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OK! recently sat down for an exclusive photoshoot with DWTS partners Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer, and in an OK! first, they began interviewing each other!

Lance: When you found out who the Dancing With the Stars contestants were, who did you want as your partner?

Lacey: You!

Lance: For reals?

Lacey: Yeah, I was asked who I thought I was going to get and I said, "Lance Bass." And then there you were, coming through those doors. It was a slow-motion moment, like coming through the clouds and angels. We hit it off right away and were BlackBerry Messenger buddies from day one.

Lance: What do you like in a guy?

Lacey: I like guys who are quirky. I'm a huge dork and not at all ladylike. I burp and sneeze and it's gross - and guys have to accept that. Anyone who is funny and a gentleman would be nice, because I meet a lot of jerks.

Lance: Don't we all.

Lance: You think we can win this?

Lacey: I dunno. Do you?

Lance: I think that we're definitely on the right track.

Lacey: Yeah. We have a lot of work to do. But each week feels like a stepping-stone.

Lance: And it's all a game.

Lacey: I'm in it to have fun with you. We goof off way more than we should, but that's why we're such good friends.

Lacey: Are you going to miss me when the show's over?

Lance: No, I'm going to see you a lot.

Lacey: What if I moved to Zimbabwe?

Lance: Then you'd have to come back and visit.

Lacey: On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love me?

Lance: Twelve.

Lacey: Oh my gosh, that's off the charts!

I freakin' love them.

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.

TEAM TIME
Due to the Presidential Election on Tuesday, we'll dance tonight and get our results on Wednesday during the live elimination show. The team dance is something new on the show this year. They do it on the British version and I really like it. Now that there's six couples left, we split up - it's me, Cody [Linley] and Susan Lucci - and we have to dance the cha cha. The other team, Maurice, Warren and Brooke, has the paso doble.

We have to come up with a routine where we all dance together at the beginning, have our own solos, and then dance again together again at the end. Lacey [Schwimmer] is choreographing our routine and our solo, which is a good ten counts of eight we have to do individually. The scores that we get as a group from the judges will be added on to our individual scores when we dance the rumba.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBA!
It's going to be so difficult for us to impress the judges this week, because last week, our jive was so fun and energetic - and this week we go straight to the rumba, which is so opposite, it's not my favorite. It's the "dance of love." We're going to do from the perspective of a new couple who are just discovering each other. We're making it very Earthy - we'll be barefoot - like we're on the beach doing the dance. It's going to be very cute and sexy - and hopefully entertaining. We're dancing to John Mayer's "Your Body is a Wonderland. The more familiar the song is, the more people vote for you, and this is one of the most popular songs he's ever done, so I think it'll help.

WELCOME BACK, EDYTA
It's going to be really interesting to see how Edyta [Sliwinska] and Cody work together. Cody's 18 and young - Julianne [Hough] was perfect for him because they were that young, cute couple around the same age - and now he's with sexy, sultry Edyta. It's going to be funny to see this little teenager dance with this sex goddess. Either Edyta's going to teach him some new things and make him look that much better, or it could throw him off, since he has to work with a new partner. Finally we have an advantage over him.

*NSYNC THROWBACK
I had to throw in some choreography from our song "Bye Bye Bye" during last week's hip-hop group routine! I was 'battling" Susan Lucci, so I wanted to do that "Bye Bye Bye" move right in her face. It was so funny to battle her, because she's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm glad we did the group routine, because viewers saw how opposite hip-hop and ballroom are. Some of the celebrities had trouble, but the hip-hop routine was such a breath of fresh air for me. I wish we could do hip-hop every week! I ended up giving the mullet I wore during the routine to [judge] Carrie Ann [Inaba] after the show as a peace offering. She better give us good scores this week.