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"After my lunch date with James Maslow on Saturday (you can read about that here), I couldn&amp;#x27;t wait to see how he&amp;#x27;d do partnering up with Cheryl Burke for &amp;quot;Switch Week.&amp;quot; The result? Amazing. And holy moly Val Chmerkovskiy and Meryl Davis. I mean, what was that? Trying to keep up with them was like watching that bouncing hat game they play on ballpark scoreboards. And then there was guest judge Julianne Hough calling out Maksim Chmerkovskiy for &amp;quot;phoning it in&amp;quot; with partner Danica McKellar. My head is still spinning. Australian pop sensation Cody Simpson was battling a cold backstage but still came back to do press. &amp;quot;Show nights are just unbelievable. The atmosphere is incredible, which is what gets you through,&amp;quot; admitted Simpson. Needless to say, that roaring teen base is doing just that. &amp;quot;Those signs are incredible,&amp;quot; he said of the handmade posters that his younger fans had in the audience. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ll always give them a wave. But the screams are so loud, my ears are always ringing. But, hey, you sacrifice certain things for your job!&amp;quot; he joked. Unfortunately Candace Cameron Bure wasn&amp;#x27;t in as good of a mood. Coming in last on the leader board, Bure and partner Tony Dovolani felt the judges were a little too harsh. &amp;quot;I was disappointed for sure,&amp;quot; Bure admitted to me backstage. &amp;quot;I worked really hard, and Tony was amazing. It was one of the dances I felt the most comfortable doing, so I felt we should have scored higher.&amp;quot; Dovolani echoed her thoughts: &amp;quot;Candace was such a joy to work with. I just wish the judges were a little kinder.&amp;quot; As for the switch-up itself, Bure was surprised that she was paired with NeNe Leakes&amp;#x27; partner. &amp;quot;I actually was really surprised! When I looked through my Twitter feed, most of my tweets were for Derek or Maks.&amp;quot; One thing Bure did like? Her costume, which she helped design. &amp;quot;I pulled a little Gwen Stefani, Green Day kind of &amp;#x27;90s punk!&amp;quot; On a side note, I&amp;#x27;ll actually be missing next week&amp;#x27;s show (but I&amp;#x27;ll still be watching!) because I&amp;#x27;m heading to Chicago to cohost ABC&amp;#x27;s Windy City Live with Ryan Chiaverini. And guess who is the guest that day. None other than Bure&amp;#x27;s Full House dad, Bob Saget! &amp;quot;He&amp;#x27;s so quick; just don&amp;#x27;t heckle him!&amp;quot; she advised me. &amp;quot;But Bob is one of the sweetest people, and I know I could ask him anything and he would do it for me. Yes, he&amp;amp;#8217;s raunchy with his comedy, but he&amp;amp;#8217;s one of the most sensitive, heartfelt men I know.&amp;quot; If you live in Chicago, tune in on Wednesday, April 16, or you can watch online here. Oh, and one last Full House note: Bure&amp;#x27;s on-screen boyfriend, Steve, played by Scott Weigner, reunites with Deej Bure on the season finale of The Neighbors this Friday on ABC. Does Bure think Steve and DJ would have wound up together? &amp;quot;They would totally be married! With like four kids! I think DJ would love being a mom because she lost hers at such a young age.&amp;quot; When I was at lunch with James Maslow on Saturday, I brought up my current obsession: pretzel challah from a local L.A. bakery called Got Kosher. He was dying to try it, so I brought him the braided loaf post-show. I think he&amp;#x27;s a fan. I know what you guys really want to know is what&amp;#x27;s going on with Meryl Davis and Maks after I brought up their insane chemistry last week. Maks didn&amp;#x27;t deny a romance and said I&amp;#x27;d have to ask Meryl to get her take. Well, as outspoken as Maks is, Meryl&amp;#x27;s a lot more private (as you&amp;#x27;ll see). That&amp;#x27;s totally fine (I absolutely love Meryl), but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean I still don&amp;#x27;t want to know! Glamour: You&amp;amp;#8217;ve blended so seamlessly into the Chmerkovskiy family that I want you to either be adopted by them or date Maks. Are you dating anyone, or is that something you prefer to keep private? Meryl: It&amp;amp;#8217;s something I like to keep private, yeah. Val: Love is not [just] translated in terms of a relationship. I love her. I know my brother loves her. Glamour: Oh, I know that, but I still want to see something happen! [Laughs] Val: We fit because we make an effort to fit. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a genuine concern for this person. I know it&amp;amp;#8217;s just a show and there are bigger, more important things in this world, but we treat it like the biggest thing in this world. We&amp;amp;#8217;re passionate about the people we&amp;amp;#8217;re responsible for. Meryl: I just love their family. OK, so talking about love is a little off-limits, but you know what isn&amp;#x27;t? Braiding Meryl&amp;#x27;s hair, which Val hysterically did in their pre-dance package. So obviously I had to get in on the action backstage. Later in the evening, I caught up with Maks as everyone was heading out. So what did he think of Julianne Hough&amp;#x27;s rather bold critique? &amp;quot;Well, she pinched my butt afterward! You can&amp;amp;#8217;t criticize me on TV and then pinch my butt afterward!&amp;quot; Fair enough. Speaking of what&amp;#x27;s right, if Maks wins the Mirrorball trophy with Meryl, should Val get to keep it for a week since he would have played a hand in helping her win? &amp;quot;It&amp;amp;#8217;s a &amp;#x27;What&amp;amp;#8217;s mine is yours&amp;#x27; type of thing. God forbid I don&amp;amp;#8217;t give him something and Mom calls and says, &amp;#x27;Give it to him! He&amp;amp;#8217;s the little one! He&amp;amp;#8217;s younger than you. Just give it to him!&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; [Laughs] It&amp;#x27;s Disney Week next Monday, and everyone is putting their money on Meryl taking on Princess Jasmine and Maks playing Aladdin. So here&amp;#x27;s what I posed to Maks: &amp;quot;Are you prepared to play Eric (The Little Mermaid), Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), or Aladdin? &amp;quot;I would probably pick Aladdin, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m telling you right now I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to be one of those three. It&amp;amp;#8217;s another classic Disney character, associated with a very classic song.&amp;quot; Got any ideas, you guys? And finally, Mark Ballas and Amy Purdy had nothing but amazing things to say about good friend Derek Hough backstage. &amp;quot;NeNe and Derek were amazing,&amp;quot; said Ballas. &amp;quot;The band made a pretty huge error, and for her to finish, good for her!&amp;quot; Ballas and Purdy both said they&amp;#x27;re feeling the pressure with next week&amp;#x27;s elimination, so remember to vote. They both deserve to stay! All right, who&amp;#x27;s performance did you enjoy the most? Who do you think is most at risk of going home next week? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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