Jenna Johnson, Joe Amabile.
ABC/Craig SjodinJoe Amabili I took a trip down memory lane with… Dancing with the stars a partner Jenna Johnson They admitted that their time together wasn't fun all the time.
“Do you remember when I almost slit your throat?” Amabile, 38, asked Johnson, 30, during the Saturday, December 16, episode of “Bachelor's Happy Hour“Podcast.
Johnson didn't skip a beat, revealing that the near-miss occurred during season 27's Halloween episode.
“I almost killed you. I swear on my life that she almost died,” Amabile told listeners. “It was crazy.”
Looking back, Amabili remembers making a mistake at the end of the Frankenstein-themed Argentine tango. After Johnson only turned 180 degrees, her body tensed. Amabile could no longer extend his reach, so the professional dancer had to cancel the backflip and step forward to avoid hitting her head.
“Honestly, Joe, that was your best dance, and it was the finishing move,” Johnson reassured him, saying, “We only had one lift. He put his arm in the wrong place. I was going to do a backflip. “I don’t know how I did it.”
Amabile noted that hanging his arms “was the only thing I couldn't do” in the routine or else we would miss. “That was the only position I couldn't lift her into,” he explained, joking that he was warned, “Just don't do this” before taking the stage and “This is what I did.”
Johnson and Amabile were paired together Season 27 of the competition serieswhich aired in 2018. The duo was the eighth pair eliminated, exiting the show after the semi-finals.
Although Johnson didn't seem bothered by her near-disastrous experience with Amabelle, she revealed that she hoped she would be. In conjunction with a football player Instead of another Bachelor star after their time together.
Rumors surfaced earlier this year that Johnson wasn't happy about being paired with her Bachelor's alum Joey Graziadei On NFL player L Season 33. (Danny Amendola Join the show as Whitney Carsona partner .)
“I've never had a footballer before. I've always been one He wanted to partner “With them because, again, they're athletes, and you can't coach them and yell at them,” she explained. “It's a lot of hours. They've been through it. They're also usually very big and very strong, so they can lift the girl everywhere.”
Amabile's wife and host, Serena Pittupset that his mess proved why the NFL player would be a great partner moving forward.
Dancing With the Stars pro Jenna Johnson admitted she was initially hoping for a different partner instead of Joey Graziadei. “Joey knows that,” Johnson, 30, said during an episode of the “Almost Famous” radio show on Thursday, September 26. “I’ve been honest with him.” “I think people think we know who we're going to have for a while (…)
“That's why she wants a football player,” Pitt, 27, joked. “She says, ‘They would never do that to me.'”
Johnson insisted on this Her time with both Amabile and Graziadei, 29, were equally entertaining, even if Amabile didn't win. (Johnson and Graziadei Won the Mirrorball Cup in November.)
“Our season was one of my favorites,” Johnson said of Amabile. “Your dance experience wasn't the best. I had so much fun every day training with you because you were so frustrated.
“We laughed so hard,” she gushed, “I feel like he was there No expectations dance wise We were like: “Let's do this!”
