The long waited for Dancing with the Stars Season 7 finally premiered last night with 13 celebrities competing to win the title. Two of the celebrities will be voted off this week in fact one tonight and another one tomorrow night.

photos and bios of all celebrity contestants after the jump…

Here are the scores for all the 13 couples on the opening night with Brooke Burke & Derek Hough being an early favorite for now:

Kim Kardashian & Mark Ballas – 19
Lance Bass & Lacey Schwimmer – 22
Toni Braxton & Alec Mazo – 22
Brooke Burke & Derek Hough – 23 (An early favorite!)
Maurice Greene & Cheryl Burke – 18
Cody Linley & Julianne Hough – 18
Susan Lucci & Tony Dovolani – 15
Warren Sapp & Kym Johnson – 21
Misty May-Treanor & Maksim Chmerkovskiy – 21
Ted McGinley & Inna Brayer – 18
Cloris Leachman & Corky Ballas – 16
Jeffrey Ross & Edyta Sliwinska – 12
Rocco DiSpirito & Karina Smirnoff – 14

photos: PR Photos

About the 13 celebrity contestants:

Kim Kardashian who’s constantly being featured on Anything Hollywood is an actress and model.

Cody Linley is a rising young star best known for appearing on Hannah Montana.

Susan Lucci is 62 – she’s not the oldest of the cast, Cloris Leachman is two decades older than her! She is best known for playing Erica Kane on the ABC tv soap opera All My Children.

Cloris Leachman, the Oscar winning, 82 year-old, the oldest contestant to ever compete in DWTS! She’s an actress and has won eight primetime Emmy Awards and one daytime Emmy. She’s also won an oscar  for Best Supporting Actress in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show.

Lance Bass is a former member of ‘N Sync. He’s also an actor. Bass has publicly revealed that he’s gay in 2006.

Jeffery Ross is a very funny comedian.

Brooke Bruke is an actress best known for hosting Wild On! from1999 – 2002.

Ted McGinley is perhaps best known for his role as Jefferson D’Arcy on the tv series Married… with Children, and as Charley Shanowski on the former ABC sitcom Hope & Faith.

Toni Braxton is a singer and you must have heard one of her all time biggest hits “Unbreak your heart”.

Rocco DiSpirito is a celebrity chef.

Warren Sapp is a retired football pro who’s played for for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders.

Maurice Greene is an athlete who is a former world record holder at the 100m.

Misty May-Treanor is a beach volleyball player who also won a gold medal at the recent Beijing Summer Olympics.