Speaker 1: Hello, Danielle with the Stars gang. It's Danielle Fishal podcaster,
Speaker 1: TV director, mother of two and to Panga Lawrence, daughter
Speaker 1: of Jedediah and Rhianna and Lawrence from the TV show
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2: But if you're listening to.
Speaker 1: Me right now, you are well aware that I am
Speaker 1: also an aspiring ballroom dancer on season thirty four of
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars and a student of shiz University.
Speaker 1: Because it was wicked night, and despite having no prior
Speaker 1: dance experience, I have now completely submitted my body and
Speaker 1: well being to the art form and institution of dance
Speaker 1: alongside my partner, the incredible Pasha Pashkov, and included in
Speaker 1: this commitment has been a podcast set in motion to
Speaker 1: share my first hand experience with you, and it's called
Speaker 1: Danielle with the Stars. You'll write along as I avoid
Speaker 1: total body breakdown, learn new dances every week, and stare
Speaker 1: longingly at the Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy like a
Speaker 1: dog at the window of Ruth's. Chris and I am
Speaker 1: joining you now fresh off the press line of what
Speaker 1: was a jam packed night of action, fancy footwork, incredible sets,
Speaker 1: fantastic music, and it was Wicked night, I danced the
Speaker 1: Argentine tango to the song No Good Deed, as featured
Speaker 1: in both the musical Wicked and Part two for Good.
Speaker 1: I was nine out of ten to perform tonight. I
Speaker 1: really felt a lot of pressure for tonight's dance last week,
Speaker 1: felt like getting that feedback, specifically from Carrie Anne that
Speaker 1: she thought our dances looked the same, and I totally
Speaker 1: knew what she meant, and I really wanted to have
Speaker 1: exactly what she called tonight, which was my breakthrough dance
Speaker 1: and my breakthrough night. I really wanted to have a
Speaker 1: breakthrough week, and I knew that we were getting to
Speaker 1: the point in the competition where if I didn't have one,
Speaker 1: it was possible, it was just never going to happen.
Speaker 1: And I knew it was possible, Like I knew it
Speaker 1: was possible. I knew I could do it. I knew
Speaker 1: I had it in me. I knew Pasha was capable of,
Speaker 1: you know, doing some fantastic choreography to a number that
Speaker 1: would really help me feel like I had a total breakthrough.
Speaker 1: And so I just really wanted it to be this week,
Speaker 1: and I felt a lot of pressure for it to
Speaker 1: be this week. And when I saw Pasha's choreography and
Speaker 1: I saw all the lifts, and I was like, I've
Speaker 1: never done anything like this before. Nobody has ever picked
Speaker 1: me up other than being, you know, a five foot
Speaker 1: one woman who people sometimes will hug and then pick up.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, any want to be picked up?
Speaker 1: I have never done lifts like that. Like, I didn't
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I didn't know what my role
Speaker 1: in it was supposed to be, Like, how do I
Speaker 1: help you? Help you help me? How do I do that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know. And I felt at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the week like I was just a sack of
Speaker 1: potatoes and it was. None of the moves were looking good,
Speaker 1: none of the lifts were looking great and truly full.
Speaker 1: Two days into rehearsing the routine and I was like,
Speaker 1: this doesn't look good. I'm not sure we have a
Speaker 1: dance here. Pasha never gave up on me. He never
Speaker 1: felt like there was something we couldn't do. He just
Speaker 1: kept challenging me, and every day a new body part hurt.
Speaker 1: I have like some very sore ribs and some sore
Speaker 1: skin around my ribs from where he was, you know,
Speaker 1: having to grip me for.
Speaker 2: All of the lifts.
Speaker 1: They realized very quickly that lifts, as much as they
Speaker 1: are on the man to actually pick you up, so
Speaker 1: much of a lift is actually in the woman and
Speaker 1: being able to have your shoulders down and your lats
Speaker 1: engaged and your chest engaged. And when you do that
Speaker 1: and your one solid piece, it makes it significantly easier
Speaker 1: for them to pick you up and move you instead
Speaker 1: of being like a bunch of individual body parts.
Speaker 2: That requires a lot of strength.
Speaker 1: And I told Jensen, my husband, on one of the
Speaker 1: first days of this new week, I said, imagine that
Speaker 1: feeling when you've gone to the gym or you've done
Speaker 1: a really hard workout and one or two parts of
Speaker 1: your body are just incredibly sore, like fatigued to one
Speaker 1: hundred percent you have maxed them out. Then normally, if
Speaker 1: you are just working out for health and wellness, you
Speaker 1: move on to other body parts. Don't go back to
Speaker 1: those same body parts. You don't do biceps on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and then biceps on Thursday and then biceps on Friday.
Speaker 1: You do in dance like we're doing these same moves
Speaker 1: over and over again, seven days a week. So whatever
Speaker 1: little sore spots you have, whether it's your ribs or
Speaker 1: it's your hamstrings, or it's your neck or your shoulder.
Speaker 2: Guess what.
Speaker 1: You get a night's rest and you get to take
Speaker 1: some advil and you get to go to sleep and
Speaker 1: maybe take an ep, some saltpath, maybe do a cold plunge.
Speaker 1: But tomorrow you are back at it, hitting that body
Speaker 1: part again with those same exact moves for four plus hours.
Speaker 1: It is just I did not realize how much I
Speaker 1: did not recognize what dancers put their bodies through.
Speaker 2: It is a lot.
Speaker 1: And we had our share of struggles this week. Pasha's
Speaker 1: his hamstrings were bothering him. We had the quick step
Speaker 1: in the jive the two weeks prior to that, so
Speaker 1: both of us were doing lots of little flicks and
Speaker 1: kicks and la of runs, and then we have this stance,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, he's doing a lot of lyfts,
Speaker 1: so he's in a lot of squats, He's doing a
Speaker 1: lot of squats, and everything was, everything was hurting, And
Speaker 1: there was at one point on I think it was Sunday,
Speaker 1: we went to do the routine full out one hundred
Speaker 1: percent and my left peck muscle hurts so bad that
Speaker 1: I had to stop, and I said, We're going to
Speaker 1: have to be really strategic here, because right.
Speaker 2: Now I'm in so much pain.
Speaker 1: The thought of trying to do that move again is
Speaker 1: making me shake, Like I'm so scared to feel the
Speaker 1: pain that I'm going to feel. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this because it's Sunday, and like I could
Speaker 1: what if I really hurt myself right now and then
Speaker 1: Monday camera blocking, I can't do it, or even worse,
Speaker 1: Tuesday show day, I can't do it. And so Pasha said,
Speaker 1: you're right, we need to be smart about this.
Speaker 2: Stop.
Speaker 1: Let's stop doing all the tricks. Let's not worry about
Speaker 1: the tricks for the rest of the night. Let's just
Speaker 1: clean and focus on everything that isn't a lyft.
Speaker 2: Let's do the whole.
Speaker 1: Routine top to bottoms, marking as much as you can
Speaker 1: the lifts, and focus on everything else. And so we
Speaker 1: spent the next like hour and a half just doing that,
Speaker 1: and I actually took a leave during that time. It
Speaker 1: took an hour to an hour and a half off
Speaker 1: and by the time we got to that hour and
Speaker 1: a half, I said, what time is it? And he said,
Speaker 1: it's about eight thirty PM, and our rehearsal was over
Speaker 1: at nine and I said, I think I feel okay
Speaker 1: to try one all the way through with the tricks,
Speaker 1: I think, and he said already sure, and I was like.
Speaker 1: I did some stretches and I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel significantly better. My anxiety about the end, like about
Speaker 1: hurting myself, is now gone. And when I touched the muscle,
Speaker 1: I feel okay, let's try it.
Speaker 2: And we were able to do it.
Speaker 1: It was really good. We felt super confident about it
Speaker 1: all of that time. That hour hour and a half
Speaker 1: time we spent focusing on the stuff that wasn't the
Speaker 1: lifts did not go to waste. The dance looked so
Speaker 1: great after that one. We still had some things we
Speaker 1: needed to fix, of course, but at least at nine
Speaker 1: pm when we finished, we had done it top to bottom,
Speaker 1: including the lifts, and I was really happy that we
Speaker 1: spent all that downtime letting me heal and cleaning everything
Speaker 1: that wasn't a lift. So anyway, this week was not
Speaker 1: an easy week. It was especially not an easy week
Speaker 1: for Pasha, and I'm really very very.
Speaker 2: Proud of us.
Speaker 1: We had our highest scores of the season last week.
Speaker 1: We had seven seven, seven, eight, and this week.
Speaker 2: We had four nines.
Speaker 1: I did not go into tonight even really thinking about scores.
Speaker 1: I really just went in thinking about feedback and like
Speaker 1: what I wanted the feedback to be. And the one
Speaker 1: thing that I feel like I really kept saying to
Speaker 1: myself was like my goal was that I wanted someone
Speaker 1: to say or to feel like this was a breakthrough dance,
Speaker 1: because I had that in my mind and I had
Speaker 1: that pressure on me all week. And so the minute
Speaker 1: Carrie Anne said that she felt like this was a
Speaker 1: breakthrough dance for me, I felt really very touched. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of the night, something nobody got
Speaker 1: to see is while we were standing on the floors
Speaker 1: right before elimination, the judges were all standing at their tables,
Speaker 1: and Carrie Anne looked at me and she smiled.
Speaker 2: At me, and she said, I'm really proud of you.
Speaker 1: And it really meant a lot, Like it really really
Speaker 1: really meant a lot, and I just want to keep
Speaker 1: getting better every week. So the fact that she gave
Speaker 1: me that note last week and then recognized how hard
Speaker 1: we worked to get to this point is like just
Speaker 1: the most satisfying feeling when people recognize your hard work
Speaker 1: for what it is. This week, with hair, makeup, wardrobe,
Speaker 1: everything was a sharp departure. We had completely slicked back hair,
Speaker 1: tight bun.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: You know they actually sew our hair into itself. This
Speaker 1: is not an exaggeration. And there's like a hook. It
Speaker 1: looks like a fishing hook and you put the thread
Speaker 1: in it and they just like curve it into your
Speaker 1: bun and then into your scalp and out and they
Speaker 1: sew it down so that it doesn't go anywhere. That's
Speaker 1: how I'm able to be upside down and in the
Speaker 1: splits and swung around in the air without that hair moving. Also,
Speaker 1: as you can tell by my glorious look here, the
Speaker 1: hair spray they use is not quite hair spray as
Speaker 1: much as it is glue, just straight up glue, so
Speaker 1: your hair is basically shellacked and glued to your head.
Speaker 1: I thought the makeup this week was just I mean,
Speaker 1: my makeup every week is so great. My makeup artist
Speaker 1: is a woman named Lois on the show, and she
Speaker 1: also works on Electric Bloom. She does some of the
Speaker 1: makeup on Electric Bloom. So that's really fun because I
Speaker 1: know her and I work with her she's used to
Speaker 1: seeing me as a director. I think she killed it
Speaker 1: this week. Kimmy is who did my hair, and she
Speaker 1: did an upside down braid. So she started with me
Speaker 1: in the chair. I tipped my head upside down. She
Speaker 1: braided my hair upside down. Then they put that into
Speaker 1: a ponytail. They had separated the crown of my hair
Speaker 1: into a bunch of little sections, and then just like
Speaker 1: peace at a time, they comb it back and spray
Speaker 1: it down and make sure it's super sleek. I never
Speaker 1: wear my hair like that. I never wear all my
Speaker 1: hair pulled back, as you guys know because you see
Speaker 1: me all the time. But I got so many compliments
Speaker 1: on the hair and makeup and wardrobe tonight. Daniella the
Speaker 1: head costumer here at Dancing with the Stars, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they are so amazing, and a thought who does the tailoring?
Speaker 2: Ever?
Speaker 1: Here in Nadej who does the body makeup. It is
Speaker 1: a full hands on effort to make us look like
Speaker 1: we look on Dancing with the Stars. It is all
Speaker 1: hands on deck and it's so cool and it's so
Speaker 1: fun and the process is great. Tonight, I wore fish
Speaker 1: nets in my dance. Fish Nets were a last literally
Speaker 1: a last second edition. I was going to be bare legged.
Speaker 1: And then we did our dress rehearsal and Danny suggested
Speaker 1: to Pasha that I wear fish nets. And also I
Speaker 1: got a suggestion of fish nets from an executive on
Speaker 1: the show, and the executive said, would you be open
Speaker 1: to trying it for the dress rehearsal and I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not, I'd love it. And so we put on
Speaker 1: the fish nets that have like the seam down the back,
Speaker 1: and it just really added to the whole look. And
Speaker 1: I knew after then watching the dress rehearsal and seeing
Speaker 1: what it looked like, I was like, Yeah, the fish
Speaker 1: nets were the way to go. And I asked Danny tonight,
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta be honest, I was a little
Speaker 1: insecure when I heard that you also suggested that I.
Speaker 2: Should wear fish nets.
Speaker 1: Did you just think that my legs didn't look good?
Speaker 1: And she goes, no, I know from myself that if
Speaker 1: I'm having to do a lot of lifts and splits
Speaker 1: and i feel like I'm showing too much skin, I
Speaker 1: will hold back. And she said, and I didn't want
Speaker 1: you to be holding anything back tonight, And She's right.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about it. But after I put
Speaker 1: the fish nets on, I just felt more contained and
Speaker 1: confident in what I was wearing, and I didn't feel
Speaker 1: like I had to be concerned about any of the
Speaker 1: tricks we were doing.
Speaker 2: So that was really great. I will say that.
Speaker 1: During dress rehearsal, my nose in that last trick came millimeters.
Speaker 2: Away from the ballroom floor.
Speaker 1: There was something about the momentum that we did during
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal of the spin where I was up in
Speaker 1: the air above, you know, on Pasha's shoulder, and he's
Speaker 1: spinning around and.
Speaker 2: He had all that momentum. He didn't slow down at all.
Speaker 1: He went from full momentum to just rolling me forward
Speaker 1: down toward my nose, and he did not have a
Speaker 1: great grip on me. And I saw my life flash
Speaker 1: before my eyes as the hardwood floor came, I'm not
Speaker 1: kidding you, this close to my face. And at the
Speaker 1: very last second when I was like, oh, I'm still
Speaker 1: moving in my head because we've been practicing this move
Speaker 1: all week and normally there's like a very hard stop,
Speaker 1: and today I was like.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Oh my gosh, I'm still getting closed to
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 1: Then the floor was like right here, at the very
Speaker 1: last second, I put my hand down like this, and
Speaker 1: then I realized I wasn't moving anymore so and then I
Speaker 1: went back into position. And afterward Pashua I was like,
Speaker 1: what happened? And Pasha was like, I'm sorry. Your back
Speaker 1: wasn't as much to me as it needed to be
Speaker 1: and I barely had a grip on you. And he's like,
Speaker 1: but I promise you I will not drop you. So
Speaker 1: no matter what happens tonight during the live show, do
Speaker 1: not put your hands down, stick your landing, and I
Speaker 1: will not drop you. And I said, I know you
Speaker 1: won't drop me. I completely trust you. And he said, good,
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, I'll pay for your nose job. And
Speaker 1: I was like, well, nothing has filled me with more
Speaker 1: confidence than that. So we got out there and we
Speaker 1: did it. I'm really happy. I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: read any comments, I haven't been able to watch to
Speaker 1: watch our dance.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what it looked like. I know
Speaker 2: what it felt like.
Speaker 1: I can tell you I have never felt more present
Speaker 1: in my body than I did tonight. I would say
Speaker 1: tonight is the first time I actually felt like a dancer,
Speaker 1: like I really felt like a dance tonight. I felt
Speaker 1: like a dancer who knew what she was doing and
Speaker 1: who was in a place that I was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And that was very exciting and it was thrilling and
Speaker 1: makes me just want to be even better week after
Speaker 1: week after week. Having John m Two there Wicked, the
Speaker 1: director of Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians.
Speaker 2: I'm such a fan of his as a director. He
Speaker 2: was so nice. I thought his.
Speaker 1: Commentary and his critiques were so smart. His one of
Speaker 1: his first comments being about transitions, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, like, yes, he really knows what he's
Speaker 1: talking about. That's super exciting. He's really smart. He was
Speaker 1: really great guest judge. I thought he gave he tied
Speaker 1: in the storyline of the movie really well into his critiques.
Speaker 2: I just thought he added so much.
Speaker 1: I really think tonight, as the themes go, you could
Speaker 1: tell how excited everyone was for the Wicked theme. You
Speaker 1: could tell that people from the moment they knew that
Speaker 1: this was on the menu for a list of things
Speaker 1: to do, people were thinking like, Oh, I just really
Speaker 1: want to make it to Wicked night. I thought all
Speaker 1: the dances were amazing. I thought everybody really leveled up.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see a ton of other dances
Speaker 1: this week before leading up to ours. I had seen
Speaker 1: bits and pieces of Ezra and Jordan's, which I knew
Speaker 1: was great, and I'm so happy that they got tends tonight.
Speaker 1: Jordan just really killed that rumba, and I know how
Speaker 1: hard that dance is, and I know that she was
Speaker 1: feeling nervous about that dance, and she and Ezra just
Speaker 1: knocked it out of the park, and so I'm really
Speaker 1: happy for them. I saw Robert's dance right before I
Speaker 1: saw it during dress rehearsal, and then I saw him
Speaker 1: right before we went out, and I said, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling about tonight?
Speaker 2: And he said, you know, I'm really nervous. I said more.
Speaker 1: Nervous tonight, and He's like, yeah, I'm more nervous tonight
Speaker 1: than usual. And I said why, what is it? And
Speaker 1: he said, I just I'm not used to dealing with props.
Speaker 1: And I said, but you did it so well. It
Speaker 1: looked so seamless, and I knew that he was nervous
Speaker 1: specifically about those props. So when John said it is
Speaker 1: not easy for actors to work with props, they can
Speaker 1: get lost in them. I know that note meant so
Speaker 1: much to Robert because he had been nervous about it
Speaker 1: and he'd been working on it so much. So I'm
Speaker 1: really proud of him. He just did such a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1: Of course, my alliance partner, Dylan and Danny, I thought
Speaker 1: they did a fantastic, fantastic job tonight. I know somebody,
Speaker 1: I think maybe Carrie Anne mentioned that Dylan's foot had
Speaker 1: gotten a little stuck, and then sure enough, when Dylan
Speaker 1: came off the dance water, he was like, yeah.
Speaker 2: My foot got a little stuck over there.
Speaker 1: But I thought that dance was beautiful. Apparently a rumba
Speaker 1: is very very hard. I don't know if we're even
Speaker 1: gonna I don't even know if we get to do
Speaker 1: it this season, but apparently it's a very hard dance.
Speaker 1: But I thought the two of them tonight, both of
Speaker 1: them were incredible rumbas. Ah Man, the elimination part of
Speaker 1: the night, the part where we all lined up on
Speaker 1: the dance floor, and I looked at Pasha and I said, man,
Speaker 1: this part sucks.
Speaker 2: It just you know all night.
Speaker 1: Somehow you're really able to kind of put the fact
Speaker 1: that there was an elimination behind you. Because I'm only
Speaker 1: gonna speak for myself, I'm assuming it's the same for everybody,
Speaker 1: But I cannot believe how in the moment I am
Speaker 1: watching everybody else dance, I'm so excited genuinely to see
Speaker 1: what they have been working on all week, because I
Speaker 1: know now firsthand how hard what our days are like,
Speaker 1: and how so little time we have for anything else,
Speaker 1: for our families, for any sort of social life.
Speaker 2: There's just there's very little.
Speaker 1: Time, and I know how difficult it is. And so
Speaker 1: then to watch my friends, my new friends, completely come
Speaker 1: to life in the most beautiful ballroom with incredible sets
Speaker 1: and pyrotechnics and these incredible professional dancers. Can we talk
Speaker 1: about Troop for a second. Can we talk about Hayley
Speaker 1: and Anne and Jackson and Carter. I. I am mesmerized
Speaker 1: by each and every one of them. Every week they
Speaker 1: come out and they are pouring their souls out on
Speaker 1: the dance floor. And here's a little BTS thing. We
Speaker 1: have to film a wide which is like our full
Speaker 1: dance from beginning to end, one hundred percent by Thursday.
Speaker 1: The week starts on Wednesday, so within forty eight hours
Speaker 1: they want us to be at a one hundred percent
Speaker 1: both performance and the steps and the dance, so that
Speaker 1: the director can start fill the director of Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars can start working on his shots and figuring
Speaker 1: out how he's going to shoot every person's dance. A
Speaker 1: lot of times the celebrities are not at one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Forty eight hours later, we're just not. We may know
Speaker 1: some of the steps, but we can't perform all of them,
Speaker 1: and you don't get a lot of opportunities. You don't
Speaker 1: get to shoot your wide a bunch of times. You
Speaker 1: really need to be able to.
Speaker 2: Pretty much maybe two times max.
Speaker 1: Be able to go beginning to end on your first
Speaker 1: or second take, and that's pretty much it. So because
Speaker 1: of that, because I may not be ready to shoot
Speaker 1: my wide, Pasha will say I'm going to go teach
Speaker 1: the dance to Anye or I'm going to go teach
Speaker 1: the dance to Haley, and then they're going to record
Speaker 1: a wide for the director, and then I just get
Speaker 1: to go back into my rehearsal. When I tell you,
Speaker 1: it takes them like thirty minutes to learn the entire routine,
Speaker 1: to learn the entire dance, and then I get to
Speaker 1: have that video on my phone and I just get
Speaker 1: to watch them and they're beautiful dancer bodies and the
Speaker 1: things that they do, and I get to go.
Speaker 2: Oh, I should be doing more of that.
Speaker 1: I have learned so much from all these pros and
Speaker 1: this troop. I just can't say enough wonderful things about them.
Speaker 1: They are incredible and I just am so inspired by
Speaker 1: them every week. I think they're one of the best
Speaker 1: troops I've ever seen. For me, in the audience tonight,
Speaker 1: I had my husband, of course, Jensen, there to support me.
Speaker 1: I also had my long time hairdresser Lori Heaps and
Speaker 1: my longtime makeup artist Julie Cuomo in the audience for me.
Speaker 1: And then I had some of my parent friends, some
Speaker 1: friends of ours that we know because our kids are
Speaker 1: friends and our friendship has now transcended the kid relationships.
Speaker 1: They're just people that I love and adore. So Daniel
Speaker 1: and Erica were there, my friends Michelle and Poria were there.
Speaker 1: And then I know that in order to win a
Speaker 1: championship myself, I must be surrounded by champions, So I
Speaker 1: invited my friend WWE legend Charlotte Flair to come and
Speaker 1: visit me in the ballroom and she came tonight and
Speaker 1: she had a really good time, and I, boy, I
Speaker 1: tell you, I think she would be pretty darn incredible
Speaker 1: on Dancing with the Stars. Trying to think should probably
Speaker 1: be Really, she'd be great paired with Brandon. Brandon's tall,
Speaker 1: he's super strong. I think Brandon and Charlotte would make
Speaker 1: an incredible pair. I really love Charlotte. I think she's
Speaker 1: so smart, she's really vulnerable. She wrote an article about
Speaker 1: her life and her brother and her dad and her
Speaker 1: own wrestling legacy and career recently that was very touching
Speaker 1: and very moving to me, and I reached out to
Speaker 1: her to tell her how special I thought it was,
Speaker 1: and it sparked up a friendship in us and we
Speaker 1: started communicating back and forth. And so this week I thought,
Speaker 1: I wonder if she happens to be in town, and
Speaker 1: it turns out she was. So she came tonight and
Speaker 1: it really meant a lot to have her there, and
Speaker 1: I think she had a lot of fun, which means
Speaker 1: a lot. So the jewelry I'm wearing this week, well,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be wearing some jade green beautiful
Speaker 1: rings from my friend Jamie at Forever Fine Jewels, but
Speaker 1: they stayed in Jensen's backpack and I never got to
Speaker 1: put them on. But I am wearing her ear crawler,
Speaker 1: this mixed ear crawler that you guys have seen me
Speaker 1: wear before. I'm also wearing.
Speaker 2: The same earring I wore last week from the lou Collective,
Speaker 2: which you guys know.
Speaker 1: I decided for this week. I didn't wear a watch
Speaker 1: during the dance because I had so many times where
Speaker 1: I had to wrap my arm around Pasha's neck and
Speaker 1: I didn't want like a heavy watch digging into him.
Speaker 1: But my watch of the week, because it's so perfect
Speaker 1: for Wicked, I broke out my personal collection Rolex Cosmograph Daytona,
Speaker 1: lovingly known as the John Mayer one point zero. It
Speaker 1: has an iconic green dial and a yellow gold case,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was perfect in honor of Wicked.
Speaker 1: So I hope there's another opportunity for me to bust
Speaker 1: that watch out and wear it actually on the ballroom floor.
Speaker 1: But it is the watch I chose for this Wicked week. Also,
Speaker 1: I am wearing this ring designed by the one and
Speaker 1: only Dolly at XO, the Biju Box XO. It is
Speaker 1: a over two hundred year old old mine cut diamond
Speaker 1: surrounded by over two hundred year old rose cut diamonds.
Speaker 1: They were all taken out of a brooch she hand
Speaker 1: forged this. She has a line called her xod so
Speaker 1: XO Dolly so her xod line. If you can see
Speaker 1: the detail on this, it's just absolutely stunning. Was really
Speaker 1: excited to bust this one out. Felt extra special for
Speaker 1: Wicked Night, and now I'm looking onward to Halloween. Pasha
Speaker 1: and I have a really great creative idea that we're
Speaker 1: putting into play for next week. And next week guest
Speaker 1: judge Cheryl Burke. So excited to see her back in
Speaker 1: the ballroom. Can't wait to hear what her critiques and
Speaker 1: thoughts are on all of the performances. And I have
Speaker 1: a big announcement. Cheryl will be joining me on Danielle
Speaker 1: with the Stars this Friday as she preps for her
Speaker 1: big night. She is a legend in the ballroom and
Speaker 1: I am honored to not only talk to her, but
Speaker 1: to have her watch me dance dream come true. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear her thoughts and remember that another legend,
Speaker 1: former pro Sharna Burgess, will share her Wicked Night thoughts
Speaker 1: and score Thursday Morning from what we're calling the fourth
Speaker 1: Chair even I'm excited to hear that. Just find the
Speaker 1: dedicated Danielle with the Stars podcast feed and subscribe so
Speaker 1: you can get that as soon as it is released.
Speaker 1: I really, I so appreciate your support. I've read so
Speaker 1: many of your comments. I saw so many of you
Speaker 1: just rooting for me and really hoping that tonight and
Speaker 1: Tonight's dance was going to be that breakthrough moment we
Speaker 1: all knew that I really needed. And I feel very
Speaker 1: proud that I feel like I had that moment, and
Speaker 1: I hope I made all of you proud as well.
Speaker 1: And I hope that all of you who have been
Speaker 1: supporting me felt victorious tonight, and I want you to
Speaker 1: know that you had a hand in it, your support,
Speaker 1: your votes, your encouragement, your just really I can feel it.
Speaker 1: I can feel it around me, and so thank you.
Speaker 1: This is we were able to do what we did
Speaker 1: tonight in part because of you. So thank you to
Speaker 1: all of you who listen and who vote and who
Speaker 1: are on team Topasha. I really appreciate you all. So
Speaker 1: next week got a hard act to follow after this one,
Speaker 1: but for now I will just revel in these four
Speaker 1: nines and tomorrow I'll get back to work. I'll see
Speaker 1: you guys next time.
Speaker 2: Bye.
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Speaker 1: Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge
Speaker 1: of production, Danielle Romo, producer, editor and engineer Tara Sudbosch.
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