NIKKI Glaser has revealed her most embarrassing moment, which happened on live television.
The comedian appeared on Monday’s episode of Armchair Expert ahead of her interview this week on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast to promote her new Hulu special.
Nikki, 41, got vulnerable with hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman and reflected on her short run on Dancing with the Stars, which she called the “most humiliating moment of my life.”
The stand-up comic, who competed on Season 27 of DWTS in 2018 alongside Gleb Savchenko, said she was mortified after the pair were eliminated in the first week.
“I knew I couldn’t dance when I signed up for it,” the actress said.
“But I didn’t really know. It’s almost like I’d never danced, so I was like, ‘Maybe I’m great, and I’ll find out.’
“I didn’t even try to do anything before I showed up the first day,” she added.
Nikki also recalled her first meeting with Gleb, who joined the show as a professional dancer in Season 16 (2013), describing him as “one of the most beautiful people I’ve been around” and “as hot as his name is disgusting.”
“I walked in, and I saw his eyes light up because he didn’t know who I was. You could see he was like, ‘This looks like a dancer.’ I have like a ballerina-type [look]; at the time, I was really, really thin,” the two-time Golden Globes host said.
“For the cameras, we just had to do a little thing, the smallest thing, and I saw the hope drain from his face instantly.
“He knew before I knew that I couldn’t dance. He was like, ‘We’re not gonna make it far.’ We tried,” Nikki claimed.
She went on to say that “one of the most humiliating moments of my life is getting voted off that show first” because she “did care,” despite not having much dance background.
“They kind of warp your mind in there because you don’t do anything except dance. Your whole life clears out,” Nikki added of the show’s grueling rehearsal schedule.
The FBoy Island host confessed that she cried to her friends about missing dancing once she was no longer in the competition.
“It’s all you do for a month for like five hours a day. You kind of get the hang of it. If I work hard at something, I can get good.
“So, I was just about to get past the place of, ‘I can kind of get a grasp on this,’” she explained.
Nikki added, “It wasn’t about just getting voted off because you’re a bad dancer, which was a part of it.
“It’s about ABC is developing talent, and they’re like, ‘Do we want to work with you? Does our audience like you?’
“And they didn’t. It was kind of like a rejection from America because America votes, ABC as a corporation, and the dancing community.”
Nikki then claimed that producers “forgot” to invite her to the finale, which featured the season’s contestants reuniting on stage before the winners (Bobby Bones and Sharna Burgess) were revealed.
Despite her brief time on the show, Nikki said it was overall a positive experience that she doesn’t regret for a second.
She said she “lived” and it “doesn’t matter” what the outcome was because she now “has a funny story” to share about it.
Nikki also teased that she’d be interested in returning to the ballroom for a redemption season.
“I would love to get back in there. If they did a Dancing with the Stars losers’ season, all people who got voted out first or second, I would definitely do it again,” the Comedy Central star stated.
“It was so fun. I was crying every day, broke my body, still have injuries from it, but it was so fun to care about something so trivial and to try something new.”
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