Milo Manheim On ‘Zombies Curse’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’: ‘Always’ 2nd

Milo Manheim wants his Zombies 4 costar Meg Donnelly to break the franchise’s Dancing With the Stars curse.

“You know the Zombies curse on Dancing With the Stars is we’re always going to be runner-up,” Manheim, 24, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the July 10 Disney Channel premiere of Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, adding that if he were to pick someone to be on the upcoming season of the dance competition series, it would be Donnelly, 24.

“I would either send Meg if she wanted to do it because [she] would redeem it for all of us and go win, or I would love to see Trevor [Tordjman],” he said. “Not even because he’s a good dancer — because he is a fantastic dancer — but because of who he is. I think he would just kill.”

Donnelly concurred, adding, “People would love him. He should do it.”

Manheim was the first of the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise’s cast to appear on DWTS, working his way to fan-favorite status during season 27 in 2018. However, he and partner Witney Carson ultimately finished in second place behind Bobby Bones and Sharna Burgess.

Six years later, Manheim’s Zombies costar Chandler Kinney competed in season 33 with partner Brandon Armstrong, finishing in third place despite being a front-runner the entire season.

Outside of the Disney Channel universe, Manheim and Donnelly would like to see a “little kid” compete on the upcoming season to mix things up.

“I would also like to see The Rizzler,” Manheim told Us, agreeing with Donnelly’s suggestion of the young social media personality. “I do want to see somebody little on it. I want to see some 8-year-old, whoever it is, with Val [Chmerkovskiy].”

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Malachi Barton and Freya Skye, who are new additions to the Zombies world, have their own thoughts about who should be on the upcoming DWTS season.

“I’m really excited because Alix Earle’s doing it,” Skye, 15, told Us. “Malachi will have a fight if I don’t pick him right now, so Malachi for Dancing With the Stars 2025.”

“I’m ready!” Barton, 18, excitedly exclaimed in reply, proposing fellow Disney star Joshua Colley in addition to himself.

“[Joshua’s] energy would just be the most infectious thing on the dance floor,” Skye agreed. “Now this is probably not going to happen, something just popped into my mind. I would love to see Harry Styles do it. I feel like he would be great.”

Barton is also reaching for the stars.

“You know who I would love to see do it? Sabrina Carpenter,” he told Us. “She has not done Dancing, has she? That’d be cool.”

In addition to Earle, 24, Robert Irwin and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt are set to compete in this fall’s season 34 of DWTS.