DWTS Peta Murgatroyd And James Maslow To Dance A Jive Next On DWTS
According to OK! Magazine, Peta Murgatroyd And James Maslow will be dancing a Jive on Dancing With The Stars Week 3. Below is more for how James is keeping in shape for his dances….
So can the gorgeous duo up the ante for next week’s show when they dance the jive?
“To be fair, I didn’t really fully go shirtless (for the salsa),” laughed James backstage after the show.
When asked if he did any extra sit-ups to get ab-ready for his performance, the Big Time Rush heartthrob said, “I wasn’t going quite for the hall of fame. But, yeah, you can be in good shape without trying if you work out every day and eat pretty well. But then to get into great shape, and I’m trying to do that for Wednesday actually because I’m doing the cover of Fitness Rx, you definitely have to diet and it sucks and I hate it. I love carbs, I love burritos, I love burgers but before a shoot and before something like this, yeah, you’ve got to cut that stuff out.”
More at OK! Magazine including news for how James and Peta will be presenting awards for Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards this weekend.
Adding: You can also read James new blog at Parade. In the take below he writes of the switch up dance and the Jive coming up. More at the link.
With the big switch coming up, polls are open for people to start voting who they’d like us to be paired with. I haven’t looked at Twitter for the pairings too much, but I’ve got an idea. If you watch the show, they seem to be trying to playing two people against each other in multiple pairs. So maybe they’re trying to encourage that, but in all honesty I don’t really care because I hope to go back to Peta. I’ll have fun with whoever, but I really hope it’s temporary.
Next week, we’re dancing the jive. We want to show another side. To do the same thing we did for salsa wouldn’t be as exciting, so we’re going to make it fun. We’re talking about the most memorable year of my life, which turned out to be a very positive message and the reason I’m doing the show is to spread that positivity and encourage people to follow their dreams. I think we’re going to maybe even go back to my musical theater roots, so there might be more of a performance aspect, which will be fun. We haven’t started addressing our costumes yet, but it’ll probably start out a little more conservative than we did for the salsa– we’ll have some fun pieces, maybe some props or something to play with.
ETA1: And here they are with Access Hollywood in rehearsals….
Jive is good for them.
I agree Vin. It’s going to be interesting to see.
Yep – I agree the jive should be good for them. I wasn’t so sure about this team at first, but they’re quickly growing on me.
Hmmm, so James and Peta might be using props. Let’s see if Len busts them or if he runs true to form and reserves that tongue lashing for Derek (or maybe Sharna since I think he might be targeting Charlie a bit this season).
Really glad James is going for a positive story. I’m cautiously optimistic this cast will give us more upbeat performances and that, for once, most memorable year won’t become the typical “personal sob story week.”
I hope the use of props (if they decide to use them) doesn’t distract from the dancing because I do think that James is capable of pulling off a good (great?) Jive.
While I think the whole Cody vs. James rivalry is dumb, I do think Cody might “beat” him next week seeing as he has Jazz and that’s a dance that’s probably more on Cody’s comfort zone. That and the fact that he is dancing to his own song. So James might have to work very hard if he wants to do better than Cody next week 😛
@Cidra completely agree that memorable year week is usually a sob-show. It seems that Amy is doing a Contemporary next week so that might be the only dance that will honestly move me and that I will be ok with it being overly emotional due to her story. (and MAYBE Drew’s Waltz).
Candice also has the jive, so she joins James and Cody in more upbeat dances. Danica is doing contempary, im guessing her memorable year will be something emotional with that dance but what, the year she got divorced?, the wonder years ended? Unless she dedicates it the year her son was born or something like that.
James is pretty busy. http://www.eonline.com/news/525762/james-maslow-reveals-he-s-covering-frozen-hit-let-it-go-with-victoria-justice
I oddly want to hear this but I doubt they will match Indina or even Demi.