy Award-winner Patti LaBelle and Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay draft pick, are two of the 11 celebrities announced Tuesday as part of the upcoming 20th season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”

Other celebrities announced in the lineup include Iraq war veteran, double-amputee and motivational speaker Noah Galloway; Robert Herjavec, the millionaire businessman known as “the nice guy” on ABC’s “Shark Tank”; gold-medal Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin; Riker Lynch, part of the sibling music act R5; Charlotte McKinney, the bikini model from the Carl’s Jr. Super Bowl ad; Redfoo, half of the act LFMAO and a former “DWTS” guest judge; actress Willow Shields; sitcom star and ThighMaster mogul Suzanne Somers and actress Rumer Willis.

NBC in lead with Holt

NEW YORK

Lester Holt’s audience shot up by more than half a million viewers on his second week filling in at NBC’s “Nightly News” for the suspended Brian Williams. Then again, his rivals fared just as well.

NBC’s newscast averaged 10.1 million viewers last week, roughly 600,000 more than the week before, the Nielsen company said. But ABC’s “World News Tonight” gained about the same number of viewers, and the “CBS Evening News” shot up by 900,000.

ABC won the week in prime-time with an average of 10.6 million viewers.

Vindicator wire services