Rylee Arnold Reveals ‘DWTS’ Recommendation from Older Sister Lindsay Arnold (Unique)

Rylee Arnold has gotten some insider Dancing With The Stars ideas from her older sister Lindsay!

Chatting with PEOPLE on the Dancing with the Stars Season 34 Post-Cast Reveal red carpet on Sept. 3, the 20-year-old professional dancer reveals the most important pointer Lindsay — 10-time DWTS competitor and a one-time winner — has given her about competing on the present.

“The very best piece of recommendation that I’ve ever obtained from Lindsay, and truthfully, one of the best piece of recommendation I’ve ever been given, is to all the time simply stay true to your self,” says Rylee. “All the time simply be your self, authentically you, as a result of if folks do not such as you for you, then you definately’re not the place you could be.” 

Continues the performer: “Simply be your self and that is going to be the place you are going to be the happiest model of your self, so all the time simply emulate that and be that.”

“That’s tea,” emphasizes Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying, who was revealed to be Lindsay’s dance companion on Good Morning America earlier within the day.

“It bought me by means of every part,” continues the dancer of her sister’s recommendation. “I like her.”

The forthcoming season of DWTS marks Rylee’s third as a professional on the present after she made her tv debut on Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018.

Final season, she was paired with Stephen Nedoroscik — the American gymnast who captured hearts and minds for his pommel horse work on the 2024 Olympics — and got here in fourth place.

Chatting with PEOPLE about her partnering with the Pentatonix singer this season, Rylee says it’s “so surreal and so wonderful.”

“When he first walked by means of the door, I used to be simply starstruck as a result of I knew precisely who Scott was and I am simply such an enormous fan of him,” says Rylee. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh. Wait, he is my companion this season?’ ”

Chatting on the pink carpet, Hoying returns the compliments: “Rylee’s the proper companion and I am obsessed along with her already,” he tells PEOPLE. “She’s such a famous person. She simply has a lot star energy. Nicely, first, I screamed once I walked in.”

As for whether or not his expertise performing as a singer on the large stage will translate to ballroom dancing, Hoying says, “I am undecided but. We’ll see on the dwell present, however it’s a completely completely different world. However I truly do suppose singing typically is extra nerve-wracking as a result of I am knowledgeable singer, so you need to be good. However I really feel like with dancing, it is like, that is new and free.”

“I feel I will be nervous on the dwell present day,” continues Hoying. “Each time I watch the present and so they have the eliminations and stuff and so they’re calling one crew at a time, I am sick to my abdomen.”

“No stress,” jokes Rylee.

Earlier this summer season, Rylee opened up about a frightening moment she had whereas flying on TikTok, revealing that she had forgotten to pack her insulin — which she makes use of to handle her Sort 1 diabetes — in her journey bag.

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“Then once I regarded in my bag I could not discover it ANYWHERE! I am now simply realizing I left it at my residence 😭,” wrote the dancer in textual content over a video of her on the aircraft.

However she assuaged her followers’ fears with a follow-up video after she landed, saying that she was “alive and properly” and was in a position to get insulin proper after she landed.