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‘Dancing With the Stars’ premiere just a week away for country singer, Rossville native Lauren Alaina

ABC Photo / Justin Stephens / Season 28 of "Dancing With the Stars" will find 12 celebrities competing for the mirror ball trophy. They are, from left, Hannah Brown, Lamar Odom, Sean Spicer, Mary Wilson, Ally Brooke, Ray Lewis, Karamo, Kate Flannery, James Van Der Beek, Lauren Alaina, Kel Mitchell and Christie Brinkley.
ABC Photo / Justin Stephens / Season 28 of "Dancing With the Stars" will find 12 celebrities competing for the mirror ball trophy. They are, from left, Hannah Brown, Lamar Odom, Sean Spicer, Mary Wilson, Ally Brooke, Ray Lewis, Karamo, Kate Flannery, James Van Der Beek, Lauren Alaina, Kel Mitchell and Christie Brinkley.

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* “Dancing With the Stars” will premiere at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, on ABC.

Country music star Lauren Alaina is in the final week of practicing her fancy footwork for the season premiere of “Dancing With the Stars.”

The 28th season of the ABC dance competition debuts at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, with a cast that also includes a supermodel, former White House press secretary, a Bachelorette, pro athletes from the NFL and NBA, fellow singers and a TV icon.

In multiple interviews after the Aug. 21 introduction of the cast on “Good Morning America,” Alaina described herself as a klutz. “I think about falling and I fall,” she told “Entertainment Tonight.”

“My friend told me it’s going to be ‘Stumbling With the Stars’ for me. Fingers crossed. I just don’t want to fall.”