Samantha Jade has revealed why she agreed to join the Dancing With The Stars 2024 cast after previously turning down the opportunity.

She is currently competing on the show alongside professional dancer Gustavo Viglio and has topped the Dancing With The Stars (DWTS) leaderboard in the first two weeks of competition.

Back in 2022, Samantha Jade told Yahoo Lifestyle that she’d previously been asked to join the reality show.

“I’ve been asked to do them all,” she said at the time, listing I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, The Masked Singer and DWTS as the shows that she’s said no to.

So why did Samantha Jade join Dancing With The Stars 2024?

In a new interview, Samantha Jade told Yahoo Lifestyle that she previously turned down the show because she was “scared” before deciding it was time to challenge herself.

“I think they asked me last November and I was kind of like, ‘Oh, I’m not sure’ again and then took ages to say yes, and my manager was like, ‘What is it? What are you scared of? What is the thing?’,” she explained.

“I think I was like, ‘Oh no, I won’t be good at it, it’ll be too hard’, and putting it in that basket of the ‘too hard’ thing. And then I was like, why am I doing that? Like, how fun to learn a new skill as well?”

The Peachy singer said that while DWTS was initially gruelling, she’s grateful she pushed herself to do it.

“When you get to a certain age you don’t do things that scare you anymore. You’ve got your little setups, you’ve got your life, you know what you can do.

“And I was like, that’s not a good thing. I want to do something that scares me and gives me that ‘Ooh, I’m nervous to do this’ feeling,” she continued.

“And what I wanted from the experience is exactly what I got. The first week I was like, ‘What have I done? Oh my gosh, this is so hard!’. But it was such a great experience, I loved it.”

Watch Dancing With The Stars Australia 2024 on Sundays from 7pm on Channel 7 and 7plus. 

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