Mark Ballas Survived Traitors Paranoia & DWTS Pressure
Sorry We're Cyrus
Brandi and Tish Cyrus
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Reality TV royalty has entered the Cyrus castle. This week we sit down with the one and only Mark Ballas to talk Traitors paranoia, Dancing with the Stars pressure, and what it’s actually like surviving a competition show where someone might be lying to your face at breakfast. We get into Rob’s master manipulation, secret alliances, murder-in-plain-sight chaos, and why you have to trust someone 100% even when you absolutely shouldn’t. Plus, what really happens at those roundtables and why the banquet episode had everyone spiraling.
Then we rewind to DWTS life... 19 seasons in a row, brutal rehearsal schedules, fight-camp-level training, and the reality of coming back after injuries and fatherhood. Mark opens up about choreography control, producing his own music for routines, and how different the mental game is between Traitors and live television. From castle mind games to ballroom pressure, this one is 10/10 Reality TV chaos and we are obsessed.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | If Derek Huff was on this show and I thought he was a traitor, I'd be voting for his ass. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey y'all, I'm Brandy Cyrus. |
| 0:15.4 | Hi. |
| 0:16.7 | And that's my mom, Tish Cyrus. |
| 0:18.9 | Actually, Tish Cyrus for sale. |
| 0:21.5 | Whatever. |
| 0:22.4 | Sorry we're Cyrus. |
| 0:24.5 | Not sorry. |
| 0:25.6 | No, we're not. |
| 0:30.7 | Hey, Stonters. |
| 0:34.3 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:36.5 | I am so excited about our guest this week welcome mark ballast |
| 0:39.8 | to the pod oh thank you for having me happy to be here icon a legend in your own way even though they |
| 0:46.1 | say that about lisa runna i do like you you are freaking like killing the reality tv oh oh well |
| 0:52.2 | thank you i mean you're everywhere that was not on my bingo card. Thank you. It's so true. I know. You're like on Traders right now. You were on Dancing with the Stars this past season, which felt like it was like the biggest season of dancing with the stars in so long. And I know, like I haven't watched every season of dancing. My dad was actually on it years and years and years ago. I remember. |
| 1:12.4 | It was... and I know like I haven't watched every season of dancing my dad was actually on it years and years and years oh like season 30 I remember it was I've not seen the worst dancer Sam oh no definitely I have |
| 1:18.4 | really have you yeah I don't know like it was pretty bad so was it season I think like three or three or four. That was the season before I joined. Okay. I was going to say because you were on it and then you took a break, right? And then came back for this past season. Yes, I joined season five. And then I did 19 seasons in a row. Wow. And then I took a break for a year. I did a Broadway show, came back, did another season. |
| 1:46.4 | Then I took five years off. |
| 1:48.0 | Wow. |
| 1:48.5 | Came back in 2022. |
| 1:50.3 | Okay. |
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