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Gleb Savchenko Says It's 'Hard to Stay Connected' With Daughters After Relocating to Hong Kong

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00:00What do your girls think about this? About you on, you know, Chippendales,
00:03Dancing with the Stars. Are they starting to become more aware of what you do?
00:06Yeah. Well, so my, my, both of my daughters, uh, they live with my ex-wife in Hong Kong.
00:11Okay.
00:11They moved last year to Hong Kong. I talk to them all the time when Olivia's turning 14
00:16and all of her friends think that her dad is like superstar in Hollywood.
00:21So she goes like, dad, like you're doing the show. I was like, yeah. She goes like,
00:24are you like dancing? Like, what are you doing? So I was like, here,
00:29check it out.
00:29Oh my God. That's so funny. What was her reaction?
00:32She was like, okay, that's pretty cool.
00:36That's so funny. What's it, how is it really difficult for them being so far away? Like you
00:40said, you're talking to them all the time, but how do you make that work as a, as a dad?
00:45It's hard. It's really, really hard to stay connected because of the time difference.
00:51But, you know, I try my best. I visit them during Christmas. I took them to Thailand
00:56for three weeks and I'm actually on the 24th, right after Chippendales, I'm flying to Hong Kong
01:02and I'm going to spend a couple of weeks there right before the season.
01:06Yeah. That's great. That's great. How is co-parenting for you? And how do you kind
01:10of navigate that? Because I know it's been, you know, a few years now,
01:13but you feel like you guys are in a good rhythm.
01:16I mean, look, if it's hard, it's hard. It's hard. Uh, I think, uh, my ex-wife, she's a great mom.
01:23Yeah. And I think she loves her girls. She does so much for them. She, they both dances. Like
01:30my little one is turning seven. She has a yellow belt in karate. Wow. Yeah. She wants to be a
01:35Rapunzel ninja. She's like, I want to be Rapunzel ninja. And I was like, well, you have to learn
01:41kung fu. She was like, no, first I need to nail the karate, get a black belt. And then I'm going
01:46to be studying kung fu. So that's the little one. And the older one dances fully like ballroom
01:53and doing all the competitions. Um, on the 2nd of August, I'm taking her to Taiwan for the world
02:01championship in youth. So she has a partner, uh, in Hong Kong and we're all flying to Taiwan.
02:08It's like crazy. That's amazing. So she's really like making her work on that. Yeah. You should
02:14have seen her. She's got full on makeup, like going to cha-cha-cha and like all the dance,
02:19like crazy. It's crazy. She's really good. I was like, wow, Olivia, like a couple more years,
02:23you're going to take my job. What's going on? It can be like the first father-daughter, uh,
02:29team on Dancing with the Stars. That's, that's fantastic. It seems like they're thriving and
02:32doing really well. That's great.
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