Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory spelling an iHeartRadio podcast. So the live
Speaker 1: premiere of Dancing with the Stars is four days out.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't believe this is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You guys, It's gonna happen. The show's gonna go on.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in it. This is so crazy. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm on this wild ride. And I gotta
Speaker 1: say this so far has been one of the best
Speaker 1: experiences I've ever done. Now I'm just a newbie. It's
Speaker 1: just week one. I'm sure it's gonna get unbearably hard.
Speaker 1: It's already unbearably hard, but like in the best joyous way.
Speaker 1: So my partner Pasha and I have been rehearsing every
Speaker 1: day and I think I told you this last time,
Speaker 1: but you know, when I watched the show, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they must have been rehearsing this forever.
Speaker 1: It's perfect. And you don't you get you know, a
Speaker 1: certain amount of days for the first dance, and then
Speaker 1: five days for every week after. You get to practice
Speaker 1: and it's like, what, so you learn a new dance
Speaker 1: and we're doing the foxtrot. I can't say anything else
Speaker 1: but that is our technical dance is the fox Trot,
Speaker 1: and it's it's been a lot. They play your song
Speaker 1: and it's a minute of the song. Now, when I
Speaker 1: first heard about this, I was like, gosh, they're only
Speaker 1: playing a minute of our song and he's like dancing
Speaker 1: for a minute. It's a lot. It's a long routine.
Speaker 1: I was like, really, oh my gosh. I just had
Speaker 1: no idea going into it. I was just a fan,
Speaker 1: you know, just a viewer. But it's a it's a
Speaker 1: long routine, and it's also getting to know each other.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so commendable these dance pros. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm a big fan of the show, so
Speaker 1: like I know all of them, like seeing them every week,
Speaker 1: I know all of them. Oh my gosh. Uh you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You see them every week and
Speaker 1: you get so invested with them and their celebrities each season.
Speaker 1: But I gotta say, just like now being on the
Speaker 1: other side of it, working with my partner, he I mean,
Speaker 1: his work ethic is insane. And I said to him
Speaker 1: the other day, I said, I appreciate you because I
Speaker 1: thought I had good work ethic, but yours is next
Speaker 1: level upon level upon level upon level, and keep in
Speaker 1: mind his wife, Danny, is also a dance pro. She
Speaker 1: is dancing with Dwight Howard this season, who is the
Speaker 1: tallest man I've ever seen in my life. I think
Speaker 1: he's seven feet. They have a daughter who's just over
Speaker 1: a year, and they're doing all of this. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. I used to be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm doing so much. I have five kids, look at
Speaker 1: all my pickups and drop offs, and now I see
Speaker 1: what they do and I'm like, shut up to myself,
Speaker 1: like this is nothing. But then you add all this
Speaker 1: dancing stuff and it's a lot again. But anyway, every season,
Speaker 1: when a dance pro gets partnered with their celebrity partner,
Speaker 1: they can't just come in with like one main teaching technique.
Speaker 1: This is my opinion from what I've seen. Pasha had
Speaker 1: to do with me, because everybody is different, everybody learns differently.
Speaker 1: And the thing that's been the most challenging for me,
Speaker 1: and I knew this going into it, and I'd said
Speaker 1: it like I've always said, like when I had to
Speaker 1: do any choreography and movies or TV shows, like it
Speaker 1: would take forever, Like the dance steps wouldn't click, and
Speaker 1: it was the same with this. He would show me
Speaker 1: a dance move and I could do it, but then
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember it. So I could remember it, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember if he added another one on. It's
Speaker 1: like what is that game? Like Simon says like yeah, no,
Speaker 1: so yeah, if you into it, I'd be like, wait,
Speaker 1: what's the first one? Again? It was just it's interesting
Speaker 1: to see how they have so much on their plate
Speaker 1: that they come in and they have to each season
Speaker 1: be like okay, well because, for instance, from watching the show,
Speaker 1: I know he had Ariano Maddox last season, who is
Speaker 1: amazing and she picked up the steps really quick. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh. I just rewatched the season
Speaker 1: premiere yesterday of Dancing with the Stars season thirty two,
Speaker 1: just for a little refresher course. And I called Pash
Speaker 1: afterwards and I was like, I shouldn't have watched that,
Speaker 1: and he's like why, and he's like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's good to watch, so you know, so you're prepared,
Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen, he thought. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I tanked myself. I'm spiraling and
Speaker 1: he's like no, no, no, no, it's good. So now you know,
Speaker 1: and like just a refresher on and there's the audience
Speaker 1: and the judges and where everything is. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, that didn't tank me. I was like,
Speaker 1: what tanked me? Is you saying how fast Ariana picked
Speaker 1: up the dance moves and how good she is? And
Speaker 1: all I could think is oh, poor Pasha. He called me.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh my god, are you kidding? And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, welcome to my brain. So the way
Speaker 1: that was best, I think for him to teach me
Speaker 1: was not like all the moves, so the whole one
Speaker 1: minute song, but we would break it up into like
Speaker 1: three parts and I would learn them and some days
Speaker 1: we would work on just one part and some days
Speaker 1: we'd try to put two words together. Anyway, I'm very
Speaker 1: excited because my dance moves are finally clicking into my brain,
Speaker 1: which is good. Pasha says that my strength, thanks are
Speaker 1: my arms, my posture and my hands. Said, no one ever,
Speaker 1: this is so crazy, you guys. Posture. I was told
Speaker 1: my whole life side bad posture. I'm not kidding you guys,
Speaker 1: because I did. I was told I literally I have
Speaker 1: bad posture, like I walk around like turtle girdle, like
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like we look out look at pictures
Speaker 1: and stuff, but this I don't know. Once I started dancing,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, here I am. I'm an actress
Speaker 1: playing the part of a dancer. I stand up straight.
Speaker 1: So I did, and he says it looks good and
Speaker 1: I have good arm moves, good thing for nails. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all about my arms and that's good because maybe
Speaker 1: you won't look at my feet. My feet are doing okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, you guys. I'm surprising
Speaker 1: myself through this journey. I really really am, because obviously
Speaker 1: you know, I said no, no, no, no no, I'll
Speaker 1: never be good enough to do this show. And then
Speaker 1: I said yes to the show because it's new me,
Speaker 1: new chapter facing my fears. And I know it's only
Speaker 1: been like two weeks, but I'm really surprising myself with
Speaker 1: how much I can sustain. I asked Pasha the other day.
Speaker 1: We were training in one of the rooms and they
Speaker 1: have you know that you've seen on the show The
Speaker 1: Dance Studio every season, and it has all of the
Speaker 1: Mirror Ball winners, not all of them, but across one
Speaker 1: wall because obviously there's thirty two. That'd be a lot
Speaker 1: of photos on that wall, and it wasn't big enough.
Speaker 1: But and I was just looking up looking at all
Speaker 1: of them, and I said to Pasha, has an average
Speaker 1: Joe or Jane ever won? And he's like, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? And I was like, you know, someone normal
Speaker 1: like me? And he's like, you're normal. I'm like no, no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: wait me, let me find another word. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: and I said, I just feel like everybody who has
Speaker 1: one has had some sort of you know, movement training
Speaker 1: in their life. Like you know, obviously athletes have won,
Speaker 1: but any actors that have won, if you like look
Speaker 1: at the resume or whatever, look back, you know they
Speaker 1: had dance experience in training, you know, as a kid
Speaker 1: or something like. I don't feel like anyone has ever
Speaker 1: come into this competition that has zero movement skills and
Speaker 1: has won it. Food for thought. But wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 1: Because I know when I watched this show, I'm watching
Speaker 1: it as you know, the average Jane out there. I
Speaker 1: don't like not in my head like oh, I'm a
Speaker 1: celebrity and like, oh, I know all those celebrities on there.
Speaker 1: I truly go into the mind of a viewer, Like
Speaker 1: I'm a fangirl, right and when I'm watching, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I probably think what everyone thinks, like
Speaker 1: I wish I could be that girl, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that looks so amazing, and that'd be really cool if
Speaker 1: some person, that some unlikely person want it. I'm not
Speaker 1: gunning for you to vote for me. That's not why
Speaker 1: I'm doing this right now. I mean, if you like
Speaker 1: what you see, please vote for me. It would be cool.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. I'm done with my rants? Is
Speaker 1: that a ramts? So I really am enjoying the process
Speaker 1: of my dance clothes. Just like to tell you the
Speaker 1: things that I really enjoy. Everybody else comes to rehearsals
Speaker 1: and training with workout clothes on. I don't own workout
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. You may know of that. But I
Speaker 1: got leg warmers for days. Let me just tell you
Speaker 1: I have a leg warmer collection. I think I've talked
Speaker 1: about it before. If I haven't, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I haven't. So out of storage, you know that the
Speaker 1: storage I found a box of leg warmers and forty
Speaker 1: two of them because I collect leg warmers, and I've
Speaker 1: collected them, and that was just one box. They're not
Speaker 1: including my current situation of leg warmers or other boxes
Speaker 1: of leg warmers. Just one box had forty two that
Speaker 1: was from like just one decade. But yeah, since I
Speaker 1: was twelve, I've been collecting leg warmers. That sounds weird,
Speaker 1: collecting leg warmers. I'm a leg warmer hoarder. Well, I
Speaker 1: like to be the first for something cool. No, I
Speaker 1: got obsessed with watching like Fame and Flash Dance when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, And I think I've talked about this,
Speaker 1: but I would set up my boom box, my cassette
Speaker 1: player and put my cassette tape in from Flash Dance.
Speaker 1: And my parents own a beach house and during the
Speaker 1: summer we would go there when we weren't Vegas, so
Speaker 1: Vegas beach house and it's in Malibu and there's it's
Speaker 1: on a private, beautiful beach, stars all around us, like
Speaker 1: on every side, like when I was a kid, Like
Speaker 1: the Bridges were on one side, Lloyd Bridges and Bow
Speaker 1: Bridges and Jeff Bridges, the whole family, and there was
Speaker 1: I'm blanking some huge football player on the other side
Speaker 1: of us. And then down the beach like the Jacksons
Speaker 1: grew up there. It was like literally like this is
Speaker 1: when I was a baby, like the Jackson five, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like crazy, so but it's twelve.
Speaker 1: I would go out onto the deck and I would
Speaker 1: put on Flash Dance and put on my leg warmers,
Speaker 1: and I more than that. I mean I had clothes on,
Speaker 1: but the key points here are put on Flash Dance,
Speaker 1: put on leg warmers, and I would dance across the
Speaker 1: beach deck. Usually just on a weekday because it was
Speaker 1: like really like everyone was at work because it was
Speaker 1: all like famous people on the beach, so they were
Speaker 1: all like filming or something I don't know. On weekends,
Speaker 1: like all the kids and teens would comes, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. But during the week it was pretty yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty quiet, so I felt like I could
Speaker 1: just like pretend to be a dancer, pretend to be
Speaker 1: in flash Dance. But anyway, that started my love of
Speaker 1: leg warmers and now putting it all together, it's all
Speaker 1: coming full circle. Set of pirouet Do I talk dance now?
Speaker 1: Is that right? I am able to wear my leg
Speaker 1: warmers and I wear them every day because now you
Speaker 1: know me, tradition. I like tradition, and I get superstitious,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, okay, okay, legwarmers, gotta wear my leg warmers.
Speaker 1: So I wear my leg warmers every single day. And
Speaker 1: I get to be that girl. You guys like that
Speaker 1: girl and flashdance like girls in Fain, Like, oh, I
Speaker 1: get to do that every single day, and so blessed.
Speaker 1: I don't know where this will go, but the fact
Speaker 1: that I get to go in and rehearse with this
Speaker 1: incredible human that is so supportive and patient and kind
Speaker 1: and so talented. I adore Pasha so much and we're
Speaker 1: like the perfect fit. Yeah, I get to do this
Speaker 1: every day. So as long as this goes on, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to be like, wow, so much gratitude that
Speaker 1: I said yes to this and get to go in
Speaker 1: and do this. And I wear like slip dresses. I
Speaker 1: wear things that make me feel cute. But I can
Speaker 1: work out because you know, I figure. I didn't figure.
Speaker 1: I just did it, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: but it's a good idea. You know, you wear a
Speaker 1: dress on stage, so I might as well get used
Speaker 1: to it. But I just I don't know, work out
Speaker 1: here wouldn't make me feel confident. I feel confident in
Speaker 1: my dresses and my little tank tops and I don't
Speaker 1: know leg warmers, So I wear what makes me feel good,
Speaker 1: and then I feel like I'm a better dancer. So
Speaker 1: the closer it gets to the actual day, the more
Speaker 1: real it becomes. I did my fitting yesterday for my dress,
Speaker 1: and that was really exciting. Daniella, the costume designer, is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: She's amazing, and it's kind of full circle. She had
Speaker 1: worked a long time ago on Charms and so she
Speaker 1: knew my dad and so it's really cool and I
Speaker 1: adore her and secretly, like yesterday, had to go to
Speaker 1: my fitting and then like we just sit on the
Speaker 1: floor and play. Afterwards we were like making things and
Speaker 1: cutting up like lace and stuff, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just want to I can sit here and play
Speaker 1: with you all day because it's just my world in there.
Speaker 1: But I did get to fit my dress and Daniella
Speaker 1: and I designed it together, which was really cool because
Speaker 1: you get to you're not just put into something on
Speaker 1: the show. You really get to be as hands on
Speaker 1: as you want to be. And you guys know, I
Speaker 1: love being hands on with everything that's in the world
Speaker 1: of creation. So with my dress, it starts with a
Speaker 1: creative deck, which god, I love a good creative deck.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some celebrities are like, oh cool, great, you
Speaker 1: know it's not their thing. But for me, you know,
Speaker 1: that's where my brain and heart and soul lives. So
Speaker 1: I get to pick my song. Then what happens is
Speaker 1: when you pick your song, and the first one is
Speaker 1: kind of for each celebrity there anthem a song that
Speaker 1: really speaks to them and where you know they are now.
Speaker 1: And this song I picked, it's very personal and I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy it. I don't think you'll really put
Speaker 1: together like foxtrot and this song, which is why I
Speaker 1: think it's rad because foxtrot, to me is something so traditional.
Speaker 1: It's traditionally a ballroom dance, right, so all of the dances, technically,
Speaker 1: you're kind of taking them outside the box, which is
Speaker 1: such a cool world to be in right now, you know,
Speaker 1: doing that with current music and traditional dance. So the
Speaker 1: creative deck, you have a zoom meeting with the whole
Speaker 1: creative team, and justin that runs the creative team is
Speaker 1: amazing and I'm such a huge fan. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: we do a zoom and call and they go through
Speaker 1: the deck, which is like a visual of the set
Speaker 1: of how it'll look and the color palette, and then
Speaker 1: like the transitions into movements through whether there's props or
Speaker 1: just color or lights or you know, change in things
Speaker 1: go into your wardrobe like an inspiration picture and then
Speaker 1: hair inspiration picture, makeup inspiration picture. And it was so
Speaker 1: cool to be a part of that process with them,
Speaker 1: and the fact that they allowed me. I was so
Speaker 1: happy and felt so grateful, and they came into it
Speaker 1: with such cool ideas and I was like, wait, I was, like,
Speaker 1: I said to Justin, he's the creative director. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm a big Pinterest girl, Like, oh, it's my happy
Speaker 1: place Pinterest. I said, would you be offended if I
Speaker 1: made a pinterress board just to share with you? And
Speaker 1: he was like, no, I love that. So I made
Speaker 1: it a Pinterest board for my song that I'm dancing too,
Speaker 1: and I shared it with him and it was awesome
Speaker 1: because it really helped him see where my vision was
Speaker 1: coming from. Since sometimes I'm not good with my I know,
Speaker 1: I talk a lot, but sometimes feelings and emotions I
Speaker 1: can't put into the right word, but I can put
Speaker 1: it into a picture very easily. So so yeah, I
Speaker 1: was able to share that and collectively we drew from
Speaker 1: both of ours everything that you're going to see. And
Speaker 1: I'm super excited about it and my dress. So I
Speaker 1: tried it on yesterday the fitting, and then you know,
Speaker 1: we have to go through details like can you move
Speaker 1: in it? You know, because I'm going up and down
Speaker 1: and doing some doing some tricks. I don't know they're
Speaker 1: called tricks, but I'm doing some stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: I have to see how my dress will move. And
Speaker 1: I also had to learn that a conventional fox trot
Speaker 1: dress is like a totally covered dress. It goes to
Speaker 1: your ankles, it swings around, and in my brain, I
Speaker 1: was creating a dress for the Red carpet. So so
Speaker 1: yesterday we had to kind of alter it a little
Speaker 1: bit because Danielle my vision, like she executed it was amazing.
Speaker 1: But then in reality, once I really put married the
Speaker 1: two together in my head and showed Pasha, it was like, technically,
Speaker 1: a fox dress doesn't have a slit in it. I
Speaker 1: was like, I know, we're thinking outside the box, right,
Speaker 1: And I was like no, but it all kind of
Speaker 1: has to be cohesive or it doesn't work, you know.
Speaker 1: So I had to let go of the red carpet
Speaker 1: dream and we're sealing that slit up a little bit
Speaker 1: because I'd prefer in the long run, beautiful, graceful movements,
Speaker 1: and that includes the dress and the weight of the
Speaker 1: fabric and when I spin, getting that air in the dress.
Speaker 1: So yeah, sorry, it's like a fashion tutorial suddenly anyway.
Speaker 1: So I haven't decided how I'm going to wear my
Speaker 1: hair yet. I just yesterday during rehearsal for the first time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna lie. My hair is a
Speaker 1: hot fucking mess like it is. I don't know how
Speaker 1: people dance in extensions because I want to rip them
Speaker 1: all out. And I'm sweating. And I said to Pasha,
Speaker 1: I was like, you don't understand. I don't sweat, And
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you mean, Like you don't sweat,
Speaker 1: And I was like like often, I was like no,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't sweat, Like I've worn like deodorant
Speaker 1: like a handful of times, like I don't have bo
Speaker 1: I don't sweat. I don't know, And you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: sweating like I am drenched head to toe I mean,
Speaker 1: I still don't smell but drenched head's toe for like
Speaker 1: four hours straight and I'm like, wow, who is this girl?
Speaker 1: This is crazy? And why SHA's so proud? He's like,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm so so. I'm a sweaty mess,
Speaker 1: like you start to feel bad. They're used to this,
Speaker 1: like your dancers, and he's like, this is good, this
Speaker 1: is great. You're sweating, and I'm like, oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: doing something right here. But yeah, my hair like not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I haven't washed my hair since last week.
Speaker 1: I do shower daily, but I put my hair up
Speaker 1: because my hair is too hard, like with all these
Speaker 1: extensions I know I did to myself, you know, like
Speaker 1: suck it up, buttercup, you bottom, they're in your head.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't have to have extensions, but I
Speaker 1: like how they look. But washing them, oh my god.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna put an hour into blow drying these suckers,
Speaker 1: like uh uh, I'd rather put that hour into my rehearsal.
Speaker 1: So if anyone would like to offer to come over
Speaker 1: and wash my hair for me and blow it out,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad, just saying, but yeah, dry shampoo.
Speaker 1: Thank God for dry shampoo. It's like, we're going life safer.
Speaker 1: So but I wear my hair back in a ponytail
Speaker 1: or bunt, which everyone knows I don't like doing because
Speaker 1: I feel more confident when my hair's down and on
Speaker 1: my face, I know, but I wear it back because
Speaker 1: we're dancing and we're sweating and doing this. But yesterday
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, on the show, which we're four
Speaker 1: days out, I'm not going to have my hair back,
Speaker 1: Like there is going to be some version of my
Speaker 1: hair down, maybe half up. I don't know yet. I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten that bar yet, just my Pinterest pictures. But
Speaker 1: I better start feeling what it's like if my hair
Speaker 1: does whip around to know if I can keep going.
Speaker 1: So I wore my hair half up half down yesterday
Speaker 1: for the first time, and it's like it's crazy and
Speaker 1: it looked okay, she did good. And I do come
Speaker 1: into rehearsal every day with my sugar free red Bull
Speaker 1: and Pasha promptly hands me water, purified water, not in
Speaker 1: plastic and guess what you guys dreaking? I know, I
Speaker 1: know you just shook this episode, Like who am I? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know who I am anymore. This is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna go full on out here
Speaker 1: and be like I'm Tori. I'm a water drinker now.
Speaker 1: But when you're dancing for four hours straight and like
Speaker 1: you've done your whole minute routine and then your partner's
Speaker 1: like great again, great again. In my dreams, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have like hear him saying again again again in the
Speaker 1: cutest accent. But and you're sweating so bad and you're
Speaker 1: just like trying to catch your breath. Guess what it
Speaker 1: works out people, you get thirsty. I thought there was
Speaker 1: something behind this. I for years said I just hate water.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't know. Maybe no, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm allergic to it. No. I just wasn't breaking a sweat.
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing anything physical. Pretty simple. I am doing
Speaker 1: physical work, which is making my body respond. My butt's
Speaker 1: like wow, I was creeping halfway down the back of
Speaker 1: your thigh almost to your knee, and good for you, girl, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good now. And guess what, it's gotten higher.
Speaker 1: Like my body's responding. It's like thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for doing something for me. And I'm sweating, and so
Speaker 1: I'm drinking water and I'm feeling okay with it. So
Speaker 1: I'm Tory, I'm a dancer, and I stay high traded.
Speaker 1: What about you,