'Dancing With the All-Stars' Gilles Marini: For my daughter, 'I would brave mountains'

The dashing Gilles Marini, who earned the second-highest score of the opening night of "Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars" fox trotting with Peta Mergatroyd already had a steady dance partner, even before ABC came calling.

Before Monday's (Sept. 24) premiere of the all-star edition, Marini tells Zap2it that he has stayed in shape dancing with his daughter, Juliana.

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"I dance with my daughter all the time," says the French actor who plays Angelo on ABC Family's "Switched At Birth" was Luc on "Brothers & Sisters" and had the steamy shower scene in the first "Sex and the City" movie. 

"For her, I would brave mountains," Marini says of his daughter, while ordering a glass of wine at an ABC party in Beverly Hills. "For her I am going to work more than I have worked in my entire life."