Olympian Stephen Nedoroscik shouldn’t be solely mild on his toes within the Dancing With the Stars ballroom, but additionally has the largest coronary heart.
Nedoroscik, 25, danced a jive with professional associate Rylee Arnold in the course of the Tuesday, September 17, premiere, sporting a short-sleeved striped shirt with black trousers. (He additionally took off his signature glasses at first of the quantity as he does for gymnastics meets.)
“Steve’s authentic jive shirt was a bit of lengthy, so we needed to lower the sleeve as a result of I wished it to be short-sleeved,” Arnold, 19, mentioned in a Sunday, September 22, Instagram video. “So, Steve requested the costume individuals to let him hold what they lower off for who?”
Nedoroscik then confirmed that the material strips had been “for [his] grandma.”
“She’s a giant fan of the present,” he gushed. “It was form of her dream that I used to be on it.”
Arnold then burst into tears, including, “That’s so cute!”
Throughout Tuesday’s episode, Nedoroscik and Arnold acquired a rating of 21 out of 30 for his or her dance to Queen’s “Don’t Cease Me Now.”
Forward of the primary week of competitors, the Olympic bronze medalist solely instructed Us Weekly that he was excited to study to bop from Arnold.
“I used to be so excited. She is a tremendous dancer,” Nedoroscik instructed Us earlier this month. “I didn’t know who I used to be gonna get and I used to be all the professionals and I used to be like, ‘I actually hope I get Rylee.’ So I used to be so excited I acquired Rylee.”
Dance, nevertheless, is shortly proving to be very totally different from his gymnastics coaching. (Nedoroscik is a pommel horse specialist.)
“I’m a really upper-body sort of man in gymnastics, so now I’m beginning to use my legs,” he instructed Us. “It’s totally different, however I feel the strategy could be very comparable. I’m studying a ability, placing in a routine, after which I’m gonna compete it. So I’m form of simply translating these abilities I’ve picked up in gymnastics to the dance flooring. I’m excited to see the place it goes.”
Nedoroscik and Arnold will sort out a paso doble throughout Tuesday, September 24’s Oscars Night time set to “Superman — Primary Theme” by The Metropolis of Prague.
Dancing With the Stars airs concurrently on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes can be found to stream on Hulu and Disney+ the following day.