Joey Graziadei Talks Successful First DWTS Performance & Stepping Outside His Comfort Zone

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'Bachelor' alum Joey Graziadei and pro Jenna Johnson chat with THR after the premiere of 'Dancing With the Stars' and dish on that successful first performance. Plus, he talks stepping outside his comfort zone and long-term goal.

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00:00Night one is in the books. We did really well with Sevens. Was it as hard, easier than you imagined? How do you feel?

00:06It was definitely hard. I'm not going to act like it wasn't easy. I'm lucky to have her.

00:10She's been putting me to work the last couple of weeks and I really have just been trying to listen and do her proud.

00:16So that's all I've been thinking of the entire time.

00:18How did he do as far as your expectations?

00:20He did better than I expected. This is such an intimidating show, first of all.

00:25And we went first and there's nothing scarier. Night one, premiere night to go first.

00:30I'm so proud of how he just executed everything. But more importantly, he had fun.

00:35He was smiling through and through. So I'm over the moon.

00:39We love to hear it. What are your own personal goals that you have going into this season that you want to achieve?

00:44Yeah, I first wanted to step outside my comfort zone. That was the real idea of all this.

00:47But then after meeting Jenna, after feeling good about where we were at, we've had a goal to make the finale.

00:52No Bachelor guy has ever made it to the finale before. So that's the first goal.

00:56And anything that comes after that, we'll make some other ones, hopefully.

00:58Yeah, I'm on board with that.

01:01And then from your time on The Bachelor, is there anything that you learned that you're bringing into your experience here

01:06on how you carry yourself or handle things differently or the same?

01:10It's so different. But the one thing that I would say is similar is that feeling you have before a live show on The Bachelor.

01:16I had that same feeling for tonight.

01:18But it's different because I have to perform here on The Bachelor.

01:21So I'm just myself, and I just kind of talk through how I'm feeling.

01:23But that, like, butterfly feeling in your stomach, a lot of people don't get that feeling anymore.

01:27So it's really cool to get it again doing something like this.

01:30And, I don't know, I'm going to chase that feeling each time.

01:32And then finally, so now that you have the first episode out of the way,

01:35are you feeling like, okay, I've got a good handle on the rest of the season?

01:38Or is it making you a little more like, all right, this is the work I had to put in?

01:42Yeah, I'm not going to get cocky in any way.

01:44I'm so excited that we got three sevens.

01:46I know we have a lot of work to do to get into next week.

01:49And I'm just going to keep listening to her.

01:52Great student, right here.

01:54Love to hear it.

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