Alyson Hannigan had one aim when she appeared on Dancing With the Stars season 32: to make it to Taylor Swift evening.
Because it seems, Hannigan, 51, later discovered that the “Merciless Summer season” singer herself was tuned into the present when her honorary episode got here round.
“That was the evening I freaked out probably 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 received the present alongside companion Val Chmerkovskiy.
Hannigan and Farber, 41, cha-cha-cha’d to Swift’s 2008 music “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 in the course of the episode by a video message.
“Hey guys, it’s Taylor. I simply wish to say thanks a lot for having this me-themed evening on Dancing With the Stars,” she stated within the clip. “I can’t wait to see what your superb choreographers and my pal 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 evening. The identified Swiftie was current on the Eras Tour whereas her season was airing, attending one among her reveals in Los Angeles.
“Even Taylor Swift’s shadow is unimaginable,” she captioned a submit by way of Instagram, exhibiting Swift’s silhouette on the live performance.
A 12 months later, Hannigan and her husband, Alexis Denisof, paid homage to Swift on Halloween with a {couples} costume impressed by her music “So Excessive College.”
In photographs shared by way of Instagram, Hannigan dressed as a soccer, whereas Denisof, 59, dressed as Aristotle, a reference to the road “You understand how to ball, I do know Aristotle.”
“Swifties get me,” she captioned the pics.
Commenters additionally famous that “So Excessive College” was an apt music for the couple to decide on to base their costumes on as a result of it contains the road, “I’m watching American Pie with you on a Saturday evening / Your folks are round, so be quiet.”
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Hannigan joked to Us Weekly solely that the music, 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 stated 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 College” might 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 may’ve piqued their curiosity, however not that they’ve talked about,” she stated. “That’s the one I dread probably the most. … Hopefully, I can simply experience it out till they’re in faculty.”
