Jenna Johnson will be returning to the Dancing with the Stars stage on Sept. 15, partnered with Grey’s Anatomy and Glee star Harry Shum, Jr. But the Mirrorball champ had quite the eventful summer on the DWTS tour — including a wardrobe malfunction she revealed only to Parade!
During a recent Zoom chat while promoting her new partnership with Orgain Kids Protein Smoothie, we asked Jenna about any major costume incidents on the hit ABC reality show. The dancing queen said a crazy situation unfolded not on the series itself but the recent DWTS nationwide tour that concluded this May.
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Jenna, 32, and her husband, fellow DWTS pro Val Chmerkovskiy, 40, delighted fans by performing together on the tour. But they didn’t know they could have seen much more of Jenna if not for a trusty wardrobe person!
She exclusively told Parade, “This actually just happened on the Dancing with the Stars tour, and it’s one of those moments of ‘the show must go on.’ I had to change I think that was one minute, a one-minute quick change where I had to change shoes [and] full dress, and I had this corset that zipped up, a heavy-duty corset and the number that I was changing into was a duet with myself and Val and it started, we have a live camera onstage with us, and it started as a close-up on my face and so I’m in the quick change, the zipper snaps, breaks in half. There’s no way of fixing it and I have like 30 seconds to figure out what’s going to happen and then I need to be on camera.”
She continued, “And our wardrobe [person] was like, ‘Let me just hook and eye it, and pray it stays’ and I’m like,” Jenna opened her mouth wide with praying hands to mimic her shock at the time. “So we do a hook and eye on top and it is fully wide open in the back and I ran and was in the wing and ready for my camera shot and I did the rest of my duet with Val hanging, literally, by a little clasp. But somehow it stayed on, and that’s that.”
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Jenna said communication with Val, whom she married in 2019, was important during the near-disaster. “The whole thing was this cinematic camera duet that we had camera with us onstage while we were dancing the whole time, very close-up and so I’m trying to be a ventriloquist and tell him [without lips moving], ‘My top is broken.’ He’s like, ‘Oh.’ And then he finally saw it and is like, ‘Okay, so maybe go gentler today.’”
Jenna Johnson and husband Val Chmerkovskiy perform on season 29 of DWTS (Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty Images)Accomplished performer Jenna, who has won DWTS twice–with celebrity partners Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon in 2018 and The Bachelor star Joey Graziadei in 2024—opined that she’s learned to take wardrobe woes in stride, telling Parade, “It’s those fun moments where you’re like, can I do this full out? You want to give the audience a full show and this is a duet that I love and I’m going to dance it to my full potential so it’s just one of those things, you’re like, well, let’s see what happens. I always love those moments, they remind you that you’re human and they humble you a little bit and you’re like, o-kay. But they’re always fun stories.”
Jenna and three-time mirror ball champ Val have become DWTS’ golden couple with their adorable son Rome, 3.
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When asked about how they handle the family juggle when both compete on the show and appear on the tour, Jenna said, “This is just part of our life and we both agree we are both passionate about our work and our jobs and we’ve been able to do it with a lot of help—whether family or nannies or assistants or whatever it’s been we have a community that really helps take care of us. So I think that’s why prioritizing both our health and our household, what we feed each other, how we take care of each other, having everybody on the same wavelength, okay, this is how we’re going to approach raising Rome, just means the world to me. We couldn’t do it alone. It really does take a village for both of us to be able to do what we love to do and to do it at the highest level.”
View this post on InstagramWhile Jenna hasn’t confirmed if she and Val are part of the upcoming DWTS season 35, fans can see the hotly-anticipated cast reveal on Wednesday, Sept. 2 on Good Morning America.
“It is bigger than ever and people are still engaged,” Jenna raved about the viewer response, particularly during the past two seasons.
DWTS returns on Tuesday, Sept. 15 on ABC and Disney+ and streams next day on Hulu.
Related: ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Season 35 Cast Revealed: Giada De Laurentiis, Jenna Dewan and Julia Stiles to Compete
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