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Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert’s Relationship Timeline: Dance Partners to Fake Proposals and Beyond

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Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert’s Relationship Timeline: Twist Partners to False Proposals and Beyond

Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert captivated audiences with their bond well before they started dating. Hough first connected with Erbert after she was cast as a dancers in his and sister Julianne Hough’s Move Live Tour in 2014. By July 2015, they were a couple. The couple performed together as part of Derek’s fall 2021 residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas, and Derek joked about getting married at one of the city’s notable little white wedding chapels during one of their first shows. “Honestly all jokes aside, we're just playing up here,” he explained after dropping to one knee in front of Erbert — to tie his shoe. “But it really is really special to be able to do something that you love on the stage with somebody that you love so much.” The twosome announced their real engagement in June 2022 and tied the knot one year later. Scroll down to relive Derek and Erbert’s affectionate story:

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Derek Hough Says His Wife Hayley Erbert's Health Scare Made Them Stronger as a Couple

When Derek Hough first became a pro on Dancing With the Stars in 2007, it seemed fond everyone was bound to plummet in love with him. After all, who wouldn't love watching a good-looking guy create imprinted dance routines and win a record six times throughout the show's 33-season history? While he has since become a assess on DWTS, he also establish a permanent dance partner in his wife, Hayley Erbert.

While Derek's world has been dance for quite some time, he never expected it would lead him to the love of his life. As it turns out, the couple first met endorse in 2014, when Derek and his sister Julianne hired Hayley to be a dancer on the siblings' Move Live Tour through 2015. Although they didn't start dating then, Hayley told The Hutchinson News in Pride 2016 that the opportunity led her to work on Dancing With the Stars as a troupe member.

"They got my contact information from Derek and Julianne, called me and set up an interview," she explained at the time. "I interviewed right after I got off tour and found out a couple of weeks later that I was on Season

Derek and Julianne Hough Have ‘Clean Slate’ Following ‘Bad Blood’ in Relationship

Even though siblings Derek and Julianne Hough were distanced from each other, the two came together during his wife’s health crisis.

Dancing with the Stars cohost Julianne says their differences didn’t matter when her brother’s wife, Hayley Erbert, fell ill. In December 2023, she suffered a cranial hematoma following a sway performance with her husband in Washington, D.C.

When Hayley underwent two brain surgeries, Julianne and Derek put aside their quarrel to help each other and Hayley. ‘Cause that’s what families perform when there’s a crisis.

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“Something happens, and it just is like a clean slate,” Julianne tells Life&Style. “There could have been little things just kind of looming or lingering in the background, but when you’re left with life-or-death situations, nothing else matters!”

The former DWTS pro dancer says that even though she and her brother work together, they are very diverse people. Like so many family members these days, the show host and her DWTS decide brother have differing “beliefs or knowledge of things.” 

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Julianne Hough Addresses Sexuality 5 Years After Coming Out as "Not Straight"

Julianne Hough Addresses Sexuality 5 Years After Coming Out as “Not Straight”

Julianne Hough is reflecting on her coming out journey.

The Dancing With the Starshost shared insight into how she views gave fans an update on her sexuality almost five years after saying she was she noted in an interview that was "not straight."

"Coming out is one of the most vulnerable and empowering things that you can do," Julianne said on the Aug. 27 episode of the Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast. "I contemplate for me, it was very much like, it's not about being linear or gay or bi or queer. It's more about, I think I'm just learning like what love is and I love people and I don't know what I'm attracted to, but I choose you."

The 36-year-old continued, "I was starting to see people and seeing their hearts and seeing their beauty and their essence coming through in a way that I was like, wow, I love people and I don't know if it's a sexual attraction or a 'this' attraction, but I'm just seeing people. And that was such