Kelsey Anderson Reacts To ‘DWTS’ Tribute From Joey Graziadei

Kelsey Anderson and Joey Graziadei first crossed paths on Joey’s season of “The Bachelor,” the place he in the end proposed to her, asking for her hand in marriage.

Now a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars,” Joey has received over followers together with his charisma and spectacular dance abilities, and his upcoming efficiency is ready to be significantly significant for Kelsey.

Earlier this week, “Dancing With the Stars” introduced that subsequent week’s episode will honor the people who maintain a particular place within the contestants’ hearts, and Joey Graziadei selected Kelsey Anderson as his particular individual.

Joey Graziadei’s upcoming efficiency on “DWTS” is ready to be significantly sentimental for his fiancé, Kelsey Anderson. “It’s very particular, actually,” Anderson Us Weekly. “I really like all his dances, however this one’s undoubtedly gonna be additional particular for me.”

Joey and his accomplice, Jenna Johnson, will carry out a Viennese waltz to Teddy Swims’ music “Lose Management.”

“I get extra nervous than him for certain, but it surely’s so thrilling,” she mentioned of watching her fiancé dance. “It’s so wonderful to see all of the work that he places in and the way everyone seems to be simply rooting him on. He’s doing wonderful and he’s crushing it.”

Because the competitors heats up, Graziadei has proven outstanding progress, remaining neck-and-neck with fellow contestant Chandler Kinney on the prime of the leaderboard.

Graziadei admitted that as he advances additional within the competitors, the challenges develop into extra intense—however he is nonetheless having an unimaginable time.

“It’s getting harder and harder each week. I believe it compounds a bit of bit because it retains happening, however actually I’m making it by,” he informed Us. “I’m having fun with it. I’m simply making an attempt to take it daily. However it’s been a ton of enjoyable.”

Forward of the competitors present, Joey mentioned he informed producers that he was in “such an awesome place in my life with the whole lot that Kelsey and I’ve constructed that I didn’t wish to have a distraction” and the way he knew followers would analyze his partnership on “Dancing With the Stars.”

“It was one thing I thought of coming in,” Joey mentioned. “I wished to be in a scenario the place I used to be comfy that I didn’t have to fret about quite a lot of this noise. So, I requested after I obtained on the present to be paired with somebody that was in a profitable and wholesome relationship.”

Joey in the end obtained partnered with Jenna Johnson, who’s married to fellow “DWTS” professional Val Chmerkovskiy.

“I believe it’s very apparent that my relationship is thought on the present. I imply, I’ve a toddler [and] my husband’s on the present as nicely,” Jenna mentioned. “I believed, you understand, individuals would clearly know that Joey’s engaged.”

In response to rumors suggesting that Jenna and Joey shared a relationship past friendship, Kelsey addressed the claims, expressing that she really discovered them amusing.

“So many individuals are like, ‘Kelsey, why is Jenna touching your man like that?’ And actually, I don’t know, possibly as a result of it’s her job,” she shared in a TikTok video. “Possibly as a result of she’s an expert dancer and he or she has to the touch him to bounce. I don’t know, that’s my understanding of it.”

She continued, “I’ve to have a sure stage of safety to undergo all that, and Joey and I are nonetheless collectively and robust after a yr of all that craziness. Joey can also be the kind of man to present me the safety that I would like or give me the reassurance that I would like and deserve in {our relationships}.”

The 9 remaining {couples} will carry out heartfelt tributes to the influential figures and establishments of their lives on the ballroom ground.

Particular visitor choose Mark Ballas joins the present, whereas Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert will have fun her triumphant return to the ballroom with a shifting routine set to “Stunning Issues (Acoustic)” by Benson Boone.

“Dancing With the Stars” airs on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.