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When asked how it felt to dance with new partnerAlan Berstenon Monday night for the Halloween Spooktacular,the newly engaged Bachelorette alumgave rave reviews of the stressful-yet-rewarding experience.
“Oh, tell them how good it was!” Bersten, 28, joked after the show.
“Alan’s a great partner and a great teacher and a great performer, so I feel like I couldn’t have asked for anyone better to step in for Val,” Windey, 31, said of her temporary partner, whowon the coveted Mirror Ball trophy in 2019with fellow former BacheloretteHannah Brown.
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“I think this week definitely made me a better dancer dancing with Alan, and I feel like we jumped through a lot of and hurdles and still ended up on top, so it feels good,” she shared.
Naturally, Chmerkovskiy — whose COVID symptoms have been “very mild” — tuned in to root for his partner and his pal, who were dancing to his original choreography.
Prior to the COVID interruption, Windey wrote on Instagram how wonderful it was to dance with Chmerkovskiy after their rumba last week.
“I could dance this dance 100 times,” she wrote on an Instagram video post from week 6. “The rumba was deceptively difficult but thanks to@valentin’s teaching, patience, and creativity it was a joy to perform. Thanks to him I am now officially hooked on the drug that is ballroom dance.
“This is a huge bummer, I’m very disappointed,” the Ukrainian star said. “I feel like I let some people down, and selfishly, was really looking forward to this week’s routine, being Halloween, being Argentine Tango.”
Thankfully, Bersten was up for the challenge.
“For this week I joined in so late it was just learn it and do it,” he explained. “Val was phenomenal. Not only as a dancer but as a choreographer. Obviously the routine was amazing. It was all Val. I’ve always looked up to Val, so I tried to mimic his dancing.”
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