Speaker 1: Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to Misspelling. I'm me Laria Baldwin and I'm filling
Speaker 1: in for my friend Toy this week. So I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to be here with you guys, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to answer all of these questions.
Speaker 2: So we'll start with some Dancing with the Stars questions. Okay,
Speaker 2: what made you want to join Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars was a really fast, last minute,
Speaker 1: wild whirlwind of universe coming together.
Speaker 3: I mean, I love to dance.
Speaker 1: I danced when I was much younger, and I broke
Speaker 1: my hip, so I stopped dancing. I couldn't walk for
Speaker 1: the better part of a year, and I was I
Speaker 1: was new to TikTok. I am new to TikTok, and
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out what TikTok is about.
Speaker 1: Only people dance. So I started dancing on TikTok and
Speaker 1: I'm dancing with my husband, and people start writing in
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars called me and they're like, do
Speaker 1: you want to jump on a plane in a couple
Speaker 1: of days and come here and I was like, looked
Speaker 1: over my.
Speaker 3: Husband and I looked at my kids.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, and then we went on this
Speaker 1: like wild, fun adventure. So it was really a really
Speaker 1: exciting universe coming together experience.
Speaker 2: Right, did your whole family move out to LA for
Speaker 2: the time you were on.
Speaker 1: Yes, Alec was back and forth because he I mean again,
Speaker 1: this was not something that we had planned. Some people,
Speaker 1: I think they know that they're going to do this
Speaker 1: like a year before. I mean mine was like days before.
Speaker 1: So it was a you know, we pivoted. We took
Speaker 1: the kids out of their normal school and we put
Speaker 1: them in homeschool when they were out there. So it
Speaker 1: was just a lot of pivoting and rallying and sort
Speaker 1: of being like, all right, mommy's going on this adventure,
Speaker 1: so let's go with them with her.
Speaker 2: And were the kids excited for you?
Speaker 3: So excited? And they loved when it was show day.
Speaker 1: They loved when it was showday and they'd come and
Speaker 1: they'd think about what they're wearing and where they're sitting.
Speaker 1: And then the little ones would come in just for
Speaker 1: my performance because they were a little bit too small
Speaker 1: to watch. Have the attention span for the whole thing, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were so cute sitting in the audience. Did
Speaker 2: you have any hesitations about joining after your your hip issues?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it's not just the hip.
Speaker 1: I broke my foot a year ago. I've broken my
Speaker 1: ankle a few years ago. I mean, I and it's
Speaker 1: not you know, I don't have weak bones. I just
Speaker 1: have I'm just insane and I do crazy physical things
Speaker 1: like I broke my inkle almost getting hit by a car.
Speaker 1: Like there's like it's always there's a story to each
Speaker 1: one of them. But I you know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it was more am I being crazy?
Speaker 3: And you know, I'm a mom and I have seven.
Speaker 1: Kids, and I believe very much in Reugene, and so
Speaker 1: I feel like it was more that. But my kids
Speaker 1: and my husband, even you know, not my very younger kids,
Speaker 1: but my older kids were being able to articulate. Mom,
Speaker 1: you always support us everything that we're doing, and so
Speaker 1: we want to be there to cheer you on. And
Speaker 1: even you know, said to my daughter, I was scared
Speaker 1: when I go out there, my oldest I said, what
Speaker 1: if I and the first week and I'd made this
Speaker 1: big deal and we all flew out there, And she
Speaker 1: said mommy, at least you tried. And I love that
Speaker 1: my kids know that, and I just I was I
Speaker 1: don't know other parents out there, but like when your
Speaker 1: kids says something that just like you know, it knocks
Speaker 1: the wind.
Speaker 3: Out of you because it is just so beautiful. That
Speaker 3: was one of those moments for me.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome. All right, So getting to this show,
Speaker 2: how did you balance for her soul, mommy life everything
Speaker 2: like that? Oh?
Speaker 1: It was hard. And actually one of my best friends
Speaker 1: came out with me and helped me with the kids
Speaker 1: because Alec again was back and forth.
Speaker 3: My nannies came out with me.
Speaker 1: So there's that. But you know, I mean it was
Speaker 1: it was hard because my kids are used to me
Speaker 1: being around a lot. I'm a very you know, physically
Speaker 1: present mom, and so it was you know, and they
Speaker 1: knew that when I got home, your body hurts and
Speaker 1: I'm tired, and I you know, don't have as much
Speaker 1: energy to run around with them. But they also, again
Speaker 1: especially the older ones, really understood that no matter how
Speaker 1: long I was gonna be on the show, was a
Speaker 1: short period of time. This was just for now, and
Speaker 1: they wanted they you know, they fell in love with
Speaker 1: glev my dance partner. They fell in love with so
Speaker 1: many of the other pros. And my daughter Carmen is
Speaker 1: obsessed with Danielle Fischel and to paying gay and she's like,
Speaker 1: oh my.
Speaker 3: God, I love to paying.
Speaker 1: So they just say they really knew that this was
Speaker 1: a once in a lifetime adventure.
Speaker 2: Right, What were you hoping to get out of dancing
Speaker 2: with the stars. Were you hoping to show like another
Speaker 2: side of yourself or just kind of a personal you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been asked a question, the questions like
Speaker 1: that is like, you know, everybody's always wanting let me,
Speaker 1: let me try to prove myself to you guys. Now,
Speaker 1: let me show you something different about me. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm calculated enough to know how to do that.
Speaker 1: I just don't think things through obviously most of the time.
Speaker 3: I really feel that.
Speaker 1: I just I love to move my body, and I
Speaker 1: love to dance and to put those dance shoes on again.
Speaker 1: And you know, after the very first dance we were
Speaker 1: finishing in about it was our idea and I just
Speaker 1: kept on, We're just not even thinking and I kept
Speaker 1: on bending over and I touched the ground and it
Speaker 1: was like this, you know that that dance floor that
Speaker 1: I knew so well that I you know, I, I
Speaker 1: said goodbye to you a long time ago, and it
Speaker 1: just to have that emotional connection. And you know, moms,
Speaker 1: we like, you know, especially when we're in our forties,
Speaker 1: everything is about Okay, where's what's my kids need to do?
Speaker 3: And what does my work need to do?
Speaker 1: And so we lose so much of our own identity
Speaker 1: and so this was just such a beautiful reconnection, reconnecting
Speaker 1: with something that had was very meaningful to me.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, are you excited to go back for the finale?
Speaker 1: You cannot? I can noway, No, I'm not nervous.
Speaker 3: Nerves.
Speaker 1: I mean, like maybe good nerves, but not bad nerves.
Speaker 1: It was such I loved everybody on that show, every
Speaker 1: single person, from the hair and the makeup, to the justices,
Speaker 1: to the the producers, to the big you know, the
Speaker 1: big people with all of their power on the way top,
Speaker 1: to the pros, to the to my you know, my
Speaker 1: my fellow castmates, everybody.
Speaker 3: Just I'm so magical.
Speaker 1: I didn't meet one person that I didn't absolutely adore
Speaker 1: on that show, and so I'm just excited to see
Speaker 1: everybody again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so many people say that. They said everyone it's
Speaker 2: just always so much like a family and everyone supports
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: It's kind of really weird. Like you get looking around you're.
Speaker 3: Like, nah, no, this can't be.
Speaker 1: So good, and you look like, how have you guys
Speaker 1: created something that's just so positive? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So when you got eliminated, the next dance was
Speaker 2: dedication week, and we're going to dedicate it to Alec.
Speaker 2: Can you share what dance you were going to do
Speaker 2: was a part of it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he was gonna be a part of it. It
Speaker 1: was gonna can I tell you the internet did me
Speaker 1: dirty that one because it would have been so funny,
Speaker 1: would have been iconic, you know, Alec. He was gonna
Speaker 1: we're going to do our dance to our first wedding dance,
Speaker 1: and it was going to be like SNL meets Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars meets like Blackpool Dancing meets just like
Speaker 1: ridiculous Baldwinville. So it's like it was gonna be really
Speaker 1: really funny, and you know, who know, it was down
Speaker 1: the line if there's gonna be an opportunity for us
Speaker 1: to create that or not.
Speaker 2: You know, do you know what you're doing? For the finale.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I have to I have to
Speaker 1: call Gleb and ask him. I hope it'll be something fun.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know that much about about it.
Speaker 1: I haven't you know, I should watch the finales of
Speaker 1: other seasons. But I hope it'll be like One Last
Speaker 1: Dance would be so fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Are you still in touch with Gleb or
Speaker 2: anyone else with the show or is it hard right
Speaker 2: now because the show's still no, no.
Speaker 1: No no. Glev and I are going to be like
Speaker 1: lifelong friends. We became like buddies right away. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel that he's another person I feel
Speaker 1: so lucky to have connected with. You know, he really
Speaker 1: is a special, special person. And I do believe in
Speaker 1: people coming into each other's lives at certain time times.
Speaker 1: So you know, we send each other memes all day
Speaker 1: and text and we'll have a phone call. And you
Speaker 1: know what, we stayed in LA for about two weeks
Speaker 1: after the show, and we hung out a ton of times,
Speaker 1: and he hung out with Alex. So it's it's he's
Speaker 1: a really special person.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Do you think that any of the issues or
Speaker 2: the like backlash that Gleb had from last season affected
Speaker 2: anything on your season.
Speaker 1: Look, I think it's a combination of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: It's a reality show, right, and that's it. It's a
Speaker 1: reality show. Now, it's a fun reality show. It's a
Speaker 1: everybody's warm and fuzzy on the inside reality show. But
Speaker 1: it's a reality show. And so I look, I met him,
Speaker 1: you know, right away, and obviously this is the show
Speaker 1: came out, the Dancing Stars came out when everything was
Speaker 1: coming out about you know, what was what had happened
Speaker 1: with him in the pastor has not happened with him? Right?
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't like commenting on other
Speaker 1: people's relationships, but you know, I told him we're partnership.
Speaker 1: We go through things together in every single way, and
Speaker 1: I really think that. I think that we are a package.
Speaker 1: And of course people are going to vote for certain reasons,
Speaker 1: and there's going to be people who are going to
Speaker 1: try to influence people. But all we could do was
Speaker 1: do our best dancing and have the most fun, and
Speaker 1: we did. We did that, right.
Speaker 2: Do you think you guys are unfairly cut from the competition?
Speaker 2: Should other people have gone home before you?
Speaker 1: That's a really hard question because I love everybody on
Speaker 1: the show, and if you know me, I'm like peace
Speaker 1: and love and I'm a Samles wull dance together forever.
Speaker 1: I mean I cried every single time somebody was eliminated.
Speaker 1: I like really had a very hard time afterwards and
Speaker 1: was a lot to process. And it's like a weird
Speaker 1: mixed feeling of like, Okay, I get to go to
Speaker 1: dance tomorrow, but it's painful because everybody worked so hard.
Speaker 1: And you know, dancing wise, we're very we're you know,
Speaker 1: we're very good together at glebinin dancing wise, we are
Speaker 1: very good together.
Speaker 3: And I know that.
Speaker 1: I know that because I have a background in dance do.
Speaker 1: I love watching Andy Richter like improve and he's just
Speaker 1: a joy to watch. Absolutely, So every single partner on there,
Speaker 1: whether they got eliminated first or they are going to win,
Speaker 1: is valid because dancing is about entertainment and enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Anyone can dance, and so you know, again this isn't
Speaker 1: who's the best dancer, This is you know, whose journey
Speaker 1: are we watching? And you know what music choice was it?
Speaker 1: And what does that resonate with people? And what are
Speaker 1: the online campaigns to support people and to tear people down.
Speaker 1: That's all a big part of the reality show. So
Speaker 1: you know, I mean what, I've continued, loved to continue
Speaker 1: to dance, absolutely, But at the same time, I said
Speaker 1: to my kids. My kids were there and they were crying,
Speaker 1: and I kneeled down with them on the ballroom floor.
Speaker 1: After the cameras were often, I said, I know, I'm
Speaker 1: really and I'm crying too, So I'm really really sad.
Speaker 1: And I want you to look at my castmates and
Speaker 1: you see how happy they are. And part of this
Speaker 1: experience is being happy for the people who get to
Speaker 1: dance tomorrow, and so I really never want to lose that.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm reminding myself and teaching them. So
Speaker 1: I do feel like it's a it's a mixed bag.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And speaking of internet chatter, do you agree with
Speaker 2: the heat that Yan is getting.
Speaker 1: I've only seen like headlines. First of all, I love Yon,
Speaker 1: I love Yon. I was I've been laughing a little
Speaker 1: bit because there was some really like funny, like obviously
Speaker 1: bullshit trash article about me that I was having like
Speaker 1: a fit that I wasn't dancing with Yon when I
Speaker 1: I wasn't like and I was like, and at that
Speaker 1: point it was so funny because I hadn't actually been
Speaker 1: to I went to LA for the promos, and then
Speaker 1: I was back rehearsing in New York for a little
Speaker 1: bit because the dancing the stars are so supportive and
Speaker 1: they helped me have some extra time in New York
Speaker 1: to transition my family. But I was like reading this
Speaker 1: stuff and I'm like, who's Yan like? And apparently I'm
Speaker 1: like throwing things it mad that I'm not dancing with
Speaker 1: Yan and something about like I needed a certain lighting
Speaker 1: in my dressing room that doesn't exist. You don't get
Speaker 1: a dressing room dancing with You do get a trailer,
Speaker 1: But trailer lighting, I think is just pretty fluorescent. It's
Speaker 1: my first trailer I ever had, but I think that
Speaker 1: they just across the bad fluorescent. Maybe if you're like
Speaker 1: a super stud you get a special lighting. But it
Speaker 1: was like all these like obviously just who I also
Speaker 1: wonder who are these people who just like write this stuff?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm not even physically present to
Speaker 1: be doing any of these things, and I don't know
Speaker 1: who Yan is. So that was my first introduction to
Speaker 1: Yan was apparently I was really mad that I.
Speaker 3: Wasn't dancing with him, and I like laughed about it
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 1: Where we finally did meet, I was like, do you
Speaker 1: know that apparently I have through a tantrum that I
Speaker 1: wasn't dancing with you.
Speaker 3: But so, first of all, Yan is a beautiful dancer.
Speaker 3: He's no.
Speaker 1: Is he a ballroom dancer? No, but not everybody on
Speaker 1: there is a ballroom dancer. You know, they've learned some ballroom,
Speaker 1: but they're not a ballroom dancer. And I think that
Speaker 1: he brings something completely unique. He's one of the loveliest
Speaker 1: people you'll ever meet. He's such a good person, and
Speaker 1: so is Jen, and they're so cute together. I mean,
Speaker 1: every single time I watched them, I have a great
Speaker 1: time watching them. So I feel like everybody, look again,
Speaker 1: it goes back to it's a reality show and people
Speaker 1: are trying to create drama about it. But if you
Speaker 1: really know the people, you know, just let people dance.
Speaker 1: That's it. Let people dance and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: If they did a redemption season to bring back contestants,
Speaker 2: would you do with it.
Speaker 3: No, I'm obsessed with Dancing with the Stars. I like,
Speaker 3: I had the best time at the time in my life.
Speaker 2: Everyone says that when they come off the show, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I just want to dance. That's all
Speaker 2: I want to do now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's again. It is such a positive experience
Speaker 1: and it's hard on your nervous system to like just
Speaker 1: stop because like every every day, no days off, every day,
Speaker 1: and then you wake up the next day and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: what do I do with myself today? And of course
Speaker 1: I have seven kids, so I know what I'm doing
Speaker 1: with myself. And it is you get into this routine
Speaker 1: of just like, Okay, this is what I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be, and now it's over. You just
Speaker 1: you know, get you get off the train. So it
Speaker 1: is that is a painful side to it. But truly, truly, truly,
Speaker 1: it's only been a positive experience. I would say that
Speaker 1: the one thing is like when you go and you
Speaker 1: do the podcast right afterwards, where I.
Speaker 3: Like bald my eyes out. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people bother their eyes out afterwards because.
Speaker 1: It's just so emotional.
Speaker 3: I had my kids outside the room and.
Speaker 1: They were crying, so I'm having to act try out
Speaker 1: like a logical conversation. I'm like hearing my kids crying
Speaker 1: I'm dressed up like Princess Leah, Like I'm seeing the
Speaker 1: ridiculousness of myself doing this, and you just get up
Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to say. I'm just I guess I'll be
Speaker 1: the new meme tomorrow, which I watched.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're always looking for that. So
Speaker 2: going back to the show, did you have any say
Speaker 2: in your song or picking your wardrobe or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Definitely in the songs we had a ton of say
Speaker 1: they really dancing the stories really wants your personality to shine,
Speaker 1: so they listen to you a lot, and they really care.
Speaker 1: There's lots of teams having meetings. I also am the
Speaker 1: kind of person where I come on to this and
Speaker 1: I know that I'm you know, I'm not the pro
Speaker 1: on it, neither in dance or in costuming or in
Speaker 1: what's gonna sound the best or the camera angles. So
Speaker 1: you do see like I'd be sitting next to my
Speaker 1: castmates and they're in like the make out, hair and
Speaker 1: makeup chair and they're actively telling people who what to do.
Speaker 1: I sometimes wonder if it's an endearing quality about me
Speaker 1: or it just makes me you know, kind of a
Speaker 1: pushover where I'm like, do what you want to do.
Speaker 1: I am here to enjoy your enjoy your expertise. So
Speaker 1: I really, for the most part, like costume wise, hair wise,
Speaker 1: makeup wise, I just enjoyed being around these people who
Speaker 1: are very good at what they do.
Speaker 2: Did you ever have any wardrobe mount functions right before show?
Speaker 3: Oh? And yes I did.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I had my first costume there was so
Speaker 1: first of all, like you want to you wear this
Speaker 1: costume for a while, like a really long while, because
Speaker 1: we do a dress rehearsal and then we have a
Speaker 1: quick break and then we go into the live show
Speaker 1: and and and then you've done a rehearsal and practice
Speaker 1: close before, so you've you've done this dance many many times.
Speaker 1: You know, i'd get to the studio, I'd I get
Speaker 1: to air and make up between six thirty and seven thirty.
Speaker 1: And you know sometimes we weren't out until I want
Speaker 1: to say, like nine thirty ten, after doing press and everything.
Speaker 1: And so the first one. So trying to like pee
Speaker 1: in these outfits right before you're going to go on
Speaker 1: is a feat in itself, especially like I like feathers
Speaker 1: and you're like pulling to one side. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just not it's not a graceful situation. And as I'm
Speaker 1: looking down, I see this string, hey, from like the
Speaker 1: crotch of my of my dress. So I mean, I
Speaker 1: thank god like I went to pee before, because like
Speaker 1: it would have been extraordinarily embarrassing to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: why is there this string hanging out from the cratch
Speaker 1: of her So we.
Speaker 3: Found that one out.
Speaker 1: It was actually really really tight on my They made
Speaker 1: it a little bit too tight on my neck, so
Speaker 1: I was bruised to the next day all my collar
Speaker 1: bones the back of my neck because of how tight
Speaker 1: the dress was. And I mean, they want to make
Speaker 1: sure that there are no wardrobe those kinds of wardrobe malfunctions.
Speaker 3: The week afterwards, we did.
Speaker 1: Tangle and my elbows like we had to tape them
Speaker 1: because it was like getting like this awful pain in
Speaker 1: my elbows from that. You know, he sort of threw
Speaker 1: me around into a trick towards the end. But I
Speaker 1: feel like the other ones it was, you know, not
Speaker 1: as not as much. The last outfit was probably my
Speaker 1: least favorite because it was just like so much fabric
Speaker 1: and it was like we kept on catching each other
Speaker 1: on it and made it hard to dance.
Speaker 3: But so yeah, that was that was that nice.
Speaker 2: Did you guys have a costume plan for the Halloween episode?
Speaker 1: No, we were playing around with different ideas. I like
Speaker 1: the idea of doing Fantom of the Opera. That's what's
Speaker 1: been super fun. But we were kind of like you
Speaker 1: kind of plan on two weeks ahead because you don't
Speaker 1: want to count your chickens too what you want to
Speaker 1: be prepared, but right not overly prepared, because any heart
Speaker 1: gets broken more.
Speaker 2: It's been said that once you've spent seven days a
Speaker 2: week training for Dancing with the Stars, even though it's
Speaker 2: really hard, it gives you that confidence that I can
Speaker 2: do anything. You feel that And is there anything that
Speaker 2: you want to do now that maybe like you were
Speaker 2: afraid to do before?
Speaker 1: Or I always feel like.
Speaker 2: Kids is right?
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I just enjoyed the experience so
Speaker 1: much so I feel like, you know, are we going
Speaker 1: to spend more time in La Probably. I think we've
Speaker 1: had some very serious conversations in terms of that, and
Speaker 1: I think that that's given me the confidence into making
Speaker 1: a potentially bigger move than I thought we would. Again,
Speaker 1: we'll see we are. We are really people who pivot
Speaker 1: and see in our life, as you know, is constantly
Speaker 1: wild and changing. I kind of like the idea this
Speaker 1: is completely like out of blue. I kind of like
Speaker 1: the idea of like getting out of soap opera or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: I think it would be so fun.
Speaker 1: I just like playing, you know what I mean, anything
Speaker 1: where you get to play and have fun and interact
Speaker 1: with other people.
Speaker 3: I very much. I very much like that. So we'll see,
Speaker 3: we'll see.
Speaker 1: You know. I have some fun projects in the work,
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of fun meetings in the
Speaker 1: works of just like dreaming, like a lot of dreaming
Speaker 1: right now, which is a great time.
Speaker 2: Awesome. I heard soap operas are a lot of hard
Speaker 2: work too, so you.
Speaker 1: Like to love it? Yeah, just make yourself busy, you know. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm saying that without any experience or anything, and maybe
Speaker 1: I would see it and like I try it out
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, not for me. This is literally
Speaker 1: like Ilaria doesn't think they through and is saying on
Speaker 1: a podcast.
Speaker 2: You know, that's like that's the best way to go
Speaker 2: through life. Maybe it's go with it, you know.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, that's it for today.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening with me, and I
Speaker 1: am so happy, Tori, that you gave me this opportunity.
Speaker 1: I love you, and I can't wait to see you soon.