December 20, 2024 • 29 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” we’re back for part two of our chat with “Dancing with the Stars” champs Joey and Jenna! We kick off the episode diving right back in where we left off: How does scoring factor into the path to the Mirrorball? Then, we get into Jenna’s journey as a dancing mom — and the first mom to win the championship! And, of course, we get all the Joey and Kelsey updates, including their move, their holiday plans, and when we might be hearing wedding bells! Tune in now to hear all this and more, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Serena, I'm joe and we are back with part
two with Jenna and Joey talking about their Dancing with
the Stars experience after the big win. So we finished
off last episode talking about just the difference and abilities
and can you guys just give us an idea of
what it's like with scoring, because obviously week one, Joey,
where you're gonna be ability wise is so different than
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where someone like Chandler is going to be.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How is it not like a two and a ten?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know, it's hard with scoring again because I think
for the first little bit they tried to just score
based off of the own individual, but then once it
starts getting down to the later episodes, you start comparing, right,
So for scoring, for me, from the very beginning, I
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told Joey, I don't care about the scores, like we
should not focus on those yes sent of what the
judges are saying and their critiques. But for me, those
numbers don't matter as long as we're happy with how
we did. We're continuing to improve and doing our very best.
Like the number that they show isn't going to make
or break if I'm fulfilled with our performance or not not.
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So it is hard though, because when you have like
we had a couple of times where we were like,
that was our best dance yet, and we got scores
that we didn't think that that matched that or how
we felt at the end of it. So that's why
I try to keep it as like, scores are what
they're going to be. Let's just control what we can control.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's it's definitely in the beginning, it's a lot easier
to do that because especially if you feel like you
are in the competition and doing well, which we kind
of did the entire time. I feel like we were
in the top four almost the entire time on the show,
which was great for scoring, But we didn't really let
scores maybe affect what we were thinking until maybe like
week six or week seven, and then it just started
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to be comparative. You started to look at everyone else
and you're like, oh, wait, like our scores do matter.
We want to stay in this competition. And it's hard.
It's it's definitely a game. But she was always great
at with all of it, just taking out all the
distracts and the focusing on what we can control because
we actually cannot control any of that. We can just
leave that dance and know that we felt good about it,
and we did almost every single time, So that was
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really all we kind of held onto each week.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
What was the week or what was the dance where
you were like, Okay, we have a shot at at
going to the finals. Was there a moment where you're like, okay, yeah,
we were, we're part of the we're part of the
competition here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah. I mean, I think each week he kind of
held his own and made a splash or an impact
in the competition. But I would say maybe, I don't
know how you feel, but I would say tango. I
was going to say it was the moment. I think
it was Week four, Show four, But it was when
Derek told him that it was the best tango that
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he'd seen a male celebrity do on the show. And
I knew that, like his frame and everything was really
really great. But you get a little desensitized when you're
in the room with somebody for hours.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
On end, and that tango was an issue for a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was hard to get where it got. But I
think that was the time I was like, oh, maybe
we could actually do this and take this. So that
really I feel like motivated both of us, Yeah, like
push and just give our very best every week.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We put so much energy into that tango too, because
it was my first dance and frame it was not
easy for I think that was the first time. You
obviously have the whole week show, you know how it is,
but that was the first time where we didn't get
a dance like feeling good until maybe the end of
the day on Saturday. And for anyone that doesn't know
the schedule the show, you only have like a day
and a half after Saturday to really get ready for
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the actual live show, so we did. That was the
latest we felt good about a dance. But at the
end of the day Saturday, we're like, oh, it's coming together.
And then Sunday we were like, wait, this might be our.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Best dance yet.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And then that was a game changing night because that
was the first time we passed Chandler and we're top
of the leaderboard by ourself, and we finished out the show.
We were the last performance, and to hear Derek's comments
and to see like the scores actually show the amount
of effort we put in, that was where I think
we both were like, we might have a chance of
we keep working as hard as we did because we
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worked really hard on that thing.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is there like an ideal spot, like when you're finding
out if you're first or last, like where you're performing,
is there kind of a zone you're hoping for?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Heck, yeah, I don't know. I hated hated it. When
we were first, I just oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I thought it was so hard to mentally get ready
to do well in the dance because you went straight
from the bumper of introducing the live show, standing up
there with everyone and then boom, lights hit and you
have two minutes to get ready to dance, and usually
if you have a later dance.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
For me, it felt so nice that we had.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
The ability to warm up a little bit before, get
your mind and right talked through it, maybe do a
couple of the steps you didn't get like thrusted into it.
And then also I felt like last was horrible because
you waited the entire day and when we were last
with a tango, there were still twelve couples.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, you're like waiting two hours to go. Yeah, you're
just like iced out. You've seen how everyone's done. I
feel like you see the scores, you start to put
pressure on yourself. So we always found our sweet spot
was like in the middle, like six or seven or
halfway through the show, was we felt great about.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, starting off is hard, and then yeah, finishing it's
epic because it's like an honor to go last, and
there's like conspiracy theories that if you're going last you
have a really good dance. Oh really, I feel like
it's a lot of pressure. And then on the flip
side too, for like voting, are they voting for you
without seeing your dance? So is it better to go
earlier on? Like there's so many things go into but
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I feel like we always did best when we were
like six or seven.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, especially when there's less couples.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Like I loved when you're like third, I think was
our favorite spot because you didn't have to wait, but
you didn't have to go right away, and that was
that was the sweet spot I feel like for us.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, I guess you're like once the show starts, your
adrenaline is going, so you're just waiting and like getting
probably more and more.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Like sweating the whole time. You're sweating the whole time.
I always went, and you're like, I always had me.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I was always up for two hours.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I was always near the end.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Really yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
They had me start waiting the whole time, and then
I'd be watching you. Yeah, I'd be like, I can't
and it would be like they'd have me go before
like Milo Manheim who was literally doing summersault and like
like three sixty flips, and I'd be, well, okay, well
you can't do that. My signature move was literally like
this just raising wow show.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I watched at least five of your dances and I
loved every second of this.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Honestly, the judges were mean to me. I wasn't as
bad as they let on. Jen was on the season.
What is the deal with her and Sasha? Are they?
Are they dating?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know, no, no, no one knows.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I don't think that they've admitted either way.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, we didn't miss like a hard launch or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh, I mean, I just want to Taylor Swift. That
looks that looks pretty good.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
They went to Taylor Swift together.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Listen, they both look really really happy and I'm so
here for it. If it's a thing.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, we we can't speculate. We know as much as
everyone else does. But we'll see. I feel like I
feel like news may be coming soon, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I feel like you're kind of speculating. But how was
it with her though, Joey, were you did you guys
like talk to or were you were you able to
like kind of like how how's your experience going? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I think that from the beginning, I just tried to
be supportive of Jen. I think everyone knew coming off
the season she was going through a lot. I think,
as you said a lot of Serena said earlier, like
a lot of people that have done the show sometimes
have went on to it immediately after that experience, and
it's a great way to put their time and energy
towards something that is going to give back to them
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and maybe even a distraction. So I tried as much
as I could just to kind of help make it
a fun experience for her whenever I did see and
ask how things were going and give her confidence, because
I think.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
That was just the whole vibe of this cast this season.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Everyone was rooting for each other and kind of just
trying to have everyone make it a fun experience that
we all got to have together.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
This fun. We did a group dance and we were
on the same team as them, so that was fun.
You guys like even dance together. And I was like, oh,
that's that's fun. A little East egg.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
For They grew up an old picture of us in
the middle of that package out of nowhere, which was crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But did they from your season.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
We were getting the dance? No, Yeah, it was crazy.
I was like, this is that That is an old photo.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And Kelsey like, as you guys.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Well you do.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
These packages come up sometimes right in the middle of
the live show and that's the first time you get
to see it, and we never pay attention to the packages.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
But I couldn't miss.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
That one because the whole crowd made a noise and
I looked up and it was a picture of us too.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I was like, whoa, Okay, that was a choice. Someone
made a decision to that one.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But I remember this.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But I think the whole vibe this season was just
everyone was supporting each other. And yeah, I think Jen
had as great of experience as she could. I think
she was just really grateful because it was such a
last minute thing, and they did great. They put out
some really great dances through the whole show.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
How did you guys get along? Couple wives? You know,
for our listeners, Jenna is married to Vale, who's another
professional dancer on the show. Did you guys do like
double dates and all that all that fun stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Again in the beginning, it's a little hard because vou
was also still a competition until like week seven or eight,
and then by that time you're like in quarterfinals and
you're just we were so busy and rehearsing and interviews
and things. But yeah, it was fun. We did joe
remember when we did the Halloween package where we went
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to the hunt right we actually which.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Was that place was fun? Actually, that place be fun.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we got to do that and we had them
over for dinner right before the season started. That was
really nice. And Kelsey got to meet Rome and kind
of get to no vowel, But yeah, it was it
was awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Joey to Develle give you any any he would give
me pointers? Did he give you any pointers?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I don't do well and win this competition without bow
On as much as Jenna was the real person that
was kind of driving everything to have vow as someone
else that can come and give little points and explain
what it should look like for the guy.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I know they work together so much to this, So yeah,
if he was crucial.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Through all this and was kind of our biggest supporter
towards the.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
End when like she said, he was no longer in
the competition.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What does a week look like for you guys when
you're filming like a snapshot of like a Monday to
a Sunday.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, towards the end, it was a lot different than
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You had a lot of time in the beginning, especially
like during training, we only had like four hour days,
and I mean technically that was.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Really that's all you guys were doing for you was
only do four hour days.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Now, yeah, I think they changed it up.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I don't know what it was like with Bears, but
it wasn't the training wasn't like stay super crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Maybe that was just your.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Extra time. No, it wasn't super crazy in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And then I felt like right around I don't know,
it was a week six Disney with Samba was when
it just kind of.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Yeah, it kicked it kicked up.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So basically we have our shows, our live shows Tuesday
and then so your dance is the best it's going
to be. You're on set all day on the show day,
from like six thirty seven am until the show ends.
You have press after, so you're not leaving there until
like eight thirty pm. And then you go the next
day on Wednesday, and you start all over again, so
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you're up early. We have a heart to heart, which
is like an hour and a half little interview between
the two of us, like a package shoot, and then
you start over on your dance. It's like a four
hour four to six hour rehearsal. Joey has a master interview,
and then we have rehearsal Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Monday's
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camera blocking, which is the first time that you do
it on stage with the cameras and the lighting. You
also have fittings throughout your week. It's pretty nuts, and I.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Think all the little stuff that's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like the little things that you don't think of. We're
also doing like press days or media days, you know,
throughout the season. I'm also a mom, so trying to
navigate that is really hard.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
But yeah, so actually talk let's talk about that for
a minute. So your your mom uh rome.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Is how old he's about to be two.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Okay, so this was this technically is this were you?
Did you take a year off?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I did when I was pregnant. I did last season,
but I got eliminated fairly early on. So this was
my first time experiencing the full season as a mom.
And I mean, Joey can attest to this. It's it
was hard on me just because of the time commitment,
and I would I mean again, we danced the whole time.
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We would work really really hard, and then I'm waking
up with my baby at six thirty seven am every day.
And then I go home and I'm on, he doesn't
care that I've had a full day of rehearsals. He
wants mommy time. He wants me to feed him, he
wants me to do bad time, put him to bed.
So and then too, like towards the end, once it's
like three and a half months in, I started really
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not feeling guilty, but I was just missing my son
and I could tell that he was really emotional without me.
He started to want only vow to put him to bed,
and that like made that like broke.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He was like punishing you, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Really hard, but also winning the Mayor Ball. It just
like made it so fulfilling for my mom self as well.
I don't think I was trying to go back and look,
but I don't think a mom has ever won. So
I felt like really proud to do this for like
moms and not giving up on your dreams and knowing that,
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like it is tough and it's going to be a
lot of effort and work, but it's so rewarding like this,
when this whole season, this was so so it was
just everything that I needed and more and like really
proved to me that, like I can still achieve my
dreams and still push, but it's just going to take
a lot of effort and work.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, people ask us all the time, like how what
is it like being in a relationship and working together,
And Joe's answer is always like, well, we only work
together for like three hours a week and if we
can't handle that, we probably shouldn't be married. But you're like,
you're constantly every season working together separately but together and
competing against your husband.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What is that dynamic?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Like it's awesome because again, during the season, the hours
are so long and crazy. The fact that on a
camera blocking day, I get to have my husband on
set where I'm going to be gone for hours and
he's going to be able to like peek in and
see how our dance is looking, give me little tidbits whatever,
or even on like just regular rehearsal days, if he's
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at the studio as well, I can go into his
rehearsal see how his dance looks, vice versa. So again,
it's tough because we're so consumed in this bubble for
like three and a half months. But the fact that
we have the understanding of what one another's going through.
I mean, he's an expert. He's a genius at what
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he does. So the fact that I get his advice,
his expertise, it's just it's really really awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Joey, So you're the Bachelor, you do really well on that,
everyone loves you, you're engaged, so you technically win that show.
You go on Dancing with the Stars, you win the
Marra Ball. Congratulations, What what's the plan now? Because you
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kind of got.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Coming back here and now you're in La Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And you also, I feel like you go into most
of these experiences like whatever happens, and it just so
happens at like the best, the best outcome kind of
always happens for you, So like, what's up, what are
you doing? Yeah, Beverly Hills, Right, Yeah, that's the ideals
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natural progression.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
No, it's it's kind of nice to have a lot
of unknown right now.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I'm very excited about it because as much as there
was a little break in between Bachelor and Dance with
the Stars, it also feel like it flew by and
Kelsey and I were so busy and really just trying
to figure out what.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
We want to do next. But my goals are different
right now.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I've got personal goals that are more important to me
than my actual like goals I'm having for what I
want to do with work and a job, because I
really want to put a lot of energy and effort
into my relationship with Kelsey, focus on us getting settled
here in La and starting our life here. We're so
excited to be moving into an apartment and getting that
to feel like a home so we have our first
home base that's really ours together. So that and putting
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as much energy and effort into us planning what our
future is going to look like and figuring out what
we want to do together. That's the personal side that
I'm putting all my energy and effort into and then
professional side. I'm really open right now. I'm excited to
be in LX. I think there is a lot of opportunity.
I had a lot of people on dancing from the
producing side come up to me and said that they
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think I need to be doing more and try to
find something in TV. So I'm getting connected with the
right people to look and see where there could be
opportunities with that, but also in this industry and that
that's so hard to plan and figure out what exactly
it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I think what's really important.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Is being open and getting connected with the right people
and just trying my best to yeah, try to strive
to do something that could be cool and different. But
I've had a good stint on TV these last two years.
I think I need a little break from reality TV.
That's probably the first step is to not do another
reality TV show right away, But we'll see what comes next.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I'm definitely open and I'm definitely excited.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
We're part of LA Are you Guys Living.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
We kind of got a spot right smack dab in
the middle of Hollywood. I thought we were in West Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Hollywood Hollywood, Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Someone called someone called me.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A Lyra Dish their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They just moved there and signed to LA. He's like,
get out.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Right now those parts of Hollywood that are nice.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So we're like right on the outside of West Hollywood.
We're not like on Hollywood Boulevard or anything. We've got
a nice little area that feels like an actual neighborhood.
We picked it because Kelsey was like, Oh, I can
actually like walk outside and walk the block and grab
a nice cup of coffee somewhere, and it feels like
you're not really in LA where we're at, which is great.
But then obviously you drive a block and then you're
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in LA full force.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So's it's good.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
But uh yeah, we're excited just trying to start our
life here for a little bit now.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
California, La is awesome. I'd love I mean the weather
we're going in a few days. Jenna, I know you
you're obsessed with Christmas. Everyone talks about it. What what
do you guys got going on for the holidays?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh, Joe, do.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
You do alf on the shelf yet? Is Rome old
enough for Elf on the show?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I just taught Joe at ELF on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You didn't know about his friend.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
His best friend's son called and was like showing him
the elf. And I'm listening to this interaction and I'm like,
Joe has no idea what's happening right now?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I heard it elf on the shelf. I just didn't
know what the concept was. I mean, I knew what
elf on the shelf. It's an alf on the shelf.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But yeah, you got that far. Yeah, no, I get it.
We don't have kids.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
No, I'm so excited because we just actually moved into
a new house and we'll see our first Christmas, doing
our own thing and our own home and starting our
own traditions. And yes, Joe, I do love Christmas. It
was very big for me growing up. And so like
the excitement that I get already planting those roots for
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my son and like what we're gonna do is so exciting.
Vow didn't celebrate Christmas growing up, and so until he
was like an adult in his thirties, he didn't really
know like what the whole Christmas vibe was and why family.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Jewish Yeah, Jewish Jewish yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And like in Ukraine they just didn't release New Year's
is like their Christmas. But since we got together and
myself and my sister in law Peta with her husband,
we now do like the full matching pajamas and like
to see my father in law this like Muscle Ukrainian
man who looks like Bruce Willis, to see him in
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a full onesie matching with the reat it's just like
the best thing in the world. And now they're so
invested in it, and every year it's like, Okay, what
are our pajamas this year? So I love that stuff
and it's really exciting. We need to get a tree
this week. That's on our to do list, so we're
gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
That's fun. How about you guys, Joey you, where are
you guys going?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We are going to actually spend it with Kelsey's family
and March's new girlfriend as well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So I was going to say, is the new girlfriend coming?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
New girlfriend will be there with her family, which is
going to be great. Barbara's awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
They've gotten a chance to go out to dinner with
her and her family when Mark came to La. So yeah,
we spend Thanksgiving with my family, We're spending Christmas with hers,
and we're excited for it. We're going to go see
the Packers play in Minnesota too, and we're bringing Mark
because he's a huge Vikings fan.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
So that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Just just going to enjoy time with the family and
travel a little bit for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I saw I think it was Kelsey that posted
like a photo of you and Nick.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It was like just two Packers fans.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
She's all of a sudden acting like she's a Vikings fan.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Now I still call her out on him, like, just
because your dad loves the Vikings, you can't you can't
just claim them all of a sudden.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Now she does that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Really just to get at me, which I don't appreciate
some times. But now she like actually knows all about
the team and is paying attention just to just because
they're really good and she knows it bothers me.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
So yeah, she's got that going for her.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh my gosh, do you guys have Have you guys
talked about wedding plans at all? Or just you've been
living a crazy life.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So we that is on our to do list for
the new year. We really want to figure out location date.
We have so many ideas of what we want to
do if we want to go destination, if we want
to just make it somewhere on the East Coast close
to our families, We're.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Not sure yet, but yeah, we're going to figure that
out first.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Then I think our goal has always been to set
the date within the next like six months or so,
and then once we have that, we can really start.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Planning in the head.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I feel like the big decisions at the beginning of
like where when venu are like the hardest, biggest one,
and then it kind of all just falls into place
from there.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, we said we had to figure out where we
were living first. We got that checked off, and now
we have to figure out everything else. So we're excited
for it. I think that's one of the coolest parts
of this is we get to really plan ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now what happened with your guys living situation, because last
time we saw you in New York, you were like,
we're moving here, and then you switched it up.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
He spent three months in eighty degree weather and he's.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Like, He's like, I'm not going to East Coast winters
after this.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I was always really interested in la I think Kelsey
wasn't and that was the biggest reason why we were
leaning more towards New York, because that was also a
place that she really wanted to live. But then I
just told her, I said, hey, well, we're going to
be in LA for hopefully a decent amount of time
if everything goes well with Dance with the Stars, and
this should be a great opportunity to feel out if
this is a spot you want to live, and if
you don't like it, I'm in for New York, let's go.
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But after maybe about like a couple of weeks to
a month of living here, she connected with a lot
of people. As Joe said, she loved the weather, and
I think we both felt we'd have a more active
and fun lifestyle here, maybe for us. So she told me,
she's like, I'm open to it. I think we should
try it for a year. I think there's a lot
of opportunity here too. And as soon as she gave
me any chance at LA, I said, okay tomorrow. So
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we locked it down pretty quickly because I was really excited. So, yeah,
I think we're still going to spend a lot of
time in New York. She's got so much stuff with
work that brings her there, and I do love visiting
New York. I'm more excited about living in La though,
And I think that I'm gonna have to visit New
York quite a bit.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
That she gave me the LA spot. So yeah, I'm
sure we'll be there really a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's a lot harder to play tennis and thirty degree
weather and snow.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
It doesn't work that way. So we're starting to make
some tests connects. I'm golfing tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Like, I'm stoked. I'm very happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Any tour announcements, can we talk anything about tour.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Or Yeah, we're so excited because we are going on
the tour for I think it's like three and a
half weeks all that we're doing. But it's super exciting
because we're going to be in uh Philly for Joey's
hometown show.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, so it's I mean, joe you did the tour.
It's it's a lot of fun because that's.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
When I did the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Guys, you did.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I can't believe you lived in an RV, your bougie ass.
I know, Oh, you've been on a bunk bed in
a car.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's the thing is tours so much fun because like,
if you have the chance to do it, you have to.
But it's not a very glamorous life, Like you're sleeping
in bunk beds four feet away from your neighbor, Like
there's no privacy.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Some of the showers at the like you know, some
of the venue venues or arenas, like some of the
showers you're.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Showering like they're not like communal.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, make sure you bring flip flaps. Yeah, bring flip flaps.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Okay, I'm excited for that though, Like when you get
the opportunity to do that, I'm the weird of that
was actually excited about the bus life as much as
I was told you're gonna hate it after a couple
of days. I'm excited you have.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
To experience it. But also it's so fun because that's
when you that's the only time you get to meet
these fans or these people that just went to bat
for you for three and a half months, So that
gets really exciting. I'm excited for you to experience that.
But yeah, so we're actually rehearsing for that these next
couple of weeks and then we go out at the
end of January. And then the end of February to
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March for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So we got to that's kind of nice. You guys
will both get like a chunk of a break. Yeah,
and then you go away just for you know, a stint,
and then you're back.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Our long stint is that February March time, and we're
doing Florida through Texas and a few others the southeast state, so.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That would be always like just the warm states.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Smart.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hey, I didn't pick the schedule, but when they send
it to me, I was like, oh, this is a
nice this is a nice little spot.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
That we're doing. I get to go to some of
the warm areas. But yeah, it'll be it'll be fun.
I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Are you gonna miss dancing?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I don't even know if I still know how to dance?
And tell you the truth, just take me, you do
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I'm so nervous to do rehearsal this week and actually
be expected to still remember all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
And you have to host, and you have to host, right.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I'm more excited for that. Get me on mic and
let me talk some some bs for a little bit.
I'm excited for that. But I'm nervous that I'm gonna
have to remember how to dance and do that again.
But I really want to find a way to keep
doing this. I still haven't talked to Jenna a vow,
but I'm gonna either make them keep coaching me and
and just pay them to do that, or they're gonna
have to connect me with a good coach because I'm
going to miss doing this a lot.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I did the tour. They didn't they didn't trust me
with the mic, so I I co hosted with Vail
because they're like, you also, you need to have a
bike in cases.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, you can't be left alone, exactly what Jenna said today.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
And then and then show number three, Jenna came up
and said, hey, they they want to they want to
cut your dance. Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You only have one dance? Dance like, are you like
a duet?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It was yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It was like they want to cut your dance or
they want to put art them in there instead of you.
Are you okay with that? I was like, yeah, I'm fine.
So I did the tour and didn't I play How long.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Were you on tour?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Two and a half months and didn't dance? Remember you
did like some of the group numbers. To be fair,
I did, oh you did, okay, you dance and I
didn't you do like the guys number, the Cowboy number
or something.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I did the Cowboy number. But they Alan and Glad
carried me out, so I didn't even have to do
steps up to the front. They just carried me like
this and I went up to the front and then
I turned the round and I shaked my ass and
I walked off stage.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Oh man, yeah, they played you.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
It was great. Sharpen up your Madden skills because you
get to play Madden on the bus. That's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Joe's like, I went, I played Madden, I gambled, I
shook my ass and that's that was the best time
in my life that I left.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
What an experience. Well, I know you, I know you
guys are are super busy, and congratulations again on winning.
Jenna was lovely seeing you, Joey always nice seeing you
as well. And thank you guys so much for taking
the time and coming on our podcast. Thanks for having
us of course, and to our listeners, thank you guys
so much for tuning in. We'll have exclusive interviews and
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different podcasts for you every week.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, we will have different podcasts every week and don't
forget to subscribe.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Thanks for listening to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Bye,
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Serena, I'm joe and we are back with part
two with Jenna and Joey talking about their Dancing with
the Stars experience after the big win. So we finished
off last episode talking about just the difference and abilities
and can you guys just give us an idea of
what it's like with scoring, because obviously week one, Joey,
where you're gonna be ability wise is so different than
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where someone like Chandler is going to be.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
How is it not like a two and a ten?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know, it's hard with scoring again because I think
for the first little bit they tried to just score
based off of the own individual, but then once it
starts getting down to the later episodes, you start comparing, right,
So for scoring, for me, from the very beginning, I
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told Joey, I don't care about the scores, like we
should not focus on those yes sent of what the
judges are saying and their critiques. But for me, those
numbers don't matter as long as we're happy with how
we did. We're continuing to improve and doing our very best.
Like the number that they show isn't going to make
or break if I'm fulfilled with our performance or not not.
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So it is hard though, because when you have like
we had a couple of times where we were like,
that was our best dance yet, and we got scores
that we didn't think that that matched that or how
we felt at the end of it. So that's why
I try to keep it as like, scores are what
they're going to be. Let's just control what we can control.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's it's definitely in the beginning, it's a lot easier
to do that because especially if you feel like you
are in the competition and doing well, which we kind
of did the entire time. I feel like we were
in the top four almost the entire time on the show,
which was great for scoring, But we didn't really let
scores maybe affect what we were thinking until maybe like
week six or week seven, and then it just started
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to be comparative. You started to look at everyone else
and you're like, oh, wait, like our scores do matter.
We want to stay in this competition. And it's hard.
It's it's definitely a game. But she was always great
at with all of it, just taking out all the
distracts and the focusing on what we can control because
we actually cannot control any of that. We can just
leave that dance and know that we felt good about it,
and we did almost every single time, So that was
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really all we kind of held onto each week.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
What was the week or what was the dance where
you were like, Okay, we have a shot at at
going to the finals. Was there a moment where you're like, okay, yeah,
we were, we're part of the we're part of the
competition here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah. I mean, I think each week he kind of
held his own and made a splash or an impact
in the competition. But I would say maybe, I don't
know how you feel, but I would say tango. I
was going to say it was the moment. I think
it was Week four, Show four, But it was when
Derek told him that it was the best tango that
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he'd seen a male celebrity do on the show. And
I knew that, like his frame and everything was really
really great. But you get a little desensitized when you're
in the room with somebody for hours.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
On end, and that tango was an issue for a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was hard to get where it got. But I
think that was the time I was like, oh, maybe
we could actually do this and take this. So that
really I feel like motivated both of us, Yeah, like
push and just give our very best every week.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
We put so much energy into that tango too, because
it was my first dance and frame it was not
easy for I think that was the first time. You
obviously have the whole week show, you know how it is,
but that was the first time where we didn't get
a dance like feeling good until maybe the end of
the day on Saturday. And for anyone that doesn't know
the schedule the show, you only have like a day
and a half after Saturday to really get ready for
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the actual live show, so we did. That was the
latest we felt good about a dance. But at the
end of the day Saturday, we're like, oh, it's coming together.
And then Sunday we were like, wait, this might be our.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Best dance yet.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And then that was a game changing night because that
was the first time we passed Chandler and we're top
of the leaderboard by ourself, and we finished out the show.
We were the last performance, and to hear Derek's comments
and to see like the scores actually show the amount
of effort we put in, that was where I think
we both were like, we might have a chance of
we keep working as hard as we did because we
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worked really hard on that thing.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is there like an ideal spot, like when you're finding
out if you're first or last, like where you're performing,
is there kind of a zone you're hoping for?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Heck, yeah, I don't know. I hated hated it. When
we were first, I just oh, okay.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I thought it was so hard to mentally get ready
to do well in the dance because you went straight
from the bumper of introducing the live show, standing up
there with everyone and then boom, lights hit and you
have two minutes to get ready to dance, and usually
if you have a later dance.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
For me, it felt so nice that we had.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
The ability to warm up a little bit before, get
your mind and right talked through it, maybe do a
couple of the steps you didn't get like thrusted into it.
And then also I felt like last was horrible because
you waited the entire day and when we were last
with a tango, there were still twelve couples.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, you're like waiting two hours to go. Yeah, you're
just like iced out. You've seen how everyone's done. I
feel like you see the scores, you start to put
pressure on yourself. So we always found our sweet spot
was like in the middle, like six or seven or
halfway through the show, was we felt great about.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, starting off is hard, and then yeah, finishing it's
epic because it's like an honor to go last, and
there's like conspiracy theories that if you're going last you
have a really good dance. Oh really, I feel like
it's a lot of pressure. And then on the flip
side too, for like voting, are they voting for you
without seeing your dance? So is it better to go
earlier on? Like there's so many things go into but
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I feel like we always did best when we were
like six or seven.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, especially when there's less couples.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Like I loved when you're like third, I think was
our favorite spot because you didn't have to wait, but
you didn't have to go right away, and that was
that was the sweet spot I feel like for us.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, I guess you're like once the show starts, your
adrenaline is going, so you're just waiting and like getting
probably more and more.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Like sweating the whole time. You're sweating the whole time.
I always went, and you're like, I always had me.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I was always up for two hours.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I was always near the end.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Really yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
They had me start waiting the whole time, and then
I'd be watching you. Yeah, I'd be like, I can't
and it would be like they'd have me go before
like Milo Manheim who was literally doing summersault and like
like three sixty flips, and I'd be, well, okay, well
you can't do that. My signature move was literally like
this just raising wow show.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I watched at least five of your dances and I
loved every second of this.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Honestly, the judges were mean to me. I wasn't as
bad as they let on. Jen was on the season.
What is the deal with her and Sasha? Are they?
Are they dating?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I don't know, no, no, no one knows.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I don't think that they've admitted either way.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, we didn't miss like a hard launch or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh, I mean, I just want to Taylor Swift. That
looks that looks pretty good.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
They went to Taylor Swift together.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Listen, they both look really really happy and I'm so
here for it. If it's a thing.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, we we can't speculate. We know as much as
everyone else does. But we'll see. I feel like I
feel like news may be coming soon, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I feel like you're kind of speculating. But how was
it with her though, Joey, were you did you guys
like talk to or were you were you able to
like kind of like how how's your experience going? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I think that from the beginning, I just tried to
be supportive of Jen. I think everyone knew coming off
the season she was going through a lot. I think,
as you said a lot of Serena said earlier, like
a lot of people that have done the show sometimes
have went on to it immediately after that experience, and
it's a great way to put their time and energy
towards something that is going to give back to them
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and maybe even a distraction. So I tried as much
as I could just to kind of help make it
a fun experience for her whenever I did see and
ask how things were going and give her confidence, because
I think.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
That was just the whole vibe of this cast this season.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Everyone was rooting for each other and kind of just
trying to have everyone make it a fun experience that
we all got to have together.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
This fun. We did a group dance and we were
on the same team as them, so that was fun.
You guys like even dance together. And I was like, oh,
that's that's fun. A little East egg.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
For They grew up an old picture of us in
the middle of that package out of nowhere, which was crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But did they from your season.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
We were getting the dance? No, Yeah, it was crazy.
I was like, this is that That is an old photo.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And Kelsey like, as you guys.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Well you do.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
These packages come up sometimes right in the middle of
the live show and that's the first time you get
to see it, and we never pay attention to the packages.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
But I couldn't miss.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
That one because the whole crowd made a noise and
I looked up and it was a picture of us too.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I was like, whoa, Okay, that was a choice. Someone
made a decision to that one.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But I remember this.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
But I think the whole vibe this season was just
everyone was supporting each other. And yeah, I think Jen
had as great of experience as she could. I think
she was just really grateful because it was such a
last minute thing, and they did great. They put out
some really great dances through the whole show.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
How did you guys get along? Couple wives? You know,
for our listeners, Jenna is married to Vale, who's another
professional dancer on the show. Did you guys do like
double dates and all that all that fun stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Again in the beginning, it's a little hard because vou
was also still a competition until like week seven or eight,
and then by that time you're like in quarterfinals and
you're just we were so busy and rehearsing and interviews
and things. But yeah, it was fun. We did joe
remember when we did the Halloween package where we went
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to the hunt right we actually which.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Was that place was fun? Actually, that place be fun.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
So we got to do that and we had them
over for dinner right before the season started. That was
really nice. And Kelsey got to meet Rome and kind
of get to no vowel, But yeah, it was it
was awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Joey to Develle give you any any he would give
me pointers? Did he give you any pointers?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I don't do well and win this competition without bow
On as much as Jenna was the real person that
was kind of driving everything to have vow as someone
else that can come and give little points and explain
what it should look like for the guy.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
I know they work together so much to this, So yeah,
if he was crucial.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Through all this and was kind of our biggest supporter
towards the.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
End when like she said, he was no longer in
the competition.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
What does a week look like for you guys when
you're filming like a snapshot of like a Monday to
a Sunday.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Yeah, towards the end, it was a lot different than
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You had a lot of time in the beginning, especially
like during training, we only had like four hour days,
and I mean technically that was.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Really that's all you guys were doing for you was
only do four hour days.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Now, yeah, I think they changed it up.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I don't know what it was like with Bears, but
it wasn't the training wasn't like stay super crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Maybe that was just your.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Extra time. No, it wasn't super crazy in the beginning.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And then I felt like right around I don't know,
it was a week six Disney with Samba was when
it just kind of.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Yeah, it kicked it kicked up.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So basically we have our shows, our live shows Tuesday
and then so your dance is the best it's going
to be. You're on set all day on the show day,
from like six thirty seven am until the show ends.
You have press after, so you're not leaving there until
like eight thirty pm. And then you go the next
day on Wednesday, and you start all over again, so
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you're up early. We have a heart to heart, which
is like an hour and a half little interview between
the two of us, like a package shoot, and then
you start over on your dance. It's like a four
hour four to six hour rehearsal. Joey has a master interview,
and then we have rehearsal Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Monday's
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camera blocking, which is the first time that you do
it on stage with the cameras and the lighting. You
also have fittings throughout your week. It's pretty nuts, and I.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Think all the little stuff that's crazy, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like the little things that you don't think of. We're
also doing like press days or media days, you know,
throughout the season. I'm also a mom, so trying to
navigate that is really hard.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
But yeah, so actually talk let's talk about that for
a minute. So your your mom uh rome.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Is how old he's about to be two.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Okay, so this was this technically is this were you?
Did you take a year off?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I did when I was pregnant. I did last season,
but I got eliminated fairly early on. So this was
my first time experiencing the full season as a mom.
And I mean, Joey can attest to this. It's it
was hard on me just because of the time commitment,
and I would I mean again, we danced the whole time.
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We would work really really hard, and then I'm waking
up with my baby at six thirty seven am every day.
And then I go home and I'm on, he doesn't
care that I've had a full day of rehearsals. He
wants mommy time. He wants me to feed him, he
wants me to do bad time, put him to bed.
So and then too, like towards the end, once it's
like three and a half months in, I started really
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not feeling guilty, but I was just missing my son
and I could tell that he was really emotional without me.
He started to want only vow to put him to bed,
and that like made that like broke.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He was like punishing you, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Really hard, but also winning the Mayor Ball. It just
like made it so fulfilling for my mom self as well.
I don't think I was trying to go back and look,
but I don't think a mom has ever won. So
I felt like really proud to do this for like
moms and not giving up on your dreams and knowing that,
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like it is tough and it's going to be a
lot of effort and work, but it's so rewarding like this,
when this whole season, this was so so it was
just everything that I needed and more and like really
proved to me that, like I can still achieve my
dreams and still push, but it's just going to take
a lot of effort and work.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yeah, people ask us all the time, like how what
is it like being in a relationship and working together,
And Joe's answer is always like, well, we only work
together for like three hours a week and if we
can't handle that, we probably shouldn't be married. But you're like,
you're constantly every season working together separately but together and
competing against your husband.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What is that dynamic?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Like it's awesome because again, during the season, the hours
are so long and crazy. The fact that on a
camera blocking day, I get to have my husband on
set where I'm going to be gone for hours and
he's going to be able to like peek in and
see how our dance is looking, give me little tidbits whatever,
or even on like just regular rehearsal days, if he's
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at the studio as well, I can go into his
rehearsal see how his dance looks, vice versa. So again,
it's tough because we're so consumed in this bubble for
like three and a half months. But the fact that
we have the understanding of what one another's going through.
I mean, he's an expert. He's a genius at what
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he does. So the fact that I get his advice,
his expertise, it's just it's really really awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Joey, So you're the Bachelor, you do really well on that,
everyone loves you, you're engaged, so you technically win that show.
You go on Dancing with the Stars, you win the
Marra Ball. Congratulations, What what's the plan now? Because you
(16:04):
kind of got.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Coming back here and now you're in La Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
And you also, I feel like you go into most
of these experiences like whatever happens, and it just so
happens at like the best, the best outcome kind of
always happens for you, So like, what's up, what are
you doing? Yeah, Beverly Hills, Right, Yeah, that's the ideals
(16:28):
natural progression.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
No, it's it's kind of nice to have a lot
of unknown right now.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I'm very excited about it because as much as there
was a little break in between Bachelor and Dance with
the Stars, it also feel like it flew by and
Kelsey and I were so busy and really just trying
to figure out what.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
We want to do next. But my goals are different
right now.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
I've got personal goals that are more important to me
than my actual like goals I'm having for what I
want to do with work and a job, because I
really want to put a lot of energy and effort
into my relationship with Kelsey, focus on us getting settled
here in La and starting our life here. We're so
excited to be moving into an apartment and getting that
to feel like a home so we have our first
home base that's really ours together. So that and putting
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as much energy and effort into us planning what our
future is going to look like and figuring out what
we want to do together. That's the personal side that
I'm putting all my energy and effort into and then
professional side. I'm really open right now. I'm excited to
be in LX. I think there is a lot of opportunity.
I had a lot of people on dancing from the
producing side come up to me and said that they
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think I need to be doing more and try to
find something in TV. So I'm getting connected with the
right people to look and see where there could be
opportunities with that, but also in this industry and that
that's so hard to plan and figure out what exactly
it's going to be.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I think what's really important.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Is being open and getting connected with the right people
and just trying my best to yeah, try to strive
to do something that could be cool and different. But
I've had a good stint on TV these last two years.
I think I need a little break from reality TV.
That's probably the first step is to not do another
reality TV show right away, But we'll see what comes next.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
I'm definitely open and I'm definitely excited.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
We're part of LA Are you Guys Living.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
We kind of got a spot right smack dab in
the middle of Hollywood. I thought we were in West Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Hollywood Hollywood, Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Someone called someone called me.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
A Lyra Dish their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They just moved there and signed to LA. He's like,
get out.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Right now those parts of Hollywood that are nice.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
So we're like right on the outside of West Hollywood.
We're not like on Hollywood Boulevard or anything. We've got
a nice little area that feels like an actual neighborhood.
We picked it because Kelsey was like, Oh, I can
actually like walk outside and walk the block and grab
a nice cup of coffee somewhere, and it feels like
you're not really in LA where we're at, which is great.
But then obviously you drive a block and then you're
(18:48):
in LA full force.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So's it's good.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
But uh yeah, we're excited just trying to start our
life here for a little bit now.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
California, La is awesome. I'd love I mean the weather
we're going in a few days. Jenna, I know you
you're obsessed with Christmas. Everyone talks about it. What what
do you guys got going on for the holidays?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh, Joe, do.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
You do alf on the shelf yet? Is Rome old
enough for Elf on the show?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I just taught Joe at ELF on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
You didn't know about his friend.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
His best friend's son called and was like showing him
the elf. And I'm listening to this interaction and I'm like,
Joe has no idea what's happening right now?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I heard it elf on the shelf. I just didn't
know what the concept was. I mean, I knew what
elf on the shelf. It's an alf on the shelf.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
But yeah, you got that far. Yeah, no, I get it.
We don't have kids.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
No, I'm so excited because we just actually moved into
a new house and we'll see our first Christmas, doing
our own thing and our own home and starting our
own traditions. And yes, Joe, I do love Christmas. It
was very big for me growing up. And so like
the excitement that I get already planting those roots for
(20:03):
my son and like what we're gonna do is so exciting.
Vow didn't celebrate Christmas growing up, and so until he
was like an adult in his thirties, he didn't really
know like what the whole Christmas vibe was and why family.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Jewish Yeah, Jewish Jewish yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And like in Ukraine they just didn't release New Year's
is like their Christmas. But since we got together and
myself and my sister in law Peta with her husband,
we now do like the full matching pajamas and like
to see my father in law this like Muscle Ukrainian
man who looks like Bruce Willis, to see him in
(20:44):
a full onesie matching with the reat it's just like
the best thing in the world. And now they're so
invested in it, and every year it's like, Okay, what
are our pajamas this year? So I love that stuff
and it's really exciting. We need to get a tree
this week. That's on our to do list, so we're
gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
That's fun. How about you guys, Joey you, where are
you guys going?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
We are going to actually spend it with Kelsey's family
and March's new girlfriend as well.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So I was going to say, is the new girlfriend coming?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
New girlfriend will be there with her family, which is
going to be great. Barbara's awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
They've gotten a chance to go out to dinner with
her and her family when Mark came to La. So yeah,
we spend Thanksgiving with my family, We're spending Christmas with hers,
and we're excited for it. We're going to go see
the Packers play in Minnesota too, and we're bringing Mark
because he's a huge Vikings fan.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
So that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Just just going to enjoy time with the family and
travel a little bit for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I saw I think it was Kelsey that posted
like a photo of you and Nick.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It was like just two Packers fans.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
She's all of a sudden acting like she's a Vikings fan.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Now I still call her out on him, like, just
because your dad loves the Vikings, you can't you can't
just claim them all of a sudden.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Now she does that.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Really just to get at me, which I don't appreciate
some times. But now she like actually knows all about
the team and is paying attention just to just because
they're really good and she knows it bothers me.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
So yeah, she's got that going for her.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh my gosh, do you guys have Have you guys
talked about wedding plans at all? Or just you've been
living a crazy life.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So we that is on our to do list for
the new year. We really want to figure out location date.
We have so many ideas of what we want to
do if we want to go destination, if we want
to just make it somewhere on the East Coast close
to our families, We're.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
Not sure yet, but yeah, we're going to figure that
out first.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Then I think our goal has always been to set
the date within the next like six months or so,
and then once we have that, we can really start.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Planning in the head.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I feel like the big decisions at the beginning of
like where when venu are like the hardest, biggest one,
and then it kind of all just falls into place
from there.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yeah, we said we had to figure out where we
were living first. We got that checked off, and now
we have to figure out everything else. So we're excited
for it. I think that's one of the coolest parts
of this is we get to really plan ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Now what happened with your guys living situation, because last
time we saw you in New York, you were like,
we're moving here, and then you switched it up.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
He spent three months in eighty degree weather and he's.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Like, He's like, I'm not going to East Coast winters
after this.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I was always really interested in la I think Kelsey
wasn't and that was the biggest reason why we were
leaning more towards New York, because that was also a
place that she really wanted to live. But then I
just told her, I said, hey, well, we're going to
be in LA for hopefully a decent amount of time
if everything goes well with Dance with the Stars, and
this should be a great opportunity to feel out if
this is a spot you want to live, and if
you don't like it, I'm in for New York, let's go.
(23:33):
But after maybe about like a couple of weeks to
a month of living here, she connected with a lot
of people. As Joe said, she loved the weather, and
I think we both felt we'd have a more active
and fun lifestyle here, maybe for us. So she told me,
she's like, I'm open to it. I think we should
try it for a year. I think there's a lot
of opportunity here too. And as soon as she gave
me any chance at LA, I said, okay tomorrow. So
(23:56):
we locked it down pretty quickly because I was really excited. So, yeah,
I think we're still going to spend a lot of
time in New York. She's got so much stuff with
work that brings her there, and I do love visiting
New York. I'm more excited about living in La though,
And I think that I'm gonna have to visit New
York quite a bit.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
That she gave me the LA spot. So yeah, I'm
sure we'll be there really a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's a lot harder to play tennis and thirty degree
weather and snow.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
It doesn't work that way. So we're starting to make
some tests connects. I'm golfing tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Like, I'm stoked. I'm very happy to be here.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Any tour announcements, can we talk anything about tour.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Or Yeah, we're so excited because we are going on
the tour for I think it's like three and a
half weeks all that we're doing. But it's super exciting
because we're going to be in uh Philly for Joey's
hometown show.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, so it's I mean, joe you did the tour.
It's it's a lot of fun because that's.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
When I did the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Guys, you did.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I can't believe you lived in an RV, your bougie ass.
I know, Oh, you've been on a bunk bed in
a car.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
That's the thing is tours so much fun because like,
if you have the chance to do it, you have to.
But it's not a very glamorous life, Like you're sleeping
in bunk beds four feet away from your neighbor, Like
there's no privacy.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Some of the showers at the like you know, some
of the venue venues or arenas, like some of the
showers you're.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Showering like they're not like communal.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, make sure you bring flip flaps. Yeah, bring flip flaps.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Okay, I'm excited for that though, Like when you get
the opportunity to do that, I'm the weird of that
was actually excited about the bus life as much as
I was told you're gonna hate it after a couple
of days. I'm excited you have.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
To experience it. But also it's so fun because that's
when you that's the only time you get to meet
these fans or these people that just went to bat
for you for three and a half months, So that
gets really exciting. I'm excited for you to experience that.
But yeah, so we're actually rehearsing for that these next
couple of weeks and then we go out at the
end of January. And then the end of February to
(26:06):
March for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So we got to that's kind of nice. You guys
will both get like a chunk of a break. Yeah,
and then you go away just for you know, a stint,
and then you're back.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Our long stint is that February March time, and we're
doing Florida through Texas and a few others the southeast state, so.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That would be always like just the warm states.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Smart.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hey, I didn't pick the schedule, but when they send
it to me, I was like, oh, this is a
nice this is a nice little spot.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
That we're doing. I get to go to some of
the warm areas. But yeah, it'll be it'll be fun.
I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Are you gonna miss dancing?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I don't even know if I still know how to dance?
And tell you the truth, just take me, you do
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I'm so nervous to do rehearsal this week and actually
be expected to still remember all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
And you have to host, and you have to host, right.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I'm more excited for that. Get me on mic and
let me talk some some bs for a little bit.
I'm excited for that. But I'm nervous that I'm gonna
have to remember how to dance and do that again.
But I really want to find a way to keep
doing this. I still haven't talked to Jenna a vow,
but I'm gonna either make them keep coaching me and
and just pay them to do that, or they're gonna
have to connect me with a good coach because I'm
going to miss doing this a lot.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I did the tour. They didn't they didn't trust me
with the mic, so I I co hosted with Vail
because they're like, you also, you need to have a
bike in cases.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, you can't be left alone, exactly what Jenna said today.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
And then and then show number three, Jenna came up
and said, hey, they they want to they want to
cut your dance. Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You only have one dance? Dance like, are you like
a duet?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
It was yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It was like they want to cut your dance or
they want to put art them in there instead of you.
Are you okay with that? I was like, yeah, I'm fine.
So I did the tour and didn't I play How long.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Were you on tour?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Two and a half months and didn't dance? Remember you
did like some of the group numbers. To be fair,
I did, oh you did, okay, you dance and I
didn't you do like the guys number, the Cowboy number
or something.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I did the Cowboy number. But they Alan and Glad
carried me out, so I didn't even have to do
steps up to the front. They just carried me like
this and I went up to the front and then
I turned the round and I shaked my ass and
I walked off stage.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Oh man, yeah, they played you.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
It was great. Sharpen up your Madden skills because you
get to play Madden on the bus. That's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Joe's like, I went, I played Madden, I gambled, I
shook my ass and that's that was the best time
in my life that I left.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
What an experience. Well, I know you, I know you
guys are are super busy, and congratulations again on winning.
Jenna was lovely seeing you, Joey always nice seeing you
as well. And thank you guys so much for taking
the time and coming on our podcast. Thanks for having
us of course, and to our listeners, thank you guys
so much for tuning in. We'll have exclusive interviews and
(29:08):
different podcasts for you every week.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, we will have different podcasts every week and don't
forget to subscribe.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Thanks for listening to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Bye,
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