Some Dancing With the Stars pros have found their perfect match in the ballroom, but others have kept their personal lives off the dance floor.
Lindsay Arnold exchanged vows with her high school sweetheart, Sam Cusick, in their home state of Utah in June 2015. After two years of wedded bliss, the former So You Think You Can Dance star gushed about finding love outside of Hollywood.
“Oh my gosh, I don’t know how I could be with anybody else,” she told Us Weekly exclusively in November 2017, noting how special it felt to have a partner who knows her “real” life. “I think the best is just chilling, and just hanging out and talking. I think we have pretty crazy lives. So when you have time with the people you love, you just want to be with them. You don’t really care what you’re doing. Sit around, hang out, talk, cuddle.”
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Unlike Arnold, other DWTS pros have found their life partner in the dance world. Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd turned their professional bond into a happy marriage, tying the knot in July 2017 after welcoming son Shai Aleksander six months prior.
Scroll down to learn more about the DWTS pros and their off-stage partners.
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Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert
Hough, who was a DWTS pro from 2007 to 2016 and has served on the judges’ panel since 2020, met Erbert when she joined his Move Live Tour as a dancer in 2014. The couple began dating the following year and tied the knot in August 2023.
Just months into their marriage, Erbert was rushed to the hospital in December 2023 and diagnosed with a cranial hematoma from a burst blood vessel. She required emergency brain surgery, and Hough was by Erbert’s side as she recovered. In April 2024, Erbert announced her return to Hough’s Symphony of Dance Tour, calling her healing journey “nothing short of extraordinary.”
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Koko Iwasaki and Kiki Nyemchek
2022 was a big year for Iwasaki, who was promoted to a pro for season 31. That November, she got engaged to Nyemchek after meeting in 2017 while competing on So You Think You Can Dance. The couple said “I do” during a July 2024 ceremony in Oregon.
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Nikki Garcia and Artem Chigvintsev
Us confirmed in 2019 that the former WWE wrestler and the Russian dancer were dating after being paired together on season 25 of the series. In January 2020, the twosome announced their engagement and seven months later, they welcomed their son, Matteo. The Total Bellas star revealed in August 2022 that she and Chigvintsev had tied the knot in Paris.
Garcia filed for divorce in September 2024 one week after Chigvintsev was arrested for alleged domestic battery. The charges were later dropped. Garcia and Chigvintsev finalized their divorce in November 2024.
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Brandon Armstrong and Brylee Ivers
The Utah native wed Ivers in July 2022 less than one year after getting engaged.
“The day I met him, my life changed forever,” the social media manager wrote via Instagram one month before their nuptials. “I feel like the luckiest girl in the world because I get to marry him & celebrate the rest of our birthdays together. I love you the most B!”
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Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy
The ballroom dancer announced their engagement in June 2018, two years after Johnson made her debut as a DWTS pro. They tied the knot in April 2019 and are thinking about expanding their family. "I want babies. Val wants babies very badly," Johnson told Us exclusively in September 2020. "We definitely have spoken about it. That's our future. That's what we want when that's gonna happen."
In July 2022, the couple confirmed that they are expecting their first child. The twosome welcomed their son in January 2023.
