--- title: Dancing With the Stars: Rick Perry Returns to Finale description: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry returned to Dancing With the Stars for its season finale on Tuesday canonical: https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-23T16:57:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:59:01.671Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Rick Perry Joins Vanilla Ice on 'Dancing With the Stars' Finale og:description: He was the DJ og:url: https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rick Perry Joins Vanilla Ice on 'Dancing With the Stars' Finale twitter:description: He was the DJ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rick Perry Joins Vanilla Ice on _Dancing With the Stars_ Finale by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 23, 2016 4:57 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 23, 2016 4:57 PM UTC Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry returned to _Dancing With the Stars_ for its season finale on Tuesday. Perry, who was [eliminated from the show in September](http://time.com/4472287/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-ryan-lochte/), returned to DJ for and then dance with Vanilla Ice in a live rendition of “Ice Ice Baby.” As Vanilla Ice rapped and danced on stage, Perry spun in the DJ booth before joining Vanilla Ice on stage for a fist bump and hug. Perry came to the _DWTS_ stage fresh from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York to discuss cabinet positions. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/"},"headline":"Rick Perry Joins Vanilla Ice on Dancing With the Stars Finale","datePublished":"2016-11-23T16:57:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:59:01.671Z","description":"He was the DJ while Vanilla Ice rapped","url":"https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4581601/rick-perry-vanilla-ice-dancing-with-the-stars/","name":"Rick Perry Joins Vanilla Ice on Dancing With the Stars Finale"}}]}] ```