{"id":604046,"date":"2026-09-18T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:02:16","slug":"dancing-with-the-stars-julia-stiles-shares-juilliards-apology-after-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604046\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With the Stars\u2019 Julia Stiles Shares Juilliard\u2019s Apology After Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/julia_stiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Julia Stiles<\/a> is officially a Juilliard graduate\u2014well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>After the Dancing With the Stars contestant called out the school&#8217;s statement that she never was a student there\u2014despite playing one in 2001&#8217;s Save the Last Dance\u2014during an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1435821\/dancing-with-the-stars-julia-stiles-ezra-sosa-react-to-juilliard-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">E! interview<\/a>, the prestigious conservatory followed up with a hilarious change of heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Julia, with our apologies for the clerical error, your alumni file was found under the name Sarah Johnson,&#8221; Stiles read from Juilliard&#8217;s note to her and pro Ezra Sosa in a Sept. 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@missjuliastiles\/video\/7686558185263582478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TikTok<\/a> video. &#8220;We are so proud of you and cheering you and Ezra on.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the school\u2014which first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dc2J3HrOs9B\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">posted<\/a> ahead of the DWTS season 35 premiere, &#8220;No, Julia Stiles did not, in fact, attend Juilliard&#8221;\u2014couldn&#8217;t help but call back to her and costar Sean Patrick Thomas&#8217; memorable exchange in the film when welcoming Stiles into the family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember, Dancing With the Stars ain&#8217;t no square dance,&#8221; she continued narrating their message, &#8220;but we know you&#8217;ll dance circles, probably, around everyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Stiles is officially a Juilliard graduate\u2014well, sort of. After the Dancing With the Stars contestant called out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-604046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}