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"It&amp;amp;#8217;s that time again! Yesterday, ABC announced the new class of celebs for Dancing with the Stars, Season 14. We got a chance to catch up with the darling Derek Hough (before he knew about his pairing with Extra&amp;#x27;s Maria Menounos), and chatted him up about what it&amp;amp;#8217;s like to be a triple threat, rhinestones, his celeb crush and sibling rivalry. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s get to it! Glamour: When do you find out who your partner is? Derek: One week before. Glamour: How do you teach someone to dance in one week? Derek: It&amp;amp;#8217;s not even teaching them how to dance! It&amp;amp;#8217;s teaching them how to walk! I have to show them how to walk across the floor in their new heels. When I get taller partners, they are typically more clumsy and unstable in heels. It&amp;amp;#8217;s like teaching Bambi how to walk on ice. When my partners are smaller, they tend to be able to hold their posture a little bit more. Lil&amp;amp;#8217; Kim, she was out of control, she was so small and she knew how to use heels. Glamour: It must be really rewarding to be on DWTS. Derek: I enjoy showing somebody something they really thought they could never do, and you see the confidence build inside. And what it teaches me is that just in everyday life, if you set yourself a challenge that you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to do something everyday, you really can change. Glamour: You really do develop a relationship with your partner! Derek: I joke around and say I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been married and divorced 8 times. It&amp;amp;#8217;s pretty intense. And it&amp;amp;#8217;s cool to have the stars be so vulnerable and rely on you. I remember when I was 22 years old, and I looked about 10 years old, and Jennie Garth was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Who is this kid, telling me what to do?&amp;amp;#8221; And I really had to step up and nurture her and tell her what to do. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s the process like each week? Derek: We actually don&amp;amp;#8217;t even pick our music, we get assigned it. Then we choreograph it, teach it, dance it and even design the costumes. Glamour: You design the costumes?! Derek: I&amp;amp;#8217;m literally the costume department with a pen and paper and I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8220;I want fringe here, I want beads here, I want rhinestones going down to the navel.&amp;amp;#8221 You want your partner to look good, and costumes are useful because they hide certain things. Like, if her legs don&amp;amp;#8217;t look great in the dance technically, then we&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to hide that, so we design something to cover it. Glamour: How does a dude do rhinestones tastefully? Derek: There&amp;amp;#8217;s a way! For me, at first, to go on national television wearing a rhinestone shirt was embarrassing, but then you just deal with it. You have to commit to it. The most important thing is who is the costume. If the guy is masculine and dances masculine, then he can be wearing anything and it should be alright. It&amp;amp;#8217;s more about the way you wear the costume. Glamour: OK, so who would be your dream partner? Derek: I&amp;amp;#8217;m kind of vibe-ing on Charlize Theron lately! I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had a few odd encounters with her in the past year, and I&amp;amp;#8217;m wondering what&amp;amp;#8217;s going on. I will always see her out and around, and maybe it&amp;amp;#8217;s just me, but she&amp;amp;#8217;ll be like&amp;amp;#133; Derek Hough. And then she&amp;amp;#8217;ll look at me and then walk away. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m like&amp;amp;#133; We need to talk about what&amp;amp;#8217;s going on here. Do we need to dance? She&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing. Glamour: You come from a pretty talented family. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s discuss! Derek: Well, my parents met ballroom dancing in college in Idaho, but they just danced socially. And my oldest sister is a dance teacher in Utah. In my family though, it&amp;amp;#8217;s mainly just Julianne and me, because we had the chance to go to London. We were fortunate enough to have a time where all we thought about was being good actors, dancers, singers. We traveled the world competing. Glamour: Were you and Julianne competitive with each other? Derek: I never was, but Julianne was! Maybe because when we competed, she never really beat me. So when we got on Dancing with the Stars, she was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Yes! I beat my brother!&amp;amp;#8221; But for me, I feel more protective than competitive, because she&amp;amp;#8217;s my younger sister. And proud. Glamour: Tell me&amp;amp;#133; do you have amazing home videos? Derek: We have some crazy hilarious home videos of us dancing. Not just me and Julianne, but the whole family. Everyone is wearing totally &amp;#x27;80s outfits and scrunchies, and I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to town like it&amp;amp;#8217;s nobody&amp;amp;#8217;s business with my platinum blond hair. Tune in to ABC Monday, March 19th for the 2-hour season premiere of Dancing with the Stars. Are you guys excited about this season&amp;#x27;s Derek and Maria pairing? Raise your hand if you&amp;#x27;re excited to see their chemistry?! PLUS: Dancing With the Stars Season 14 Cast Revealed! (Including 2 Picks I Didn&amp;#x27;t See Coming At All!) Girl Crush Alert! We Dish With Our March Obsession Krysten Ritter About HER Obsession and on Playing The (Bleep!) Bitch The Bachelor: Switzerland Never Wanted to Be Part of This"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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