Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: It's Danielle Fischol, podcaster, TV director and mom of two
Speaker 2: and tonight, maybe more than ever forever known as Topanga,
Speaker 2: and that's because I am currently competing on the thirty
Speaker 2: fourth season of Dancing with the Stars, participating in the
Speaker 2: tradition of Dedication Night, despite having absolutely no dance experience
Speaker 2: before stepping into a practice with my pro partner Pasha Pashkov,
Speaker 2: and throughout this journey, I have decided to record my
Speaker 2: experience in the form of a podcast called Danielle with
Speaker 2: the Stars, hoping that maybe in one hundred to two
Speaker 2: hundred years, people will discover it amongst post apocalyptic rebbel
Speaker 2: and hear what it was like to push yourself every
Speaker 2: day to possibly win a Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy.
Speaker 2: I am just off the press line from Dedication Night
Speaker 2: and absolutely jam packed an emotional night of celebrity and dance.
Speaker 2: I danced the jive to the season five through seven
Speaker 2: Boy Meets World theme song by twenty cent Crush featuring
Speaker 2: Phil Rosenthal, and I dedicated it to ninety nine and
Speaker 2: a half year old Bill Daniels aka mister Feenie, who
Speaker 2: joined me on the dance floor. Why did I pick Bill.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly why I picked Bill. I consider
Speaker 2: him to be the patriarch of Boy Meets World, and
Speaker 2: Boy Meets World is a show that forever changed my life,
Speaker 2: not just personally but professionally. And Bill was a shining
Speaker 2: example of what it meant to be a professional and
Speaker 2: to be kind and to be good with kids. He
Speaker 2: didn't have to be He could have treated us like
Speaker 2: snot nosed kids, because we were a lot of times
Speaker 2: we were having fun and goofing around and I came
Speaker 2: to the set with little to zero experience, and he
Speaker 2: never treated me that way. He always treated me like
Speaker 2: a peer, which is really saying something. So I have
Speaker 2: taken Bill's lesson of how to be a professional with
Speaker 2: me onto every set I have gone on to since
Speaker 2: the day I met him at twelve years old. Being
Speaker 2: able to honor Boy Meets World tonight felt so special,
Speaker 2: like such a gift. I knew full well that I
Speaker 2: was representing every nineties kid, every early aughts everyone who's
Speaker 2: grown up watching Boy Meets World and has no doubt
Speaker 2: learned tons of lessons from mister Feenie. Life lessons, school lessons,
Speaker 2: how to be a good person, lessons I knew that
Speaker 2: this was a great opportunity to channel all of that
Speaker 2: love and respect that you all have for him, and
Speaker 2: then through me and through dance, give him his flowers.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to Bill about it before we
Speaker 2: went out there, and I said, everyone here is so
Speaker 2: excited that you're here. And I said, and everyone online
Speaker 2: is talking about how special this is and how happy
Speaker 2: we are to be able to do this for you.
Speaker 2: And he said, Danielle, I would do anything for you.
Speaker 2: And I thought, Yeah, what an honor that he even
Speaker 2: let me do this at ninety eight years old. To
Speaker 2: leave your house early in the day and then be
Speaker 2: on a stage for eight plus hours, do a dress rehearsal,
Speaker 2: sit in a dressing room.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a lot to ask of somebody. And I know
Speaker 2: he let me do it, as again Bill showing me
Speaker 2: a lot of respect and treating me like a peer.
Speaker 2: But he didn't need to do it, and I'm so
Speaker 2: honored that he did. So I want to give you
Speaker 2: in case you don't know who Bill is other than
Speaker 2: mister Feenie, I do. Just want to give you a
Speaker 2: little bit of a bio. William David Daniels was born
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen twenty seven, and he
Speaker 2: was a child entertainer himself. He was in a family
Speaker 2: variety act as a kid, dancing and singing, and he
Speaker 2: even made his Broadway debut at just the age of sixteen.
Speaker 2: Soon after, he was drafted in nineteen forty five and
Speaker 2: served as a disc jockey for the Army radio station.
Speaker 2: He would then use the GI bill to enroll at
Speaker 2: Northwestern University to study acting and drama. Once he graduated,
Speaker 2: he quickly became a hard working and highly regarded performer
Speaker 2: who would rack up hundreds of credits. He'd returned to
Speaker 2: stage as an adult dozens of times, and a he
Speaker 2: heard in nineteen sixty seven's cinematic classic The Graduate as
Speaker 2: Dustin Hoffman's father. He famously starred as John Adams in
Speaker 2: both the Broadway musical, where he was nominated for a Tony,
Speaker 2: and then the film version of seventeen seventy six, he
Speaker 2: played Doctor Craig on Saint Elsewhere, a role that won
Speaker 2: him two Emmys and made him and his wife and
Speaker 2: co star Bonnie Bartlett, the first husband and wife team
Speaker 2: to take home the award on the same night in
Speaker 2: twenty years It's also worth noting they are currently the
Speaker 2: longest active Hollywood marriage at seventy four years. Seventy four
Speaker 2: years to be married. Some people don't even live to
Speaker 2: be seventy four years old, and they have been married
Speaker 2: for seventy four years. Bill would also voice Kit, the
Speaker 2: car partner of David Hasselhoff, in the show Night Writer
Speaker 2: and Yes. He was also the strict and kind hearted
Speaker 2: educator George Feeney on all seven seasons of Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2: Who would have ever predicted it would be the role
Speaker 2: of his illustrious career. He'd also appear on Gray's Anatomy
Speaker 2: and later show up on Girl Meets World to reprise
Speaker 2: mister Feenie in the Disney reboot. Bill has also made
Speaker 2: it his life goal to give back to the communities
Speaker 2: who gave to him. He's constantly speaking up for civil
Speaker 2: rights and kindness. He was president of the Screen Actors
Speaker 2: Guild from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: and he loves the legacy Feenie has left behind, especially
Speaker 2: the effect it had on viewers who have then gone
Speaker 2: on to enter the field of teaching. In the audience
Speaker 2: tonight was so much of our boy Meets World family,
Speaker 2: will Fredell, Betsy Randall, William, Rusty Russ, Alex de ser,
Speaker 2: Trina McGee, Bonnie Bartlett, Bill's wife, Writer really wanted to
Speaker 2: be here, but he is working out of town. Tony
Speaker 2: Quinn also wanted to be here but could not make it,
Speaker 2: and Matt Lawrence is in Africa, wanted to be here
Speaker 2: but couldn't make it. And Lee Norris lives in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: So I know that everyone was asking me tonight, what
Speaker 2: does it mean to you to have your Boy Meets
Speaker 2: World cast in your family there with you to celebrate
Speaker 2: the show. And I would love to take credit and say, yes,
Speaker 2: they're there to support me, but the truth is every
Speaker 2: single person came out because they wanted to show their
Speaker 2: love and their respect to Bill, and he so rightly
Speaker 2: deserves it. Of course, my real family was also there.
Speaker 2: That's my chosen family, my Boy Meets World family, But
Speaker 2: my real family was there, my mom, my dad, Christine,
Speaker 2: my dad's wife, Jensen's anti Candy was there, my brother
Speaker 2: was there. It was really nice. Obviously, Jensen's there every week,
Speaker 2: not just supporting me in the audience, but also making
Speaker 2: sure all my guests get in the thought that they
Speaker 2: have their credentials and bringing people back and forth and
Speaker 2: just truly taking care of everybody, which means a lot.
Speaker 2: I also had visiting me tonight Janice Leanne Brown The
Speaker 2: Star of Wizards Beyond Waverley Place and Kenzie Richardson The
Speaker 2: Star of Vamparina. Those are two shows I'm able to
Speaker 2: direct for on Disney Channel. It was very sweet of
Speaker 2: them to come out. They looked beautiful. They were all
Speaker 2: glammed up and absolutely gorgeous, and we got to take
Speaker 2: some pictures on the ballroom floor, so.
Speaker 1: That was really fun. I am not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: This was a hard week. It was a hard week.
Speaker 2: We've reached the point in the competition where we're almost
Speaker 2: at the halfway point. Next week is week six and
Speaker 2: there are eleven total weeks of Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 2: so we are all tired. I think today maybe I
Speaker 2: think today's day thirty, since I've had a day off,
Speaker 2: and those days of working are not inconsequential. We're dancing
Speaker 2: a minimum of four hours a day, plus doing interviews
Speaker 2: for the packages, plus doing like OTF interviews, which also
Speaker 2: are for the packages, and we're also doing press interviews.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: It's they are busy, busy days, and then on top
Speaker 2: of that just trying to keep your body healthy and
Speaker 2: trying to stay healthy. This week, lots of people were sick.
Speaker 2: Andy was sick, Jen was sick, Pasha and I. The
Speaker 2: rehearsal space that we normally rehearse in that has beautiful
Speaker 2: floors that are great to dance on, was completely booked
Speaker 2: up for some reason. Everybody wanted the same rehearsal time apparently,
Speaker 2: and so we went to a different location and they
Speaker 2: didn't have as nice as floors. There was concrete right
Speaker 2: below the wood floor, and so for four hours we
Speaker 2: did a jive, jumping and bouncing on concer great floors,
Speaker 2: and both Pasha and myself woke up the next day
Speaker 2: and felt like we had the flu. Like our bones,
Speaker 2: our muscles, everything hurt. And it took a full forty
Speaker 2: eight hours for me to feel like I was even
Speaker 2: remotely normal, And even then I don't feel super normal.
Speaker 2: My right hamstring, the one that I tore, has somehow
Speaker 2: made a miraculous recovery. I don't My doctor wants me
Speaker 2: to go and have more imaging when all of this
Speaker 2: is said and done, just to kind of see where
Speaker 2: the dust is settled, and I'm amazed that I have
Speaker 2: a torn hamstring. It feels really good, and now my
Speaker 2: left one just is not great. But you know, this
Speaker 2: dance also just doesn't come super easily to me as
Speaker 2: much as I would want it to, because I'm a fun, bouncy,
Speaker 2: jumpy person. The stamina required for it it was a lot.
Speaker 2: And also, you know where we needed Bill to be
Speaker 2: in what we call the garage, that little part of
Speaker 2: the Dancing with the Stars ballroom that's like a garage.
Speaker 2: Bill was going to be in there, and we had
Speaker 2: to then get to the center of the dance floor,
Speaker 2: and not just the center, but like the upstage center,
Speaker 2: because for a jive, you want to be able to
Speaker 2: see a lot of head to toe and if you're
Speaker 2: too far down the stage and close to the garage,
Speaker 2: too close to say, carry Ann or beyond carry Anne,
Speaker 2: then you won't see a lot of feet. You're gonna
Speaker 2: just mostly see waste up. And so if we knew
Speaker 2: we wanted people to be able to see our footwork,
Speaker 2: we needed to be pretty far upstage, which meant our
Speaker 2: dance started basically with a full sprint, and when you're rehearsing,
Speaker 2: you don't necessarily have the room that has the long
Speaker 2: enough distance for you to practice that sprint. So a
Speaker 2: lot of times throughout the week we were not sprinting.
Speaker 2: We were just starting the dance, you know, like we'd
Speaker 2: like do a little jog and then we'd start the dance.
Speaker 2: And then yesterday, when we got here for camera blocking
Speaker 2: and we were actually in the space, I looked at
Speaker 2: Pasha and I was like, this is far and yeah,
Speaker 2: so I basically started the dance already winded, which is
Speaker 2: not easy.
Speaker 1: Like the amount of.
Speaker 2: Stamina required to do a jive and to do a
Speaker 2: jive well and to rehearse a jive all week is immense.
Speaker 2: We also had done some choreography Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Speaker 2: Saturday that Pasha thought he was pretty happy with, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't perfect. We knew we were going to work
Speaker 2: on it on Sunday, and then when we arrived on
Speaker 2: Sunday morning, Pasha said, don't hate me, but I'm going
Speaker 2: to change eight counts. And I was like, what what
Speaker 2: did you just say? And he was like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: watched our tape back last night and I'm just not
Speaker 2: thrilled with these eight counts. And I think we can
Speaker 2: do better, and I think the judges might be harsh
Speaker 2: on it, and I really want to change it.
Speaker 1: And man, I want to be the.
Speaker 2: Type a person who after four or five days of
Speaker 2: rehearsing something and then just throw me a curveball and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I got it. I am that way with directing,
Speaker 2: I am that way with acting because I have my
Speaker 2: ten thousand hours in those things.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm doing with dance, and my
Speaker 2: brain really locks onto things. Once my brain locks in
Speaker 2: and goes, this is the routine, this is your choreography.
Speaker 2: It is hard to shake it loose. And he changed
Speaker 2: it on Sunday, and like I wasn't my best self,
Speaker 2: Like I just wasn't my best self. Pasha definitely saw
Speaker 2: the very frustrated side of Danielle, the side that was
Speaker 2: like why are we doing this? And I was really
Speaker 2: beating myself up and I was super frustrated, and I
Speaker 2: felt like I was on the verge of tears a
Speaker 2: couple of times. And you know, there's nothing Pasha could
Speaker 2: do at this point that changes the way I feel
Speaker 2: about him. He is solid as a human being, solid
Speaker 2: as a man, solid as a dancer.
Speaker 1: He is just.
Speaker 2: Truly a plus and so even though I was very
Speaker 2: frustrated with him, and I let him know that I
Speaker 2: was very frustrated with him, I think he also knows
Speaker 2: that it doesn't change a thing about the way I
Speaker 2: feel about him, and I respect him and I appreciate
Speaker 2: his opinion, and I know that if he felt so
Speaker 2: strongly that he wanted to change it, it was for
Speaker 2: good reason. But that doesn't mean that in the moment
Speaker 2: it wasn't hard and that I wasn't a little upset
Speaker 2: by it. I also think this week, being dedication night,
Speaker 2: I felt an enormous amount of pressure to put on
Speaker 2: an even better performance than I normally do. This wasn't
Speaker 2: even a night about me. It was a night about
Speaker 2: somebody named Bill Daniels, who I love and respect so much,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want to go out there and not
Speaker 2: do a good dance. I also felt an immense amount
Speaker 2: of pressure to perform for you, guys, because I know
Speaker 2: that this night was me channeling all of your love
Speaker 2: and respect for Bill and mister Feeney and boy Meets
Speaker 2: World and sending it all to him. And so it
Speaker 2: was just a hard week. You know, and everyone's storylines
Speaker 2: are emotional, and everyone has their family there, and the
Speaker 2: kids were in and out of the rehearsal space, and
Speaker 2: you know, we also didn't get to rehearse with Bill.
Speaker 2: Of course, he's ninety eight years old. He's not leaving
Speaker 2: his house and driving to Hollywood for rehearsals, so we
Speaker 2: didn't really get to rehearse with him. We just, you know,
Speaker 2: so a lot of things changed kind of the last second.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a rough week. I feel really relieved that
Speaker 2: it's over, and I just hope that it was an
Speaker 2: enjoyable night. I haven't watched the performance back yet. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know what everyone saw. I feel
Speaker 2: like I messed up. I know I messed up. I
Speaker 2: don't know exactly where, but I know I made mistakes,
Speaker 2: and I immediately after the dance, I just felt I
Speaker 2: was worried I had let Pasha down.
Speaker 1: And I never want to let Pasha down.
Speaker 2: Because he works so hard for us. So I did.
Speaker 2: On a happier note, I did get my first eight
Speaker 2: from Bruno, who seemed to really enjoy the performance, and
Speaker 2: I squealed when I saw him hold up the eight.
Speaker 2: I was so happy about it. It really means a
Speaker 2: lot to me. I was like, on such a special
Speaker 2: night to get my first EID, I'll remember it forever,
Speaker 2: so that makes me very happy. And I loved having
Speaker 2: Kim there. Kim Johnson is just so well trained in ballroom.
Speaker 2: She's won a mirror Ball twice. She is incredible. I
Speaker 2: thought she was so well spoken. I thought her critiques
Speaker 2: and her feedback for everybody was so great. Her with
Speaker 2: the pen trick that she showed me, Pasha and I
Speaker 2: both audibly gasped when we were on the floor, We're like,
Speaker 2: oh ooh, we are definitely taking that with us into rehearsals.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to put that into play. I thought she
Speaker 2: was lovely and so great to have here. I thought
Speaker 2: she really added to the judge's table tonight, and that's
Speaker 2: hard to do as a guest judge. She really did
Speaker 2: a great job. I thought I totally one hundred percent
Speaker 2: understand exactly what Carrie Anne was talking about. It really
Speaker 2: pained me to hear people booing her, because it takes
Speaker 2: courage for us to be out there dancing, and it
Speaker 2: also takes courage for them to have to critique us
Speaker 2: and to give their honest opinions, even when they know
Speaker 2: they're not going to land well with the audience. I
Speaker 2: always appreciate them being thoughtful and giving feedback because it
Speaker 2: is something for me to work on. When she said,
Speaker 2: she's starting to feel like all of our dances look
Speaker 2: the same, and I thought, Okay, we've had a tango,
Speaker 2: we've had a cha chaw, we've had a quick step
Speaker 2: in a jive. Of course, a quick step in a
Speaker 2: jive are kind of similar in the sense that they're
Speaker 2: both a little bouncy. They're also very upbeat. Tango would
Speaker 2: have been a perfect opportunity for me to not have
Speaker 2: my bright, bubbly, vibrant personality on display. But it was
Speaker 2: the first week of Dancing with the Stars. My story
Speaker 2: of why I chose my anthem song being Stronger because
Speaker 2: I had, you know, survived breast cancer. There were a
Speaker 2: lot of reasons why that night. Although not a traditional
Speaker 2: tango smile because tango's a little more serious, I was
Speaker 2: a smiley person during my tango and it was a choice.
Speaker 2: I could have been a very serious tangoer, but that
Speaker 2: just wasn't the mood for our dance, so I smiled
Speaker 2: through it. So if you think about it from their perspective.
Speaker 2: I did a tango where I smiled. I did a
Speaker 2: cha chaw where I smiled really big. I did a
Speaker 2: quick step where I was smiley and bubbly, and tonight
Speaker 2: I did a jive where I was smiley and bubbly.
Speaker 2: I knew exactly what she meant, even though I had
Speaker 2: not thought about it going into tonight, like, oh, I
Speaker 2: wonder if all these faces and dances look the same.
Speaker 2: But the minute she said it, I thought, she's right,
Speaker 2: and this is a TV show at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, and her saying, listen, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing something else. That's what what I know. That's not
Speaker 2: the word she used, but what I heard was I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing another side of you. And the
Speaker 2: good news is next week they're going to get it.
Speaker 2: They're going to get it for and I have no
Speaker 2: doubt that when I show Carrie Anne a totally different
Speaker 2: side of me and she sees a completely different dance
Speaker 2: style and a completely different demeanor from me, I know
Speaker 2: she will pay attention and I know she will say something.
Speaker 2: I know she's giving me thoughtful feedback because she is
Speaker 2: rooting for me. So that was about how that's my commentary.
Speaker 2: And then Derek was very sweet. I feel like, poor guy.
Speaker 2: When there's four people, it's just so hard for anybody
Speaker 2: to get thoughts in. But I thought what he had
Speaker 2: to say was very kind. Everybody is very kind. We
Speaker 2: also had a last minute song change. Apparently the first
Speaker 2: part of the song they used a different verse, and
Speaker 2: someone at ABC is a very big Boy meets World
Speaker 2: fan and saw our dress rehearsal and was like, hmm,
Speaker 2: you have to include the verse about wandering down this
Speaker 2: road that we call life. It has to be in there.
Speaker 2: It's what everyone wants to hear. And I was like, oh, yeah, duh.
Speaker 2: I don't put in too much. I don't get too
Speaker 2: much commentary on the song choices. So I just kind
Speaker 2: of like, whatever they did, they did. But I'm so
Speaker 2: glad they made that change. It was really nice. Also
Speaker 2: looking really forward to hearing what Sharna Burgess has to
Speaker 2: say about tonight and all of the dances. In case
Speaker 2: you are unaware, she has joined the Danielle with the
Speaker 2: Stars family. She has her own show on our feed
Speaker 2: now called Sharna Burgess in the Fourth Chair. She is
Speaker 2: sharing her thoughtful comments on how what she thought of
Speaker 2: the dances. She's giving us her own scores. She has
Speaker 2: her own scoring method, which maybe is a little more
Speaker 2: harsh than some of the Dancing with the Stars judges are.
Speaker 2: So if you haven't heard that yet, I highly recommend
Speaker 2: that you check it out because she is interesting and
Speaker 2: endlessly knowledgeable. So she's a great person to take lessons from.
Speaker 2: If you have not subscribed to that feed, please make
Speaker 2: sure to do that now. I thought everyone's dances tonight
Speaker 2: were unbelievable. I I cried for every single one. I thought,
Speaker 2: having the kids come out the way they were incorporated.
Speaker 2: Olivia and Dylan's dance, her little broken wrists and her
Speaker 2: pointed toes, and the lift where he carried her down
Speaker 2: the staircase, and then her running out to him at
Speaker 2: the very end. So sweet. Cornelia, Andy's daughter, and her
Speaker 2: little pointed fingers when she went running off the floor
Speaker 2: with her little arms out like this, just so sweet.
Speaker 2: I learned tonight in his package that Cornelia is his
Speaker 2: adopted daughter. I did not know that they are just
Speaker 2: so sweet and so lovely. Robert Irwin, My goodness, I
Speaker 2: got to spend quite a bit of time today, maybe
Speaker 2: about thirty minutes sitting next to Terry Irwin in the
Speaker 2: hair and makeup trailer, and I really got to tell
Speaker 2: her from just the bottom of my heart how unbelievably
Speaker 2: special he is. She has done such an amazing job
Speaker 2: raising those kids. And I told Robert when we were
Speaker 2: in the skybox, if my sons grow up to be
Speaker 2: a fraction of what he is, I will just I
Speaker 2: don't need any other accomplishment in my entire life. Everything
Speaker 2: you see of him, there is not one insincere or
Speaker 2: disingenuous thing about him. He is everything that's good in
Speaker 2: the world is wrapped up in Robert Irwin. And also
Speaker 2: he looks like a freaking movie star. He's like a
Speaker 2: movie star who also happens to be the greatest human
Speaker 2: that's ever lived. Like what that does not seem fair?
Speaker 2: But let me tell you, he is all of those things.
Speaker 2: So I can't say it enough. Vote for Robert or
Speaker 2: when I freaking love the kid. I thought Whitney's dance
Speaker 2: was beautiful. I thought Jen's dance with her mom was incredible.
Speaker 2: I thought Elaine dancing with her best friend. Passion and
Speaker 2: I were talking about what an incredible show this is,
Speaker 2: where in one night you can honor your mother, Jordan,
Speaker 2: honoring her father, Whitney, honoring her husband Scott and Mark
Speaker 2: Gay husband being honored. Bill Daniels ninety eight years old,
Speaker 2: Andy adopted daughter Dylan, five year old little sister alex Earl,
Speaker 2: twelve year old sister from a very tumultuous time in
Speaker 2: their family. Elaine dancing with her best friend at a
Speaker 2: song in a dance about female friendships? Was there anything missed?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: We just ran the gamut of things that you could
Speaker 2: honor and dedicate, no overlaps and just I mean truly unbelievable,
Speaker 2: unbelievable night of television and then surprise, nobody had to
Speaker 2: go home, which I know last week some people were
Speaker 2: surprised that they sent somebody home on Disney Night, and
Speaker 2: so I was just like, oh gosh, this competition is serious.
Speaker 2: They're sending somebody home every single night. And then tonight
Speaker 2: to find out nobody was going home, it felt like
Speaker 2: the right thing to do. It felt like everybody was
Speaker 2: just on such an emotional high that it would have
Speaker 2: felt really, really bad to send someone home. I really Also,
Speaker 2: I have to say I love the twist of dedication
Speaker 2: night having it be somebody who you can incorporate into
Speaker 2: the dance. I do think making it so that everyone
Speaker 2: does have to incorporate someone to the dance limit some
Speaker 2: people so maybe in the future they can do it's
Speaker 2: your choice. You can do it to somebody who's living
Speaker 2: in which case they come out with you, or you
Speaker 2: could do it to somebody who has passed. But I
Speaker 2: thought it really added a very special touch to a
Speaker 2: dedication night, which has always been one of my favorite weeks.
Speaker 2: But I think having people there was it was really nice.
Speaker 2: It made it extra special. I wore a very Tapenga
Speaker 2: coded I have a very Topanga coded look. I don't
Speaker 2: know that's coded. Actually it's just flat out to bang it,
Speaker 2: no code. I have lots of crimmed tear. I have
Speaker 2: butterfly clips. This actually feels very much like the episode
Speaker 2: where Corey hates to Pega's hair and I guess it's
Speaker 2: like a dinner party at the boy's apartment. That was
Speaker 2: definitely the inspiration we took that picture tried to replicate that.
Speaker 2: We tried to do a very nineties makeup look. The dress.
Speaker 2: The pattern was based off of the green shirt that
Speaker 2: Tapega wears that I wear in the hair cutting episode.
Speaker 2: That ends up being tied around my waist after I
Speaker 2: get my hair cut or when I cut my hair,
Speaker 2: So that shirt was the inspo for the dress. And
Speaker 2: then I wore keads because I needed to do a
Speaker 2: lot of jumping and a lot of hopping, and high
Speaker 2: heels were just not going to be in the cards
Speaker 2: for me today. So then I also got to wear
Speaker 2: a very cute little ruffled sock. Pasha got to dance
Speaker 2: in jeans like the first time in seven years. He's
Speaker 2: ever been this comfortable, he said, hands down, it's his
Speaker 2: favorite costume he's ever worn. He got to wear a
Speaker 2: white T shirt and a sparkly flannelish looking shirt. It
Speaker 2: was actually based off of Sean's outfit from the episode
Speaker 2: where he and Corey are secretly they're sneaking around behind
Speaker 2: Christiana Lokan's back. It was based off of a picture
Speaker 2: of Sean in the library where he's peeking back around
Speaker 2: the library bookshelf and he's wearing a blue flannel shirt.
Speaker 2: That's what Pasha's look was based on. And Pasha shaved
Speaker 2: if he clean shaved his face the first time in
Speaker 2: two years he's done that. He trims normally, but he
Speaker 2: did a clean shave. I saw him this morning and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, you look like you're twelve,
Speaker 2: and he said, yeah, well, I'm trying to look like
Speaker 2: a high schooler. I thought he completely pulled it off.
Speaker 2: He was very comfortable. I'm like, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: find a way to incorporate this outfit into tour because
Speaker 2: this is just way too comfortable. Same for me, although
Speaker 2: I will say I actually missed the high heels. My
Speaker 2: feet being flat all my being flat all week kind
Speaker 2: of hurt. I think I'm just used to heels now.
Speaker 2: So I will wrap up this conversation by also telling
Speaker 2: you the jewelry and the watch that I'm wearing today.
Speaker 2: I absolutely of this vintage ap watch that's green, perfectly
Speaker 2: matched my dress. I love it so much. And then
Speaker 2: I'm wearing a pinky ring from my girlfriend Jamie at
Speaker 2: Forever Fine Jewels. I'm also wearing her dangly earrings here
Speaker 2: and then this earring here. So this was a very
Speaker 2: special gift from the Lou Collective. They are on Instagram
Speaker 2: at shop Lou Collective LU and they have got all
Speaker 2: kinds of cute stuff. She actually came to the owner
Speaker 2: of the shop came to a Pod meets World show
Speaker 2: and we got to meet, and I started following her
Speaker 2: and her amazing shop, and she sent me a message
Speaker 2: and said, I'd love to send you a little gift,
Speaker 2: and she showed me a few pieces, and this was
Speaker 2: the one I was just obsessed with. It's a little
Speaker 2: like Little Crawler, so cute, very shiny, very sparkly. And
Speaker 2: I will tell you more information about the designer in
Speaker 2: my Instagram posts that I'll make, and then of course
Speaker 2: I will add that to the highlight back to this watch.
Speaker 2: So it's a vintage ap Ladies Royal Oak Offshore and
Speaker 2: it is courtesy of Eric Wind and Wind Vintage. He
Speaker 2: has been so generous loaning me different watches for the week.
Speaker 2: The minute I know what I'm wearing the next week,
Speaker 2: I send a picture of it to Eric and he
Speaker 2: then sends me back a list of the watches that
Speaker 2: he has. I get to look through them, my favorite
Speaker 2: kind of shopping, and he sends one to me to wear,
Speaker 2: which is so nice. And then of course I have
Speaker 2: also been mixing in some of my personal pieces. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, next week, I think I know
Speaker 2: exactly which personal piece I'm going to wear. It's another
Speaker 2: watch that is near and dear to my heart. I'm
Speaker 2: so lucky that I have friends that let me use
Speaker 2: their gorgeous talents and their passions and the jewels and
Speaker 2: the watches that they have become ex berts in and
Speaker 2: let me borrow them week after week so that I
Speaker 2: could share them with you. Next week it's Wicked Week.
Speaker 2: Very excited we are going to be able to do
Speaker 2: a full departure from our normal style. I think Carrie
Speaker 2: Inn will be very happy. Pasha and I are very
Speaker 2: excited about our song choice and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: So Guest Judge John m Chu, I can't even believe
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in the same room with him.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. He is an amazing director. So very
Speaker 2: excited for him to join us, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to it. I hope Tonight's dance and this dedication night
Speaker 2: was as special to you as it was to all
Speaker 2: of us. It really meant a lot to all of us,
Speaker 2: and to all of you Boy Meets World fans and
Speaker 2: all of you supporters who have been voting for me
Speaker 2: week after week. Thank you so much, And on behalf
Speaker 2: of Bill, thank you for sending us all your love
Speaker 2: and all your support and uh, we can't wait to
Speaker 2: keep doing this for you week after week until you
Speaker 2: know the wheels fall off. I appreciate you all.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll see you next time. Bye. Danielle with the Stars
Speaker 2: Produced and hosted by Danielle Fischl. Executive producers Jensen Carp
Speaker 2: and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production Danielle Romo, Producer,
Speaker 2: editor and engineer Tara Sudbosch. Theme song by Justin Siegel.
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