Kelly Monaco almost cha-chaed her way out of the ballroom.
The “General Hospital” star, 49, recalled being told that participating in Season 1 of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2005 would harm her career as an actress.
Monaco had joined the ABC soap opera two years prior in 2003, as Sam McCall, when she got the offer to join the competition series.
“I had a letter in my mailbox in my dressing room at ‘General Hospital,’” she recounted to Entertainment Weekly on Saturday. “We have these little mailboxes outside of our dressing rooms, and there was a letter in there, and it was a request to do ‘Dancing with the Stars.’”
“I remember bringing it home,” Monaco continued, “and getting feedback from family, friends, and so forth, and they were like, ‘You can’t do a reality show. Actors don’t do a reality show.’”
At the time, the “Welcome to Hollywood” alum wasn’t well-versed in the world of dance.
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