"Dancing with the Stars" showrunner Rob Wade has addressed concerns that co-host Erin Andrews and professional dancer and last season's winner Maksim Chmerkovskiy will not return to the dancing competition show for Season 19.

Wade left the ABC show after Season 11, but is returning for the upcoming season, E! News reports. While attending ABC's 2014 Summer TCA Press Tour All Star Party, the producer revealed which hosts fans can expect to see next season.

"We have Erin and Tom coming back, and we're looking forward to it," Wade told E! News. "We kind of knew before. We knew she had this other job [replacing Pam Oliver as a Fox NFL sideline reporter], and we made sure that would work out in the fall. So yeah, that's what we worked out. It's great. and we're very supportive of her."

When it comes to Chmerkovskiy, however, Wade isn't too sure.

"I don't know," Wade explained. "I've just come back to the show, but I was on the show in Season 1 and Maks came on in Season 2. So I've known Maks for 10 years now, and he's a very good friend."

In May, the dancer told Entertainment Tonight that he doesn't think he will return to the show in the same role.

"I'm absolutely hoping Maks comes back to the show," Wade continued. "I don't know whether it's going to be as a dancer. I think there's a number of different things we can talk to him about and the way he'd be involved in the show. Maks will always be part of 'Dancing With the Stars' in some way."

The next season of "Dancing with the Stars" begins on Sept. 15 on ABC.

"This is exhausting," Chmerkovskiy told ET when asked if he would return. "It has nothing to do with money. The first thing that I did after hugging [partner Meryl Davis] ... was come up to [five-time professional dancer winner Derek Hough], and I was like, 'Dude, I don't how you do it.' He did it five times. I have no idea."
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