Speaker 1: Hello, It's Danielle Fischel checking in. Podcaster, TV director and
Speaker 1: mom of two, most commonly recognized on these streets as Topanga.
Speaker 1: But right now I am appearing on your television sets
Speaker 1: once again as part of Dancing with the Stars Season
Speaker 1: thirty four, immersed as a competitor in the world of
Speaker 1: ballroom dance. I've gone from not even having one minute
Speaker 1: of dance experience unless you count dance in at a wedding,
Speaker 1: so now abandoning my family essentially to practice for what
Speaker 1: feels like twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
Speaker 1: alongside my assigned pro partner, Pasha Pashkov, and throughout the journey,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping you up to date with everything that is
Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes in the form of this
Speaker 1: here podcast, Danielle with the Stars, all in the hopes
Speaker 1: of being able to add the title of Len Goodman
Speaker 1: Mirror Ball Trophy winner to my Wikipedia right behind Chef,
Speaker 1: which I never was. That may not be on my
Speaker 1: Wikipedia anymore, but it used to be one of my
Speaker 1: favorite little tidbits. Guys, you won't believe this. We are
Speaker 1: making an exclusive announcement about week five dedication night. You
Speaker 1: are not going to want to miss this. Who will
Speaker 1: I be dedicating my dance to? What song am I
Speaker 1: dancing to? It's going to be very special and you
Speaker 1: will find out in just a little bit. First though,
Speaker 1: I am hot off the press line for week four,
Speaker 1: marking one month of competition, and tonight was Disney Night,
Speaker 1: so you may notice I'm not in my wardrobe tonight.
Speaker 1: In the past, I've come off the press line, I've
Speaker 1: run in here, and I have started this here podcast.
Speaker 1: It occurred to us we are making other people and
Speaker 1: other departments wait while I had weight to take off
Speaker 1: my costume, wait to cut. They sometimes sew my hair
Speaker 1: into itself, so like today for Disney Night, I was
Speaker 1: Blue from the Jungle Book, and we put my hair
Speaker 1: in the shape of cute little bear ears in order
Speaker 1: to make sure they don't go anywhere that they're super secure.
Speaker 1: They literally take a needle and thread and they sew
Speaker 1: your hair into itself. And then at the end of
Speaker 1: the night, I can't take that down. I'm not dressed
Speaker 1: in gentsen with a pair of scissors by my hair. Insane,
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. So the hair and makeup department stays to
Speaker 1: help me get out of my wardrobe and hair and
Speaker 1: makeup stuff, not just me, all of the competitors. But
Speaker 1: so anyway, I have changed, I have done the press line.
Speaker 1: Disney Night was amazing. I thought all the performances were spectacular.
Speaker 1: The opening night choreographed by the one and only Mandy Moore,
Speaker 1: guest of this podcast, that you guys absolutely loved. I've
Speaker 1: heard so much great feedback about her episode. She is
Speaker 1: a true gem of a human and an absolute talent.
Speaker 1: The pros all love working with her. There's just such
Speaker 1: a difference working with her than there is with working
Speaker 1: with other choreographers, so she is spectacular. Opening number was amazing.
Speaker 1: It's one of the maybe the best Disney Night I've
Speaker 1: ever seen as a fan of the show. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what your thoughts were, but I think it
Speaker 1: was top tier. I danced a quick step with Pasha too,
Speaker 1: I Want to Be Like You the Monkey song from
Speaker 1: the Jungle Book. I've always loved the Jungle Book. I
Speaker 1: love this song. It's got those iconic little moments. I
Speaker 1: want to walk like you, talk like you, be like you.
Speaker 1: From the moment Pasha and I started talking about Disney Night,
Speaker 1: what did we want to do? The Jungle Book was
Speaker 1: right up there at the top of my list for possibilities.
Speaker 1: And the minute I said it, Pasha was like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I want to be like you. Is
Speaker 1: a perfect quick step, and I said, great, let's do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the quick step, but let's
Speaker 1: do it. Turns out the quick step is quick. It's
Speaker 1: also ballroomy. That's not a word, but I'm saying it anyway,
Speaker 1: which means lots of frame, you know, Like Pasha describes
Speaker 1: it as looking like bananas. So much banana talk this
Speaker 1: week between Pasha being King Louis the Ape and me
Speaker 1: being Blue the Bear, and our frame being like opposing bananas.
Speaker 1: So Pasha likes to take two bananas and put them
Speaker 1: back to back, and that's what our frame should look like.
Speaker 1: I have a bit of a janky neck. I don't
Speaker 1: have a great neck. For one thing, it's very short
Speaker 1: and squatty. For another thing, it cracks very easily and
Speaker 1: it gets very stiff, and like, I don't have a long,
Speaker 1: graceful giraffe neck, and yet you have to for a
Speaker 1: lot of these dances. So I'm really still working on that.
Speaker 1: And this dance is a bit of a challenge because
Speaker 1: you go from bouncing around very quickly to with very
Speaker 1: little time having to be long, graceful and elegant and
Speaker 1: like a banana. So anyway, I didn't think I was
Speaker 1: going to love this dance. I freaking love it. It's by
Speaker 1: far my favorite dance we've done thus far. We've done
Speaker 1: a tango, a fox trot, the chat scha, and now
Speaker 1: the quick step. The quick step is by far my favorite.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like Chachag I've given a good shot
Speaker 1: to because I was injured that week and I couldn't
Speaker 1: feel my kneecap floating around and all the fluid, and
Speaker 1: so I feel like I would have enjoyed that dance
Speaker 1: more if I wasn't so worried about whether or not
Speaker 1: my leg was gonna hold up my body. But no
Speaker 1: matter what, the quick step is definitely my favorite. It's
Speaker 1: bubbly and fun, and Pasha and I got to show
Speaker 1: a really fun, super playful side of our personalities, which
Speaker 1: is just kind of the dominating factor of our personalities.
Speaker 1: We have so much fun together. Every day, although we're
Speaker 1: working really hard, is spent just like laughing and telling
Speaker 1: each other backstories for what's going on in this dance
Speaker 1: and you know, like I remember Week one with the tango,
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a feeling of like
Speaker 1: trying to contain some of my smiling, joyful nature because
Speaker 1: a tango was supposed to be a little intense, and
Speaker 1: I didn't do a great job of containing that in
Speaker 1: week one. But in this week, Week four quick Step,
Speaker 1: I didn't have to contain it at all, and that
Speaker 1: just felt really nice. I just got to smile the
Speaker 1: whole time and look at my friend who is my
Speaker 1: choreographer and dance partner, and we just got to have fun.
Speaker 1: So it was a really great week. I'm a little
Speaker 1: disappointed that our scores didn't improve, obviously, I'm thrilled that
Speaker 1: our scores didn't go down. I feel like that would
Speaker 1: have been really disappointing. But I was really hoping that
Speaker 1: tonight was going to be the night that I saw
Speaker 1: my first eight and it didn't happen yet, So the
Speaker 1: good news is I still have that to look forward to.
Speaker 1: We were told for this night, Disney Night, that we
Speaker 1: could pick any song from the Disney catalog, and that
Speaker 1: specifically they were hoping for a focus on Disneyland because
Speaker 1: tonight's Disney Night was in celebration of Disneyland Resorts seventieth celebration.
Speaker 1: Disneyland has been around for seventy years. The Jungle Cruise
Speaker 1: opened at Disneyland on day one, so the Jungle Cruise
Speaker 1: has been around for all seventy years, which is another
Speaker 1: reason we thought it was a perfect movie and song
Speaker 1: to choose for tonight. We got to go to Disneyland
Speaker 1: to shoot some of our packages and the car picked
Speaker 1: us up super early in the morning. We got down
Speaker 1: to Disneyland, we got to ride the Jungle Cruise. We
Speaker 1: got to eat a doll whip. So Pasha, you guys
Speaker 1: have heard me joke about how much Pasha likes rice cakes.
Speaker 1: Pasha also loved more than anything if like for his
Speaker 1: number one favorite sweet food is ice cream. He loves
Speaker 1: ice cream, specifically ice cream, not gelato, although there are
Speaker 1: some gelatos he likes, but he really likes ice cream.
Speaker 1: His favorite milkshake is a pineapple milkshake. Pasha has never
Speaker 1: had a doll whip. He's been to Disneyland a bunch
Speaker 1: of times. For some reason, he's never tried a dole whip.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know they existed. So I was thrilled
Speaker 1: because I love me some food, and I love me
Speaker 1: some Disney Park food. So I was thrilled to introduce
Speaker 1: him to a doll whip they had, I think it's
Speaker 1: fairly new, something called the Pineapple Upside Down Sunday and
Speaker 1: it is a pineapple upside down cake with doll whip
Speaker 1: soft serve and a caramel drizzle. And he said he
Speaker 1: was gonna or toward that. He was like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: definitely what I'm getting. And I was like, oh, just
Speaker 1: why don't you just be a purist and get the
Speaker 1: little like classic one like I'm gonna get. And he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I want this one. And I was like, okay, ah,
Speaker 1: he ordered, He ordered right. It was really good. The
Speaker 1: cake was a nice little texture. It was great. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm talking too much about food, so you can tell
Speaker 1: I'm probably hungry. So that was really fun. I got
Speaker 1: to introduce him to that. Now that's going to be
Speaker 1: a staple of every time Danny and Pasha take Kiki
Speaker 1: to Disneyland, They're going to have to get the Pineapple
Speaker 1: Upside Down Sunday. We got to ride the Jungle Cruise,
Speaker 1: which was super fun. We also got to ride Pirates
Speaker 1: of the Caribbean, which was really really fun. Those are
Speaker 1: two of my favorite rides there. That was great. And
Speaker 1: then when we left we had to go after Disneyland,
Speaker 1: so the car picked us up at five forty five
Speaker 1: in the morning. We got down there around seven forty
Speaker 1: five in the morning. We wrapped around ten forty five,
Speaker 1: and then we had rehearsal at one. From one to five,
Speaker 1: Pasha and I were starving. It's the only thing we
Speaker 1: had eaten was dole whip and a banana. We lots
Speaker 1: of bananas on this show, and so on the way
Speaker 1: home we grabbed turkey legs and French fries, and Pasha
Speaker 1: and I sat in the back of the car and
Speaker 1: devoured turkey legs. We had grease all over our face
Speaker 1: and all over our fingers, and at the end of
Speaker 1: our rehearsal we went to go record the dance and
Speaker 1: I got real close to the mirror for the first
Speaker 1: time and realized I still had turkey grease on the
Speaker 1: edge of my nose. It had been there for four hours.
Speaker 1: And not only did he not notice, he didn't tell
Speaker 1: me and he didn't notice. So I wore an incredible
Speaker 1: dress that day. I've been following this fantastic talented woman
Speaker 1: named Kelsey. Her Instagram handle is at rope Drop Design
Speaker 1: and she takes vintage, officially licensed Disney Wares, sheets, comforters,
Speaker 1: you name it, and then she upcycles them, which is
Speaker 1: a term to say that she takes something old and
Speaker 1: vintage and turns it into something new and modern. And
Speaker 1: she took a jungle Book children's bed sheet and she
Speaker 1: turned it into a fabulous, adorable puff sleeve dress. Like
Speaker 1: the puff sleeve is like making all my aerial dreams
Speaker 1: come true. And the jungle Book print is so cute.
Speaker 1: It was the perfect length, it fit me perfectly. She
Speaker 1: asked for my measurements, sent them to her, and she
Speaker 1: made it in rapid time, sent it to me and
Speaker 1: it was so cute. And then as a little homage
Speaker 1: to Boy Meets World and to Tapanga, I paired it
Speaker 1: with a pair of red cowboy boots. And if you're
Speaker 1: a fan of Boy Meets World, you know that Tapanga
Speaker 1: war red cowboy boots in the Disney World episode of
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World. Kind of that famous photo of me
Speaker 1: in the white shorts and the red and white striped
Speaker 1: mock turtleneck crop top with the red cowboy boots, and
Speaker 1: so I wanted to give a little nod to Tapega
Speaker 1: and to Boy Meets World with that outfit. And yeah,
Speaker 1: then we went to rehearsal and rehearse the rest of
Speaker 1: the day, and you guys got to see the dance tonight.
Speaker 1: It was so great. It was our first real fast
Speaker 1: dance all week long. So when we normally do something
Speaker 1: kind of fast like the chat Shaw, we slowed it
Speaker 1: down like we would rehearse it. And Pasha has an
Speaker 1: app that he can play the song and then slow
Speaker 1: it down and play it at eighty percent speed. And
Speaker 1: so to make sure that my brain computes all the
Speaker 1: steps that I need to do, we start at like
Speaker 1: eighty and then we jump up to eighty five, and
Speaker 1: then we go to ninety and then eventually I get
Speaker 1: to one hundred percent speed. This dance we never had
Speaker 1: to do that with, which is really great. I was
Speaker 1: able to do it from at one hundred percent kind
Speaker 1: of from the beginning, and rehearsals were really fun. I
Speaker 1: was nervous that I wasn't gonna have the stamina. It's
Speaker 1: so much jumping and so much hopping, And on day one,
Speaker 1: Pasha had no idea what he was in for Was
Speaker 1: I gonna be a natural at this dance? Was I
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible at this dance? And on the first
Speaker 1: day he was like, Okay, let's practice this move and
Speaker 1: then he like walked me through them. And it's the
Speaker 1: part it's the Lindy Hop part, which is where in
Speaker 1: the middle of the dance, we like I step back
Speaker 1: on my foot. It's called a rock step and then
Speaker 1: a kickstep. And he was like, the combination is a
Speaker 1: rock step, a kickstep, a kickstep, a rock step, and
Speaker 1: then it's kickstep, kickstep, kickstep, rock step. And he shows
Speaker 1: it to me and I'm like okay, and then he
Speaker 1: takes my hand and I do it, and I do
Speaker 1: it pretty well, like kind of right off the bat.
Speaker 1: And you should have seen the relief on Pasha's face
Speaker 1: and his whole body was like, oh, okay, okay, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: you can do this. And I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I can do this. He's like, no, you have
Speaker 1: no idea. This is real make or break, Like, this
Speaker 1: is a real make or break thing. If you can't
Speaker 1: do this, you're just not gonna have a good quick step.
Speaker 1: And I picked it up pretty fast. It is interesting
Speaker 1: to me that that is the part that then tonight
Speaker 1: the judges said I made a mistake, and Bruno said, no,
Speaker 1: you know, you know. He's like, you know, you know
Speaker 1: the mistake that you made, and I wanted to I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, like, do I know the mistake that
Speaker 1: I made? Because I definitely know when I'm off anytime
Speaker 1: we've rehearsed the dance, I am the first person to
Speaker 1: be like, oop's missed a step. And if I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what the step is, I still I'll know
Speaker 1: the area where I'm off. I'm like, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: something over there near the rock step or the kickstep,
Speaker 1: like did I gather? Did I not rock step? Like?
Speaker 1: What did I do? And I didn't feel like anything
Speaker 1: was off, but we went back and watched it. So
Speaker 1: somebody recorded it on the monitor for us, and we
Speaker 1: went and watched it. And although I'm not technically off,
Speaker 1: there is a moment in the rock step kickstep where
Speaker 1: Pasha and I are not perfectly SYNCD, which means I
Speaker 1: was probably half a beat late on one of my kicks.
Speaker 1: I didn't even miss the kick. It wasn't like I
Speaker 1: missed a step. It's just that the timing wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1: So that's what I think is the mistake that they're
Speaker 1: talking about during the Lindy Hop. And on the one hand,
Speaker 1: I'm bummed that that kind of what feels like a
Speaker 1: kind of a minor mistake was something that they all
Speaker 1: really noticed and felt like was kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: And on the other hand, I'm really happy that with
Speaker 1: a like difficult dance with all kinds of frame and
Speaker 1: all the stuff about my shoulders we've talked about and
Speaker 1: all of that, that like that's the thing they commented on.
Speaker 1: That means everything else was really great. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find all the silver linings where I can so
Speaker 1: that I continue to stay motivated to just learn and
Speaker 1: become better. We after week, so that's kind of where
Speaker 1: I'm at. We got three sevens, which is the same
Speaker 1: score we had last week. I'm still really looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting an eight. Maybe next week will be that week.
Speaker 1: Today's camera blocking started with not a good performance for
Speaker 1: me from the beginning. I know how important counting is
Speaker 1: while I go through the dance. It helps me stay
Speaker 1: directly on beat. It helps me know exactly what my
Speaker 1: steps are. If you hear me counting out loud in
Speaker 1: my rehearsal videos, you'd be like, what even is she saying?
Speaker 1: And I can give you an example, like the dance starts.
Speaker 1: You hear the four clicks. There's like click click, click click,
Speaker 1: and at the top of the dance, it's one beat
Speaker 1: per move because I'm doing my feet, so it goes
Speaker 1: so one two, three, four, five, six seven eight one
Speaker 1: two three four five, and then Pasha pops up and
Speaker 1: then from there we just count odds, so it's five
Speaker 1: seven one three five seven, one three five seven. Then
Speaker 1: we run down the stairs and then I'm no longer counting,
Speaker 1: and after we run down the stairs, we go too slow,
Speaker 1: quick and quick slow quick and quick step pop step
Speaker 1: pop gather and then you go rock kick kick rock.
Speaker 1: I That's what I'm saying in my head as I go.
Speaker 1: Not only does it tell me what I'm doing, but
Speaker 1: it helps keep me on beat. This morning, for my
Speaker 1: first camera blocking, even though I know how important counting is,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna try this one without counting
Speaker 1: it and just see like what kind of performance I
Speaker 1: get out of it. And then I learned, you know
Speaker 1: what happens when you don't count it in your head,
Speaker 1: you get not so great performance, and there were a
Speaker 1: couple of places that I was off, and we did
Speaker 1: it a second time, significantly better the second time, and
Speaker 1: then we did a dress rehearsal, and in the dress rehearsal,
Speaker 1: I definitely messed up the Lindy Hop. I did step
Speaker 1: pop step pop gather, gathered my feet, and then I
Speaker 1: skipped my rock step and I went from gathering my
Speaker 1: feet directly into kickstep, which meant that I was completely
Speaker 1: off time with Pasha, and he like grabbed my hand
Speaker 1: in a way that let me know I was off,
Speaker 1: and by the time we got to the next kickstep,
Speaker 1: I was back on with him. But I definitely made
Speaker 1: a mistake during my dress rehearsal, which is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bummer because that's your last and true opportunities,
Speaker 1: your first and only time you're doing your dance in
Speaker 1: your costume, with your hair and makeup completely done, so
Speaker 1: it's the closest you're going to have to doing it
Speaker 1: for the show, and yeah, you really want that one
Speaker 1: to go well. So it did go well. Everything else
Speaker 1: was great and it was overall fine, but I did
Speaker 1: screw up the Lindy Hop there for sure. Pasha was
Speaker 1: so happy with the way tonight's dance went, and honestly,
Speaker 1: like every week, everyone's super supportive. This week, the amount
Speaker 1: of people who came up to us and said, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this is by far your best performance, this
Speaker 1: is your best dance. This is like everyone was saying
Speaker 1: it. It was very sweet. And after the performance, everybody came
Speaker 1: up to me and was like, that was so great.
Speaker 1: Pasha was happy, and Pasha said the same thing. Pasha
Speaker 1: was like, I know when you're off. I didn't think
Speaker 1: you were off, but then when we watched the tape,
Speaker 1: like I said, we were able to see what the
Speaker 1: judges saw, what they were talking about, that there was
Speaker 1: a moment where we weren't perfectly in sync, which I
Speaker 1: say we were not That means I was not. I Pasha,
Speaker 1: of course, is always perfect. I was off by half
Speaker 1: a beat and so okay, I have room to grow.
Speaker 1: Next week, I have two announcements. One I've already teased
Speaker 1: that I want to tell you about Dedication Week next week.
Speaker 1: But before I get into Dedication Week next week, I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you that Dancing with the Stars legend
Speaker 1: Sharna Burgess will be joining the Danielle with the Stars family.
Speaker 1: She's taking the insightful hot takes and ex spurt scores
Speaker 1: that she has been sharing every week on TikTok and
Speaker 1: turning it into a podcast Shanna Burgess in the fourth chair.
Speaker 1: Every Thursday morning, it will be added to the Danielle
Speaker 1: with the Stars feed and you can hear her thoughts
Speaker 1: on everyone's dances and the scores. She is so smart
Speaker 1: and so cool and has helped me so much just
Speaker 1: by talking on TikTok and I love listening and watching her,
Speaker 1: so I'm happy to bring it to all of you.
Speaker 1: So make sure to subscribe to the Danielle with the
Speaker 1: Stars feed so that you never miss an episode of that.
Speaker 1: I got to see everyone's dances tonight for the first time,
Speaker 1: from top to bottom, with the exception of I went
Speaker 1: and did a TikTok live after Pasha and I danced.
Speaker 1: I've been going on TikTok Live occasionally and it's been
Speaker 1: so much fun. Everyone comes on and has great questions
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed that, so that was nice. I
Speaker 1: got to see Jen and Yahn's performs first of all
Speaker 1: Disney Week makeup and like Yan in All Blue as
Speaker 1: the Genie and his goateee in the ponytail, and Jen
Speaker 1: is such a perfect jasmine Mark and Whitney's Hamilton. What
Speaker 1: a performance, what a dance, so much fun. Hilaria and
Speaker 1: Gleb who were unfortunately let go tonight, which another shocking elimination.
Speaker 1: They're all going to feel shocking. I think I e
Speaker 1: was also in the bottom three, and I know that
Speaker 1: they say that it's not necessarily really the bottom three,
Speaker 1: that only one person is the person who goes home
Speaker 1: was definitely in the bottom three, and that the other
Speaker 1: two people may have even at the most scores. There's
Speaker 1: like they just kind of throw that in there. But
Speaker 1: still in my mind, I'm going to treat it like
Speaker 1: a wake up call and I don't ever want to
Speaker 1: be in the bottom three again, which I know there's
Speaker 1: no way around that it's eventually gonna happen, but I
Speaker 1: don't like it. It was a bad feeling. And next
Speaker 1: week I just want to I really want to get
Speaker 1: my first eight. That's the that's the main goal. That's
Speaker 1: my main I mean, obviously the main goal is to
Speaker 1: become better and better every week, but like, how do
Speaker 1: you see that you're getting better and better every week,
Speaker 1: hopefully your scores improved. So I'm really hoping for an eight.
Speaker 1: Standing up there when that red light hits and you
Speaker 1: were finding out that you're in the bottom three, and
Speaker 1: then they do those long, beautiful, good TV dramatic moments
Speaker 1: where they just don't say anything for a long time,
Speaker 1: and my heart was beating through my chest and I
Speaker 1: could feel Pasha, you know, like taking deep breaths, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you don't hear your name, you hear
Speaker 1: two p ball, you hear Hilaria and Gleb, And the
Speaker 1: feeling of you being relieved that you're safe is is not.
Speaker 1: You don't even have like a few seconds of that
Speaker 1: being your primary feeling. It's absolutely simultaneous. At the exact
Speaker 1: same breath that you're like, I'm safe, the opposite feeling
Speaker 1: is and they are not. And Hilaria and I have
Speaker 1: spent quite a bit of time together. Her children are
Speaker 1: big Girl Meets World fans. Her daughter Carmen is just
Speaker 1: so sweet and her all of her children are great.
Speaker 1: And Gleb. I have really really loved getting to know Gleb.
Speaker 1: He's very funny, he's incredibly sweet. I'm gonna miss his
Speaker 1: smile and his big, warm hugs and his just supportive nature.
Speaker 1: Anytime I see him in the hallway, he says, Oh, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I just love watching you dance, which is like such
Speaker 1: a nic compliment. None of them are going to be easy,
Speaker 1: just none of them are going to be easy from
Speaker 1: here on out. Today in the audience here for me,
Speaker 1: it was so nice to have MEMI my friend Mimi Ganopolis,
Speaker 1: who is the mom on Wizards Beyond Waverley Place, her
Speaker 1: and her husband Brett were here for me today. And
Speaker 1: then Carmen Sanchez and Ruby Marino, two of the stars
Speaker 1: of Electric Bloom, a new show on Disney Channel that
Speaker 1: I have had the incredible honor of directing. They were
Speaker 1: here in the audience for me today. Also Christine Laken,
Speaker 1: my dear friend of thirty plus years, and her daughter
Speaker 1: were in the audience. Patrick Renna, my friend also for
Speaker 1: thirty plus years, who you might know from the Sandlot,
Speaker 1: was in the audience for me today, which was also
Speaker 1: so incredibly special. I mean, he also is like a
Speaker 1: full social media star. I wish I would have had
Speaker 1: time to ask him some TikTok tricks, because if you
Speaker 1: are not following Patrick Renna on TikTok. Do yourself a
Speaker 1: favor and look him up and follow him. He is
Speaker 1: pretty spectacular. And then I had my dear friend Cassie
Speaker 1: Joe and her husband Brandon and their beautiful daughter Swazee
Speaker 1: in the audience. They live in Arkansas now, but they
Speaker 1: used to live in California, and Cassie Joe was one
Speaker 1: of our NIICU nurses when Jensen and I had Adler,
Speaker 1: and Adler spent the first month of his life in
Speaker 1: the hospital, we obviously became pretty close to some of
Speaker 1: the nurses. Two of our favorite nurses, Quinn and Cassie Joe,
Speaker 1: and we have kept in touch even though they have
Speaker 1: moved back to Arkansas, and they are die hard Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars fans. Cassie Joe has watched all thirty
Speaker 1: four seasons all twenty years. She's never missed an episode.
Speaker 1: And Swaze, her daughter, who's five, is just the biggest fan,
Speaker 1: so cute. So I invited them. They flew here from Arkansas.
Speaker 1: They got to be in the ballroom. All Swazy wanted
Speaker 1: was one to give me a hug and two to
Speaker 1: have Pasha twirl her on the ballroom floor. And not
Speaker 1: only did he twirl her. He did full spins and
Speaker 1: he dipped her and she, my god, she just night
Speaker 1: of her life and she's the cutest thing. I also
Speaker 1: had my very good friend Kathy who was there with me.
Speaker 1: Of course, Jensen, my husband, my biggest supporter, he was
Speaker 1: there tonight. And then my friend Erica flew in from Texas,
Speaker 1: so I had quite quite a cheering section. It was
Speaker 1: very very nice. You know. My favorite part of doing
Speaker 1: this is that I get to show you the watch
Speaker 1: I was wearing and the jewelry I was wearing. So
Speaker 1: I am wearing this beautiful watch. It's a Daniel Roth watch.
Speaker 1: Check this out. It's so pretty. I love it so much.
Speaker 1: It was compliments of Eric Wind who let me borrow it.
Speaker 1: I'll put the information for you in the highlight on
Speaker 1: my Instagram page all about the watches, and it is.
Speaker 1: It's got diamonds set in yellow gold and the face
Speaker 1: is gray and it's just so beautiful, so special. Thank
Speaker 1: you to Eric Wind and Wind Vintage. And I'm wearing
Speaker 1: jewels again from my friend Jamie at Forever Fine Jewels.
Speaker 1: I wore the Chubby Huggies Loser the I wore these
Speaker 1: last weekend. But I have not worn these little daggers,
Speaker 1: and I think these are just so cute. I love these.
Speaker 1: This is a necklace that my mom gave me. It
Speaker 1: was actually it was originally a gift from my dad
Speaker 1: to my mom, and then my mom gifted it to
Speaker 1: me on my wedding day, my first wedding day. But
Speaker 1: who's counting anyway? Now it's mine. A lot of you
Speaker 1: loved my WWE entrance TikTok slash, Instagram reel. It's hands
Speaker 1: down the favorite, my favorite social media post we've done
Speaker 1: thus far. Of course, it's just so up my alley.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. Pasha had absolutely no idea
Speaker 1: what was going on, but he loved it. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to be doing a part two and it will
Speaker 1: be the women's division of my WWE entrances. So I
Speaker 1: can't wait to show you guys all of that. Speaking
Speaker 1: of next week, it's Dedication Week, Week five of Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars. Everyone's been asking who's it gonna be,
Speaker 1: what's gonna what are you gonna do? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be your husband? Is it gonna be your kids? I
Speaker 1: am doing my Dedication Week dance with none other than
Speaker 1: mister Bill Daniels, mister Feenie himself is going to be
Speaker 1: on the ballroom floor with me, and we are going
Speaker 1: to be dancing a jive. Let me clarify when I
Speaker 1: say we are going to dance a jive, I mean
Speaker 1: Pasha and I are going to dance a jive. And
Speaker 1: Bill is going to be on the ballroom floor with us,
Speaker 1: and he's going to participate in the dance as well,
Speaker 1: and we are dancing to the Boy Meets World theme song.
Speaker 1: Saying it out loud feels crazy, but yes, we get
Speaker 1: to dance to the Boy Meets World theme song, the
Speaker 1: one you all know and love, and Bill Nils is
Speaker 1: going to be on the ballroom floor with us, and
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. It's really a dedication to Bill and
Speaker 1: the role he has played in my life and the
Speaker 1: role Boy Meets World has played in my life. I
Speaker 1: have really felt like Dancing with the Stars has been
Speaker 1: a second act for me in my career and as
Speaker 1: a performer. And as I look around at some of
Speaker 1: the other contestants who are so inspiring as well. Elaine
Speaker 1: is fifty four, Andy's in his fifties, and I think
Speaker 1: about how inspiring it is to know that age really
Speaker 1: is just a number, and as long as you really
Speaker 1: want to do something, you can continue to do it.
Speaker 1: And like, who is a better example that than ninety
Speaker 1: eight year old Bill Daniels who still goes to conventions
Speaker 1: and is next week going to be on Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars ballroom floor. Like, he's just such an inspiration
Speaker 1: to so many of us. And to be able to
Speaker 1: say thank you to him and to give him this
Speaker 1: kind of a platform for him to receive the love
Speaker 1: that he deserves is going to be very memorable. So
Speaker 1: I'm very, very excited about that. I can't wait. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys for voting so that I was able to
Speaker 1: get to this point of dedication week. That's not going
Speaker 1: to be the only surprise. There are going to be
Speaker 1: other surprises next week. I can't tell you everything right now,
Speaker 1: but there will be some special guests in the audience.
Speaker 1: Some people I'm shocked or able to be there, but
Speaker 1: I'm so happy or able to be there, And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going to be really special. Again, thank you to
Speaker 1: all of you for all of your support, all of
Speaker 1: your messages, all of your encouragement. I am still just
Speaker 1: having the time of my life and the fact that you, guys,
Speaker 1: continue to vote for me and let me stick around.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to just create more content for you,
Speaker 1: have more fun, and continue to light up the ballroom floor,
Speaker 1: hopefully getting better every week. Guys, come on, we have
Speaker 1: to get our first eight. I know. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for that to happen. Maybe it'll be Bill. Maybe next
Speaker 1: week Bill will be my lucky charm and the Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World theme song, And it's my love letter to
Speaker 1: all of you and to Bill and a Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Thank you all for listening to this
Speaker 1: episode of Danielle with the Stars. I will see you soon. Bye.
Speaker 1: Danielle with the Stars Produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel.
Speaker 1: Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge
Speaker 1: of production, Danielle Romo, Producer, editor and engineer Tara Sudbosch.
Speaker 1: Theme song by Justin Siegel. Follow us on Instagram at
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