The actor, musician and famous golf pro Jack Wagner has reached a number of challenges during his four decades career in Hollywood. But more than 2,000 episodes of General hospital And The daring and the beautiful could never have prepared it for an aspect of Dancing.
“I have always been connected to the theater, I have always been around dance and theaters. So, when I ended up doing DancingI’m here with ballroom dancers, and it was intense, “said Wagner Weekly entertainment Before her return The daring and the beautiful June 16.
“All the competitors, we will say that the most petrifying thing of all is when you are ready to do your dance, your partner is on the left side, you are to the right of the curtains, and the advertiser says:” Dance the samba: Jack Wagner! “Paralysis enters you, forget everything you learned last week,” he recalls. “Everyone shared the same thing:” When they announce your name like that, right? “It’s this complete breakdown.”
Wagner contributed to season 14 of Dancing. He was twinned with the pro Anna Trebunskaya, who brought two of his celebrity partners (Jerry Rice of season 2 and Evan Lysacek of season 10) in the final during his 11 seasons on the series. Wagner did not move away, being eliminated second, but he competed alongside an important future Costar: Small house on the meadow‘s Melissa Gilbertof which When calls the heart character Shared a romance With Wagner during an arc with two episodes in February.
The prolific television star said he was shocked by his own reaction to the former host Tom BergeronThe great announcements are at the top of each dance, because he had so much previous experience with dance and live entertainment.
“I am a guy in song and dance, I am theater and I trained in theaters,” he said. “So when I did three years later General hospitalI went directly to a national visit to West Side StoryAnd we repeated in New York, all Broadway dancers and a Broadway cast. Then in 88, I made a national visit to FatSO Jekyll & Hyde In 2000 on Broadway. “”
But still, even if Wagner said he likes “live anything, live concerts, theater,” being announced in such a surprising way “was something that I had really not known before.”
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Jack Wagner in Los Angeles in 2024
Wagner’s next movement has been a long time The daring and the beautifulThe CBS soap on which he played from 2003 to 2012. Nick Marone, the character of Wagner at the start of his 10 -year race, arrived at the rescue of his former flame, Brooke Logan of Katherine Kelly Lang, just as she started hitting the skates with the crest of Thorsten Kaye Forrester.
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“Return and just a little locking with Kelly was great,” he said. “It is as if we had not missed a beat. I compare it to a moving train, because of the functioning of speed soaps now. But it is also like a class meeting. You can catch up and kiss, and you share.”
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