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Dancing With the Stars’ Hottest Hookups
Soiled dancing! All through Dancing With the Stars’ 16-year historical past, some professionals have struck up romances with their companions, different contestants and fellow professionals — and whereas some showmances didn’t stick, others at the moment are fortunately married with youngsters.
Gleb Savchenko and Keo Motsepe made headlines in fall of 2020 after they had been each linked to season 29 contestant Chrishell Stause. Savchenko was accused of being greater than mates along with his associate in November 2020, after his wife of 13 years, Elena Samodanova, introduced their separation.
The professional and the Promoting Sundown star denied the allegations and the next month Stause went Instagram official with Motsepe. Us Weekly confirmed in February 2021 that the pair had cut up after a whirlwind romance.
Former wrestler Nikki Bella and her season 25 associate, Artem Chigvintsev, bought collectively after they danced collectively on the ABC collection in 2017. Us broke the information in January 2019 that the duo had been courting “for some time” after Bella’s cut up from John Cena in April 2018. The pair bought engaged in November 2019, and welcomed their first youngster, son Matteo, in July 2020.
Each Val Chmerkovskiy and Maksim Chmerkovskiy discovered love whereas competing on the dancing collection, however not instantly.
Val romanced his season 19 associate Janel Parrish and his brother’s season 23 associate, Amber Rose, earlier than getting critical with fellow professional Jenna Johnson. The athletes dated on and off in 2016, earlier than reconnecting in 2017 and getting engaged the next yr. They tied the knot in April 2019.
“I like my Val snuggles. I like simply, like, touching him,” Johnson completely instructed Us in September 2020, after the pair moved into their first house. “He at all times jokes as a result of he’s like, ‘You like to be alone, however with me subsequent to you.’ And it’s so true. So I do miss my hubby!”
Maks, however, married Peta Murgatroyd in July 2017 after being linked to Willa Ford and ending an engagement to fellow dancer Karina Smirnoff in 2009.
Forward of their nuptials, Murgatroyd, who shares son Shai with the Ukrainian dancer, completely instructed Us that “I by no means thought that we had been going to be collectively.” She revealed in February 2019 that when she met Maks, the considered courting him by no means crossed her thoughts.
Scroll down to seek out out which relationships had been short-lived, and which of them lasted!