Jenna Johnson Helps Husband Val Chmerkovskiy and Gabby Windey With ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Routine: ‘He Is All Yours’

25.10.2022 - 05:57 / usmagazine.com

Sharing her man! Jenna Johnson helped her husband, Val Chmerkovskiy, and his Dancing With the Stars partner, Gabby Windey, with one of their routines — and told them not to hold back on the passion.

“Rumba’s a really hard dance. Technically, but also emotionally,” Johnson, 28, said in a pre-taped package during the Monday, October 24, episode of the Disney+ reality series. “You truly have to step into this story and portray it or else it’s gonna fall flat.”

The DWTS pro — who announced in July that she and Chmerkovskiy, 36, are expecting their first child together — instructed Windey, 31, on how to be convincingly romantic with her husband.

“You are feeling his sweaty chest all over your ear,” she said, holding her head to the World Latin Dance Champion’s torso. “We should be nose to nose and I should feel his little mustache right on the top of my lip,” she added, with her face close to Chmerkovskiy’s.

When it was the Bachelorette star’s turn to try, Johnson was unimpressed. “I don’t believe it for a second. … Closer. You’re not touching noses,” she told the DWTS duo. The So You Think You Can Dance alum then demonstrated her vision on Windey herself. “You’re stronger than Val,” the Bachelor Nation alum said as the two women stood face to face.

Johnson and Chmerkovskiy exchanged vows in April 2019 after meeting as pros on the reality competition series. The California native wasn’t threatened watching her husband cozy up to his dance partner during their Michael Bublé Night routine. “Go for it, girl. He is all yours this week,” she told Windey.

The registered nurse, for her part, said in a pre-taped package that it was helpful getting Johnson’s blessing to bring passion into the performance. “Being sexy does not come natural