“I had a great time. I loved learning the dances,” the Office alum, 58, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Friday, January 2. “You know, when you do Dancing With the Stars—I’ve never done any reality TV. I’m not a reality type of person. So it was eye-opening. I see now having done it once, it’s not a dance show. It seems like it’s a dance competition show, but it’s not a dance competition show, it’s a reality show.”
Hardin and her season 30 partner, Artem Chigvintsev, were eliminated during week nine of the competition in 2021, failing to advance from the semifinals to the finale. After impressing the judges and the audience with her dance experience on the show, Hardin—who trained in ballet as a child and continues to take dance classes as an adult—thinks a key decision on her part factored into her early exit.
“I said, ‘If I got to the finals, I’d love to put my pointe shoe on. One pointe shoe, and one bare foot.’ They were excited about the idea of that. Then the time came around, and there was no way I was going to put my pointe shoe on,” she recalled, referring to her ballet shoes. “I was so exhausted. My ribs were hurting from this lift we’d done.”
“I think if I said, ‘Yes, I’m putting my pointe shoes on,’ I think I would have danced in the finale,” she claimed. “I don’t want to disperse the magic for the audience, but I’m pretty certain that if I had said that, that I’d be putting my pointe shoes on, I would’ve been in.”
Despite missing out on the top prize, Hardin enjoyed the journey along the way.
“I love a challenge. I love stretching. I love being pushed to the end. I love all of that,” she shared. “So in that regard, it was very much suited to my personality. I really wanted to learn all the dances. That was my wish at the beginning because they ask you what your wish is. They want to try to make their celebrities happy. … So I kind of got it—my wish came true.”
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