The Circle will air a new season on Hulu featuring some familiar faces from reality television, including The Bachelorette alum Hannah Brown and Dancing with the Stars pro Sasha Farber.
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Hulu has announced the cast for its upcoming season of The Circle, which will premiere Tuesday, November 17, with new episodes airing Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9PM ET on the streaming service.
The first seven seasons of The Circle aired on Netflix. Hulu is treating its revamped version as a fresh start , officially calling it Season 1.
The new season will feature celebrities competing against everyday contestants for a $100,000 grand prize, with some players entering the competition as themselves and others pretending to be someone they're not.
Hannah -- who starred on The Bachelorette's 15th season and also won Season 1 of Special Forces: World's Toughest Test and Season 28 of Dancing with the Stars with pro Alan Bersten, will be among the celebrity contestants.
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Sasha, who has competed as a pro partner on Dancing with the Stars for numerous seasons, will also be moving into The Circle's apartments, along with The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor.
The celebrity cast will additionally include Vanderpump Villa star Dominic "Chef Dom" DeAngelis, who will be catfishing as Lisa Vanderpump, as well as Layla and her best friend Kate Racker.
Layla and Kate will be playing together as a "hot" single male contestant, according to Hulu, but viewers will get to decide which identity they assume.
Hulu has opened the season's first fan vote, allowing viewers to choose whether Layla and Kate will pretend to be a contestant named Doug or Steven.
The civilian cast will include Cyrus, a software engineer from New York, NY; Justin, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles, CA; Suave, a Doberman owner from Columbia, SC; and Alyssa, who works in finance and lives in Cooper City, FL.
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Gina, a content creator from Austin, TX, will also be competing alongside her husband Yanis, who works in technology sales. The couple will be catfishing as a single version of Gina.
The new season will mark a major change for The Circle, which previously aired on Netflix before moving to Hulu.
For the first time, the competition will feature celebrities playing alongside civilians, and viewers will have opportunities to influence the game through interactive voting.
The season is being promoted as a faster-paced, interactive competition in which contestants will attempt to become the most popular player while navigating friendships, alliances and deception.
As in previous seasons, the contestants will communicate through The Circle's social-media-style platform without meeting face-to-face, allowing them to compete using their real identities or pose as someone else.
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Social-media personality Tinx will host the new season.
The Circle is produced by Studio Lambert alongside Omaha Productions, Motion Entertainment and Turnkey Studio Services, a division of Banijay America.
The show's executive producers include Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Niall O'Driscoll and Stephen Lambert for Studio Lambert; Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz and Colin Campbell for Omaha Productions; and Martin Oxley and Chet Fenster for Motion Entertainment. Susan House serves as showrunner.