Nikki Glaser faced an early exit from Dancing With The Stars back in 2018.
Nikki Glaser found her Dancing With The Stars experience to be “embarrassing”.
The 41-year-old comedy star appeared on the hit TV show in 2018, when she was partnered with Gleb Savchenko, but Nikki doesn’t have fond memories of her time on Dancing With The Stars.
During an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Nikki shared: “It was really helpful to me because I realised that was the most embarrassing thing that could happen. On the show, after my first dance, they kind of tell you, the show is about believing in yourself.
“After you finish the dance, if you don’t fall, be like, ‘I did it, I’m a dancer.’ Say something like that. They’re kind of telling you, ‘Be really family friendly, be positive.’ So they’re like, ‘How do you feel?’ You know, Tom Bergeron. I’m like, ‘I’m a dancer!’ And I said it so sarcastically … Len Goodman, the mean judge, was like, ‘No, you are not. You looked like a struggling baby horse.’ Like, so mean.”
Nikki and Gleb were the first couple to be eliminated in 2018, and she admitted she hadn’t prepared at all before signing up.
The comedy star said: “I knew I couldn’t dance when I signed up for it. But I didn’t really know. It’s almost like I’d never danced, so I was like, ‘Maybe I’m great and I’ll find out.’ I didn’t even try to do anything before I showed up the first day.”
Nikki confessed to feeling hurt and embarrassed by her early exit.
She shared: “One of the most humiliating moments of my life is getting voted off that show first. It wasn’t about just getting voted off because you’re a bad dancer, which was a part of it.
“It’s about ABC is developing talent and they’re like, ‘Do we want to work with you? Does our audience like you?’ And they didn’t. It was kind of like a rejection from America because America votes, ABC as a corporation and the dancing community.”
Nikki Glaser recalls her ’embarrassing’ Dancing With The Stars experience
