DWTS' Lance Bass: What You'll See on Tonight's Show

Lance Bass is keeping an exclusive diary only on Usmagazine.com about his experience competing on Dancing With the Stars. Check back each Monday to keep up with Bass' progress, and get behind-the-scenes dish on ABC's hit series.

ELIMINATION EMOTIONS
The first part of the Tuesday night elimination shows, you forget that someone really has to leave until you get out there and youre like "Oh, someone is leaving tonight!" For a split second last week, I thought we were going home. [Producers] told us backstage that it was a surprise elimination and when Lacey [Schwimmer] and I were one of the last four couples left standing before the elimination, I thought it would be us!

I "KISSED A GIRL"...BUT PRODUCERS TOLD ME TO!
As for our song choice this week - Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" - we had to [perform to] what the producers assigned us. We gave them a list of, like, 500 songs before the show and they have to clear them, so what we dance to depends on whatever clears. We find out what we're dancing to after each results show. We knew it was a risk, but we can't help what we're given. I was excited when they told us, though. We like to poke fun at ourselves - the song was very fitting.

TONIGHT, WE WALTZ
I've never really seen the Viennese waltz [performed], but that's what we're dancing to tonight. I think Lacey and I are finally going to bring some diversity to our dancing this week - especially with this dance - because there's no way you can look hip-hopish doing it! And we have a slow song, Marc Broussard's "Let Me Leave," which was my first choice of a song to dance to.

TEAM LANCEY GO DANCIN' FOR ELLEN
This week, Lacey and I took time out of our rehearsal schedule to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and performed our cha-cha. Ellen didn't offer dancing advice, but she's supporting us. I also did a radio promo tour, appeared on Good Day L.A. and was on Adam Carolla's radio show. One night last week, Lacey and I also went to see the So You Think You Can Dance tour in L.A. There's never a slow week with Dancing With the Stars. Learning the choreography is the least work we do all week! [ABC] keeps us so busy doing interviews and taped packages for the episodes. That's what really makes me tired. It reminds me of my *NSYNC days!

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