Alyson Hannigan had one aim when she appeared on Dancing With the Stars season 32: to make it to Taylor Swift night time.
Because it seems, Hannigan, 51, later discovered that the “Merciless Summer time” singer herself was tuned into the present when her honorary episode got here round.
“That was the night time I freaked out essentially the most as a result of I used to be like, ‘Wait, I simply needed to get right here, I didn't know I'd really need to do it. And what if she's watching?'” she recalled to Joey Graziadei on the official Dancing With the Stars podcast on Thursday, September 25.
“I did discover out she watched together with her dancers,” Hannigan added.
The American Pie actress competed with skilled dancer Sasha Farber on her season, which aired in 2023. The pair superior to the finals the place they positioned fifth, and Xochitl Gomez gained the present alongside associate Val Chmerkovskiy.
Hannigan and Farber, 41, cha-cha-cha'd to Swift's 2008 track “You Belong With Me” on Swiftie Night time, incomes a trio of 7s and one 8 from the panel of judges.
Within the ensuing dance relay, they beat out Harry Jowsey and Rylee Arnold as they danced to “Shake it Off.”
Swift, 35, even popped in herself through the episode by a video message.
“Hey guys, it's Taylor. I simply need to say thanks a lot for having this me-themed night time on Dancing With the Stars,” she mentioned within the clip. “I can't wait to see what your superb choreographers and my buddy Mandy Moore have in retailer. I so want I might be there.”
It shouldn't come as a shock that Hannigan nailed her Swift-inspired performances that night time. The recognized Swiftie was current on the Eras Tour whereas her season was airing, attending one in all her reveals in Los Angeles.
“Even Taylor Swift's shadow is unbelievable,” she captioned a put up by way of Instagram, exhibiting Swift's silhouette on the live performance.
A yr later, Hannigan and her husband, Alexis Denisof, paid homage to Swift on Halloween with a {couples} costume impressed by her track “So Excessive Faculty.”
In pictures shared by way of Instagram, Hannigan dressed as a soccer, whereas Denisof, 59, dressed as Aristotle, a reference to the road “You know the way to ball, I do know Aristotle.”
“Swifties get me,” she captioned the pics.
Commenters additionally famous that “So Excessive Faculty” was an apt track for the couple to decide on to base their costumes on as a result of it consists of the road, “I'm watching American Pie with you on a Saturday night time / Your folks are round, so be quiet.”
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Hannigan joked to Us Weekly solely that the track, which is believed to be about Swift and her fiancé, Travis Kelce, made her really feel part of their relationship.
“I acquired to be with Taylor and Travis [Kelce] on the dates, actually,” she mentioned in an August 2024 interview. “Simply the three of us — I imply, in my thoughts that's the way it went.”
Hannigan added that “So Excessive Faculty” may need “piqued” her children' curiosity in watching the 1999 comedy. (She and Denisof share daughters Satyana, 16, and Kiev, 13.)
“They haven't talked about that they wanna see it, however they know the way thrilling it's. Taylor would possibly've piqued their curiosity, however not that they've talked about,” she mentioned. “That's the one I dread essentially the most. … Hopefully, I can simply experience it out till they're in faculty.”
