# By Order of the Faithfuls: The Next Pro Is… (DWTS: The Next Pro)

An episode of [Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1477524410), 4 Sep 2026, 38 min.

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Stephani Sosa is BACK to recap the finale of DWTS: The Next Pro alongside Dolores! With Stephani’s firsthand experience on the show, she gives us a unique perspective on the final three… Is she shocked by the results?! Plus, what can we expect for this upcoming season of DWTS?! Who are Stephani and Dolores rooting for? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another episode of By Order of
[0:05] Speaker 1: the Faithfuls. And we have an amazing co-host today. It's
[0:09] Speaker 1: Stephanie Sosa by Dancing with the Stars, the next pro.
[0:16] Speaker 1: She was amazing. We loved her. Stephanie is a professional dancer, choreographer,
[0:21] Speaker 1: and actress from Utah. She began performing at age five
[0:25] Speaker 1: and grew up alongside her brothers who share her same
[0:27] Speaker 1: passion for dance. Stephanie and her younger brother, Ezra... made
[0:32] Speaker 1: history together on So You Think You Can Dance season 16,
[0:36] Speaker 1: becoming the first brother and sister duo to reach the
[0:39] Speaker 1: top 10. In 2024, Stephanie joined Dancing with the Stars
[0:44] Speaker 1: season 33 as a troop member for one season in February, 2026.
[0:50] Speaker 1: She danced alongside Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show.
[0:54] Speaker 1: And later that year, she appeared as a contestant on
[0:58] Speaker 1: the spinoff series Dancing with the Stars Next Pro. Beyond dance,
[1:02] Speaker 1: Stephanie is also an accomplished singer and a vocal advocate
[1:06] Speaker 1: for fitness and mental wellness. She's amazing. So we'll bring
[1:11] Speaker 1: her in now and she is going to be the
[1:13] Speaker 1: best co-host ever. I am so excited. Hi, Stephanie.
[1:18] Speaker 2: Hi.
[1:19] Speaker 1: You're so pretty. I'm so excited. Don't tell me that.
[1:22] Speaker 3: You're pretty.
[1:24] Speaker 1: I love the glasses.
[1:25] Speaker 3: They're so cute.
[1:26] Speaker 1: Thank you. It's because I can't see, Stephanie. I love it.
[1:31] Speaker 3: I'm blind, too, but I wear contacts.
[1:34] Speaker 1: I can't put them in and out. I can't do
[1:37] Speaker 1: a lot of things that you can do. Dancing is
[1:40] Speaker 1: one of them. Thank you. I enjoyed you so much.
[1:44] Speaker 1: You were amazing. the hard work, the dedication you've put
[1:48] Speaker 1: in this your whole life. You've been dancing your whole
[1:50] Speaker 1: life with your family. I was rooting for you and
[1:53] Speaker 1: you are a winner. Thank you.
[1:55] Speaker 3: That means a lot.
[1:56] Speaker 1: Thank you so much. So thank you for coming on
[1:58] Speaker 1: with me. I love that you're the co-host. I know.
[2:01] Speaker 3: I was so excited when they sent me your Instagram.
[2:03] Speaker 3: I was like, I'm so down.
[2:04] Speaker 1: Yes. Okay. And you watched the finale.
[2:07] Speaker 4: Yes.
[2:08] Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to hear what you think. So
[2:11] Speaker 1: the finale is taking place in front of a live
[2:14] Speaker 1: studio audience. So I watched the whole season. I didn't
[2:18] Speaker 1: realize this was the first time it was a live
[2:20] Speaker 1: studio audience. I felt like it was live the whole time.
[2:22] Speaker 1: It wasn't.
[2:23] Speaker 3: No.
[2:23] Speaker 4: Yeah. We didn't have any audience. We just have the judges.
[2:26] Speaker 4: So it's crazy. Like they actually got experience, like what
[2:30] Speaker 4: it's like on the show when you, you know, go live.
[2:32] Speaker 1: So, right. I don't, I don't feel like, I mean,
[2:36] Speaker 1: do you feel it would be much different in front
[2:39] Speaker 1: of an audience? I feel like you guys never get
[2:41] Speaker 1: nervous or frazzled or, You're to me, my whole Instagram
[2:46] Speaker 1: is dogs, kids and dancing, dancing and professional dancing. I
[2:53] Speaker 1: just stare at it like I want to do it,
[2:54] Speaker 1: but I never do it. So what does it feel
[2:56] Speaker 1: like to be on that stage? It must have been
[2:59] Speaker 1: amazing and surreal.
[3:01] Speaker 3: It was crazy.
[3:02] Speaker 4: It was definitely, for me, very nerve-wracking because it felt
[3:05] Speaker 4: like life or death.
[3:07] Speaker 1: It kind of was, right? Yeah, no, it literally was.
[3:10] Speaker 4: But it was, yeah, it was amazing, especially to perform
[3:13] Speaker 4: for the judges. But I do wish that, you know,
[3:16] Speaker 4: we had a live audience the whole time because I
[3:18] Speaker 4: feel like it would have made a difference.
[3:19] Speaker 3: Like, just feeding off.
[3:20] Speaker 4: Of people clapping and just, like, it would have felt
[3:23] Speaker 4: like Dancing with the Stars, like, fully.
[3:26] Speaker 1: So you feel, okay, so you feel that it would
[3:29] Speaker 1: have been... better for you if there was a live
[3:32] Speaker 1: audience yeah I wouldn't have made you more nervous no
[3:35] Speaker 1: no I would have been excited yeah got it because
[3:38] Speaker 1: some people it makes them more nervous.
[3:41] Speaker 4: Yeah yeah I I love performing live so I was
[3:43] Speaker 4: like I would have it would have been nice.
[3:46] Speaker 1: Oh okay well you've done it a lot of times
[3:49] Speaker 1: I'm sure So dancers take the stage and warm up
[3:53] Speaker 1: the crowd before introducing Mark and Shirley Ballas, who dance
[3:57] Speaker 1: across the stage together. I have never seen them dance together.
[4:00] Speaker 1: Have you?
[4:01] Speaker 3: No, my first time ever.
[4:02] Speaker 1: It was pretty amazing.
[4:04] Speaker 3: It was so cute, too. And of course, she looks great.
[4:08] Speaker 3: She's so good.
[4:09] Speaker 1: Recently on Instagram, because I doom scroll all day, I
[4:13] Speaker 1: have to stop and break this habit up. So the
[4:16] Speaker 1: thing is, I saw her dancing in 1991. Did you
[4:21] Speaker 1: happen to come across that?
[4:23] Speaker 3: Oh, on like her old videos of her competing.
[4:26] Speaker 1: Like an old video. Have you seen it?
[4:28] Speaker 3: I've seen those videos. Yeah.
[4:30] Speaker 1: I have never seen that. She was unbelievable.
[4:34] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[4:35] Speaker 3: She's the queen of Latin.
[4:36] Speaker 4: Like even if you aren't like dancing with stars fan,
[4:39] Speaker 4: like growing up, like ballroom competitors, like you wanted to
[4:42] Speaker 4: impress really like she was like, she's the queen.
[4:46] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[4:46] Speaker 1: Is she nice?
[4:47] Speaker 3: I have to ask.
[4:48] Speaker 1: Like, is she? Yeah.
[4:50] Speaker 4: I've known her for a long time, too. Like, when
[4:52] Speaker 4: I was a baby, because she, like, knew my family.
[4:55] Speaker 1: She's always been around, right?
[4:56] Speaker 4: She's been in the ballroom world, especially in Utah. So, yeah,
[5:00] Speaker 4: I love her. She's very, like, professional and knows who
[5:04] Speaker 4: she is. But that can be scary. But I think
[5:07] Speaker 4: she's so sweet. Like, she's such a great human.
[5:10] Speaker 1: Well, you grew up in a dancing home also. Were
[5:12] Speaker 1: your parents dancers?
[5:14] Speaker 3: No, they were soccer players.
[5:16] Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. I always wondered what it was
[5:19] Speaker 1: like to become what your parent was like Mark becoming
[5:23] Speaker 1: what his mom was like, what was breakfast like? Okay.
[5:27] Speaker 1: You know, you're going to dance.
[5:28] Speaker 4: Well, my dad really wanted us to be soccer players,
[5:31] Speaker 4: but we ended up being dancers.
[5:32] Speaker 1: Three of you have three siblings and you were all
[5:35] Speaker 1: in the dance.
[5:36] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[5:37] Speaker 1: Oh, that's pretty amazing. I want to come over for
[5:39] Speaker 1: dinner one day.
[5:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, come over. We only talk about dance. So maybe
[5:42] Speaker 3: you coming over would be a nice break.
[5:43] Speaker 1: Well, I want to get into it. So Derek Huff
[5:47] Speaker 1: is introduced as this week's guest judge. He gives Shirley
[5:51] Speaker 1: a spin before joining the judges. Now, when you look
[5:55] Speaker 1: at them, do you see the difference in like that
[6:00] Speaker 1: they're like way above everyone else? Or do you say like,
[6:05] Speaker 1: they're just the same as every other professional dancer. I
[6:07] Speaker 1: can't tell the difference because I'm not a professional.
[6:10] Speaker 4: Well, growing up, I idolized like Derek, like all the pros, Julianne.
[6:15] Speaker 4: And so I definitely like put like, I'm like, they're phenomenal.
[6:18] Speaker 4: Because for me, they were like, what I wanted to be.
[6:21] Speaker 4: So but now being able to like work with them,
[6:23] Speaker 4: or even just like being the same room with them.
[6:24] Speaker 3: It's an honor.
[6:25] Speaker 1: Like they're, I'm sure like they you looked up to them.
[6:28] Speaker 1: And now like, Yeah. What was it like?
[6:30] Speaker 4: We're like, we want to be the next Derek and Julianne,
[6:33] Speaker 4: but the Latin version, we would always just joke about that.
[6:36] Speaker 4: So it's just like, you know, it's so cool to
[6:38] Speaker 4: just be in the same room as them and be like, wow,
[6:40] Speaker 4: we really did idolize you guys so much.
[6:43] Speaker 1: They all seem so lovely and they really wanted, I
[6:48] Speaker 1: felt like they wanted everyone to win.
[6:50] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[6:51] Speaker 3: I feel like they, they want everybody to become the
[6:54] Speaker 3: best dancer.
[6:55] Speaker 1: They can best as they can. Yeah. Yeah. So Robert
[6:58] Speaker 1: does his entrance next. He's so cute. He makes me
[7:01] Speaker 1: laugh all the time. flanked by dancers as they move
[7:05] Speaker 1: across the stage Whitney Carson is lifted on to the
[7:09] Speaker 1: stage and it's announced that she'll be Robert's co-host tonight
[7:13] Speaker 1: they dance together they're like very close.
[7:15] Speaker 4: Yeah yeah because they won last season so right they're
[7:19] Speaker 4: they're honestly to me it's like so cute like sibling
[7:21] Speaker 4: like they're siblings.
[7:22] Speaker 1: I see that they're they're still really close I think
[7:25] Speaker 1: that you form a relationship when you go through something
[7:28] Speaker 1: like this together that lasts like You know, it's got
[7:33] Speaker 1: to be different to be able to win something and
[7:37] Speaker 1: for her to be with it. I just love seeing
[7:39] Speaker 1: them together again because I did watch last season.
[7:41] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[7:42] Speaker 1: And I'll be watching Sierra this season. I'm going to
[7:44] Speaker 1: see her. You are?
[7:45] Speaker 3: Well, you're amazing. I'll be there watching.
[7:48] Speaker 1: Oh, you will? Okay, we'll have to make sure it's
[7:50] Speaker 1: on the right time. Are you going to be there
[7:51] Speaker 1: the whole time?
[7:52] Speaker 4: I'm going to try to because, you know, Ezra's on
[7:54] Speaker 4: the show. So I was like, I need to be
[7:55] Speaker 4: a good sister and support him in every episode. So
[7:58] Speaker 4: I'm going to try to go to every episode.
[8:00] Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. So finally, the three remaining contestants
[8:03] Speaker 1: take the stage. Selena, Adele, and AJ are all introduced
[8:07] Speaker 1: and they join the big group number. Robert tells the
[8:10] Speaker 1: dancers that they will be performing two dances tonight. For
[8:13] Speaker 1: the first round, they will be able to choose any
[8:16] Speaker 1: ballroom Latin style to perform tonight. And for the second round,
[8:20] Speaker 1: they'll perform a freestyle just like they'll do on Dancing
[8:23] Speaker 1: with the Stars.
[8:24] Speaker 2: Yep.
[8:25] Speaker 1: So do you think they made the right choices all
[8:28] Speaker 1: for each one of them?
[8:31] Speaker 3: I think so.
[8:32] Speaker 4: I feel like as a dancer, your strategy is to
[8:36] Speaker 4: showcase what you're best at.
[8:37] Speaker 1: Your best.
[8:39] Speaker 4: So I think Selena did great by choosing contemporary because
[8:42] Speaker 4: that's her bag. And then the other two, they're more
[8:45] Speaker 4: ballroom trained. So I like that they were able to
[8:47] Speaker 4: create numbers that had mixed styles. But I definitely feel
[8:50] Speaker 4: like they chose correctly because I don't see them doing
[8:53] Speaker 4: any other freestyle.
[8:53] Speaker 3: They nailed it. They all nailed it.
[8:55] Speaker 4: It's so....
[8:59] Speaker 1: Hard to judge and it's down to the wires so
[9:02] Speaker 1: robert tells the contestants that they'll be paired with celebrities
[9:06] Speaker 1: who were able to reach or win dancing with the
[9:08] Speaker 1: stars finale selena's paired with the olympic figure skater and
[9:12] Speaker 1: champion of the 2018 athlete season adam ripon he's so nice.
[9:18] Speaker 4: Yeah he's so cutie too like he just seems like
[9:20] Speaker 4: a ball like it's so cute.
[9:22] Speaker 1: And I think this is honestly the most stressful because
[9:25] Speaker 1: if you get paired with someone that you really don't
[9:27] Speaker 1: have that chemistry with, it could be really, I felt
[9:32] Speaker 1: like by now the judges were pretty sure who they
[9:35] Speaker 1: thought was going to win.
[9:37] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[9:38] Speaker 1: But anything can happen. Anything can change. And it was,
[9:43] Speaker 1: it's really hard that you have a partner you didn't
[9:45] Speaker 1: pick that's going to kind of make.
[9:48] Speaker 3: Determine your fate.
[9:49] Speaker 1: Determine your fate. So Adele's paired with 2020 finalist and
[9:53] Speaker 1: co-host of Catfish. AJ's paired with the 2022 Dancing with
[9:57] Speaker 1: the Stars champion and social media influencer. Charlie D'Amelio who
[10:01] Speaker 1: we all know is an amazing dancer TikTok queen she's
[10:06] Speaker 1: a TikTok queen she's been dancing her whole life I
[10:09] Speaker 1: know she was she danced when she was younger.
[10:12] Speaker 4: Yeah competitive like jazz contemporary dancer so yeah she's phenomenal
[10:18] Speaker 4: And she nailed it on Dancing with the Stars with Mark.
[10:20] Speaker 3: Like that pairing was perfect.
[10:21] Speaker 1: The thing with this is, which made me nervous for Adele,
[10:24] Speaker 1: even though they've been calling her the Rolls Royce, they've
[10:27] Speaker 1: been kind of setting her up to win. I felt
[10:31] Speaker 1: like when he got there and he was at, like
[10:35] Speaker 1: he had jet lag and he was tight. I was like,
[10:39] Speaker 1: oh no, she got like a kind of a dud.
[10:42] Speaker 1: I felt like he was the least trained dancer of
[10:44] Speaker 1: the three. And I wondered if they gave her that
[10:49] Speaker 1: to make it harder for, or that she could handle
[10:52] Speaker 1: it better. I don't know why or who they picked
[10:56] Speaker 1: to go with who, but it worked out for her
[10:59] Speaker 1: in the end. He really came through. No.
[11:01] Speaker 4: Yeah. And Adele is such a great teacher. She knows
[11:03] Speaker 4: her materials. So if anyone were to be able to
[11:06] Speaker 4: figure it out and like have like some sort of obstacle,
[11:09] Speaker 4: it'd be Adele for sure.
[11:10] Speaker 1: So, well, the fact that they only had three days
[11:13] Speaker 1: to make this work.
[11:14] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[11:15] Speaker 1: And two dances. And two dances. So he definitely nailed
[11:21] Speaker 1: the second one.
[11:22] Speaker 2: Yes.
[11:23] Speaker 1: But he came through. I wasn't sure. So Selena chose
[11:27] Speaker 1: to perform the jive for the first round. That's probably
[11:30] Speaker 1: my least favorite of all of them. Really?
[11:32] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[11:33] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[11:35] Speaker 3: I think it worked.
[11:35] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[11:36] Speaker 3: She, I think she did phenomenal. Like the jive was
[11:38] Speaker 3: so entertaining.
[11:39] Speaker 4: Like she has that performance that like, you can't keep
[11:41] Speaker 4: your eyes off of her.
[11:42] Speaker 1: I love her.
[11:43] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[11:44] Speaker 4: And I, yeah, it would have been super cool to
[11:46] Speaker 4: see her do maybe like another, another sort of Latin style,
[11:49] Speaker 4: but she nailed it.
[11:49] Speaker 3: She nailed that jive, but yeah.
[11:52] Speaker 1: That it wasn't that it wasn't the greatest dance. I
[11:55] Speaker 1: don't love the jive. So that's how I, that's how
[11:58] Speaker 1: I say, but she, she was a very nice teacher.
[12:01] Speaker 1: I felt like when I saw Adele teaching her, until
[12:05] Speaker 1: now she was nice to Neve, but in the past,
[12:09] Speaker 1: I thought that she was a little hard on when,
[12:13] Speaker 1: on the, you know, her partner, when she was teaching,
[12:16] Speaker 1: when they had the people that had no idea, did
[12:19] Speaker 1: you watch that episode?
[12:21] Speaker 4: I think it's, it's more of like a, I think
[12:24] Speaker 4: switching from that ballroom world into like the commercial TV
[12:27] Speaker 4: world is so different. And so I feel like she
[12:29] Speaker 4: did a really good way of like navigating that. I mean,
[12:31] Speaker 4: at first it's, you know, we're not used to seeing
[12:34] Speaker 4: those type of strict teachers anymore, dancing with stars. So,
[12:36] Speaker 4: but I think that she's, you know, finding it, you know,
[12:39] Speaker 4: cause you're also dealing with someone that's done this for
[12:42] Speaker 4: the first time and they want to have fun in
[12:43] Speaker 4: a good experience. So it's like finding that balance, but I'm,
[12:47] Speaker 4: I'm positive, like she'll find it. And, but at the
[12:49] Speaker 4: end of the day, her results, they look phenomenal. So
[12:52] Speaker 4: just find the process to, you know, becoming a pro
[12:55] Speaker 4: is hard too, because you learn so.
[12:57] Speaker 3: Much while even on the job.
[12:58] Speaker 4: So I'm excited to also see her just you know,
[13:01] Speaker 4: keep growing and seeing like how amazing of a pro
[13:03] Speaker 4: she can become.
[13:03] Speaker 3: So.
[13:05] Speaker 1: I think she's amazing. I don't know. I think she
[13:08] Speaker 1: has a really big future. She's only 20 years old. Yeah. Right.
[13:13] Speaker 3: She's like, yeah, she's, she is young, but I didn't.
[13:15] Speaker 1: Wow.
[13:16] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[13:17] Speaker 1: She's a star. She is. She's a star. And to
[13:20] Speaker 1: think of the struggles that she had when she was younger,
[13:23] Speaker 1: all their stories, all of your stories are, are unbelievable,
[13:28] Speaker 1: but during practice, Adam is very receptive to Selena's feedback,
[13:33] Speaker 1: but she makes sure to include affirmations as well. See,
[13:36] Speaker 1: that's what I, if somebody was teaching me, they'd have to,
[13:40] Speaker 1: otherwise I go downhill real quick, Stephanie. Yeah.
[13:43] Speaker 4: Yeah. And also everyone's learning styles are different. So when
[13:47] Speaker 4: you're given like a celebrity, you kind of have to
[13:49] Speaker 4: navigate their personality, see what they like, see if they
[13:53] Speaker 4: love tough critiques, see if they like.
[13:55] Speaker 3: Honestly, really like we're encouraging like courage.
[13:58] Speaker 1: You have to as a teacher, you do. You have
[14:00] Speaker 1: to figure out how that person you're teaching learns. Yeah.
[14:04] Speaker 4: Even when I was like doing, you know, the next
[14:06] Speaker 4: pro and I was working with Tristan, like teaching him
[14:08] Speaker 4: choreography and everything. I was trying to see what his
[14:10] Speaker 4: learning style was. So even as a pro, you're constantly
[14:13] Speaker 4: having to like navigate and switch things up so that
[14:15] Speaker 4: your celebrity becomes the best they can be because every
[14:17] Speaker 4: person is different.
[14:18] Speaker 3: So.
[14:19] Speaker 2: Right.
[14:20] Speaker 1: So Adele is 24, still very young.
[14:24] Speaker 3: She's very young.
[14:25] Speaker 1: So they perform their jive Candyman by Christina Aguilera. I
[14:29] Speaker 1: love Christina Aguilera. Mark calls Selena an electric dancer and performer,
[14:34] Speaker 1: but he reminds her that the jive is meant to incline.
[14:37] Speaker 1: Now explain to someone like me what that means.
[14:42] Speaker 4: So the jive inclining, meaning the energy is supposed to
[14:45] Speaker 4: like pick up. So the whole time it needs to
[14:47] Speaker 4: be elevating instead of it being like one energy, like
[14:50] Speaker 4: it needs to build. And it could be like a
[14:53] Speaker 4: slip action and jive, which is very much like it
[14:56] Speaker 4: looks like you're bouncing the whole time with a ball
[14:58] Speaker 4: of energy, but it's actually like a technique that you learn.
[15:02] Speaker 4: And so I think that was just missing like that,
[15:04] Speaker 4: like incline. But it was very entertaining regardless.
[15:08] Speaker 3: And she's phenomenal.
[15:09] Speaker 1: So she is. So Shirley applauds Selena for taking every
[15:13] Speaker 1: piece of constructive criticism they've given her and gives her
[15:17] Speaker 1: the nickname Miss Wow. I liked when she gave her
[15:21] Speaker 1: that they're like, well, there wasn't that wow moment and
[15:24] Speaker 1: I needed another wow moment or we had one, but
[15:27] Speaker 1: we could have had to, right?
[15:28] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[15:29] Speaker 1: That's a lot of what the judges, I feel this
[15:32] Speaker 1: season we're looking for. Yeah.
[15:35] Speaker 4: She definitely someone that can just like, she wows you
[15:37] Speaker 4: the whole time. Like I can't, I can't get my
[15:39] Speaker 4: eyes off her when I dance. So, I mean, when
[15:41] Speaker 4: she's dancing, so I'm like, yeah, she's Miss.
[15:43] Speaker 3: Wow for sure. And she can do all these like
[15:46] Speaker 3: cool tricks and, She's, she's a commercial dancer.
[15:48] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
[15:49] Speaker 4: So like when you're a commercial dancer, you know what
[15:52] Speaker 4: looks good on camera. You know how to wow an
[15:55] Speaker 4: audience because that's a lot of your job is because
[15:57] Speaker 4: you know you're dancing on TV or on stage live.
[15:59] Speaker 4: So she's very good at that because she grew up
[16:02] Speaker 4: training like, like in that way too.
[16:04] Speaker 3: So yeah, she's Miss Wow for sure.
[16:07] Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that, yeah, they gave her, they gave
[16:10] Speaker 1: her great reviews and I feel like it was good.
[16:13] Speaker 1: She needed to hear that.
[16:14] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[16:15] Speaker 1: Competition is so hard right now. I'm sure they're all
[16:18] Speaker 1: looking at each other like, oh, that was better than me.
[16:22] Speaker 2: Right?
[16:22] Speaker 1: Is that how it feels when you're sitting on that
[16:25] Speaker 1: couch and you're watching it on the screen? You're like, oh, God.
[16:28] Speaker 1: Do you want to go first or last? I want
[16:33] Speaker 1: to go.
[16:34] Speaker 3: First because you set the standard perfectly. I don't know.
[16:37] Speaker 4: I love just going first, getting out of the way
[16:39] Speaker 4: and then being able to enjoy everybody else perform because
[16:41] Speaker 4: like the nerves having to sit there and like watch
[16:43] Speaker 4: everyone go. It's like you're so supportive at the same time.
[16:46] Speaker 4: You're like going through your moves in your head. It's
[16:48] Speaker 4: very stressful sometimes.
[16:50] Speaker 1: I can imagine. And yeah. So AJ and Charlie round one.
[16:55] Speaker 1: AJ chose the Viennese waltz for this round. When Charlie
[17:00] Speaker 1: performed this style on Dancing with the Stars, she received
[17:03] Speaker 1: a perfect score of 40. They performed the Ebeneez Waltz
[17:08] Speaker 1: to the Golden Hour by Jake. And Mark calls it
[17:11] Speaker 1: a solid performance. I thought it was amazing. What did
[17:15] Speaker 1: you think of it?
[17:16] Speaker 4: It was very beautiful. I mean, Charlie's also phenomenal, too.
[17:19] Speaker 4: So I think AJ lucked out on a very good.
[17:22] Speaker 3: Partner as well. It was a very good piece.
[17:25] Speaker 1: He's a strict teacher, too. Yeah.
[17:26] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[17:35] Speaker 1: So Shirley compliments AJ's technicality, but she wonders if he
[17:39] Speaker 1: got the most out of Charlie and her abilities. I
[17:42] Speaker 1: agreed with her.
[17:42] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[17:44] Speaker 1: Did you agree with that?
[17:46] Speaker 4: Yeah, just because it is Charlie D'Amelio and just being
[17:50] Speaker 4: able to see what she did with Mark on her
[17:52] Speaker 4: season of Dancing with Stars. She's capable of so much,
[17:54] Speaker 4: especially with her dance background. But it was a phenomenal piece.
[17:58] Speaker 4: But yeah, it would have been nice to see like
[17:59] Speaker 4: some more wow moments, I'd say, or just something that
[18:02] Speaker 4: really elevated who she was.
[18:05] Speaker 1: I have a question. So you've probably never stopped dancing,
[18:09] Speaker 1: but the, you know, I don't think the people coming
[18:12] Speaker 1: back dance every day. I don't know that that's something
[18:15] Speaker 1: they do all the time. And you have to wonder, like,
[18:17] Speaker 1: she's coming back after a year. Has she been dancing
[18:19] Speaker 1: every day? Has she been on TikTok every day? Like,
[18:22] Speaker 1: I don't know. I know the extent of the way
[18:26] Speaker 1: the professional dancers, the way you practice all day, nine
[18:29] Speaker 1: hours at a time, like you never stop. So I
[18:32] Speaker 1: feel like maybe they were a little rusty. I felt
[18:35] Speaker 1: like she was kind of a little stiff. I don't know.
[18:37] Speaker 1: It could be me because I can't even get up
[18:39] Speaker 1: right now.
[18:41] Speaker 4: No, I feel like she did a great job, especially
[18:44] Speaker 4: it's hard because it's a standard dance. So you kind
[18:47] Speaker 4: of have to be in frame the whole time and
[18:49] Speaker 4: you kind of have to like, you know, navigate that
[18:51] Speaker 4: and make it exciting. You know, standard, you have to
[18:53] Speaker 4: stay closed frame. But I think she did a great job.
[18:56] Speaker 4: And yeah, it's kind of hard to just put your
[18:57] Speaker 4: ballroom shoes back on after so many times, like so
[19:00] Speaker 4: much time. Right, that's what I'm, Even if you are
[19:03] Speaker 4: dancing like 10 hours a day, going back in a
[19:06] Speaker 4: ballroom is like a whole other world. And being in
[19:09] Speaker 4: the heels again for four hours, five hours a day
[19:13] Speaker 4: is a lot on the body. So yeah, having those
[19:15] Speaker 4: celebrities jump in that week in three days was crazy.
[19:20] Speaker 3: But they did amazing.
[19:21] Speaker 1: They did amazing. And I told you, Neve surprised me.
[19:25] Speaker 1: So Adele and Neve. chose the samba for this round.
[19:30] Speaker 1: That's her dance, isn't it?
[19:32] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[19:33] Speaker 1: She loves it. She loves it.
[19:35] Speaker 3: She looks great doing, she looks very sexy doing samba.
[19:38] Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely like Adele is samba.
[19:40] Speaker 1: Like that's her dance. When Neva arrives to practice, he
[19:43] Speaker 1: brings Adele a bouquet of flowers and never, he said
[19:47] Speaker 1: he never did the samba. I think the flowers were
[19:50] Speaker 1: to cushion the blow of telling her he's never did
[19:53] Speaker 1: the samba before. So this is a particularly difficult task
[19:56] Speaker 1: for Adele. Neve is jet lagged. So Adele stops practice
[20:00] Speaker 1: early so he can get some rest. I was like,
[20:03] Speaker 1: I honestly thought she was going to implode. She's like,
[20:08] Speaker 1: we're going to give him a rest.
[20:09] Speaker 4: I will say Samba is the hardest dance to learn
[20:13] Speaker 4: slash teach someone that's never done Samba. It's like the
[20:16] Speaker 4: heart for me, it's the hardest of the five Latin dances.
[20:19] Speaker 4: Cause that, that dance is very difficult to do. Cause
[20:21] Speaker 4: there's like a bounce action. There's a bounce action. That's
[20:24] Speaker 4: like really difficult to teach and it's very rhythmical. So
[20:28] Speaker 4: if you're, if you're not a dancer, if you're not
[20:30] Speaker 4: a rhythmical person and you, even if you don't have
[20:32] Speaker 4: any rhythm, it is so hard, but, uh, And so
[20:36] Speaker 4: I was very shocked that she chose Samba, but it
[20:39] Speaker 4: looked great. So I was like, yeah, I would be
[20:41] Speaker 4: nervous teaching someone Samba for the first time, like for
[20:44] Speaker 4: my finale dance.
[20:45] Speaker 1: I know. They didn't make it easy for her, I
[20:49] Speaker 1: feel like.
[20:49] Speaker 3: No, but she did it.
[20:54] Speaker 1: So they do it. They pull it off. They receive
[20:57] Speaker 1: a standing ovation from the judges. I always look to
[21:00] Speaker 1: see if they're going to get up after a dance.
[21:02] Speaker 3: Yeah, very telling.
[21:04] Speaker 1: Yes, it is very telling. Derek calls this Neve's redemption.
[21:08] Speaker 1: He says he would like to see more creativity in
[21:11] Speaker 1: the choreography, but the quality was there. Yeah. I mean,
[21:15] Speaker 1: Adele's quality. Would you agree with that?
[21:18] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[21:18] Speaker 3: Adele's quality is just out of this world. Yeah.
[21:22] Speaker 4: And then just, I think, again, just having to navigate,
[21:25] Speaker 4: you know, how you choreograph outside of TV film and
[21:28] Speaker 4: like there's no camera is very different than choreographing for camera.
[21:32] Speaker 4: But I feel like she'll be able to learn that
[21:33] Speaker 4: along the way. And it's just a skill you have
[21:36] Speaker 4: to develop. So doing, doing next pro for her was
[21:40] Speaker 4: perfect because now she's learning that. And now that she's
[21:43] Speaker 4: a pro that she's going to continue to learn that
[21:45] Speaker 4: and like grow.
[21:46] Speaker 3: So I'm excited.
[21:47] Speaker 1: Well, we'll see.
[21:48] Speaker 3: We'll see.
[21:48] Speaker 1: Cause right now they go, how long ago was this filmed?
[21:53] Speaker 3: Um, we filmed in February. So, or March, February time.
[21:57] Speaker 3: So it's been a couple months.
[21:58] Speaker 1: Yeah. It's been a couple months. And so it just ended, um,
[22:04] Speaker 1: And so they just when was the finale like in
[22:07] Speaker 1: real time?
[22:08] Speaker 3: I think it was March, like like August. And I
[22:11] Speaker 3: was like March, end of March, March 30th.
[22:15] Speaker 1: OK, so now she's getting ready and now she's going
[22:18] Speaker 1: to do this season. So there wasn't a lot of
[22:19] Speaker 1: time off. I don't think Adele's ever taken any time
[22:22] Speaker 1: off to tell you.
[22:22] Speaker 3: Oh, no, she's always dancing.
[22:25] Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure. So so they call her the. The
[22:29] Speaker 1: Cobra Queen. She struck again tonight and he starts crumping
[22:34] Speaker 1: to explain what he wanted to see in their dance.
[22:36] Speaker 1: And Shirley says Adele's musicality is second to none. What
[22:39] Speaker 1: does musicality mean in this?
[22:41] Speaker 4: Musicality means being able to accentuate the rhythms and like
[22:46] Speaker 4: the beats in a song. So if you're able to
[22:48] Speaker 4: watch a routine and you really hear the music, then
[22:51] Speaker 4: they're using the musicality correctly. Because the whole point of
[22:54] Speaker 4: choreographing to music is to really show the beats of
[22:57] Speaker 4: the song. So like you'll hear them exactly hit, you know,
[23:00] Speaker 4: choreography that like matches it and it brings the song
[23:02] Speaker 4: to life.
[23:03] Speaker 3: So she has really good musicality. She's able to bring
[23:05] Speaker 3: that to life.
[23:07] Speaker 1: Robert sits down with the dancers and I really like
[23:09] Speaker 1: this because it showed Adele's the first time I saw
[23:13] Speaker 1: her vulnerability.
[23:15] Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
[23:17] Speaker 1: Selena came on the show to inspire girls that look
[23:20] Speaker 1: like her and prove that this dream is possible. And
[23:24] Speaker 1: she did just that.
[23:26] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
[23:27] Speaker 1: I really agree. Adele gets emotional telling Robert that when
[23:30] Speaker 1: she was 13, she had scoliosis and she had to
[23:34] Speaker 1: wear a brace 20 hours out of the day. And
[23:38] Speaker 1: if she didn't, she wouldn't be able to dance again.
[23:40] Speaker 1: Having said that, the four hours that it was off,
[23:44] Speaker 1: she would dance the whole time.
[23:45] Speaker 4: Yeah, that made me cry listening to that because I
[23:48] Speaker 4: know what that's like to have dance be like your
[23:50] Speaker 4: everything or your way out of whatever situation you're in.
[23:54] Speaker 4: So I just I saw a different side to Adele.
[23:57] Speaker 4: And I'm just so happy that she's had the success
[23:59] Speaker 4: because she really she really worked hard for it.
[24:02] Speaker 1: She really did. And, you know, she doesn't get emotional
[24:05] Speaker 1: even when she won. Like, we'll get to that. But
[24:08] Speaker 1: I'd like to see her break. And I think by
[24:11] Speaker 1: now they're so tired physically. And I mean, I think
[24:15] Speaker 1: you guys were tired like six episodes ago.
[24:18] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, we were.
[24:21] Speaker 1: It takes such a toll. And emotionally too. So AJ
[24:26] Speaker 1: says his family couldn't afford to fund dancing, but he
[24:29] Speaker 1: did mention that there was a wealthy woman that ended
[24:33] Speaker 1: up funding him so that he could do this. And
[24:37] Speaker 1: the last conversation he had with her was take every opportunity.
[24:43] Speaker 1: So I felt like, oh, there was just somebody that
[24:47] Speaker 1: in his life that gave him a chance that he
[24:49] Speaker 1: wouldn't have normally had. There's so much talent out there.
[24:55] Speaker 1: I've seen it so much, but they don't get that
[24:57] Speaker 1: one person that steps up to the plate and says,
[25:00] Speaker 1: let me help you. And it was really like, I
[25:06] Speaker 1: thought to myself, wow, look at where you are now,
[25:08] Speaker 1: just because one person helped you. And he appreciates her,
[25:12] Speaker 1: you could tell. Selena and AJ round two. Selena calls
[25:16] Speaker 1: their freestyle a gritty contemporary fusion. During practice, Adam applauded
[25:21] Speaker 1: Selena for how she handled the stress. He already sees
[25:25] Speaker 1: her as one of the pros. I love their chemistry.
[25:27] Speaker 3: Yeah, they were very fun to watch. Very cute together.
[25:30] Speaker 1: And this, I thought that this routine, this dance was amazing.
[25:36] Speaker 1: And I love, of course, this. Justin Timberlake yeah.
[25:39] Speaker 3: That when I heard that song come on I was
[25:41] Speaker 3: like oh.
[25:42] Speaker 2: That's a good freestyle song and here we get our
[25:45] Speaker 2: our standing ovation from the judges which I wanted them
[25:49] Speaker 2: I was waiting during the the dance I'm like please
[25:52] Speaker 2: give them a standing ovation they're so good yeah so Mark.
[25:56] Speaker 1: Quotes Hamilton when praising Selena saying let's get this girl
[26:00] Speaker 1: in front of a crowd yeah Shirley's in awe. She says,
[26:06] Speaker 1: if this was performed on Dancing with the Stars finale,
[26:09] Speaker 1: it would be considered one of the best. Derek said
[26:11] Speaker 1: she'd been an instant fan favorite if she were to
[26:14] Speaker 1: join Dancing with the Stars tomorrow. I believe that. She
[26:18] Speaker 1: has such a warm heart. And she's so humble. And
[26:24] Speaker 1: I just, I love the way she interacts with everybody. Yeah.
[26:28] Speaker 3: And she dances amazing, too.
[26:31] Speaker 1: She is so amazing. So I really hope to see
[26:34] Speaker 1: her in the future. You know, timing is everything. And
[26:36] Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see her. I feel like just making
[26:39] Speaker 1: it as far as all of you guys have, you won.
[26:42] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[26:43] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[26:44] Speaker 4: Timing is everything on the show, too. So I feel
[26:46] Speaker 4: like when it's a line for her, it's going to
[26:48] Speaker 4: be she's going to be in such a great profile.
[26:58] Speaker 1: AJ and Charlie round two, their freestyle is a combination
[27:01] Speaker 1: of every single thing that AJ has learned throughout his process.
[27:05] Speaker 1: He made it as hard as possible, even for a professional.
[27:09] Speaker 1: He's lucky he had Charlie to do that because she
[27:13] Speaker 1: was able to handle it. They're dancing to bad man
[27:17] Speaker 1: by pitbull. They received a standing, another standing ovation from
[27:20] Speaker 1: the judges.
[27:22] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[27:23] Speaker 1: So I was, I was totally in awe of this
[27:26] Speaker 1: dance too. Yeah.
[27:27] Speaker 4: I was very, I liked the, they had extra dancers
[27:30] Speaker 4: in there too. Really did make it feel like a
[27:32] Speaker 4: free dancing with stars freestyle.
[27:34] Speaker 3: And he did.
[27:35] Speaker 1: Yeah. Now weren't you also a dancer on dancing with
[27:39] Speaker 1: the stars? Yes.
[27:41] Speaker 3: I was on their troop two seasons ago. So yeah.
[27:45] Speaker 1: What was that like?
[27:46] Speaker 3: Oh my God. It was amazing. It was like living
[27:49] Speaker 3: my dream. Like I, it was crazy. Cause that was
[27:52] Speaker 3: Ezra's first year as a pro.
[27:53] Speaker 4: And then I was on troop and it was so
[27:55] Speaker 4: fun to be able to like do the, the bumpers
[27:58] Speaker 4: and do like, you know, duets. And I did a
[28:01] Speaker 4: lot of like little demonstrations with Ezra, with Derek. And
[28:04] Speaker 4: it was just, it was so, it was so, it
[28:06] Speaker 4: was like my dream. I was living my dream. It
[28:08] Speaker 4: was so fun.
[28:09] Speaker 1: Good for you. That must've been amazing.
[28:11] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[28:11] Speaker 1: Shirley's always wanted AJ to jam pack a routine and
[28:15] Speaker 1: he did just that. So he, he got the memo.
[28:18] Speaker 1: I know they've been telling him this the whole time and,
[28:22] Speaker 1: and he did get the most out of Charlie. Like
[28:24] Speaker 1: they've told him to, she's a great dancer. Get the
[28:26] Speaker 1: most you can. Derek says their side-by-side look like something
[28:30] Speaker 1: out of a Broadway play. Did you believe that?
[28:32] Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so cute. Like very cute.
[28:34] Speaker 2: Yes.
[28:35] Speaker 1: And Mark's impressed by what they were able to accomplish
[28:38] Speaker 1: in such a short amount of time. I mean, he
[28:42] Speaker 1: was a very close second here.
[28:44] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[28:46] Speaker 1: I have to say. Adele and Neve round two. Adele
[28:49] Speaker 1: tells Neve that she was a hardcore introvert before this.
[28:54] Speaker 1: So the show has really changed her for the better.
[28:57] Speaker 1: I have to say, Stephanie, she grew on me.
[29:01] Speaker 3: Yeah, she grew on me too.
[29:04] Speaker 4: Like living in the house, like first week altogether, she
[29:07] Speaker 4: was very closed off. So I didn't really know her
[29:09] Speaker 4: energy and her vibe. But I feel like every single
[29:12] Speaker 4: week she started to open up to us and she
[29:14] Speaker 4: felt comfortable. I think people forget that she came from
[29:17] Speaker 4: the ballroom world and that is very cutthroat and competitive.
[29:21] Speaker 3: And you kind of have to like watch your back
[29:22] Speaker 3: because it's scary. Like everybody's like wanting to win.
[29:26] Speaker 1: So- Like the housewife shows. Yeah.
[29:29] Speaker 3: No, actually. Yeah.
[29:30] Speaker 2: No.
[29:32] Speaker 4: So like I go back to sometimes I'm like, do
[29:34] Speaker 4: I want to compete again? I'm like, I don't know
[29:35] Speaker 4: if mentally I could do that because it's very scary.
[29:37] Speaker 3: But yeah.
[29:38] Speaker 1: You could do it. I know. I'll have your back.
[29:41] Speaker 1: Do it. Definitely do it.
[29:43] Speaker 2: Yes.
[29:43] Speaker 4: So I think just like being on the show, like
[29:45] Speaker 4: she's she she realized like, I don't know, like a
[29:49] Speaker 4: lot about herself and all of us. We were also
[29:51] Speaker 4: like welcoming each other. We really did like create this
[29:54] Speaker 4: like family bond. And I think she started to open
[29:56] Speaker 4: up and then the dancing on top of it is
[29:58] Speaker 4: so intimate that And you're telling your story through dance.
[30:00] Speaker 3: And that's just so healing.
[30:02] Speaker 4: And I think she's starting to figure out who she
[30:05] Speaker 4: is outside of being a ballroom dancer, which I think
[30:07] Speaker 4: is so beautiful. So I think you guys were able
[30:09] Speaker 4: to actually see who she really was. And I love her.
[30:13] Speaker 4: She's been so sweet to me even after the show
[30:15] Speaker 4: and everything. So I'm very proud of her.
[30:18] Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so happy. And I'm so happy that we
[30:22] Speaker 1: all finally got to know her and got through that
[30:25] Speaker 1: tough exterior because... I wanted to really like her more
[30:30] Speaker 1: because she's so beautiful. She's an amazing dancer. I'm like,
[30:33] Speaker 1: don't be so tough, but I get it. Now that
[30:36] Speaker 1: you explained that I get, I understand why she was
[30:39] Speaker 1: like that because she's always had to be like that. Yeah.
[30:42] Speaker 4: Especially if she grew up competing from when she was
[30:44] Speaker 4: baby till now, like that's all she's ever known.
[30:47] Speaker 1: So. And it's probably very lonely too. There's no time
[30:51] Speaker 1: for friends. There's no time outside of this life. If
[30:54] Speaker 1: you want to be the best, The sacrifice people don't
[30:58] Speaker 1: understand is that your whole life is just that.
[31:02] Speaker 3: Yeah, there's nothing.
[31:03] Speaker 4: And then sometimes for people like her, that's all she has.
[31:07] Speaker 3: So it's like life or death for her.
[31:10] Speaker 1: Well, she treated it like it was. So Adele is
[31:13] Speaker 1: having them do a Paso with a twist. They're dancing
[31:16] Speaker 1: to natural by imagine dragons, which was amazing. They also
[31:20] Speaker 1: receive a standing ovation from the judges. Derek loved their
[31:23] Speaker 1: style of dance because it made them stand out. He says,
[31:27] Speaker 1: if Adele were to join dancing with the stars, she
[31:29] Speaker 1: would elevate the rest of the cast. That was a
[31:32] Speaker 1: huge compliment. Yeah.
[31:35] Speaker 3: I think it's her quality too.
[31:38] Speaker 4: Like just being able to have somebody fresh off the
[31:40] Speaker 4: competition floor is amazing. It's very it's nice because she
[31:44] Speaker 4: her quality is just like fresh and ready to go.
[31:47] Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. Yeah. And I feel like she made him
[31:52] Speaker 1: an amazing dancer when he showed up. I was like, yeah, he's.
[31:57] Speaker 3: Like, I'm not buying it.
[31:59] Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, geez, she's she's not sleeping tonight thinking,
[32:02] Speaker 1: what did I get? She made him good.
[32:05] Speaker 3: So I'm sure that's a good teacher.
[32:08] Speaker 1: That's a good teacher. So I'm curious to see this
[32:11] Speaker 1: will be her first year. Yeah. I'm excited.
[32:14] Speaker 3: I'm so excited to see like, yeah, this is going
[32:17] Speaker 3: to be amazing.
[32:18] Speaker 1: It is going to be amazing. Mark says Adele's giving
[32:21] Speaker 1: them hell. He loved both dances she showcased tonight. Mark's
[32:25] Speaker 1: the biggest fan of her.
[32:26] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[32:29] Speaker 1: Mark has Maura Higgins this year. Oh, yeah.
[32:33] Speaker 3: Her accent is perfect.
[32:35] Speaker 1: It is so funny. You know, my my fiance is
[32:37] Speaker 1: from Dublin. Oh, really? I know that accent. Yeah.
[32:41] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[32:41] Speaker 4: It's like so cute. I'm like, please keep saying Mark's name.
[32:45] Speaker 4: Just keep saying it like all of rehearsal, please.
[32:47] Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's so cute. Shirley recognizes that Adele forces
[32:52] Speaker 1: her partners to work hard, but it's all paid off,
[32:55] Speaker 1: just like you said in the beginning.
[32:59] Speaker 4: It's it's the payoff is everything. So sometimes the process
[33:02] Speaker 4: can be scary to get there. But learning that process
[33:05] Speaker 4: is going to be her.
[33:06] Speaker 3: She's going to do great.
[33:07] Speaker 1: I feel like what would she do with me? That
[33:09] Speaker 1: would be the biggest challenge of her life.
[33:11] Speaker 3: So I'm like, no, you need to dance with us.
[33:13] Speaker 3: Like he'll bring out the best in you.
[33:15] Speaker 1: Really? Yes.
[33:16] Speaker 3: He will.
[33:17] Speaker 1: Yes.
[33:17] Speaker 3: But you guys would be so good together.
[33:20] Speaker 1: I'm going to find him.
[33:21] Speaker 2: Yes.
[33:22] Speaker 4: I'm going to, I'm going to reach out to him.
[33:24] Speaker 1: I will reach out to him. So finally Shirley announces
[33:28] Speaker 1: that the third place winner is Selena. I kind of
[33:31] Speaker 1: thought so.
[33:32] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[33:34] Speaker 1: But she handled it so well.
[33:36] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
[33:38] Speaker 4: And I think it's hard to, because the other two
[33:41] Speaker 4: are such trained ballroom dancers. And I think that's like,
[33:45] Speaker 4: if she's able to just go back and train and
[33:47] Speaker 4: like really learn the technique and know it's enough to
[33:49] Speaker 4: translate it and just really, you know, elevate somebody like,
[33:53] Speaker 4: and even though she did that already on the show, like,
[33:55] Speaker 4: I think she's going to be so unstoppable. So yeah,
[33:58] Speaker 4: but I thought she killed it and I loved her freestyle.
[34:00] Speaker 3: It was, it was, it was so good.
[34:03] Speaker 1: I loved it too. Um, and I, and I do
[34:06] Speaker 1: think we'll see a lot more of her.
[34:07] Speaker 3: No, for sure. Yeah.
[34:08] Speaker 4: A lot of her dances too. Like I couldn't stop
[34:10] Speaker 4: watching online too. They'd go viral. And I was like, that,
[34:13] Speaker 4: that's a good choreographer. That's a good, that's what makes
[34:16] Speaker 4: a good pro.
[34:16] Speaker 1: So do you feel like she's been dancing the least
[34:21] Speaker 1: amount of time out of the three of them?
[34:23] Speaker 4: I feel like, um, she's been training dance her whole life,
[34:26] Speaker 4: but specifically ballroom in Latin.
[34:29] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[34:29] Speaker 4: Because the other two had been doing that their whole life.
[34:32] Speaker 4: So she just recently caught on to Ballroom. And if
[34:35] Speaker 4: she's able to do that with a little amount of time, imagine.
[34:38] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. For the two remaining dancers, AJ and Adele,
[34:42] Speaker 1: the judges not only took tonight's performances into account, but
[34:46] Speaker 1: they're looking at the entire competition. Shirley announces that the
[34:50] Speaker 1: next pro is Adele. I was like, oh, I was
[34:53] Speaker 1: happy and I knew it. But I knew like AJ,
[34:57] Speaker 1: I really felt he thought he was going to win.
[35:02] Speaker 3: Oh, really?
[35:02] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[35:05] Speaker 3: He definitely has that confidence in him.
[35:07] Speaker 1: That's right. And he should, as he should. Yeah. AJ
[35:12] Speaker 1: received second place. He loves being able to perform in
[35:15] Speaker 1: the finale with Charlie, but he admits he's devastated. Adele
[35:19] Speaker 1: feels like all of her sacrifices have paid off for
[35:22] Speaker 1: this moment. I mean, it was so beautiful. And Adele
[35:28] Speaker 1: was so calm about winning.
[35:30] Speaker 3: I know if it were me, I'd be like crying.
[35:33] Speaker 3: I dropped it.
[35:33] Speaker 4: I was like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be shaky. Like,
[35:37] Speaker 4: but she, she just held it together. Very classy, very demure.
[35:41] Speaker 3: I was like, yes.
[35:43] Speaker 1: In her Adele fashion.
[35:44] Speaker 2: Yes.
[35:45] Speaker 1: She just went, won the biggest thing of her life.
[35:48] Speaker 1: And she's just like, so cool about it.
[35:51] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[35:52] Speaker 3: I'm like, that's, that's a very, just put together girl.
[35:55] Speaker 3: I love it.
[35:55] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So this week we found out who her
[35:58] Speaker 1: partner is. So it's the Connor Levitt from Secret Lives
[36:03] Speaker 1: of Mormon Wives. He's Whitney Levitt's husband and she competed
[36:07] Speaker 1: last season.
[36:07] Speaker 2: Yes.
[36:09] Speaker 1: That's nice that they have him now. Let's see how
[36:11] Speaker 1: he does. But he got the Rolls Royce.
[36:15] Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he got like the fresh Rolls Royce.
[36:17] Speaker 4: And on top of that, he did dance a routine
[36:21] Speaker 4: last season. He did like a trio on the show.
[36:23] Speaker 4: They invited him to for one of the dedication nights
[36:27] Speaker 4: and he looked like a dancer. So I think those
[36:30] Speaker 4: two are going to look amazing. Like if he was
[36:32] Speaker 4: able to do that contemporary routine and look amazing, like
[36:36] Speaker 4: I'm excited to see what Adele can do with him
[36:38] Speaker 4: and just transform him as a dancer. Like I'm so,
[36:41] Speaker 4: I'm so genuinely curious and like rooting for her too.
[36:43] Speaker 3: So I love it.
[36:45] Speaker 1: So who do you think knowing anything or knowing what
[36:49] Speaker 1: you know, who do you think is going to win?
[36:52] Speaker 1: Could you say yet?
[36:53] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[36:54] Speaker 4: Cause you have like Jenna Dwan on there. You have
[36:57] Speaker 4: the guy from Glee. I forgot his name. There's so
[37:01] Speaker 4: many front runners.
[37:02] Speaker 3: I have no idea.
[37:03] Speaker 4: I feel like after the first like premiere episodes, we're
[37:08] Speaker 4: going to have like more of an understanding of like, okay,
[37:11] Speaker 4: front runners. But right now it's like, I have no idea.
[37:14] Speaker 4: Cause there's like, like half of them are big dance.
[37:16] Speaker 4: So it's going to be so interesting. And yeah. I,
[37:19] Speaker 4: you know, Ezra and Julia, I feel like they're going to,
[37:22] Speaker 4: I've seen some little clips and I'm like very excited
[37:25] Speaker 4: for that.
[37:26] Speaker 1: Really? Okay.
[37:27] Speaker 4: I'm like, you guys are going to be genuinely, I mean,
[37:30] Speaker 4: you guys are already going to be excited and, but like,
[37:32] Speaker 4: I think you guys are going to be very, very surprised.
[37:34] Speaker 3: So I'm excited for that.
[37:36] Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Steph. I am so excited.
[37:39] Speaker 1: It's going to be my first time at Dancing with
[37:41] Speaker 1: the Stars. So I really hope I see you. We
[37:43] Speaker 1: have to stay in touch. Yes, please. So that I
[37:45] Speaker 1: get to see you there. We'll have you on again
[37:48] Speaker 1: and we'll have to talk about what's going on.
[37:50] Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to.
[37:51] Speaker 1: Yes. Thank you so much. And I, again, thank you
[37:54] Speaker 1: for coming on. Where can we find you? Where can
[37:56] Speaker 1: everybody here find you?
[37:58] Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
[37:58] Speaker 3: Stephie Chica on TikTok and Instagram.
[38:01] Speaker 1: All right, Steffi Chica.
[38:04] Speaker 3: Gotta rub the Latinas.
[38:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, we will. We will see you soon.
[38:09] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[38:09] Speaker 1: Bye.
[38:10] Speaker 2: Bye.

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