Speaker 1: Hello everyone. It's Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director and mom
Speaker 1: of two, but forever known to most as Topanga from
Speaker 1: the nineties family sitcom Boy Meets World. Currently, though, I
Speaker 1: am competing on season thirty four of Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars as one half of Team Topasha, and I am
Speaker 1: having the time of my life, and throughout the journey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep you updated in the form of
Speaker 1: this here podcast, Danielle with the Stars, all in hopes
Speaker 1: of being one of the chosen few who wins a
Speaker 1: Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy. So I have just completed
Speaker 1: the press line for week two's live show was one
Speaker 1: Hit Wonders Week. This week felt so different from the
Speaker 1: first week. That first week we had three full weeks
Speaker 1: of rehearsal, of getting to know each other, of getting
Speaker 1: to know the other contestants, of spending time with the song,
Speaker 1: which of course I was already such a fan of,
Speaker 1: you Know Stronger by Kelly Clarkson, but still knowing a
Speaker 1: song and having steps in your mind and choreography in
Speaker 1: your mind that you can count to having three weeks
Speaker 1: with it, you just really settle in and you feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: and even though my performance wasn't like you know, Tens,
Speaker 1: I felt really comfortable and confident. And then you do
Speaker 1: the live show at the end of week one and
Speaker 1: the next morning you're in and you're learning a totally
Speaker 1: different dance. And in this case you really only have
Speaker 1: about five days. You go from about three weeks of
Speaker 1: time rehearsing to having five days because you rehearse Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then Monday is camera blocking. By the time you
Speaker 1: get to this stage and you are camera blocking and
Speaker 1: showing the cameras what you've got, not much is really
Speaker 1: going to change. Your performance can be adjusted. You can
Speaker 1: start amping things up on your face. You can remind
Speaker 1: yourself to put your shoulders down, which apparently I am
Speaker 1: not doing enough. You know, you can make little tweaks,
Speaker 1: but like you better be pretty locked in by the
Speaker 1: time you get to Monday. On Saturday night, I left
Speaker 1: rehearsal four hours of straight rehearsal, and I called Jensen
Speaker 1: and I said, I am so far from where I
Speaker 1: want to be with this dance. I don't feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: I'm making mistakes, I'm not able to perform because I'm
Speaker 1: so in my head about the steps, and there's just
Speaker 1: things that Pasha is saying to me that I want
Speaker 1: to understand that like I see him do them, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, that looks nice and well done, and
Speaker 1: I just try to replicate it and I can't, and
Speaker 1: I was so nervous. I was like, this is Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I have to be ready to perform basically by Monday morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm nowhere near it. And then I went home.
Speaker 1: I did all my self care, body care stuff, icing, heating, EPSOM,
Speaker 1: salt bath, cold plunge, heating again, sleeping with my foot,
Speaker 1: elevated all the stuff I'm having to do. And I
Speaker 1: woke up on Sunday and I showed up at rehearsal,
Speaker 1: and I swear overnight my brain just absorbed all of
Speaker 1: the things Pasha had said to me the day before,
Speaker 1: all of the notes I wanted to give myself about
Speaker 1: straightening my leg and what I wanted to do with
Speaker 1: my energy through my fingertips and making sure my hips
Speaker 1: were moving and pulling my toes back through my shoes
Speaker 1: and all the things that I didn't feel like I
Speaker 1: was doing on Saturday I was now doing on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And the difference between how I felt Saturday night and
Speaker 1: how I felt Sunday night was Likeday night, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm at about ninety percent, and that on Saturday I
Speaker 1: was like at twenty. So it's pretty crazy, how just
Speaker 1: thinking about something giving your brain a break and sleeping
Speaker 1: if you just you know, if you just trust the process.
Speaker 1: I've been saying trust the Pasha, and Pasha now says
Speaker 1: trust the process. So he really said that that is
Speaker 1: exactly how it works. That when you only have five
Speaker 1: days to learn a dance by Saturday, you're not going
Speaker 1: to feel confident. And he said you may not ever
Speaker 1: feel confident again the way you did the first week
Speaker 1: because you just had more time with it. And so
Speaker 1: nobody really ever goes out there after week one and
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, I'm one hundred percent. I know what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be doing. So it's very it's thrilling,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a roller coaster. You have to be
Speaker 1: a bit of an adrenaline junkie to handle it. I man,
Speaker 1: I get out there though, and the live studio audience
Speaker 1: just feeds my soul. I feel exactly like I did
Speaker 1: doing Boy Meets World back in the nineties, exactly like
Speaker 1: I did doing Girl Meets World. You just the audience
Speaker 1: is there. You know you're there to entertain them. You
Speaker 1: know they're there, You're there to make them have a
Speaker 1: great time, and I just love it so much. With
Speaker 1: that said, it's great that I can give a good
Speaker 1: performance on show night, but I know that for Pasha.
Speaker 1: He explained this really well to me because I kept saying,
Speaker 1: why do I have to give one hundred percent five
Speaker 1: times before the live show? I do camera blocking three times.
Speaker 1: You want one hundred percent for all three of those.
Speaker 1: Then on the actual tape day, we do two more
Speaker 1: rehearsals in the morning. You want one hundred percent for those.
Speaker 1: Then we do a dress rehearsal. You want one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of those. That's six full times of going a
Speaker 1: hundred percent in your routine before you do it live
Speaker 1: for the studio audience and millions of people watching on TV.
Speaker 1: As an actor from the time I was ten years old,
Speaker 1: we never give one hundred percent until you're rolling. That's
Speaker 1: something you save because once you really deliver something, you
Speaker 1: can't recapture it. You can't do it again. So I
Speaker 1: really just one day when he was asking me to
Speaker 1: really be going out, full out. In rehearsal, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm just can you explain it to me? Because I
Speaker 1: want to do it for you, but it's going against
Speaker 1: thirty years of training for me. Can you explain to
Speaker 1: me why you want it a full out? And he said,
Speaker 1: unlike with acting, when you fully commit and you fully perform,
Speaker 1: and you turn it on and there's a brightness to
Speaker 1: you and you've got an energy, everything about your physical
Speaker 1: body also changes. You spin into me faster, you hit
Speaker 1: lines differently, And he as a person who's guiding me
Speaker 1: and coaching me through the dance, He's like, if I
Speaker 1: need to whip you into a turn in order to
Speaker 1: give you speed, I will do that, but if I
Speaker 1: don't need to, and I think I need to because
Speaker 1: during rehearsal you needed me to, but now in the
Speaker 1: live show you don't. If I go to whip you
Speaker 1: into a turn, I could actually screw up the dance
Speaker 1: or I could make you look bad, and that's never
Speaker 1: what I want to do. And I was like, right,
Speaker 1: our physical bodies are relying on each other to communicate
Speaker 1: for the entire minute, and it's not like that in acting. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in acting, I give you a reaction or a response,
Speaker 1: and you just have to respond to it, and as
Speaker 1: long as it's natural, you're accomplishing the goal. So hearing
Speaker 1: him say that made perfectly good sense to me. It's
Speaker 1: still very difficult for me to do. I want to
Speaker 1: get better at it because I know that it's important
Speaker 1: to him, and I'm just I'm struggling with it. I
Speaker 1: don't you know, there is there. It is not even
Speaker 1: something I can plan for. I can think I'm turning
Speaker 1: it on, but then when there's a crowd there, it's
Speaker 1: just totally different energy. So I don't know. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love it, and I forgot how much I loved it,
Speaker 1: to be honest. We had two eliminations tonight, double elimination,
Speaker 1: which made the competition aspect of this feel very real.
Speaker 1: Up until this point, it has just felt like we
Speaker 1: were all on a journey to dance our hearts out
Speaker 1: every week and to be there celebrating each other and
Speaker 1: supporting each other. We said goodbye to Corey Feldman and
Speaker 1: his partner Jenna Johnson, and we said goodbye to Baron
Speaker 1: Davis and his partner Britt Stewart. I am very, in particular,
Speaker 1: very sad to see Baron go. Baron and I have
Speaker 1: become very close. We're close in age. I know how
Speaker 1: hard he's working, I know how badly he wanted to
Speaker 1: perform the way he wanted to for brit and it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say goodbye to people. It just felt
Speaker 1: very real tonight, and we Pasha and I were the
Speaker 1: first names to be called as being safe, which was
Speaker 1: obviously such a relief. But then I had to stand
Speaker 1: back there and wait and see who was gone. And
Speaker 1: I ran out the second I could and gave Baron
Speaker 1: a big hug, and I told him he's stuck with
Speaker 1: me because he made the terrible mistake of giving me
Speaker 1: his phone number, and so now he's stuck with me.
Speaker 1: So I'm sad about him, especially being gone. I did
Speaker 1: the Cha Cha tonight. It was a total departure from
Speaker 1: Week one with the tango week one, even though I
Speaker 1: didn't do the tango super intense, it is a more
Speaker 1: intense dance. But I figured Week one was my opportunity
Speaker 1: to show a little bit of my personality and who
Speaker 1: I am to America, and so there may have been
Speaker 1: bigger smiles than you would normally see during a tango,
Speaker 1: but I was honestly just having so much fun. I
Speaker 1: could barely contain it. This cha cha this week, Pasha
Speaker 1: was like, let's show a completely different side of your personality.
Speaker 1: Let's turn the sexy meter up, let's turn the flirty
Speaker 1: meter up, and let's just really go for it. I
Speaker 1: can definitely say it has been a long time since
Speaker 1: I have ever done something like that. But it was
Speaker 1: really fun. And you know, I have always been a
Speaker 1: person who's believed that like age isn't anything but a
Speaker 1: number and all of that. But like when it's you,
Speaker 1: sometimes it feels different. Like I can look at other
Speaker 1: people and be like, yes, you go, queen, like I
Speaker 1: can be that person. But when it's me, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, you know, you got two small kids and
Speaker 1: you're in your mid forties, like settle down. But then
Speaker 1: I got out there and I actually felt really good
Speaker 1: about myself. I felt really good. It helps that, you know,
Speaker 1: the wardrobe here is amazing. We actually completely changed my
Speaker 1: dress right before the live show. So this is my
Speaker 1: public apology to Daniella, the wardrobe master. Daniella wanted to
Speaker 1: design this dress exactly like this with these straps. She said,
Speaker 1: your promo dress was a halter this. I want to
Speaker 1: feel more clubby. I want to have these straps. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that sounds great, and then I
Speaker 1: slept on it and I woke up the next day
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, the dance is really sexy.
Speaker 1: I think a halter neckline is sexier. I want to
Speaker 1: do a halter, And so I texted her. I said,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it and I really want to
Speaker 1: do a halter. She was like, okay. I really liked
Speaker 1: the first idea of us doing the straps and making
Speaker 1: it more clubby, and I was like, let's go halter,
Speaker 1: and she said, okay, you got it. Then they made
Speaker 1: it a halter, and then they had to rhinestone it
Speaker 1: and fringe it, and the dress legitimately weighs seven to
Speaker 1: ten pounds more than it did without all that stuff
Speaker 1: on there, and with the fringe and all of that,
Speaker 1: the tiny little halter straps made the dress not fit well.
Speaker 1: Even though it fit perfectly in the fitting, it did
Speaker 1: not fit well tonight and we did our dress rehearsal
Speaker 1: and the dress felt like it was hanging on me.
Speaker 1: It felt very unsexy. I did the first dip that
Speaker 1: we do and When I came up, the double sided
Speaker 1: tape they had put to keep my dress down above
Speaker 1: my bra was just out. My braw was showing, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, no, no, this is not
Speaker 1: going to work. And so after dress rehearsal, I took
Speaker 1: my dress off and I said, can you guys, I
Speaker 1: need this thing yanked up about three inches and it
Speaker 1: came back with the straps that she originally wanted to do.
Speaker 1: It also came back with some more rhinestones on the mesh.
Speaker 1: The dress originally didn't have any of these rhinestones. It's
Speaker 1: so much prettier with the rhinestones. But literally they changed
Speaker 1: the straps and the entire dress changed. And so I
Speaker 1: just want you guys to know that they know what
Speaker 1: they're doing and I should keep my mouth shut so
Speaker 1: I will not be making that mistake again and I
Speaker 1: will be apologized to Danielle tomorrow morning. Overall, I think
Speaker 1: the dance tonight went very well. I did not have
Speaker 1: great dress rehearsals, unlike last week where my dress rehearsals
Speaker 1: went pretty well. My main dress rehearsal, I guess I
Speaker 1: should say rehearsals went pretty well, and then the dress
Speaker 1: rehearsal last week did not go great, but I thought
Speaker 1: the overall performance went well. This week, I did not
Speaker 1: have a single rehearsal that felt like they're nailed all
Speaker 1: of those, And then tonight, other than that last little
Speaker 1: sneaky trick, it felt like most of the things I
Speaker 1: wanted to do I did. I feel really good about it.
Speaker 1: I Also, I think the thing I'm the most proud
Speaker 1: of tonight is that Pasha and I did have that
Speaker 1: little slip up with the last trick. We watched the
Speaker 1: tape back to see what happened, and I released his
Speaker 1: hip too early, like I'm holding onto him with my
Speaker 1: arm while he's reaching for my other arm, and I
Speaker 1: let go to early, so I was on the floor
Speaker 1: and we just missed the handkin. So that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Of course, it was my fault. And when I came
Speaker 1: into this, I said, I really just wanted to give
Speaker 1: myself more grace. I'm you guys have heard me talk
Speaker 1: about being a perfectionist, and I really just wanted to
Speaker 1: have more fun. Honestly, even after it happened, I just laughed.
Speaker 1: It was just so funny and like the dance had
Speaker 1: gone so well and then for that to kind of
Speaker 1: be the last moment, and the way Pasha was like
Speaker 1: determined to get me out between his legs, it was
Speaker 1: like he was shoving a baby deer out of like
Speaker 1: he was birthing a fawn. It was just so funny.
Speaker 1: And then immediately we walked off and we just started
Speaker 1: making memes, just meme after meme after meme. You guys
Speaker 1: are gonna be sick of the memes. I love making them.
Speaker 1: I woke up before this morning and started making the
Speaker 1: memes and so we've already been hard at work with
Speaker 1: the rest of them for tonight because they make me laugh.
Speaker 1: My body now that the adrenaline is out of my system,
Speaker 1: my body is very achy. So last week, during the tango,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to drop into a lunge at the
Speaker 1: very end of the dance, and I did it a
Speaker 1: bunch of times, but my quad got tired from all
Speaker 1: the squatting, like all that, you know, squatting down, squating down,
Speaker 1: squatting down, and so without realizing it, in order to
Speaker 1: give my quad a break, I started sliding with my
Speaker 1: back foot my left foot. I started sliding into the
Speaker 1: lunge so that my right leg could just drop down,
Speaker 1: my left leg would slide, but then in order to
Speaker 1: not go into a split, I'd have to use my
Speaker 1: right foot to grip the ground and therefore my hamstring
Speaker 1: to grip the ground really tight so that I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go into a split. And in that process, I snapped
Speaker 1: attendant in my hamstring. I did not know that I
Speaker 1: snapped attendant. I just thought, ow, that hurts. And then
Speaker 1: I left rehearsal and I said, you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what I need. Everyone keeps telling me to take
Speaker 1: care of myself. I need a deep tissue massage so
Speaker 1: that this sore hamstring feels better in the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. So I went and had a ninety minute
Speaker 1: deep tissue massage where someone used their elbow into my
Speaker 1: torn hamstring. It was not comfortable in the moment, but
Speaker 1: I thought, but it'll feel better later. And then, unbeknownst
Speaker 1: to me, the medication that I am on for my cancer,
Speaker 1: meds to moxifin, can increase bruising and slow healing. So
Speaker 1: I had the ninety minute deep tissue massage. I also
Speaker 1: then had like a shockwave therapy called a piazzo, which
Speaker 1: went really deep. Again, not knowing that my tomoxofin would
Speaker 1: make me bruise, and within forty eight hours, I had
Speaker 1: every single capillary from my upper inner thigh all the
Speaker 1: way down to my calf had burst and it looked awful.
Speaker 1: The swelling got really bad, and I was it was
Speaker 1: just kind of a mess. And I was still rehearsing
Speaker 1: four hours a day, and I was now in hyperbaric oxygen,
Speaker 1: and I was in cryotherapy and I was cold plunging,
Speaker 1: and I was doing all of the things just trying
Speaker 1: to bring down the inflammation. I went for an MRI,
Speaker 1: and the MRI determined that I had a pretty severe tear,
Speaker 1: and the radiologist who read the MRI actually said I
Speaker 1: was definitely going to need surgery. And I kind of
Speaker 1: panicked because the idea that anything was going to take
Speaker 1: me out of this competition other than just not having
Speaker 1: the votes was like just I couldn't even I couldn't
Speaker 1: even fathom that I would have to drop out. I
Speaker 1: was like, m mmm, they can take me out on
Speaker 1: a stretcher. Otherwise, no way I'm sticking around. So I
Speaker 1: met with an orthopedic surgeon who deals with a lot
Speaker 1: of athletes, because girls an athlete. Now I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know that, but I'm your girl. I'm an athlete.
Speaker 1: So I met with an orthopedic surgeon who works with
Speaker 1: a lot of athletes, and he thankfully reviewed all of
Speaker 1: my images and said, zero percent, I'm going to recommend surgery.
Speaker 1: There's just no reason you need to have surgery. With
Speaker 1: that said, the only way you're going to start to
Speaker 1: feel better is with rest. And he said, but I
Speaker 1: understand that you want to stay in this competition that
Speaker 1: you are having the time of your life. And when
Speaker 1: athletes snap these tendons, and we you know they're in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, we treat them like they're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So we're going to manage your pain. We're going to
Speaker 1: make sure you get into c apt two to three
Speaker 1: times a week. We're going to do all of that.
Speaker 1: So I am considering this Dancing with the Stars playoffs
Speaker 1: and I'm doing everything I possibly can in order to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and to stay well, and that as long
Speaker 1: as you guys continue to vote for me, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be here. I am not letting this stop me.
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at with the injury. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I did the cartwheel into splits. Uh, Pasha asked me
Speaker 1: during week one. He was like, can you do a cartwheel?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I used to be able to
Speaker 1: do a cartwheel. And I thought to myself, when was
Speaker 1: the last time we did a cartwheel? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I was probably eight, like eight years old. I did
Speaker 1: gymnastics for a couple of years before I started acting
Speaker 1: at ten, so I knew that I used to know
Speaker 1: how to do a cartwheel. And I just blindly said, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I could do it at eight, I could do
Speaker 1: it at forty four. Why not. I said, yes, I
Speaker 1: sure can. And he said, great, could you do a
Speaker 1: cartweell with your left hand? And I said, you know
Speaker 1: what's funny. I can only do a cartwheel with my
Speaker 1: left hand. Have you ever tried to do a carwell
Speaker 1: both ways? For some reason, I can't do it both ways,
Speaker 1: but I can do one with my left hand. So
Speaker 1: I practiced that. I felt pretty confident. And then he
Speaker 1: was like, how about the splits, And again I was like,
Speaker 1: I could when I was eight. Man, if I could
Speaker 1: do it when I was eight, I could do it
Speaker 1: when I was forty four. So I started working on that. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: it needed to be a left handed cartwheel and it
Speaker 1: needed to be a left legged split because let me
Speaker 1: tell you, whichever leg is in front when you do
Speaker 1: that splits, that's the one where your hamstring is taught.
Speaker 1: And so it would have been zero out of a
Speaker 1: hundred that I could have done a right legged split,
Speaker 1: but I was able to do a left legged split
Speaker 1: because of my injury. We took it real easy with
Speaker 1: the cartwheel because that does definitely use my hamstring. We
Speaker 1: took it easy with the cartwheel all week and then today,
Speaker 1: right down to the last second, Pasha was like, Danielle,
Speaker 1: it's four counts. I can change it if you don't
Speaker 1: want to do it. I said, no, I want to
Speaker 1: do it, and I did one, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I feel great. I think I've got this. Next week
Speaker 1: we are dancing a fox trot, which is not going
Speaker 1: to have any splits or any cartwheels. It's still going
Speaker 1: to be wonderful and we're going to find ways to
Speaker 1: make it really fun. But I'm going to consider it
Speaker 1: a break for my right hamstring and I'm going to
Speaker 1: let it heal everyone this week, going into week two,
Speaker 1: was was pretty stressed. You could see it on all
Speaker 1: of our faces. We'd run into each other in the halls,
Speaker 1: and we'd say how's it going, and everyone be like
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay. You know, first week everyone was
Speaker 1: like how's it going? It was like great, we feel great.
Speaker 1: Isn't this amazing? And second week everyone's just like okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this came up real quick, even Robert, who you know.
Speaker 1: I saw him leaving his rehearsal. I mean, gosh, that
Speaker 1: guy is a charmer, is he not? I just love
Speaker 1: him so much. I saw him leaving camera blocking last
Speaker 1: night and I said how did it go? And I
Speaker 1: was expecting that he was just gonna be like, great,
Speaker 1: we nailed it, and he was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it was okay, I feel like it could have been better.
Speaker 1: There's just some things I'm not nailing. And we talked
Speaker 1: it out. We talked out. You know how much when
Speaker 1: you sleep, it settles in, and we talked about what
Speaker 1: he was going to go home and do, and you know,
Speaker 1: sure enough, he just came out and absolutely killed it. Again.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything I can't do. And he's
Speaker 1: also does every single thing with a smile on his face,
Speaker 1: and he is a true gem of a human being.
Speaker 1: I love him forever. We had one hit Wonders Week,
Speaker 1: our song Rhythm of the Night. I absolutely love. I've
Speaker 1: been a fan, I truly when I hear it, I
Speaker 1: think of the year nineteen ninety four. I had been
Speaker 1: on Boy Meets World for you know, a little less
Speaker 1: than a year. My mom and I would drive back
Speaker 1: and forth from Calabassis to Burbank and it would come
Speaker 1: on the radio and we'd sing it at the top
Speaker 1: of our lungs. It was really fun. And Pasha's choreography
Speaker 1: is just so great. Like there's that part in our
Speaker 1: song where it says like round and round we go,
Speaker 1: and that's the part where I'm doing this rolling of
Speaker 1: the arm, like all those spins in and out. And
Speaker 1: last week when the lyric was you know when it
Speaker 1: makes you taller, and I was rising up off the ground.
Speaker 1: Like his choreography's just so smart, and I love seeing
Speaker 1: what he comes up with every week. So I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about next week because it's TikTok week. We have
Speaker 1: been trying to kill the social media game. Leg actually
Speaker 1: put a damper on some of our social media stuff
Speaker 1: because both of us were just so worried about my
Speaker 1: leg and all of the doctor's appointments that I needed
Speaker 1: to have and all of the healthcare stuff that I
Speaker 1: needed to do. So we had we we kind of
Speaker 1: took a little bit of a pause on some of
Speaker 1: the social media, but we are mac baby, uh and
Speaker 1: I've already been meming the little mistake. So you guys
Speaker 1: are you. Guys are in for you guys are in
Speaker 1: for a treat over the next couple of days. Tonight
Speaker 1: I had my aunt, my uncle, my brother, my mom
Speaker 1: in the audience, and then I had my friends. I
Speaker 1: had Jody Sweeten, Andrea Barber, Elisa Donovan, my friend Jen, Jody,
Speaker 1: Andrea and Elisa. You know been acting. We've all been
Speaker 1: acting since we were kids. We are a family bonded
Speaker 1: by the unique experience being an actor period, much less
Speaker 1: a child actor, much less a child actor in the nineties.
Speaker 1: It's just such a unique small group of people who
Speaker 1: know what that experience is. Like the fact that we
Speaker 1: are there for each other, supporting each other, it just
Speaker 1: means the world. And to see them cheering for me,
Speaker 1: I heard them yelling my name. And then after when
Speaker 1: I made it up to the skybox to talk to
Speaker 1: Julianne and get our scores, I look down at them.
Speaker 1: They all waved at me like it's just such a beautiful, supportive,
Speaker 1: wonderful place. And I in some ways kick myself that
Speaker 1: I waited this long to do it, and in other ways,
Speaker 1: I know, without a shadow of a doubt, I'm exactly
Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be. This is the perfect year
Speaker 1: for me to do it, and I'm so, so so
Speaker 1: happy that I said yes this year. So jewels and
Speaker 1: watches for tonight. As you guys have gotten to know me,
Speaker 1: you know I love my jewels. So my very good
Speaker 1: friend Dolly, she's on Instagram at XO the Biju Box.
Speaker 1: She is an absolute e expert at all things bling.
Speaker 1: Just incredible. She's been doing it for years. It's actually
Speaker 1: her side hustle. She's got like a normal full time job.
Speaker 1: She is a total bat. She's incredible. She's a mom,
Speaker 1: she's a wife, she has two jobs. I look up
Speaker 1: to her in every single way. She heard that I
Speaker 1: was wearing pink for this week, and she let me
Speaker 1: borrow this stunner. It's absolutely incredible. It is light pink.
Speaker 1: It's probably got a Dolly cup under it. That's what
Speaker 1: she calls. It helps bring out the color in the stone.
Speaker 1: It's got a gorgeous halo. I love the shank over here.
Speaker 1: I think this is from her personal collection, not for sale.
Speaker 1: If it was, I'd try to buy it. I'm also
Speaker 1: borrowing this choker from her. I saw her post this
Speaker 1: the other day and I was like, do I need
Speaker 1: that diamond choker? She was like, let me bring it
Speaker 1: to you, girl. So she delivered me jewelry outside the
Speaker 1: rehearsal space and I had her meet me in the
Speaker 1: park and then I hopped in her car and we
Speaker 1: drove around the block and it felt like a real
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what it felt like,
Speaker 1: but it was weird and I was like, I just
Speaker 1: walked away with a bunch of jewels. She dropped me
Speaker 1: back off at the rehearsal space and I was like,
Speaker 1: that was a clandestine A little gathering there. Felt funny,
Speaker 1: but boy, totally worth it. Also, my dear bestie Jamie
Speaker 1: at Forever Fine Jewelry, you've heard me talk about her.
Speaker 1: She let me borrow this bracelet. Look at the mixed shapes, emeralds, ovals, pears,
Speaker 1: I mean, just truly an incredible bracelet. So I got
Speaker 1: to wear this, and then also this ring that she
Speaker 1: designed that I absolutely love. This is not Yo Mama's rings,
Speaker 1: not Jo Mama's cocktail ring. It's just absolutely phenomenal. And
Speaker 1: then I am wearing a Rolex date just that is
Speaker 1: two tone rose gold, two tone. It's a thirty one
Speaker 1: millimeter And I wanted to wear this watch tonight because
Speaker 1: it's the very first watch, like expensive watch that I
Speaker 1: bought as a gift to myself. And I did it
Speaker 1: when I directed my very first episode of television ever,
Speaker 1: which was an episode of Girl Meets World. And I
Speaker 1: like it when my jewelry and the things that I
Speaker 1: spend money on are attached to a story. And I
Speaker 1: knew the minute I directed my first episode of Girl
Speaker 1: Meets World that it was something I was going to
Speaker 1: want to do for maybe the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: And I thought, I want to commemorate this occasion by
Speaker 1: buying myself something nice that every time I look at it,
Speaker 1: I'll remind myself of this accomplishment. And Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars has felt very much the same way that, like,
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of all of us. We're working very
Speaker 1: very hard, and I just thought, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to look down and remember that girl meets world accomplishment
Speaker 1: of directing, and I want to remember it. On Week two,
Speaker 1: when there was a real elimination up for grabs, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I would say grabs that means you
Speaker 1: want it so an elimination that they were going to
Speaker 1: torture us with. So glad that I'm safe for tonight.
Speaker 1: So next week, Week three, TikTok week, I'm thrilled your
Speaker 1: girls doing a real great song. I don't even I
Speaker 1: don't know you guys probably aren'ty now, but I just
Speaker 1: so excited one of my besties I get to do
Speaker 1: a song. I'm so excited. Okay, Later this week I
Speaker 1: am going to be sitting down with one of the
Speaker 1: most celebrated choreographers in the history of dance. It is
Speaker 1: Mandy Moore, whose credits include So You Think you Can Dance,
Speaker 1: La La Land, Circa Solet, Taylor Swift's Era's Tour, and
Speaker 1: a little show called Dancing with the Stars. She's an
Speaker 1: eight time Emmy nominee, three time winner, and an absolute
Speaker 1: legend who will be telling us her opinions on season
Speaker 1: thirty four. So far, I cannot wait. This season feels stacked.
Speaker 1: I just I hmmm, I really I do. Every week
Speaker 1: it's going to get harder and harder and harder. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think one thing I would say that
Speaker 1: I need to start taking very seriously is that this
Speaker 1: is the second week in a row Bruno has mentioned
Speaker 1: my shoulders and I just naturally, I mean, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here like this like I just I'm I'm not a
Speaker 1: shoulder down person. I'm a shoulder up a little weirdo.
Speaker 1: So I need to work on that because as we
Speaker 1: get further into the season, it's going to come down
Speaker 1: to those types of things, like you can't rely on
Speaker 1: having all the audience votes and you have to you
Speaker 1: have like the judges need to see you getting better
Speaker 1: every week, and I want to get better every week.
Speaker 1: So next week we are doing a foxtrot and it
Speaker 1: is very elegant and very graceful, which was not my
Speaker 1: nickname in high school. And so I'm just gonna have
Speaker 1: to dig deep and keep those shoulders down. And my
Speaker 1: number one goal before the week has even started is
Speaker 1: I want Bruno to say you listened to my note.
Speaker 1: That's all I want. That's what I want next week.
Speaker 1: I don't care what the scores are I just want
Speaker 1: Bruno to see that I kept my shoulders down, so
Speaker 1: you best believe I will be wearing a posture corrector.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bust my booty to make that happen. Thank you,
Speaker 1: guys for listening to this episode of Danielle with the Stars.
Speaker 1: It has been my absolute pleasure to share this experience
Speaker 1: with you. Thank you for tuning in every week. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your votes, thank you for all your support,
Speaker 1: thank you for your messages. It really means the world
Speaker 1: to both Pasha and me, So thank you. Bye. Danielle
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