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Rossville native Lauren Alaina competing on ‘Dancing with the Stars’

Lauren Alaina performs "A Lesson in Leavin'," by the late Dottie West at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. West was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Lauren Alaina performs "A Lesson in Leavin'," by the late Dottie West at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. West was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) Lauren Alaina performs "A Lesson in Leavin'," by the late Dottie West at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. West was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Country singer Lauren Alaina will compete on Season 28 of “Dancing with the Stars.”

The upcoming season’s lineup was revealed Wednesday on “Good Morning, America.”

The singer launched her career on reality television when she was runner-up on Season 10 of “American Idol.” Alaina is from Rossville, Georgia, and is a graduate of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School.

Her first No. 1 hit was “Road Less Traveled,” then she scored a second No. 1 in a duet with country singer Kane Brown, also an LFO alum, on “What Ifs.”

The remainder of Season 28’s cast is “Bachelorette” Hannah Brown, “Queer Eye” star Karamo Brown, former NBA star Lamar Odom, actor James Van Der Beek, supermodel Christie Brinkley, former Fifth Harmony member Ally Brooke, former NFL star Ray Lewis, actress Kate Flannery, comedian Kel Mitchell, Supremes singer Mary Wilson and Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary.

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