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"Dancing With The Stars" Pros & Champ Alfonso Ribeiro Prepare for Nationwide Tour

"Dancing With The Stars" Pros & Champ Alfonso Ribeiro Prepare for Nationwide Tour

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YH puts on our dancing shoes and goes behind the scenes with the pros of "Dancing with the Stars" as they prepare for their nationwide live tour! Joining them is Season 19 champion Alfonso Ribeiro, who sits down with us and his pro partner Witney Carson to talk about his experiences and what he's done with his Mirrorball Trophy! We also chat with dancers Keo Motsepe, Sasha Farber, and Emma Slater, and our host tries to prove to them that she has rhythm!

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Young Hollywood

Hey guys, Nikki Novak here for Young Hollywood. Can you guess where I am? I am going behind the scenes with the cast of Dancing with the Stars as they prepare for their nationwide live tour. Cha, cha, cha. I feel like I should just intro you as Alfonso and Whitney because they've been doing that on the show all season long. Do you feel like you're joined at the hip at this point?

Alfonso Ribeiro

Um, only only during interviews and and ballroom dances.

Whitney Carson

And yeah, it's true.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yes, exactly.

Young Hollywood

So, I walked in and I said, somebody smells really good. I said, who is this? I said, it's one of you two and I went.

Alfonso Ribeiro

No.

Whitney Carson

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Way to go. Can you hate me now? Wait, you hate me now? Can you hate me now?

Alfonso Ribeiro

No, no, wait. Explain, explain. Like, I don't smell bad.

Young Hollywood

No, you actually smell good. You smell. For people at home who can't smell these lovely dancers. You smell clean but he had like a cologne.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yeah. He just sprayed a cologne. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay. I'm here with Emma Slater. So good to see you.

Emma Slater

Nice to see you.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, know, you I was just watching your rehearsal. You guys blow my mind. How long have you been dancing for?

Emma Slater

I start when I was five and I did ballet and tap. Um but when I was five all I really wanted to do was just like go with all this energy and run around. So I kind of found the ballet side of dance quite um restrictive. Yeah. And uh so I revisited dance later on when I was nine and I watched a demonstration of two dancers and they did this Latin American dance and she dropped into the splits and I was absolutely like mesmerized. So I begged my mom and dad, please, please take me and it ended up just becoming my life.

Young Hollywood

First of all, you had such an incredible and you both, obviously, congratulations champions.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Thank you.

Whitney Carson

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Do you know that you were number, I think, number one trending person for Kim Kardashian? Do you know that?

Whitney Carson

Yeah. When?

Young Hollywood

Right after the show. Like right after the show ended. Yep.

Whitney Carson

My name?

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Whitney Carson.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Well, well, me, it was, it was pressure, to be honest with you. Like

Young Hollywood

Yeah, I can imagine.

Alfonso Ribeiro

I came on the show and you know, I didn't know anyone. I mean, you know, I knew them. I was like, oh, Sasha from the floor, you know. And so when I came to the show everything was on me. Like, you know, the directing side of things of of my numbers, the lighting, the music, everything was, you know.

Young Hollywood

I mean, do you really choreograph all of it? Really do. And people ask me that all the time. But it almost seems impossible to come up with the amount of numbers that you do week to week and the different things.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yeah, we do. And as soon as I got to the to the the ballroom, like the hall and stuff. I was so happy. Oh my gosh. This is happening for me. Like the big mirror ball stuff. I'm actually a little starstruck. I voted for you. I went to the finale. I was screaming the first one you heard screaming. That was me. And I voted for. Yes. Favorite contestant in all the seasons. In all the seasons. And I don't think you needed my help.

Whitney Carson

She's so amazing because we we learned very early how to how to get the information to me. Three or four days in. It was like I was starting to understand and she was understanding how I learned and it just really just worked right from the beginning. And our energy just was like we we both had this like this goal of making sure we had fun throughout the competition.

Young Hollywood

And how is that your ball in your house? Cuz I saw that the Instagram picture with your son reaching up for it cuz you know,

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yeah, you know, it's just it's it's a pretty little thing. It's a pretty little thing. It's a pretty.

Young Hollywood

Can I borrow it for a week?

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yeah. You know, we I'm leaving town for a couple months, you know.

Young Hollywood

Listen, whenever you need a babysitter. All right. I will look after it. I'll water it. Right.

Alfonso Ribeiro

You water. You water the you water.

Young Hollywood

Oh my gosh. Do you have a dream guest? I dream dance. Somebody that you could dance with?

Alfonso Ribeiro

Yeah. Um William Shatner.

Young Hollywood

Are you serious?

Alfonso Ribeiro

Do you know what it is? I don't know. He just seems like such a nice guy and I feel like he would be really funny. In ballroom dances is when she tells me get to my hip. What is that mean? What's your hip?

Whitney Carson

Well, when we're we're in a hold. We're going to be here when we do the stuff. There can't be any space between. So she's always telling me to get to my hip.

Alfonso Ribeiro

You know, so I I um. You can do that in life too. It's a good thing. Tell people get to get to their hip. Yeah. You know, in relationships, you know, you just tell your partner get to my hip. So just do like a figure eight with your hips. I go this way, this way, this way. Now.

Young Hollywood

Okay, she does have rhythm. Yeah, you're a good dancer. Yeah, you're a good dancer. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Obviously, everybody talks about the ball. My favorite move was in the freestyle. This one. Which I can't do because I don't have.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Oh, you kind of do. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

Young Hollywood

But Sasha and Keo were telling me, they said you can tell if somebody has rhythm when they walk in the room. Yeah. And they said they didn't think I had any but I just proved it.

Alfonso Ribeiro

That's true. That's not true. You have rhythm. Forward, back, side together. Side. Oh, you do have rhythm. You really do. But I can tell you why they probably said that.

Young Hollywood

Why?

Alfonso Ribeiro

Is because beautiful people like yourself, aka models, don't always have the best rhythm. And that's like that's kind of a fact, you know.

Young Hollywood

So now you're taking it on the road. Um a lot of cities. You're hosting. Yes. Right now trying to find that hosting vibe and the flavor and all of that. But um I think it's gonna be an amazing show and the reason is is that this show is really pays uh homage to the 10 years of the pros and what they do and how amazing they are. You guys so sweet. Were awesome together.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Thank you.

Whitney Carson

Thank you so much.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Keep looking out for each other. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. This girl right here, unfortunately, she's got a big brother who actually is going to be constantly looking out for her.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Alfonso Ribeiro

    Season 19 champion of Dancing with the Stars, interviewed about his experience.

  • Witney Carson

    Professional dancer and Alfonso Ribeiro's partner on DWTS, interviewed.

  • Keo Motsepe

    Professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars, mentioned.

  • Sasha Farber

    Professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars, mentioned.

  • Emma Slater

    Professional dancer on Dancing with the Stars, interviewed.

  • Nikki Novak

    Host for Young Hollywood, conducting interviews.

  • Kim Kardashian

    Mentioned in relation to trending topics after the DWTS show.

  • William Shatner

    Emma Slater's dream celebrity dance partner.

FAQ

Who is interviewed in the video about the "Dancing with the Stars" tour?+
The video features interviews with professional dancers Emma Slater, Witney Carson, and Season 19 champion Alfonso Ribeiro, along with mentions of Keo Motsepe and Sasha Farber.
How long has Emma Slater been dancing?+
Emma Slater started dancing at age five, initially doing ballet and tap, and later revisited dance at age nine to focus on Latin American dance after being mesmerized by a demonstration.
What is Alfonso Ribeiro's Mirrorball Trophy like?+
Alfonso Ribeiro describes his Mirrorball Trophy as a 'pretty little thing' that his son reaches for.
What is the DWTS live tour about?+
The "Dancing with the Stars" live tour pays homage to the 10 years of the professional dancers and their incredible talent.
Who is Emma Slater's dream dance partner?+
Emma Slater's dream dance partner is William Shatner, because she thinks he seems like a nice and funny guy.

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