Her longtime best friend, Debi Mazar, tells me that the queen of pop was one of the first people she heard from when it was announced she'd be competing in the upcoming ninth season of the hit reality competition show.
"She's really excited for me," Mazar, 45, said. "She was on her way to Budapest and she just said, "Oh, my God! How great! And you are dancing with Russians—how lucky are you?!"
That Russian would be Mazar's partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Mazar's already under his spell.
