Sean Spicer is swapping the White House podium for the studio dancefloor.

The former press secretary to US President Donald Trump is to be a contestant on the reality TV show 'Dancing With the Stars'.

The full cast was revealed by ABC on Wednesday.

Others on the line up include actor James Van Der Beek, supermodel Christie Brinkley, former Fifth Harmony member Ally Brooke, actress Kate Flannery and comedian Kel Mitchell.

Spicer is most well known for his roles as the former White House press secretary and communications director under President Trump in 2017.

He resigned as press secretary in July that year.

In an interview on Newstalk in 2018, he said he wished he could get a 'do-over' on his time at the White House.

He claimed the very first press conference he held, about the size of the crowds attending President Trump's inauguration, set the wrong tone for his interactions with the media.

"At the time there was this sense that we were immediately under attack, if you will, that people were trying to minimise everything.

"We had felt like when we started off there was always this 'Gotcha' mentality in the press.

"There had been a story out immediately after the president had been sworn in, that he had removed the bust of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office - which was completely false and untrue.

"And we were like: 'Is that really what we're going be facing everyday now' - that there's always this attempt to minimise and understate what he's here to do and his agenda and policies, as opposed to talk about all these other things."

"I admit upfront - that was not how I think we should have presented ourselves from the beginning on a number of fronts".

He also faced criticism from US sketch shows - perhaps most famously on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live', when actress Melissa McCarthy took the podium.

The new season of 'Dancing With the Stars' will air in the US on September 16th.