Speaker 1: Hello. It is podcaster, TV director, and mom of two,
Speaker 1: but forever known to most as Tapanga from the nostalgic
Speaker 1: TGIA favorite Boy Meets World. Currently, though, I am deep
Speaker 1: in the process of learning how to ballroom dance for
Speaker 1: season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars, and still
Speaker 1: I have absolutely no experience in the field. I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure I should be doing this. But one thing
Speaker 1: I am sure of. I will be keeping you updated
Speaker 1: in the form of this podcast, Danielle with the Stars,
Speaker 1: chronicling my entire journey to place a mirror ball on
Speaker 1: my shelf and show it off to everyone whoever enters
Speaker 1: my home. Wa. I have started week two of training
Speaker 1: for Dancing with the Stars. I have so many updates
Speaker 1: for you. We have been so busy. Before I started
Speaker 1: the show, everyone said to me, Oh, just you wait,
Speaker 1: this schedule is gonna be insane, and I thought I
Speaker 1: had a pretty good understanding of how it was going
Speaker 1: to be, and even hearing like, oh, you rehearse for
Speaker 1: four hours a day, six days a week, and I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a long time. And I thought, but
Speaker 1: you know, four hours a day is not that bad.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Four hours a day of
Speaker 1: high physical exertion is so much time. And I get
Speaker 1: to my practices early. Pasha and I stretch because boy,
Speaker 1: if you are not warmed up, you could really do
Speaker 1: some damage to your body. So, you know, we also
Speaker 1: do like a lot of morning rehearsals we have. So
Speaker 1: the way the rehearsal schedule is broken up is you
Speaker 1: either pick nine am to one pm, or you pick
Speaker 1: one pm to five pm, or you pick five pm
Speaker 1: to nine pm. So when I first got that schedule
Speaker 1: and they were like, let me know what your preferences
Speaker 1: are for rehearsals, I was like, oh, I'm definitely a
Speaker 1: nine to one or a one to five. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I can never do five to nine,
Speaker 1: I said. And now that I'm looking back on it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh, maybe I need some five to nines
Speaker 1: because at least, if you're working out and you're dancing
Speaker 1: from five pm to nine pm, you have an entire
Speaker 1: day to get warm. When you have a nine am rehearsal,
Speaker 1: I'm waking up at my normal five thirty six o'clock,
Speaker 1: making my kids lunches, getting my bag together that I
Speaker 1: need to do, taking a shower, putting on my workout
Speaker 1: clothes and then getting there and like trying to warm
Speaker 1: up your body so that you're ready to dance is
Speaker 1: not a quick process. So we get there early so
Speaker 1: that we can stretch and make sure we're keeping our
Speaker 1: bodies healthy, and then it's still just hard. Like I
Speaker 1: have a cryotherapy appointment after I record this podcast. I've
Speaker 1: never done cryotherapy. I ordered one thousand dollar compression boots
Speaker 1: for my legs. I listen, that may sound insane. It
Speaker 1: sounded insane to me when I went to go order them,
Speaker 1: and I thought, You're only going to be doing this
Speaker 1: for a couple of months. Is this a worthwhile investment?
Speaker 1: And with the way my hamstrings feel right now, it
Speaker 1: was an immediate yes, this is worth the investment. So
Speaker 1: I have been going to get massages, not at like
Speaker 1: nice spa places. I'm talking about places where it's someone
Speaker 1: with an elbow and they're just jamming that elbow into
Speaker 1: every muscle of your body, high up into my neck,
Speaker 1: high into my hamstrings. Just an absolute painful experience. With
Speaker 1: that said, I've never had so much fun in my
Speaker 1: entire life. It is the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I am already sad that this means it's going to
Speaker 1: be over at some point. I'm completely obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: I have already told Jensen that I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: we're going to work this out, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I have to be a full time dancer now. And guys,
Speaker 1: when am I going to find time to record podcasts?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but dance is my number one priority
Speaker 1: next to my children. Uh. It's the greatest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever done. I wake up every single day excited to
Speaker 1: get into the studio. I'm so lucky that Pasha is
Speaker 1: my pro dancer. When I tell you that, at this stage,
Speaker 1: we're on like day eight of rehearsal and we've now
Speaker 1: shown the dance to a couple of people, and everyone's like, wow,
Speaker 1: you guys have done all of that in a week.
Speaker 1: And Pasha is so quick to like give me a
Speaker 1: compliment about that I'm a fast learner and that I'm
Speaker 1: coordinated and that I am flexible. Like he's so fast
Speaker 1: to give me the compliments. It has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with me. He is so smart about the way he teaches.
Speaker 1: He's told me right from day one. He's like, we're
Speaker 1: going to learn in layers. You're going to learn the
Speaker 1: space layer. Then once you have the space layer down,
Speaker 1: I'm going to teach you another layer. And I told
Speaker 1: him that my goal was for us to have one
Speaker 1: day of tweaks. We've already had a few days of
Speaker 1: just fine tweaking. And that doesn't mean I'm close to
Speaker 1: perfection yet. I'm definitely not. I still have places to
Speaker 1: grow and lots of things to get right. But he's
Speaker 1: been so methodical about the way he has taught me.
Speaker 1: I feel like it just all makes sense. I'm no longer.
Speaker 1: There are things that when I first started remembering the
Speaker 1: steps was all I could think about. But then I
Speaker 1: would have this look on my face that was, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like RBF. But that's because I was thinking
Speaker 1: so much. I was just like and then I'm like
Speaker 1: day three. He said, all right, now, you're gonna count
Speaker 1: and I went what He said, Yeah, I've been doing
Speaker 1: the counts all this time out loud, one, two, three,
Speaker 1: and four, and I was like, wait, no, no, I've been
Speaker 1: listening to you, but I haven't been paying attention enough
Speaker 1: for me to do it out loud. And he said,
Speaker 1: then I'll do it with you, and he did it
Speaker 1: with me a few times. Through the whole dance. Then
Speaker 1: the next day he was like, it's on you all
Speaker 1: by yourself, and I got that down. By the time
Speaker 1: that day was over, I felt really confident with that,
Speaker 1: which was great because then that night when I go
Speaker 1: to bed, I was able to close my eyes and
Speaker 1: without having to watch the video of our dance, just
Speaker 1: by the counts, I was able to close my eyes
Speaker 1: and imagine every step of the dance. And then if
Speaker 1: there was a moment where I was like, wait, what
Speaker 1: do I do there? Then I could go look at
Speaker 1: the tape and be like, ah, that's that one. I
Speaker 1: need to remember that to that step. So by the
Speaker 1: time we like then we accomplished that goal, I could
Speaker 1: count the whole thing. And then the next thing he
Speaker 1: said was now I need you to show it on
Speaker 1: your face and to like let go of your brain.
Speaker 1: Stop dancing with your brain, start dancing with your heart.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay. And you'd think, having been
Speaker 1: an actor for the majority of my life that that
Speaker 1: would be super easy for me, but my little acting
Speaker 1: chops needed to be dusted off. They had been on
Speaker 1: a shelf for a long time. I was still also
Speaker 1: just in my head thinking about the steps thinking about
Speaker 1: having a long neck, which does not come naturally to me.
Speaker 1: I am a typing shoulders up in my ears like
Speaker 1: this type of person, and I've had to learn to
Speaker 1: elongate my neck. So I'm still I was still a
Speaker 1: little bit in my head. But after a full day
Speaker 1: of him telling me I need more intensity, I need
Speaker 1: to see more intensity, yesterday was a day that I
Speaker 1: was like, I got it now. And then today he
Speaker 1: brought in an audience, our troop members who are incredible
Speaker 1: and amazing. I got to meet all of them today.
Speaker 1: So he brought in the troop, and it was his
Speaker 1: goal was to see whether or not having an audience
Speaker 1: threw me off, because when you're doing the live show
Speaker 1: and there's a five hundred people in the audience watching you,
Speaker 1: they clap in weird places, they hoot and holler, somebody
Speaker 1: goes whoa, and like, if you've only been doing your
Speaker 1: dance in a quiet room with you and your pro,
Speaker 1: that could really throw you off. So he brought in
Speaker 1: the Troop, who were very vocal. And when I tell you,
Speaker 1: I came alive in front of that audience. It felt different,
Speaker 1: it looked different. We recorded it. Pasha was so happy
Speaker 1: like he had a huge smile on his face. He
Speaker 1: was like, that was your best performance yet, which felt
Speaker 1: really good, and I feel very proud. I'm still very achy.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I can't wait to get to cryotherapy.
Speaker 1: But it's also been a very exciting week. We have
Speaker 1: had a lot of events. This past Friday, we had
Speaker 1: the Hulu End of Summer Soiree, which was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Pasha and I got to walk the red carpet. I
Speaker 1: got to meet Quinta Brunson, who if you guys understood
Speaker 1: what a fan I was of hers, it was There've
Speaker 1: only been like a couple times, truly, like a handful
Speaker 1: of times in my life where I have lost my
Speaker 1: cool around someone. One was Michael Keaton to j Cole three.
Speaker 1: Quinta Bronson, I like fully saw her. I was like,
Speaker 1: I grabbed Pasha's arm. I was like, before we leave tonight,
Speaker 1: I have to get a picture with Quinta. Then I
Speaker 1: got to talk to her on the red carpet. Was
Speaker 1: very excited. She is apparently a fan of mine, which
Speaker 1: blew my mind. She is lovely and smart and kind
Speaker 1: and cool and calm, and I was none of those things.
Speaker 1: We had a great time at that party. The red
Speaker 1: carpet was wonderful. We got to talk to a lot
Speaker 1: of different outlets, and then when we were done with
Speaker 1: the red carpet, we were all very sweaty because don't
Speaker 1: ask me why they did this, but they set the
Speaker 1: red carpet up directly in the sun and we were
Speaker 1: all just melting. But it was still great, great interviews,
Speaker 1: great people. And then we turned the corner and we
Speaker 1: went inside and the Shifting Gears cast and producers were
Speaker 1: standing there taking a group picture and I waited for
Speaker 1: their picture to be done, and then I wiggled my
Speaker 1: way in there and we all just screamed upon seeing
Speaker 1: each other. They had asked me to direct one of
Speaker 1: their episodes for season two and I had said yes,
Speaker 1: and then I ended up agreeing to do Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars, and so I had to back out of
Speaker 1: my episode of Shifting Gears for the time being. And
Speaker 1: so they understood. They knew why they're so supportive. They
Speaker 1: were so excited to see me, and I was so
Speaker 1: excited to see them. So I got to talk to
Speaker 1: everybody about what this experience has been like. Kat Dennings
Speaker 1: is just a true gem of a human being. And
Speaker 1: she's so excited for me, so I'm really hoping that
Speaker 1: she'll come and watch me in the ballroom one week,
Speaker 1: along with a bunch of the other cast as well.
Speaker 1: So that was great. Then we took a really beautiful
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars portrait in the People Portrait room
Speaker 1: and it's a very cute picture. It looks like a
Speaker 1: family portrait, looks like the two people in the middle
Speaker 1: or the matriarch and the patriarch, and then there's like
Speaker 1: a bunch of grandkids around. It was really nice. So
Speaker 1: we took that group picture with all the pros and
Speaker 1: all the celebs that were there, and then also Dina
Speaker 1: Katz and Conrad from the BBC, so that was incredibly fun.
Speaker 1: The food was really good there. There was carmel gelato
Speaker 1: at the end of the night, which I hope Pasha
Speaker 1: doesn't mind that I'm blowing up a spot, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you that Pasha ate three bowls of carmel gelato.
Speaker 1: He offered me one every time he had one, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm good with the one, and if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, I probably would have definitely had a second,
Speaker 1: but I chose not to because boy, I'm getting into
Speaker 1: dancer shape. It's happened very quickly. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: lose weight. I'm not opposed to it. I was looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting into good shape. But I did not
Speaker 1: come into this going I'm going to lose pounds. I
Speaker 1: just was like, I'm going to work as hard as
Speaker 1: I possibly can, and whatever happens to my body happens
Speaker 1: to my body. But I know I'll be fitter and
Speaker 1: stronger by the time this is over. I have lost
Speaker 1: five pounds in eight days now. A lot of that
Speaker 1: is probably water weight. I'm sweating way more than usual.
Speaker 1: I'm hydrating way more than usual because i have no choice.
Speaker 1: I'm putting electrolytes in my water. I'm trying to do
Speaker 1: all of the things, and I'm also eating very clean.
Speaker 1: I have been eating brown rice, broccoli, asparagus, and then
Speaker 1: either shrimp, chicken, or steak, or a little bit of
Speaker 1: all of the above. But that's mostly what my diet
Speaker 1: has consisted of. There have been a couple instances of
Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese pizza because when I've been with my boys,
Speaker 1: we've gone to Chuck E Cheese and I thought, you
Speaker 1: know what, it's okay. Have some chuck e cheese pizza.
Speaker 1: So there have been some nights like that. But I'm
Speaker 1: eating really clean and I'm, you know, spending a minimum
Speaker 1: of four hours a day dancing, so I guess it
Speaker 1: makes sense. But it's happening very quickly. My legs are
Speaker 1: very toned, my arms are very toned, and we're not
Speaker 1: even to the first live show yet, so I truly
Speaker 1: cannot imagine what I'm going to look like when this
Speaker 1: is done. But maybe I'll do a bodybuilding competition or something.
Speaker 1: Who knows, you know, it's my year of Yes, why
Speaker 1: why stop with just dancing? Why not just take it
Speaker 1: one step further? Who knows what the future holds for me?
Speaker 1: So we had the end of Summer soiree, which was amazing,
Speaker 1: and then two nights later, this past Sunday night, I
Speaker 1: was asked to present the award for Best Director of
Speaker 1: a Reality Program and Best Director of a Documentary at
Speaker 1: the Creative Arts Emmys, which is quite an honor. I
Speaker 1: was very excited to be asked, and as someone who
Speaker 1: was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy for directing a
Speaker 1: multiicam for Ravens Home, it felt very nice to be
Speaker 1: a part of it. On this side where I got
Speaker 1: to give someone an award, and I was on the
Speaker 1: other side I lost. But on this side, I got
Speaker 1: to give someone an award and I got to say congratulations,
Speaker 1: and I got to hold the Emmy, which there was
Speaker 1: a part of me that's I'm not usually superstitious, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to hold an Emmy
Speaker 1: until it's mine. But I had no choice. I was presenting,
Speaker 1: so I had to do it. So if I never
Speaker 1: win an Emmy, I'm gonna say it's because I held
Speaker 1: the Emmy before I won. But anyway, I digress. I
Speaker 1: also ran into Otsko, who is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: comedians in the entire world. Between Otsco and Quinta, it
Speaker 1: was quite a weekend of fangirling for me. Another person
Speaker 1: who when I walked up to her and I had
Speaker 1: no chill and no cool, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm such a big fan of yours. Can
Speaker 1: I please take a picture? And she was like, girl,
Speaker 1: I've been over here trying to figure out how I
Speaker 1: was going to make this run and happen. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I just go right for no chill,
Speaker 1: just immediate, Hi, I'm a fan please let me take
Speaker 1: a picture with you, which I don't know. Maybe after
Speaker 1: being in the business for thirty some odd years, I
Speaker 1: should have a different, more cool approach, but I'm an
Speaker 1: elder millennial. We have no coolness. We're just we're just
Speaker 1: like real straight, straightforward with our nerdiness if I'm going
Speaker 1: to be blunt, But I got to take some great
Speaker 1: pictures with her, which meant a lot. I was hoping
Speaker 1: to present an award to mister a Mere Questlove Thompson.
Speaker 1: He was nominated for Best Director of a Documentary. Another
Speaker 1: very deserving person won it. But I did get to
Speaker 1: see Questlove in the holding room where they have the
Speaker 1: presenters before they go out, and Questlove and I filmed
Speaker 1: a TikTok that I'm very excited about. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just a really super fun night. Great. I absolutely loved,
Speaker 1: have loved my glam from beginning to end of this experience.
Speaker 1: It's been so long since I've had to be in
Speaker 1: front of the camera. Like, of course, I went to
Speaker 1: The Wizards Beyond Waverley Place premiere and I did a
Speaker 1: couple of interviews for that, but like, I'm not the
Speaker 1: star of that show. I'm not even on that show.
Speaker 1: I'm just a director of that show, so it has
Speaker 1: I haven't felt like I've had to be the person
Speaker 1: in front of the camera for a really long time.
Speaker 1: And I have then had a couple of wardrobe fittings
Speaker 1: with my wonderful stylist, Mimi. She's brought me a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff. We tried it all on. I picked like
Speaker 1: twelve outfits that I was like, I love these, top
Speaker 1: to bottom, I love these. This is what I'm going
Speaker 1: to buy all of these. I'm going to keep them
Speaker 1: in my closet and then when something comes up, I'm
Speaker 1: going to have it. So for the Emmys, I did
Speaker 1: not have a red carpet look planned and Mimi wasn't available,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, oh, what am I going
Speaker 1: to do? I have to find something. So I went
Speaker 1: online and I went to Bronx and Banco, which is
Speaker 1: a company that made the dress that I wore for
Speaker 1: the iHeart Music Festival last year when I ran into
Speaker 1: j Cole and you may have seen that video it
Speaker 1: went viral of me seeing Jake and being thrilled to
Speaker 1: see him. They made that super cute dress. It's like
Speaker 1: white lace with shoulder pads and it was Mini. It
Speaker 1: was so cute, so I know I like that brand.
Speaker 1: So I went to the Bronx and Banco website and
Speaker 1: I started looking at things, and then I found I
Speaker 1: went to Nemen's and I went to sacks All online
Speaker 1: to see who could ship stuff to me the fastest,
Speaker 1: and I picked a dress that's this big production, I
Speaker 1: mean feathers around my hands, deep plunging v in the front,
Speaker 1: high slit shearer. And I was like, I this feels crazy,
Speaker 1: but it arrived. I tried it on. I did not
Speaker 1: have to make a single alteration to it. I did
Speaker 1: order two sizes. I wasn't sure if I was going
Speaker 1: to be a smaller an extra small, and I ended
Speaker 1: up going with the extra small. Absolutely loved the dress.
Speaker 1: And then my best friend, one of my best friends
Speaker 1: for since I've been twelve years old. Her name is
Speaker 1: Jamie Hargreaves, and if you want to check her out
Speaker 1: and see all of her beautiful jewelry, you can check
Speaker 1: out on Instagram at Forever Fine Jewelry. And when I
Speaker 1: tell you that it pays off to have a bestie
Speaker 1: who works with diamonds, let me tell you it has
Speaker 1: been very special. I call her I'm like, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: presenting an award. Here's a picture of the dress I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: What do you got? And she comes to my house.
Speaker 1: She's got a bunch of different jewelry, she lets me
Speaker 1: try it on. I pick the things that I think
Speaker 1: are going to look best, and then I get to
Speaker 1: borrow it for the night, and then she comes back
Speaker 1: the next day and picks it up. So that has
Speaker 1: been amazing. She's going to be working with me throughout
Speaker 1: the season whenever there's an opportunity for me to wear
Speaker 1: great diamonds or gemstones for different dances, for different red
Speaker 1: carpet events, She's going to be on call. Also. My
Speaker 1: hair and makeup team who I have had forever. My
Speaker 1: hairdresser at Underscore Hair by Laurie Lori Heaps. She's the
Speaker 1: one who did my fantastic original Topanga haircut back in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. She has been doing my hair ever since,
Speaker 1: so truly, for twenty nine years, Laurie Heaps has cut
Speaker 1: and colored my hair. She still does all my glam
Speaker 1: for every event, and she's been killing it. So she
Speaker 1: took care of my hair. My makeup artist Julie Cuomo,
Speaker 1: who I met when I was hosting the show called
Speaker 1: The Dish for the Style Network. She worked at G four.
Speaker 1: She's been my makeup artist since then. I was twenty
Speaker 1: seven then, so we're almost at, you know, twenty years there,
Speaker 1: or at least at seventeen years. She is on Instagram too,
Speaker 1: Julie the Number four makeup, that's Julie for makeup. I
Speaker 1: do the same thing with them. I send them a
Speaker 1: picture of what I'm wearing. They come up with inspo,
Speaker 1: and then they send me pictures. They go, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this? And the truth is I say
Speaker 1: to them every single time, whatever you think. I trust
Speaker 1: them so implicitly. I don't even need to have a
Speaker 1: hand in it. I just know that if they like it,
Speaker 1: I'm going to love it, and so I let them
Speaker 1: do their thing, which is also what my relationship has
Speaker 1: been like now with Pasha. I just whatever he says,
Speaker 1: I listen to him. Whatever he wants to do, we do,
Speaker 1: which includes social media. How is Pasha so good at
Speaker 1: so many things? Our social media game has been on fire,
Speaker 1: if I do say so myself. And seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the ideas are Pasha's and they're all so funny. His
Speaker 1: acting is so good. He's just killing it. And I
Speaker 1: like how we're finding time to record the stuff we're recording.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I will tell you we were both
Speaker 1: so so excited about our construction TikTok to roadwork rapping
Speaker 1: by asap Rock. We were we put in so much
Speaker 1: effort into that TikTok that and we were we just
Speaker 1: love it, and apparently none of you guys do, which
Speaker 1: you know, it's fine, it's totally fine. You don't have
Speaker 1: to like it. We did it for us, but it
Speaker 1: would feel more validating if you guys liked it too,
Speaker 1: because boy, we love it so much. It's so stupid.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. It's first of all, it's a great song.
Speaker 1: It's a rap song about construction vehicles for children by
Speaker 1: a very successful, very famous, legitimate rapper, asap Rock. And
Speaker 1: then it's the two of us goofballs in a hard
Speaker 1: hat and construction bests dancing if you want to call
Speaker 1: it that on a construction site to the song that's
Speaker 1: so dumb. Why isn't everybody loving it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe we just have an odd sense of humor, but
Speaker 1: at least you're liking all the rest of them, which
Speaker 1: means a lot to us. We love reading your comments,
Speaker 1: we love engaging with you. It's been just an absolute blast.
Speaker 1: My notes for myself moving into the final week before
Speaker 1: we go live, so we've got eight days before the
Speaker 1: first live show. My big note for myself is I
Speaker 1: have to take care of my body. I haven't been
Speaker 1: as good about it as I wanted to be. I
Speaker 1: have been rehearsing, and then we've had meetings, or we've
Speaker 1: had glam or we've had interviews, and then events, and
Speaker 1: then I come home and I want to be present
Speaker 1: with my kids, and or I want to be present
Speaker 1: with my husband. And then by the time it's like okay,
Speaker 1: now's when you would take an ice bath, or now
Speaker 1: is when you would get a massage or something. I'm
Speaker 1: so tired. I've just been going to sleep, so I
Speaker 1: probably haven't been stretching as much as I should be.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely starting cryotherapy. I did buy an ice bath,
Speaker 1: like an inflatable ice bath that, thank goodness, mister Will
Speaker 1: recommended to me. He sent me a link. He's like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need one of these, and I said, this
Speaker 1: is an immediate purchase. So it helps to have best
Speaker 1: friends that are super supportive. Speaking of best friends who
Speaker 1: are super supportive, Will and Writer are both gonna come
Speaker 1: to my first live show, which is really gonna mean
Speaker 1: a lot to me to have them there. We only
Speaker 1: get six family tickets, and so I think the first
Speaker 1: week it's gonna be Jensen and my boys, my mom,
Speaker 1: my dad, and my dad's wife. I would love if
Speaker 1: my brother could be there. I would love if my
Speaker 1: aunt and uncle Andy Joanne and uncle Pete could be there,
Speaker 1: and that would, for that first week really make me
Speaker 1: feel like my core, like my super support system is
Speaker 1: there for me because I'm between Will and Writer, like
Speaker 1: my two best friends and my family. But I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be able to get nine tickets. Did
Speaker 1: email and say, is there anyone who maybe isn't using
Speaker 1: all their tickets? Maybe I could borrow some. There's also
Speaker 1: a green room apparently that is a viewing room that
Speaker 1: they said if you have young kids and you're worried
Speaker 1: your kids aren't going to be able to sit and
Speaker 1: stay still for two hours, they could watch from the
Speaker 1: viewing room. But I don't want Jensen to have to
Speaker 1: watch strictly from the viewing room, so I asked if
Speaker 1: maybe Jensen and the boys stayed out there for my dance,
Speaker 1: but then somebody took the boys back to the green room.
Speaker 1: Could I have Like, could I have nine tickets but
Speaker 1: three people are in the viewing room and six people
Speaker 1: are on the floor, And then if they want to
Speaker 1: switch at some point, they could switch. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be creative and I know that they'll do their best,
Speaker 1: but also I don't want it to be unfair. I
Speaker 1: know that it would be unfair if they were like,
Speaker 1: Danielle's going to get nine tickets and everyone else gets six.
Speaker 1: But maybe if someone volunteers their tickets, maybe if they
Speaker 1: don't need their three tickets, I could get them. If not,
Speaker 1: I told them it's no big deal. I'll split them
Speaker 1: between week one and week two. I will I honestly,
Speaker 1: I'd break down in hysterical tears. I would break down
Speaker 1: in hysterical tears if I go home on week one.
Speaker 1: So please, I beg of you. Please vote Danielle to
Speaker 1: two one, five, two three. Yeah. I haven't memorized because
Speaker 1: you guys have left it in the comments A couple
Speaker 1: of times. I'm like thanks, So I'm gonna start handing
Speaker 1: it out to people. I need a business card anyway.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening to this episode of Danielle
Speaker 1: with the Stars. It has been a true joy to
Speaker 1: be dancing and recording this podcast. At the same time,
Speaker 1: we have some really great guests coming up that I
Speaker 1: can't wait for you to hear about. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to be recording my next solo episode before you know it.
Speaker 1: My next guest is actually Sabrina Brian, a two time
Speaker 1: competitor on Dancing with the Stars. She competed originally in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven and then she was in the
Speaker 1: All Star season. How do I sign up for an
Speaker 1: All Star season? When does that happen? Also? How do
Speaker 1: I sign up for tour? I'm just guys, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do anything else. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you understand. So while I was at the Emmys,
Speaker 1: I ran into Whitney Levitt and Jen Affleck. They were
Speaker 1: also presenting an award. They were presenting an award for
Speaker 1: Best Hair and Makeup. And it's so fun to run
Speaker 1: into your fellow Dancing with the Stars competitors at all
Speaker 1: these different events. It's so nice to see each other
Speaker 1: outside of our element. Because now our element is workout
Speaker 1: clothes and in the studio, and we barely get to
Speaker 1: see each other when we're in the studio because we arrive.
Speaker 1: Like I told you, there's these three timeframes for rehearsals,
Speaker 1: so everyone is either arriving around the same time at nine,
Speaker 1: But then you walk to your room, you stretch, and
Speaker 1: you're basically locked in your room for the next four hours.
Speaker 1: But in the in between, like at the you know
Speaker 1: you rehearse from nine to one. You exit your room
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. Now all the people who are rehearsing
Speaker 1: one to five start arriving. There's a little snack area
Speaker 1: near the bathrooms. Everyone sits and socializes and talks and
Speaker 1: gives each other hugs and says, how's it going, how
Speaker 1: are you feeling? What are you doing to take care
Speaker 1: of yourself? We get pulled into each other's rooms to
Speaker 1: shoot tiktoks. I helped Whitney and Mark shoot the end
Speaker 1: of their best friend TikTok that they posted a few
Speaker 1: days ago, which was really cute. Mark came in just
Speaker 1: to talk to us. Mark and Pasha are like brothers,
Speaker 1: so Mark came in before Whitney was there. The other
Speaker 1: day and just spent about ten minutes chatting with us
Speaker 1: and telling us about how what his choreography stuff is like,
Speaker 1: and he said that he's not super fast. He's like
Speaker 1: I like to be slow and sometimes things change. And
Speaker 1: you'll hear more about that when you hear my interview
Speaker 1: with Sabrina Bryan as well, because she talked a lot
Speaker 1: about how he would occasionally change things and just to her,
Speaker 1: it just felt like he was comfortable doing that because
Speaker 1: he knew she could handle it, so it was actually
Speaker 1: a big vote of confidence for her. Thank you all
Speaker 1: for listening to this episode of Danielle with the Stars.
Speaker 1: You can follow us on Instagram Danielle with Stars. Make
Speaker 1: sure to follow us there like all of our content,
Speaker 1: and then also check out our dedicated feed for Danielle
Speaker 1: with the Stars. You can go there and get all
Speaker 1: of the episodes like and please subscribe and give us
Speaker 1: a five star review unless you don't like us, in
Speaker 1: which case, don't leave a review. Just pretend you never
Speaker 1: heard it. And remember to vote for me on Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars starting September sixteenth and live every Tuesday
Speaker 1: after that until your votes send me home. So let's
Speaker 1: keep it going. Tell eleven twenty five people love you, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for being here. Danielle with the Stars Produced and
Speaker 1: hosted by Danielle Fischl. Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman,
Speaker 1: Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, Producer, editor and
Speaker 1: engineer Tara Sudbosch. Theme song by Justin Siegel. Follow us
Speaker 1: on Instagram at Danielle with Stars and vote for me