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Joey Graziadei dishes on his dancing skills with THR at the 'Dancing With the Stars' press line alongside dance partner Jenna Johnson. Plus, Jenna jokes about preparing Joey and fiancé Kelsey Anderson for their first dance at the wedding.

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00:00I heard that dancing was on your bucket list, so how's it been going so far?

00:04It's starting, yeah, we're doing it.

00:06It's been awesome, she's amazing, so I'm just really leaning on her and

00:11trying to listen to whatever I can and hopefully not make her job too difficult, but

00:14it's been super fun.

00:15Jenna, how would you rate Joey's dance skills?

00:19What's my number?

00:20It's one to ten.

00:21Okay.

00:22Be kind.

00:23You know what, I'm going to leave room for improvement.

00:25I'll give it a six.

00:27That's better than I thought she was going to say.

00:29I'll take a six.

00:30I love it.

00:31Is that going to be like a two?

00:32I didn't know.

00:33I wasn't sure.

00:34Oh my gosh.

00:35Well, have you been bringing home any of the choreography to Kelsey?

00:37Have you been practicing at all?

00:39Every single time I went home, she's asked me, like, okay, show me what you learned today,

00:43so it's good.

00:44I love this extra rehearsal.

00:45It helps me jog the memory a little bit, make sure I know what I'm doing, but she's really

00:49excited, which is awesome.

00:51How's her dancing skill?

00:52Is she helping you out?

00:53Is she giving any tips?

00:54She's not the best dancer.

00:55She knows that, too.

00:56You know what, I love her.

00:57I will help those of you.

00:59She's like, she's glad it's me and not her.

01:00She's like, I have more potential than she does in her brain, but she's going to do great.

01:04I'm sure she'll love to kind of learn alongside with me, too.

01:07Jenna, you have to teach them the first dance, then.

01:09Yes.

01:10You know, Val was even saying, he was like, I should work with Kelsey, give her some one-on-ones,

01:14and then we'll get them ready for their first dance, get them all prepared and everything.

01:17We'll take all the help we can get.

01:19100%.

01:20Well, I know this is also the first season where there's a bachelor and bachelorette

01:23competing, so do you think that Jen is going to be your main competition this season?

01:29Or will it be Val, because Val is your competition every season, right, Jenna?

01:32Yes, every season.

01:33I, bachelorettes have always done really well on the show.

01:38We haven't had a male, I guess, a bachelor, make it to the finale, so I would really love

01:43to see Joey do that.

01:44That's our goal.

01:45That's what we're focusing on.

01:46But yeah, we both said we're going to focus on what we can control and just do what we

01:49can do every week, and that's the thought process.

01:52Is there a song or an artist that you're looking forward to hopefully dancing to this season?

01:57Ooh.

01:58I will literally dance to anything.

02:00My music genre is kind of all over the place.

02:02I'll throw out there, like, a Taylor Swift song would be pretty fun.

02:04It would be nice to do a Taylor Swift song.

02:06Yeah, everybody loves Taylor Swift songs.

02:07I know, right?

02:08I think they did a Taylor night, was it last year?

02:09They did, they did, yeah.

02:10So that could be good.

02:11Well, speaking of theme nights, I know that there's so many fun theme nights for you guys

02:15every season.

02:16If you both could come up with your own theme night, what would it be?

02:20Ooh.

02:21I want to hear yours.

02:25I got one of you.

02:26You want to think a little longer.

02:27Yeah, you go, you go.

02:28I want to see a tennis theme night.

02:29I know it's cliche for me, but that would be awesome to do something, because we'd have

02:32a leg up if we did that one.

02:34Tennis theme would be good.

02:35Yeah.

02:36Just throw tennis balls in the mix.

02:37Toss me a racket.

02:38Something.

02:39I could do that theme all day.

02:40I feel like something like Mad Max-inspired theme would be so sick.

02:45I think the costuming, the makeup, and the music, you could get really creative with

02:49that.

02:50So, I'll say that.

02:51I love that.

02:52I love that.

02:53I also know the athletes tend to do really well this season.

02:54So, fingers crossed.

02:57We have Olympians.

02:58We have guys that have won Super Bowls.

03:01I don't know if I'm in the athlete credentials, but I can hit a tennis ball.

03:07You've had an entire tennis-themed season, so we've got to count you as an athlete.

03:12I'm a little light on my feet, right?

03:13I'm doing all right.

03:15I'll try to help out.

03:16I'll take the athlete's title if I have to.

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