Season 34 of Dancing With the Stars hasn’t even began but, and Corey Feldman is already on the middle of controversy. Now, his professional associate, Jenna Johnson, is setting the document straight on all the things that’s gone down behind-the-scenes.
After Johnson revealed on September 6 that she hadn’t seen Feldman for the reason that solid reveal in New York Metropolis three days prior, followers started speculating that he ghosted her and wasn’t taking the method critically.
“It’s so humorous as a result of everybody was like, ‘He’s lacking, you haven’t heard from him.’ We have been in communication the entire time,” Johnson stated on the Friday, September 12, episode of Danielle Fishel‘s Danielle With the Stars podcast (Fishel can also be a contestant on Season 34). “It was simply, you realize, he had prior engagements he needed to do. So we each knew going into this that we have been going to overlook a while and we had some catching as much as do earlier than the premiere.”
Johnson additionally shut down any hypothesis that Feldman has been tough to work with. “He is available in now to every of our rehearsals with this, like, not desirous to show folks incorrect, however he’s excited to work exhausting, proper?” she continued. “And I really like that. That is among the finest qualities you possibly can ask in a brand new associate. They should need to be there. And he does and he’s excited.”
Now that Feldman is again within the ballroom and rehearsing, he and Johnson have been conserving their followers up to date with social media content material, ensuring everyone seems to be absolutely conscious that he’s exhausting at work.
The actor, in fact, has some fairly large footwear to fill, as Johnson is the reigning DWTS champ. She took house the Mirrorball trophy in Season 33 with associate Joey Graziadei.
Dancing With the Stars, Season 34 Premiere, Tuesday, September 16, 8/7c, ABC
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