Fans shouldn’t anticipate Emily Weir’s return to reality television any time soon, despite the fact that she placed second on this year’s Dancing With The Stars season.
The Home and Away actress tells Yahoo Lifestyle that despite her strenuous preparation for the dancing contest, she wouldn’t participate in SAS Australia, Channel Seven’s other physically taxing celebrity-based reality programme.
“I just think for me, my shtick is more about performance,” she says. In essence, I want to pursue a career as an actor, specifically a dramatic, humorous, all-around actor. I’m unable to give up on that dream just yet.
And I believe that Dancing, that encounter, and everything that programme stands for can only improve my acting abilities.
She continues by saying she would never take part in a reality programme that “targets pulling trauma out of people.”
She continues, “No shade!” “There are a lot of nice ones available, it’s extremely popular, and it has a place, of course, because people want it and it’s popular. I also watch it.
“But for me and what I want to represent and where I want to go, dancing kind of fit that same narrative for me because it’s about fun and it’s about lightness, and it’s about dancing.”
I was unable to walk.
Although Emily calls her time on DWTS a “magical dream,” she acknowledges that the training was really demanding.
She says, “I’m a runner, I go to the gym, [I do] yoga, and stuff like that, but it’s entirely different. “Your body is being pushed in so many different ways.
“I had to get needles in my rear and my groyne was incredibly sore and I could not walk for a lot of the days after particular trainings. Fortunately, it never got to the point that I was unable to perform, but it does.
“You have to exercise extreme caution; it’s really taxing on the body, particularly while performing lifts and correctly supporting your body weight. I was like, “Let’s go for it, throw me around, I really want to risk it for the biscuit,” because I’m a baller.
Emily and Human Nature singer Phil Burton both received a score of 39 from the judges for their last performances on Dancing With The Stars’ suspenseful grand finale.
The audience vote, however, propelled Phil into first place, giving him the prise and $20,000 for the charity of his choice, NSW Police Legacy.
