Jordin Sparks Reveals Disney Week Dance Is ‘For’ Her Son DJ, 4, Who Will Be In ‘DWTS’ Audience For First Time

Emotions are precocious for Jordin Sparks this evening on Dancing With The Stars! In an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife.com, the erstwhile American Idol prima revealed her 4-year-old lad DJ (Dana Isaiah Thomas Jr.) volition beryllium successful the assemblage to ticker her execute for the archetypal clip this season with partner, Brandon Armstrong! “I’m truthful excited. I can’t hold for him to come. I told him the different day, I said, ‘You privation to travel spot Mommy? You get to come! And helium said, ‘Really? Mommy, I can’t wait!’ He’s truthful excited.” Jordin admitted that emotions are ever precocious for her successful the ballroom, but things volition beryllium particularly affectional with her babe successful the crowd.

“I’m conscionable trying to support it together!” she laughed. “I mightiness interruption down… but they volition beryllium blessed tears for sure, not sad.” Jordin added that this week’s dance for Disney Night, successful particular, is 1 she has felt “the astir transportation to” of each the dances. “It’s for him. It’s for DJ and I. I privation him to cognize however overmuch I’m reasoning astir him and however overmuch I emotion him, adjacent though I person to beryllium distant during the day,” she said.

Of course, DJ, on with the world, has watched Jordin instrumentality the signifier before, and crush it each time! She admitted that erstwhile it comes to DWTS, her nerves are conscionable the aforesaid arsenic they are up of a large gig! “The nerves are inactive there, girl! I inactive get butterflies. I deliberation the biggest quality is that I conscionable don’t person to lukewarm up my voice… which is really a bully thing!” the “No Air” belter told HL. “With this, I person a partner, I person idiosyncratic that is besides performing close alongside of me, truthful that takes immoderate of the unit disconnected but it’s besides like, I privation to bash the champion I tin for him, arsenic well, truthful it’s antithetic added root of pressure.”

Jordin Sparks connected ‘DWTS’ with spouse Brandon Armstrong. (ABC/Christopher Willard)

She added that she has loved her clip ballroom dancing and even aft her DWTS stint, Jordin hopes to proceed to dance! “I deliberation I’m gonna find immoderate classes and proceed doing ballroom due to the fact that I similar it. I similar it a lot!” she gushed.

The vocalist spoke to HL to sermon her concern with bequest mentorship enactment Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), and starring outdoor show and manner brand, Merrell. Together, they hosted an intimate outdoor lawsuit astatine Franklin Canyon Park successful Los Angeles with Bigs and Littles from the section Los Angeles BBBSA section that allowed young radical to bask their clip successful quality and larn astir the intelligence and carnal benefits of being successful nature.

Jordin Sparks with her son, DJ. (Shutterstock)

“We person our homes and each this precocious technology, but astatine the extremity of the day, the earth, the trees and animals, each of those things are truly what’s innately connected to america and what we’re connected to, truthful for me, I effort and beryllium extracurricular arsenic overmuch arsenic I can,” Jordin explained. “Being capable to bash that with the Big Brothers Big Sisters was great, too, due to the fact that there’s a batch of communities and radical who aren’t needfully capable to acquisition quality successful this way, particularly successful large cities, truthful truly loved being capable to beryllium with Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America and bring them extracurricular successful this way.”

Be definite to tune successful to Dancing With the Stars connected Disney+ tonight, October 10, astatine 8 PM ET!