Charli D’Amelio arrives on the MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Heart on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021, in New York. D’Amelio is now showing on “Dancing with the Stars.” Evan Agostini, Invision by way of Related Press
Charli D’Amelio, a TikTok sensation, has all the time been identified for her dancing clips on-line. The small display screen and short-video format might have led dancers on TikTok to be extra expressive with their faces as they make every transfer to entertain audiences.
When D’Amelio took the stage, it was clear that her performing talents transferred over effectively in the course of the reside premiere of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Because the final contestant to go on stage, her cha-cha discovered the right rhythm to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage.”
Her associate Mark Ballas choreographed the routine — mixing the standard dance model with D’Amelio’s strategy to TikTok. In fact, her earlier expertise in aggressive dance helps.
D’Amelio and Ballas collectively scored the very best on Monday, garnering 32 out of 40 factors.
On the present, she mentioned she was “tremendous proud” of her mother, Heidi D’Amelio, and her efficiency. That is the primary time a mother-daughter duo is competing in opposition to one another within the competitors.
“I've actually good family and friends round me, and I’m very comfortable that everybody got here tonight to assist me and my mother,” she mentioned, per Individuals. “And that meant rather a lot to us.”
D’Amelio’s account on TikTok has over 147 million followers, the second-highest on the app. Based on Polygon, for the reason that present aired, her followers have flooded the video app with clips of her efficiency on Monday.
In second place had been comic and actor Wayne Brady and Witney Carson with 29 factors.
In the meantime, Gabby Windey of “The Bachelorette” with Val Chmerkovskiy earned 28 factors, as did Shangela, the primary drag queen on the present, with Gleb Savchenko, and film star Selma Blair, who danced with Sasha Farber.
“Dancing with the Stars” is out there to stream on Disney+.