Nick Viall shaves beard ahead of DWTS Pinocchio routine
As The Bachelor, Nick Viall was ABC's Prince Charming.
But for the network's Dancing With The Stars Disney Week, he's been given a very different role - that of Pinocchio.
'I’m a wooden puppet boy, and it’s full-on so I’ve decided just to fully embrace the character, have fun with it,' he told People Monday.
'I've shaved the beard with mixed reviews,' he added.
'Mixed reviews': Nick Viall shaved his beard ahead of his Dancing With The Stars Disney Week performance as Pinocchio. Left, how he looks now; right, how he looked on last week's show
The 36-year-old spoke to People from his trailer on the ABC lot ahead of Monday night's episode of the dancing competition.
Nick is paired with pro Peta Murgatroyd and says their Pinocchio routine will be 'playful and goofy.'
He's hoping his performance as the marionette who longed to be a real boy will earn him enough points to stay on the elimination contest.
He believes that last week's performance - when he did a rumba with Peta - was his best yet.
Getting the hang of it: Last week on DWTS Nick, 31, and pro partner Peta Murgatroyd danced a rumba and the former Bachelor thinks it was his best performance to date on the show
'I feel like I’m getting better and better,' he said.
'I’m really hoping that I’ll have a chance to stick around and see how much better I can maybe get.'
Meanwhile, Nick recently told Mario Lopez that he and fiancee Vanessa Grimaldi are taking it slow when it comes to their 'made on TV' romance.
Nick proposed to Vanessa on the finale of season 21 of The Bachelor but says they haven't set a wedding date yet.
'We're very realistic about our situation, and that is that this relationship is different than one that might have started outside of Bachelor world,' he recently said on the radio show On With Mario Lopez.
Dancing with the Stars airs Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.