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"Hard to believe we&amp;#x27;re almost at the finish line, but after a great season, Dancing With the Stars season 18 is almost in the books. I spent yesterday morning with the four remaining couples to find out secrets leading up to next Monday and Tuesday&amp;#x27;s finale (there will be an elimination on Monday night; three couples will fight for the Mirrorball on Tuesday) and also got a little crazy with Derek Hough (wait until you see that photo below!) Candace Cameron Bure and Mark Ballas Glamour: So now that you&amp;amp;#8217;ve revealed you&amp;amp;#8217;ll be dancing to New Kids on the Block in your freestyle... Candace: Amazing! Mark: No! Glamour: Ugh, fine! Let&amp;#x27;s get down to business. @DWTSGossip wants to know what you enjoy more, Mark? Teaching the dance, creating the dance, or performing the dance? Candace: It&amp;amp;#8217;s not teaching the dance to Candace. I can answer that for you! Mark: I really enjoy creating the dance. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t like teaching it. I love performing it. Even as a child when I had to compete, I hated having to practice. I hated the lessons. It just goes on and on and on. I just wanted to get out there and do it. The creative and the performance aspect, I live for that, but I understand you have to go through the teaching process first. Glamour: @Internetloves wants to know if it&amp;#x27;s hard to hear songs that you&amp;#x27;ve danced to without always recounting the steps in your head? Mark: I can&amp;amp;#8217;t listen to &amp;quot;Say Something&amp;quot; anymore. Candace: That was one of my favorite songs, and I can&amp;amp;#8217;t even listen to it anymore because it was such a hard dance and it ruined the song for me. But now, even songs that I listen to, even if it was one of Maks and Meryl&amp;amp;#8217;s, or Charlie and Sharna&amp;amp;#8217;s, I&amp;amp;#8217;m always seeing the dance now instead of listening purely to the song. Glamour: I overheard you saying that you&amp;amp;#8217;ve already surpassed your goal just by getting to the finals, so if not you, who would you like to see win the Mirrorball trophy? Mark: It&amp;amp;#8217;s hard. For consistency and natural dance ability, Meryl is a winner. Maks has done incredible work this season and deserves a shot. Peta too. Peta and James have come a long way. But to pick one, it&amp;amp;#8217;s tough. Out of loyalty, I&amp;amp;#8217;d back Derek. He&amp;#x27;s family. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s the one question you&amp;amp;#8217;re sick of having to answer this season on the press line? Candace: When will there be a Full House reunion? [Laughs] Because it has so much to do with Dancing With the Stars! Mark: Mine is, &amp;quot;When will you dance to New Kids on the Block?&amp;quot; Candace: Haha! But I&amp;amp;#8217;m so glad you do, so keep doing it! Glamour: Thank you! By the way, what makeup tricks have you learned from being on the show? Candace: That I don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to wear as much makeup on camera as I normally do. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve gotten really used to just throwing mascara and concealer on, which I would never do before. Glamour: And which costume did your husband love most this season? Candace: I wish I knew! He doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t tell me! It might be the jazz costume cause he was like, &amp;quot;Wow! I was surprised you wore that!&amp;quot; Maybe he wants me to wear that at home now. Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Meryl Davis Glamour: I kind of feel like you guys don&amp;amp;#8217;t even have last names anymore. It&amp;amp;#8217;s just Maks and Meryl. Maks: Yeah! In fact, my last name was once a question on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?. There was four different options. [Laughs] Glamour: This question comes from Twitter follower @DWTSGossip. Which part of the process do you enjoy most? Creating the dance, teaching the dance, or performing? Maks: Performing. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s be real, nobody likes to work. You like it in hindsight when you perform. Tuesdays are the most nerve-racking day because you come in thinking, I have to have a new idea and it has to be just as brilliant. We&amp;amp;#8217;ve raised the bar now to the point of, &amp;quot;What more can we do?&amp;quot; Glamour: Just make out. That&amp;amp;#8217;ll raise the bar! Maks: [Laughs] Last week something happened that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never seen. Kenny [Ortega] got up and gave a standing ovation, and then Bruno got up too. They don&amp;amp;#8217;t get up. The judges don&amp;amp;#8217;t do that. Glamour: Well, they do when you kiss them. Meryl: Haha! I think he fell down! Glamour: Yes, he rolled over. I would not have given him a 10 for that. Maks: I went to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek, and then he rolled over and went upside down in the air. I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;quot;That&amp;amp;#8217;s just weird.&amp;quot; But performing with Meryl is the best. Glamour: This question comes from @hitechangie. She wants to know if you&amp;amp;#8217;d ever consider working on a dance project together once this season is over? Maks: Hell yeah! Meryl: Yeah! Maks: I will definitely not skate on ice! Let&amp;amp;#8217;s just put it this way, if we were partners on Skating With Celebrities, you and I would have been a disaster. I would need a helmet and that trapeze contraption. Glamour: @Lannatexasgal wants to know what was your favorite dance this season. Also, I&amp;amp;#8217;d like to know what costume was your favorite. Meryl: My favorite dance is our freestyle, which you&amp;amp;#8217;ll see. My favorite costume so far...hmm, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know. I really liked my foxtrot costume. Maks: Aside from the freestyle which you haven&amp;amp;#8217;t seen yet, it would be the foxtrot. Glamour: What&amp;amp;#8217;s the question you&amp;amp;#8217;re most tired of getting asked by the press? Maks: This was probably the most pleasant press line in the past 13 seasons for me. I swear. Glamour: Wow. Do we all get gifts then at the finale? Maks: You...probably not. Glamour: Maks, I was so good to you! I get nothing. [Laughs] Maks: Well, there&amp;amp;#8217;s always a question that you&amp;amp;#8217;ll find annoying, but with us, there weren&amp;amp;#8217;t really. Meryl: All is fair. Glamour: Do I need to do anything for you guys to make my stock go up? Maks: No, just vote for us. [Smiles] James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd Glamour: James, you&amp;amp;#8217;re the only guy left standing in this competition. Are you surprised by that? James: No matter how successful I am at anything, I want to retain a large sense of humility, so I&amp;amp;#8217;m just grateful. Having seen Cody and Charlie go, they were amazing competitors and really great people, so in some ways, I&amp;amp;#8217;m shocked, but I believed I could get this far, and I still believe I can win. Glamour: The week before last, you said you just want to make it to the finals so you can do the freestyle. So what hints can you give us about that? James: Peta and I have been talking about it for a long time, and I told her I want to pull out any trick that I have. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t have a whole bunch of &amp;#x27;em, but there&amp;amp;#8217;s a few cool things that I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t gotten to do yet. Glamour: Like barbecue? In our On a Date with... piece, you raved about your skills! James: Yes, like barbecue! Glamour: Peta, have you been to his house yet for a barbecue? Because he tells me he&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing! Peta: No, I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t! James: That&amp;amp;#8217;s all I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to do all summer. Just barbecue at the beach! But yeah, we&amp;amp;#8217;re going to give it our all during the freestyle, and I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s a different side to us than anyone has seen all season. Peta: It&amp;amp;#8217;s going to be high energy and get everyone on their feet. I want it to be one giant party. Glamour: You guys are photographed quite a bit together on red carpets outside of DWTS. How often do you plan on seeing each other after it&amp;amp;#8217;s all over? James: Hopefully we see each other a good amount. It&amp;amp;#8217;s going to be weird going from seeing each other eight hours a day to not every day. Peta: We&amp;amp;#8217;re going to stay in touch. We&amp;amp;#8217;re good friends. Glamour: Favorite moment or dance so far? James: Our dance to Frozen. That was a special week. It was just a magical week for me. All the lifts just came together, and there was just a lot of relief after so much pressure. Glamour: If you guys aren&amp;amp;#8217;t holding the Mirrorball trophy come Tuesday, who would you like it to be? James: If it&amp;amp;#8217;s not us, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t care. And I say that because I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be surprised by anyone here. Peta: Derek&amp;amp;#8217;s got five, Mark&amp;amp;#8217;s got two, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve got one, and Maks hasn&amp;amp;#8217;t won yet. James: So then if it&amp;amp;#8217;s not us, then Maks! But that&amp;amp;#8217;s not enough reason to give it to him, because we&amp;amp;#8217;re definitely going to challenge him! Amy Purdy and Derek Hough Glamour: I made a chart. We&amp;amp;#8217;re &amp;quot;over&amp;quot; Peta &amp;amp; James&amp;#x27; rumored romance. Meryl and Maks&amp;#x27; chemistry was five minutes ago. Now we&amp;amp;#8217;re into the new love affair of Amy and Oprah! Derek: Awesome! Glamour: She literally sent Amy a garden of flowers yesterday, which you posted on your Instagram page. How did this phone call and everything come about? Derek: Our producer said, &amp;quot;Somebody is going to call you today,&amp;quot; and I immediately thought of Oprah. It was the weirdest thing. When she answered, I was still pretty surprised, but it was weird my mind went there right away. Amy: That was the last person that I thought it was going to be. I had given [the producers] a list of the people I looked up to, but I never imagined Oprah would actually call. Glamour: I have to say, Derek is truly one of the nicest, most talented people I&amp;amp;#8217;ve ever met, but there&amp;amp;#8217;s got to be one thing he doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t excel at! What&amp;amp;#8217;s the one thing he could improve upon? Amy: Oh man! He shows up late actually! So time management, but then again, when he has to pull it together, he does. Derek: I would say the reason she says time management is because our watches are always 5, 6, 7, 8, so we don&amp;amp;#8217;t have any other time but 5, 6, 7, 8! Glamour: Really, that&amp;amp;#8217;s all we&amp;amp;#8217;ve got on him? Just time management? Derek: [Laughs] I will say this. My life consists of being with Amy morning until evening, then going into rehearsing till 1 A.M. and then going back here. Glamour: I know. You don&amp;amp;#8217;t sleep. OK, what can you hint about the freestyle? Is Oprah coming? Derek: No, she isn&amp;amp;#8217;t. Anyway, you&amp;amp;#8217;re not meant to cry your eyes out, but we tried all the prosthetics we could try, more or less, and we&amp;amp;#8217;re like, &amp;quot;OK, what&amp;amp;#8217;s next? What&amp;amp;#8217;s the next thing?&amp;quot; People say, &amp;quot;When you put your mind to it, the sky is the limit,&amp;quot; so we&amp;amp;#8217;re like, &amp;quot;Hmmm, let&amp;amp;#8217;s try that,&amp;quot; so that&amp;amp;#8217;s all I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to say. Glamour: @internetloves wants to know if you can listen to the music from previous dances again without counting the steps in your head all the time. Amy: It brings back the emotion of that dance or of that week. So when we did the cha-cha in week 1 to the Counting Stars song, it reminds me of being in Sochi and taking on this new experience and having no idea what to expect. FYI: I&amp;#x27;ll have a full behind-the-scenes recap after Monday night&amp;#x27;s show, and on Tuesday for the big finale, I&amp;#x27;ll be with our Glamour camera crew to capture all your favorite couples on film (Meryl and Maks fans, you know what I&amp;#x27;m going to ask!). So make sure to check back Wednesday morning for that fun piece! Post-interviews, I was heading outside into the 103-degree heat, and of course had to reapply my sunscreen. So here I am demonstrating the importance of sun care to Derek! OK, guys, who do you think is going to be eliminated on Monday night?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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