00:00You guys had me worried up there a little bit with the rest of the show.
00:04That was not fun.
00:05Let's never do it again.
00:07That was it.
00:08What was going through the mind?
00:10I think it was like probably squeezing your hand off.
00:13But it's sad no matter what because I don't want to say goodbye to anybody.
00:19I mean, I'm somebody that I wish that we could all win a ball.
00:23You know what I mean?
00:24It's just that you get so close to everybody here and it's a lot of work.
00:29It's fun work, but you know, show up every single day and you know what?
00:33Those two couples that went home, they had practice scheduled for tomorrow, you know,
00:37and that's something that we always have to be respectful of.
00:41Yes, there is a little bit of a few because we want to stay in.
00:44Of course, everybody wants to win here, but you have to have respect and, you know,
00:50admiration for how hard it is to go home.
00:53And I mean, Jenna was our reigning ball champ.
00:56Have you gotten a chance to talk to any of the eliminated contestants yet?
01:00Not yet, actually.
01:01I mean, we all hugged each other afterwards and you see the tearfulness.
01:04I mean, not a long conversation, but again, we're a team.
01:09We're a team here.
01:10And you know, it's interesting when I see like comments of like, oh, it's, you know,
01:13that you should be this person.
01:14I mean, yes, yes, I, I, yes, you want to, but not because you want to have them not do
01:19well, if that makes sense.
01:20You know, it's a very weird mix of feelings.
01:23They did a great job and I just want Jenna's ab routine.
01:27Yes.
01:28I know.
01:29Whatever that she's doing.
01:30Whatever that she's doing, she's doing it.
01:31Right.
01:32Come on.
01:33That too.
01:34Yes.
01:35I need that.
01:36Mother of seven.
01:37I need, I need that ab routine.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Well, speaking of mother of seven, your kids have been such a big part of this journey already.
01:42I love that.
01:43You've been sharing that with us on social media.
01:45What does their support mean to you?
01:47And what do they think of mom doing dancing with the stars?
01:50You know, I used to hear when I was a younger mom, I used to hear about me time.
01:54And I used to think that it was like, I didn't deserve it.
01:58You know, I think it's a lot of guilt as a mother of taking a moment for yourself.
02:03And other mothers who had children who were older than me, more experienced mothers would
02:08like be like, yeah, I didn't totally need me time to be a better mom.
02:11Yeah.
02:12And this is one of the first things I've ever done that is me time.
02:15Truly.
02:16You know, I mean, it's like, and, and my kids are there for it.
02:19Like they're not like, you know, yes, of course they miss me and they wish I was there all
02:23the time, but I brought, I moved them like this here, you know, and dancing with the stars
02:27is an amazing family where everybody has been so supportive and they made that possible.
02:33So every day, my kids who've had a really hard past few years are here and they're seeing
02:39their mom happy and going off to work, bouncing with like my bag and my shoes and excited to
02:45hang out with him.
02:46It was like one of my favorite people I've ever met.
02:48You know, and it's like, it's just a dream come true.
02:50So I think it's not just healing for me, but it's healing for my children as well because
02:54children want to see their moms happy.
02:56Yeah.
02:57And Gleb, I know your girls are big into ballroom.
03:00Has that kind of rubbed off on your kids?
03:02Have they gotten to see clips of Gleb's girls in action?
03:05Well, I've been sending Ellaria Olivia's standard dances.
03:09To learn.
03:10Yeah, to learn.
03:11Look at her frame.
03:12Do that.
03:13Do that.
03:14I don't know.
03:15Did you show any of her dancing to your kids?
03:16No, they've seen.
03:17I tried to get my kids into ballroom a few years ago and they were not having it.
03:22I always really like hip hop.
03:24Yeah, they're good.
03:25More like break dancing.
03:26And then my oldest likes the TikTok dancing and my youngest too just like jam out to like
03:31Shakira and Ricky Martin, which we love because it's raising them well.
03:35And, but they, I think that this is going to inspire them, you know, to really see the
03:41purpose of it as well, you know?
03:43Yeah.
03:44And we love that we're bringing ballroom to America on a big stage like this.
03:48So I love hearing that.
03:49Gleb, last week you told us you wanted to get more into acting.
03:53Right.
03:54Do you feel like you've gotten close enough to Alec to ask for that expert advice?
03:58I'm studying him every single move, whatever he does, the way he looks.
04:04It was interesting when we were in New York, I showed him our first rehearsal video.
04:09He watched that cha-cha.
04:11He took a little pause.
04:12He looked at me.
04:13He said, if you don't win, I'm blaming you.
04:16No.
04:17That's some pressure.
04:18We better win.
04:19I know.
04:20I was like, what?
04:21Exactly.
04:22For his benefit, just vote for us because we need it for his safety.
04:25Yeah.
04:26I agree.
04:27And lastly for you guys, just TikTok night coming up.
04:29What can you tease about?
04:30What can we, we can expect?
04:31Because show's never done this before.
04:33The TikTok?
04:34We just did the samba to one of the hit songs.
04:38I'm super excited about it.
04:39It's going to be authentic samba with a little flavor of a TikTok.
04:43Okay.
04:44So, yeah.
04:45All right.
04:46We're excited.
04:47We're excited for it.
04:48And for me, who I, you know, have more experience with Latin dances.
04:51I'm excited after this week, which was very, very new for me to go back to something that
04:57is a tiny bit more familiar, but at the same time, then I have higher standards for myself.
05:02So, it's just like a little bit of, I will work my butt off.
05:05That is your answer.
05:06We got this.
05:07We got this.
05:08Together we got this.
05:10We got this.
05:11One.
05:12We got this.
05:13We got this.
05:14You were excited.
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