WEBVTT - Heading into Week 1! 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.360 Hello. It is podcaster, TV director, and mom of two, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.400 but forever known to most as Tapanga from the nostalgic 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.120 TGIA favorite Boy Meets World. Currently, though, I am deep 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.680 in the process of learning how to ballroom dance for 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.120 season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, and still 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.000 I have absolutely no experience in the field. I'm not 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.280 even sure I should be doing this. But one thing 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.080 I am sure of. I will be keeping you updated 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.880 in the form of this podcast, Danielle with the Stars, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.440 chronicling my entire journey to place a mirror ball on 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.199 my shelf and show it off to everyone whoever enters 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:59.480 my home. Wa. I have started week two of training 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.760 for Dancing with the Stars. I have so many updates 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.959 for you. We have been so busy. Before I started 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.440 the show, everyone said to me, Oh, just you wait, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.039 this schedule is gonna be insane, and I thought I 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.400 had a pretty good understanding of how it was going 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.800 to be, and even hearing like, oh, you rehearse for 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.560 four hours a day, six days a week, and I thought, yeah, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.520 that sounds like a long time. And I thought, but 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.800 you know, four hours a day is not that bad. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:34.040 Let me tell you something. Four hours a day of 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:41.399 high physical exertion is so much time. And I get 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.560 to my practices early. Pasha and I stretch because boy, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.680 if you are not warmed up, you could really do 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.640 some damage to your body. So, you know, we also 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.920 do like a lot of morning rehearsals we have. So 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.480 the way the rehearsal schedule is broken up is you 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.560 either pick nine am to one pm, or you pick 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.520 one pm to five pm, or you pick five pm 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.760 to nine pm. So when I first got that schedule 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.320 and they were like, let me know what your preferences 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.560 are for rehearsals, I was like, oh, I'm definitely a 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.240 nine to one or a one to five. As a 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.760 matter of fact, I can never do five to nine, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.600 I said. And now that I'm looking back on it, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.359 I'm like, ooh, maybe I need some five to nines 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.120 because at least, if you're working out and you're dancing 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.800 from five pm to nine pm, you have an entire 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.799 day to get warm. When you have a nine am rehearsal, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.880 I'm waking up at my normal five thirty six o'clock, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.720 making my kids lunches, getting my bag together that I 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.680 need to do, taking a shower, putting on my workout 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.520 clothes and then getting there and like trying to warm 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.600 up your body so that you're ready to dance is 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.560 not a quick process. So we get there early so 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.200 that we can stretch and make sure we're keeping our 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.640 bodies healthy, and then it's still just hard. Like I 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.480 have a cryotherapy appointment after I record this podcast. I've 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:09.480 never done cryotherapy. I ordered one thousand dollar compression boots 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:15.120 for my legs. I listen, that may sound insane. It 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.280 sounded insane to me when I went to go order them, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.519 and I thought, You're only going to be doing this 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.760 for a couple of months. Is this a worthwhile investment? 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.760 And with the way my hamstrings feel right now, it 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:33.160 was an immediate yes, this is worth the investment. So 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.520 I have been going to get massages, not at like 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:42.760 nice spa places. I'm talking about places where it's someone 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.400 with an elbow and they're just jamming that elbow into 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.040 every muscle of your body, high up into my neck, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:57.320 high into my hamstrings. Just an absolute painful experience. With 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.280 that said, I've never had so much fun in my 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:07.720 entire life. It is the best thing I've ever done. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.600 I am already sad that this means it's going to 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.680 be over at some point. I'm completely obsessed with it. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.160 I have already told Jensen that I'm not sure how 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.359 we're going to work this out, but I'm pretty sure 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.200 I have to be a full time dancer now. And guys, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.480 when am I going to find time to record podcasts? 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.520 I don't know, but dance is my number one priority 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.080 next to my children. Uh. It's the greatest thing I've 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.840 ever done. I wake up every single day excited to 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:44.360 get into the studio. I'm so lucky that Pasha is 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.920 my pro dancer. When I tell you that, at this stage, 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.880 we're on like day eight of rehearsal and we've now 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:58.679 shown the dance to a couple of people, and everyone's like, wow, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:00.880 you guys have done all of that in a week. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.440 And Pasha is so quick to like give me a 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.120 compliment about that I'm a fast learner and that I'm 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.760 coordinated and that I am flexible. Like he's so fast 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:15.359 to give me the compliments. It has nothing to do 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:20.279 with me. He is so smart about the way he teaches. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.920 He's told me right from day one. He's like, we're 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.080 going to learn in layers. You're going to learn the 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.280 space layer. Then once you have the space layer down, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.040 I'm going to teach you another layer. And I told 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.080 him that my goal was for us to have one 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.000 day of tweaks. We've already had a few days of 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.440 just fine tweaking. And that doesn't mean I'm close to 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.640 perfection yet. I'm definitely not. I still have places to 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.800 grow and lots of things to get right. But he's 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.880 been so methodical about the way he has taught me. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.920 I feel like it just all makes sense. I'm no longer. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.760 There are things that when I first started remembering the 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.039 steps was all I could think about. But then I 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.600 would have this look on my face that was, you know, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.320 kind of like RBF. But that's because I was thinking 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.479 so much. I was just like and then I'm like 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.200 day three. He said, all right, now, you're gonna count 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.920 and I went what He said, Yeah, I've been doing 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.719 the counts all this time out loud, one, two, three, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.480 and four, and I was like, wait, no, no, I've been 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.880 listening to you, but I haven't been paying attention enough 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.719 for me to do it out loud. And he said, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.000 then I'll do it with you, and he did it 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.560 with me a few times. Through the whole dance. Then 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.760 the next day he was like, it's on you all 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.200 by yourself, and I got that down. By the time 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.520 that day was over, I felt really confident with that, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.320 which was great because then that night when I go 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.880 to bed, I was able to close my eyes and 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:48.240 without having to watch the video of our dance, just 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.559 by the counts, I was able to close my eyes 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:55.360 and imagine every step of the dance. And then if 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:56.680 there was a moment where I was like, wait, what 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.960 do I do there? Then I could go look at 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.800 the tape and be like, ah, that's that one. I 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.200 need to remember that to that step. So by the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.960 time we like then we accomplished that goal, I could 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.200 count the whole thing. And then the next thing he 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.640 said was now I need you to show it on 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.000 your face and to like let go of your brain. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.640 Stop dancing with your brain, start dancing with your heart. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.200 And I was like, okay. And you'd think, having been 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.680 an actor for the majority of my life that that 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.160 would be super easy for me, but my little acting 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.000 chops needed to be dusted off. They had been on 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.880 a shelf for a long time. I was still also 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.960 just in my head thinking about the steps thinking about 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.960 having a long neck, which does not come naturally to me. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.480 I am a typing shoulders up in my ears like 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.040 this type of person, and I've had to learn to 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.720 elongate my neck. So I'm still I was still a 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.560 little bit in my head. But after a full day 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.480 of him telling me I need more intensity, I need 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.640 to see more intensity, yesterday was a day that I 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.960 was like, I got it now. And then today he 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.120 brought in an audience, our troop members who are incredible 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.760 and amazing. I got to meet all of them today. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.240 So he brought in the troop, and it was his 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.240 goal was to see whether or not having an audience 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.040 threw me off, because when you're doing the live show 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.520 and there's a five hundred people in the audience watching you, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.880 they clap in weird places, they hoot and holler, somebody 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.000 goes whoa, and like, if you've only been doing your 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.360 dance in a quiet room with you and your pro, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.360 that could really throw you off. So he brought in 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.960 the Troop, who were very vocal. And when I tell you, 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:46.160 I came alive in front of that audience. It felt different, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.640 it looked different. We recorded it. Pasha was so happy 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.480 like he had a huge smile on his face. He 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.480 was like, that was your best performance yet, which felt 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:14.760 really good, and I feel very proud. I'm still very achy. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.439 Like I said, I can't wait to get to cryotherapy. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.360 But it's also been a very exciting week. We have 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.520 had a lot of events. This past Friday, we had 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.280 the Hulu End of Summer Soiree, which was so much fun. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.000 Pasha and I got to walk the red carpet. I 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:37.360 got to meet Quinta Brunson, who if you guys understood 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.600 what a fan I was of hers, it was There've 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.160 only been like a couple times, truly, like a handful 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.080 of times in my life where I have lost my 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.120 cool around someone. One was Michael Keaton to j Cole three. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.040 Quinta Bronson, I like fully saw her. I was like, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.600 I grabbed Pasha's arm. I was like, before we leave tonight, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.599 I have to get a picture with Quinta. Then I 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.600 got to talk to her on the red carpet. Was 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.040 very excited. She is apparently a fan of mine, which 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:10.360 blew my mind. She is lovely and smart and kind 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.480 and cool and calm, and I was none of those things. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.480 We had a great time at that party. The red 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.680 carpet was wonderful. We got to talk to a lot 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.480 of different outlets, and then when we were done with 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.960 the red carpet, we were all very sweaty because don't 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.600 ask me why they did this, but they set the 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.640 red carpet up directly in the sun and we were 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.319 all just melting. But it was still great, great interviews, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.320 great people. And then we turned the corner and we 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:44.160 went inside and the Shifting Gears cast and producers were 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.800 standing there taking a group picture and I waited for 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.120 their picture to be done, and then I wiggled my 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.839 way in there and we all just screamed upon seeing 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.719 each other. They had asked me to direct one of 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.600 their episodes for season two and I had said yes, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.680 and then I ended up agreeing to do Dancing with 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.360 the Stars, and so I had to back out of 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.240 my episode of Shifting Gears for the time being. And 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.319 so they understood. They knew why they're so supportive. They 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.560 were so excited to see me, and I was so 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.280 excited to see them. So I got to talk to 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.560 everybody about what this experience has been like. Kat Dennings 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.880 is just a true gem of a human being. And 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.560 she's so excited for me, so I'm really hoping that 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.800 she'll come and watch me in the ballroom one week, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.240 along with a bunch of the other cast as well. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.839 So that was great. Then we took a really beautiful 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.400 Dancing with the Stars portrait in the People Portrait room 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.880 and it's a very cute picture. It looks like a 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.400 family portrait, looks like the two people in the middle 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.880 or the matriarch and the patriarch, and then there's like 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:56.320 a bunch of grandkids around. It was really nice. So 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.440 we took that group picture with all the pros and 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.280 all the celebs that were there, and then also Dina 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.679 Katz and Conrad from the BBC, so that was incredibly fun. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.040 The food was really good there. There was carmel gelato 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.240 at the end of the night, which I hope Pasha 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.960 doesn't mind that I'm blowing up a spot, but I 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.839 will tell you that Pasha ate three bowls of carmel gelato. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.360 He offered me one every time he had one, and 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.120 I was like, I'm good with the one, and if 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.880 I'm being honest, I probably would have definitely had a second, 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:34.160 but I chose not to because boy, I'm getting into 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:40.080 dancer shape. It's happened very quickly. I'm not trying to 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.160 lose weight. I'm not opposed to it. I was looking 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.560 forward to getting into good shape. But I did not 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.440 come into this going I'm going to lose pounds. I 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.400 just was like, I'm going to work as hard as 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.839 I possibly can, and whatever happens to my body happens 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.440 to my body. But I know I'll be fitter and 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.800 stronger by the time this is over. I have lost 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.480 five pounds in eight days now. A lot of that 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.120 is probably water weight. I'm sweating way more than usual. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.800 I'm hydrating way more than usual because i have no choice. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.400 I'm putting electrolytes in my water. I'm trying to do 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.920 all of the things, and I'm also eating very clean. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:26.200 I have been eating brown rice, broccoli, asparagus, and then 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.920 either shrimp, chicken, or steak, or a little bit of 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.120 all of the above. But that's mostly what my diet 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.960 has consisted of. There have been a couple instances of 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.800 Chuck E Cheese pizza because when I've been with my boys, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.040 we've gone to Chuck E Cheese and I thought, you 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.520 know what, it's okay. Have some chuck e cheese pizza. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.439 So there have been some nights like that. But I'm 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.520 eating really clean and I'm, you know, spending a minimum 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.480 of four hours a day dancing, so I guess it 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.560 makes sense. But it's happening very quickly. My legs are 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.960 very toned, my arms are very toned, and we're not 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.720 even to the first live show yet, so I truly 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.440 cannot imagine what I'm going to look like when this 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.280 is done. But maybe I'll do a bodybuilding competition or something. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.400 Who knows, you know, it's my year of Yes, why 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.679 why stop with just dancing? Why not just take it 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.640 one step further? Who knows what the future holds for me? 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.280 So we had the end of Summer soiree, which was amazing, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.720 and then two nights later, this past Sunday night, I 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.840 was asked to present the award for Best Director of 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:39.280 a Reality Program and Best Director of a Documentary at 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:44.440 the Creative Arts Emmys, which is quite an honor. I 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.520 was very excited to be asked, and as someone who 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.840 was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy for directing a 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.440 multiicam for Ravens Home, it felt very nice to be 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.400 a part of it. On this side where I got 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.600 to give someone an award, and I was on the 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.160 other side I lost. But on this side, I got 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.760 to give someone an award and I got to say congratulations, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.760 and I got to hold the Emmy, which there was 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.360 a part of me that's I'm not usually superstitious, but 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.720 I was like, I don't want to hold an Emmy 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.960 until it's mine. But I had no choice. I was presenting, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.560 so I had to do it. So if I never 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.440 win an Emmy, I'm gonna say it's because I held 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.520 the Emmy before I won. But anyway, I digress. I 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:30.480 also ran into Otsko, who is one of my favorite 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.760 comedians in the entire world. Between Otsco and Quinta, it 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.840 was quite a weekend of fangirling for me. Another person 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.200 who when I walked up to her and I had 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.080 no chill and no cool, and I was like, oh 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.360 my gosh, I'm such a big fan of yours. Can 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.640 I please take a picture? And she was like, girl, 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.600 I've been over here trying to figure out how I 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.440 was going to make this run and happen. And I 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.400 was like, oh, I just go right for no chill, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.520 just immediate, Hi, I'm a fan please let me take 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.240 a picture with you, which I don't know. Maybe after 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.360 being in the business for thirty some odd years, I 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.000 should have a different, more cool approach, but I'm an 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.120 elder millennial. We have no coolness. We're just we're just 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.160 like real straight, straightforward with our nerdiness if I'm going 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.600 to be blunt, But I got to take some great 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.080 pictures with her, which meant a lot. I was hoping 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.720 to present an award to mister a Mere Questlove Thompson. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.280 He was nominated for Best Director of a Documentary. Another 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.600 very deserving person won it. But I did get to 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.440 see Questlove in the holding room where they have the 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.720 presenters before they go out, and Questlove and I filmed 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:48.480 a TikTok that I'm very excited about. So yeah, it 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:54.680 was just a really super fun night. Great. I absolutely loved, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.800 have loved my glam from beginning to end of this experience. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.800 It's been so long since I've had to be in 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.800 front of the camera. Like, of course, I went to 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.720 The Wizards Beyond Waverley Place premiere and I did a 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.560 couple of interviews for that, but like, I'm not the 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.600 star of that show. I'm not even on that show. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.720 I'm just a director of that show, so it has 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.119 I haven't felt like I've had to be the person 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.520 in front of the camera for a really long time. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.080 And I have then had a couple of wardrobe fittings 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.320 with my wonderful stylist, Mimi. She's brought me a bunch 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.480 of stuff. We tried it all on. I picked like 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.920 twelve outfits that I was like, I love these, top 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.800 to bottom, I love these. This is what I'm going 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.479 to buy all of these. I'm going to keep them 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.720 in my closet and then when something comes up, I'm 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.520 going to have it. So for the Emmys, I did 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.280 not have a red carpet look planned and Mimi wasn't available, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:45.840 and so I was like, oh, what am I going 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.640 to do? I have to find something. So I went 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.280 online and I went to Bronx and Banco, which is 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.600 a company that made the dress that I wore for 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.480 the iHeart Music Festival last year when I ran into 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.600 j Cole and you may have seen that video it 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.560 went viral of me seeing Jake and being thrilled to 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.199 see him. They made that super cute dress. It's like 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.399 white lace with shoulder pads and it was Mini. It 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.399 was so cute, so I know I like that brand. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.960 So I went to the Bronx and Banco website and 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.399 I started looking at things, and then I found I 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.040 went to Nemen's and I went to sacks All online 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.960 to see who could ship stuff to me the fastest, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.679 and I picked a dress that's this big production, I 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.080 mean feathers around my hands, deep plunging v in the front, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:36.280 high slit shearer. And I was like, I this feels crazy, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.520 but it arrived. I tried it on. I did not 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.439 have to make a single alteration to it. I did 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.399 order two sizes. I wasn't sure if I was going 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.000 to be a smaller an extra small, and I ended 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.000 up going with the extra small. Absolutely loved the dress. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.959 And then my best friend, one of my best friends 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.080 for since I've been twelve years old. Her name is 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.800 Jamie Hargreaves, and if you want to check her out 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.960 and see all of her beautiful jewelry, you can check 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.520 out on Instagram at Forever Fine Jewelry. And when I 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.160 tell you that it pays off to have a bestie 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.360 who works with diamonds, let me tell you it has 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.840 been very special. I call her I'm like, listen, I'm 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.200 presenting an award. Here's a picture of the dress I'm wearing. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.600 What do you got? And she comes to my house. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.879 She's got a bunch of different jewelry, she lets me 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.719 try it on. I pick the things that I think 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.040 are going to look best, and then I get to 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.520 borrow it for the night, and then she comes back 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.720 the next day and picks it up. So that has 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.879 been amazing. She's going to be working with me throughout 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.480 the season whenever there's an opportunity for me to wear 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:41.480 great diamonds or gemstones for different dances, for different red 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.359 carpet events, She's going to be on call. Also. My 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.600 hair and makeup team who I have had forever. My 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.000 hairdresser at Underscore Hair by Laurie Lori Heaps. She's the 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.000 one who did my fantastic original Topanga haircut back in 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.840 nineteen ninety five. She has been doing my hair ever since, 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:06.360 so truly, for twenty nine years, Laurie Heaps has cut 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.439 and colored my hair. She still does all my glam 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:14.399 for every event, and she's been killing it. So she 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.760 took care of my hair. My makeup artist Julie Cuomo, 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.320 who I met when I was hosting the show called 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.960 The Dish for the Style Network. She worked at G four. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.119 She's been my makeup artist since then. I was twenty 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.960 seven then, so we're almost at, you know, twenty years there, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.440 or at least at seventeen years. She is on Instagram too, 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:38.600 Julie the Number four makeup, that's Julie for makeup. I 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.159 do the same thing with them. I send them a 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.680 picture of what I'm wearing. They come up with inspo, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:44.520 and then they send me pictures. They go, what do 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.360 you think about this? And the truth is I say 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.760 to them every single time, whatever you think. I trust 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.320 them so implicitly. I don't even need to have a 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.000 hand in it. I just know that if they like it, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.480 I'm going to love it, and so I let them 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.200 do their thing, which is also what my relationship has 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.800 been like now with Pasha. I just whatever he says, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.520 I listen to him. Whatever he wants to do, we do, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:18.640 which includes social media. How is Pasha so good at 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:23.639 so many things? Our social media game has been on fire, 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:28.879 if I do say so myself. And seventy percent of 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:34.080 the ideas are Pasha's and they're all so funny. His 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:39.320 acting is so good. He's just killing it. And I 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.320 like how we're finding time to record the stuff we're recording. 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.760 I don't know. I will tell you we were both 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:53.920 so so excited about our construction TikTok to roadwork rapping 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.560 by asap Rock. We were we put in so much 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.560 effort into that TikTok that and we were we just 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.680 love it, and apparently none of you guys do, which 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.840 you know, it's fine, it's totally fine. You don't have 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.600 to like it. We did it for us, but it 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.760 would feel more validating if you guys liked it too, 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.520 because boy, we love it so much. It's so stupid. 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.720 It's so stupid. It's first of all, it's a great song. 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:22.720 It's a rap song about construction vehicles for children by 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:27.680 a very successful, very famous, legitimate rapper, asap Rock. And 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.240 then it's the two of us goofballs in a hard 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:35.160 hat and construction bests dancing if you want to call 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:39.120 it that on a construction site to the song that's 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.479 so dumb. Why isn't everybody loving it? I don't know. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:44.399 Maybe we just have an odd sense of humor, but 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:46.879 at least you're liking all the rest of them, which 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:49.200 means a lot to us. We love reading your comments, 0:22:49.240 --> 0:23:05.080 we love engaging with you. It's been just an absolute blast. 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:10.760 My notes for myself moving into the final week before 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.199 we go live, so we've got eight days before the 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:20.679 first live show. My big note for myself is I 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.239