Julianne Hough Jitterbugs With Cody And Jokes With Chuck

By Julianne Hough
Special to Fancast.com

I’m going to warn you. There’s good stuff at the end of this blog post. But I’m going to start out with last night’s performance.

I like it. I was excited by it. I thought Cody Jitterbugged his butt off.

A couple people today have already asked where I got the idea for the costumes and choreography. Well, you saw the tape of the choreography. Like my brother, I was learning as I did it. As for the costumes, remember last week I said I ran up to wardrobe as soon as we got the music?

What I didn’t say is that I saw my brother Derek run up to wardrobe so he could be first. So I was like, hmmm, “Cody, stay here and get our music,” and then I ran up behind Derek. We were doing the same dance, and I found out they’d already chosen the idea for the high school teenager look. I didn’t want to do the same thing. I quickly thought what else was from the same era, and I came up with I Love Lucy – Lucy and Ricky. I went with that, and I have to say it was fun.

All day yesterday people on the lot who saw me complimented the costume. They said my hair was wicked cool. Derek and Brooke looked great, too. Was there any competition between us? Maybe for the first time there was some sibling rivalry last night. Deep down that’s not really the case. I root for him and he roots for me. But it’s fun to get a little competitive. We laugh at it. Cody and I were pleased with our scores – and Derek and Brooke’s time will come.

Don’t you think Cody was good? He’s been really focused, thank goodness. I think he’s getting tired. I think, or I hope, he used up a bunch of his extra energy and is now spending that energy on dancing. He changed a couple weeks ago. I think he realized he has a shot and he got a little competitive. He said, Julianne, I just want to get the encore dance. Then I know I have a shot.

Well, we got the encore dance tonight. I think that’s going to boost his confidence. I’m looking forward to it.

Last night, the two that stood out to me, other than Brooke and Derek, were Cheryl and Maurice and Warren and Kym. They were great and exciting. And everyone loves Warren. It’s crazy. It’s almost like you have to watch him because you don’t believe it. Cloris also seems to keep sticking around too. Who knows what will happen.

So many of you wrote in last week about Toby, offering him a good home. That was really nice. But here’s the update. He was adopted yesterday by one of my sister’s really good friends, which is great. He’s going to a wonderful home. But I’m a little sad. He was such a sweetheart. He and Lexi loved each other. I know we’ll get them together again. Wasn’t that picture of them sleeping together cute?

I was a little naughty last week at my boyfriend’s expense. Blame it on Brad Paisley, who is the king of all pranksters. He called me and said he really wanted to get my boyfriend Chuck, who’s on tour with him, and he asked if I’d help. I said sure. So he told me to go to this studio, the Jimmy Kimmel’s studio, and his friend would be there and he’d tell me what they wanted me to do.

I went there and they gave me some cue cards. I read through them and then said with some reservation and disbelief, “Let me get this straight. You want me to tell him that I’m breaking up with him? And you’re going to play this in front of 10,000 people? I can’t do that. It’s terrible.” But I did it anyway.

What’s terrible is that Chuck got pranked that whole night – last Saturday. First, he got chased before the show by all these crew guys who doused him with maple syrup and feathers. I think they finally got him at the end of the stadium. Then during the show he does this song called “Stealing Cinderella” and they put Cinderllas all over the giant video screen with his head on them. And it just went on.

Finally, Brad came onstage and told Chuck that I’d sent a video to wish him well. It’s pretty funny. See for yourself here.

Later, Chuck called me and said he was going to pretend he was upset and not call me for a day, but he couldn’t do that. He was laughing and said he knew the second it came on it was a prank.

So that catches you up on what’s been going on.

As for the rest of today, I’m pre-taping my performance of “My Hallelujah Song.” I know a bunch of you had written in that you were looking forward to it. Unfortunately, you’re going to have to wait a couple weeks. They show had to switch me with the Macy’s dance production. When I heard, I went oh dang, but it’s cool. I’m still extremely excited about performing it today. I think it’ll air in November. In fact, I’m going to do soundcheck for that soon. And probably by the time you’re reading this, Cody and I will be practicing for our encore tonight.

Talk to you tomorrow…

Julianne