'90210' star Tori Spelling tells THR how she has gotten the 'Dancing With the Stars' call before and always wanted to say yes but never did. She explains why now was the perfect time to hit the dance floor.
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00:00What made you want to join Dancing with the Stars, or be a part of this season in particular?
00:05I have gotten that call before, and I feel like it was the first season, and then different seasons it kept coming up,
00:14and I was like, oh, I'm such a huge fan of the show. I've watched it for 32 seasons, so I always wanted to say yes.
00:22I'm like, I want to be that girl, but I was so terrified, I always said no, and I was really bummed about it.
00:28And this year, with the past year I've had, I was like, you know what, I need to face my fears,
00:34and doing this show would be one of my greatest fears in life, so I said yes.
00:39Well, how have rehearsals been going so far for both of you guys?
00:42Good. We just started. We had two rehearsals so far, and for me, I'm just super impressed how Tori,
00:50considering how much she has on her plate, five kids, and she just shows up, and for those four hours,
00:58she's fully committed, you know? She's there, she's focused, she's working hard, and I mean,
01:04I cannot ask for anything more than that, so I'm super grateful, and I'm super excited to see where it's going to take us.
01:11Yeah, absolutely. How would you describe your dance skills or dance level on a scale from one to ten?
01:16Are there strengths, weaknesses that you want to work on?
01:20Oh boy. What did I say the first time? I was like, dance skills. I don't know, like in my 20s,
01:30like dancing at a club, like drinking, like cool, look at me.
01:37Dancing on tables. We can work that into a dance routine, right?
01:40Dancing on tables? Yeah, I've done that, and now I would equate it to dancing like in my kitchen and living room with my kids,
01:47like it went from clubs to like kitchen after dinner with kids, but that's okay. I'm not ashamed.
01:53Love that pipeline.
01:54Yeah, that's good. I love to dance, actually. I love the feeling behind dancing.
02:00I feel like I am not great at formal dance techniques and moves and learning choreography.
02:08I've had to do it in movies and TV shows before, and it's a struggle, so yeah.
02:14That's probably, and I'm really in my own head. I tell myself I can't do it. I can't do it, so.
02:20What are things that you do to kind of like get out of your head?
02:23Because I know like show night, like everything's live. It could be easy to kind of like get kind of like trapped in your head.
02:30Just do it. I mean, I feel like I'm here for a reason, and I am the type of person, I have a really strong work and play and life ethic,
02:41and I just, when I, once I commit to something, I commit 100%. Bad or good.
02:48Is there a song or an artist that you're looking forward to hopefully dancing to this season?
02:55I don't know. I mean, there's so many. Well, I have like artists I love, and then I have artists my kids are like,
03:02oh, you have to dance to this, mom, and I'm like, I don't know if I can do it.
03:05Who's an artist that your kids are like, we want you to dance with?
03:08I can't say, because it might be something we're dancing to, but.