Jenna Johnson revealed she was inspired by her husband Val Chmerkovskiy’s Dancing With the Stars partner Jenna Dewan years before they met. Following Chmerkovskiy and Dewan’s shocking elimination from Dancing with the Stars on Grammy Night, Johnson said Dewan first inspired her 20 years ago when she starred in the dance movie Step Up.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Johnson, 32, described Dewan as a “huge inspiration” to her when she was a young teen dancer.
“I will say, she is one of the first female dancers I saw on screen that I was like, ‘Oh, I want to be like her,’” Johnson shared. “When she did Step Up, I will never forget that last dance sequence. That made me want to dance on screen, like her.”
Johnson noted that Dewan carried “so much light” and had an “aura beaming’ when she danced with Chmerkovskiy on DWTS.
“I can’t believe that we now get to call her family,” Johnson added. “I will cherish that relationship with her and her incredible family, her husband. What an honor to know her and to love her.”
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Dewan played ballet dancer Nora Clark in the 2006 dance drama Step Up, opposite Channing Tatum. Before that, the actress appeared as a backup dancer in Janet Jackson’s “Doesn’t Really Matter” and “All for You” music videos, and she was also a backup dancer for Pink, Missy Elliott and Christina Aguilera in the early 2000s.
Dewan’s extensive hip hop background created a lot of online buzz during her Dancing with the Stars season, with some fans claiming she had an unfair advantage in the competition.
Following her and Chmerkovskiy’s elimination from Dancing with the Stars, Dewan, 45, told Extra, “This was a particularly tough week, for a lot of the online noise and all that stuff comes with the show.”
“I’ll never know how or if any of that plays into this, but I know that we went out there and had the best time of our life,” Dewan added.
Dancing with the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ with streaming available on Hulu.
Related: Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Dewan Post Message After Shocking ‘DWTS’ Elimination: ‘We’re Friends, We Can Dance Anytime’
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