20th Birthday Party (Week 9)
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Danielle may have been eliminated last week, but nothing could stop her from sitting in the ballroom for the 20th anniversary of DWTS!
Hear all about the star studded audience and the bitter sweet feeling of having a brand new POV of the action.
Plus, Danielle gets emotional talking about the dance evolution of her peers and even gives you a behind the scenes look at the exclusive after party!
It’s all on a brand new, anniversary edition of Danielle With…
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, it is that time again. I am Danielle Fischel, TV director, podcaster, mother of two, |
| 0:27.7 | and unless you commonly pass a very specific off-ramp on the 101 freeway in the San Fernando |
| 0:33.8 | Valley, I'm probably the first thing you think of when you hear the word |
| 0:38.8 | Topanga. But if you are one of the millions and millions of people who have kept up with |
| 0:44.7 | Dancing with the Stars over the past 20 years of its reality show supremacy, you may recognize |
| 0:50.5 | me as a contestant on season 34 of the program, recently eliminated with just |
| 0:56.6 | three shows left. And one of those shows, a very special anniversary event took place tonight, |
| 1:04.4 | and I was lucky enough to be seated in the ballroom for all of the festivities. And I am so excited to tell you about what I saw, |
| 1:14.3 | which is the reason for this year podcast. It is my hope that I could bring listeners along |
| 1:19.9 | for my journey from no prior dance experience to some dance experience to the elite, to a pair of impressive seats tonight. |
| 1:32.0 | Like I said, tonight was the 20-year extravaganza, with just seven couples left. |
| 1:38.1 | Each celebrity was tasked with creating a dance inspired by a former standout freestyle from the show's history, and then they would |
| 1:46.8 | be paired with a former celebrity champion for a relay dance, all assignments that sound very |
| 1:53.7 | overwhelming having been a part of the schedule. So I am home. I just had the most amazing night at the 20th anniversary party of Dancing |
| 2:04.5 | with the Stars. And I wore a really beautiful yellow dress. I was completely obsessed with this |
| 2:13.0 | dress. I will say it was more body hugging than I'm used to wearing. And so I was kind of like |
| 2:18.8 | adjusting my dress all night. Anyway, as any woman knows, if you have been, I also had to wear a |
| 2:24.7 | strapless bra. If you have ever worn a strapless bra. If you have ever worn a bra, |
| 2:30.5 | you know that the very first thing you do, the very first thing you do when you get home is take that |
| 2:36.6 | sucker off. Just sometimes you don't even wait till you're all the way in the door. Sometimes I open up |
| 2:41.5 | my car door and if my kids are not with me and I don't have to deal with getting them out of their |
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