Charli D\u2019Amelio recreated Dirty Dancing\u2019s iconic lift and fans are obsessed Vestron Pictures \/ Instagram: charlidamelioIn her appearance on the \u2018Step Into\u2026 The Movies\u2019 special, TikTok star Charli D\u2019Amelio recreated the iconic lift from \u2018Dirty Dancing\u2019 with Derek Hough and fans are loving it. Charli D\u2019Amelio is best known for her huge presence on TikTok, and the 17-year-old is the most-followed person on the entire platform with over 138 million followers, not to mention the millions more she has in other places like Instagram. She was a competitive dancer for many years before starting her TikTok career, and fans got to see the star\u2019s full potential when she made an appearance on \u2018Step Into\u2026 The Movies.\u2019 The special featured sibling dance stars Derek and Julianne Hough recreating some of the most iconic dances from popular movies along with a series of celebrity guests, including Charli. View this post on Instagram Charli teamed up with Derek to recreate the memorable \u2018(I\u2019ve Had) The Time of My Life\u2019 from 1987 film Dirty Dancing, including the iconic lift. In the lead-up to the show, Charli posted a video to her TikTok profile of her in training with Derek, where they were struggling to get the lift right, using a padded mat to prevent injury. Then, using the popular \u201ccan we skip to the good part\u201d TikTok sound, Charli showed the final video of them doing the lift, getting the move perfect in a seamless transition. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load The clip now has over 2 million likes and 10 million views, and fans have been flooding the comment section with praise thanks to Charli\u2019s incredible dance skills. \u201cSo happy to see her dancing again, she\u2019s talented,\u201d one commenter wrote, others calling it \u201cimpressive\u201d and \u201ciconic.\u201d Prior to the show airing on March 20 on ABC, Derek told HollywoodLife: \u201cI\u2019m really excited for people to see Charli D\u2019Amelio because they know her from TikTok, but they haven\u2019t seen this type of dancing from her.\u201d Hough also previously said that he\u2019d like to see Charli appear on a season of Dancing with the Stars, something which fans would no doubt love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charli D\u2019Amelio recreated Dirty Dancing\u2019s iconic lift and fans are obsessed Vestron Pictures \/ Instagram: charlidamelioIn her appearance on the \u2018Step Into\u2026 The Movies\u2019 special, TikTok star Charli D\u2019Amelio recreated the iconic lift from \u2018Dirty Dancing\u2019 with Derek Hough and fans are loving it. Charli D\u2019Amelio is best known for her huge presence on TikTok, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}