Learning to bop or studying to like? For many, these issues are one in the similar. Since its 2004 debut, Dancing With the Stars has awarded many mirrorball trophies — and has led to engagements, infants and lasting love.
For the execs, it’s not stunning that they discover love with their colleagues after spending a number of hours a day collectively whereas filming, rehearsing and hitting the highway collectively on the Dancing With the Stars tour. Although it’s extra uncommon, generally a celeb falls for his or her professional accomplice.
In 2017, former WWE wrestler Nikki Bella was partnered with Artem Chigvintsev. The duo fashioned a fast friendship, as she was engaged to John Cena at the time. Six months after her run on Dancing With the Stars ended, she and Cena cut up and known as off their wedding ceremony.
In January 2019, Us Weekly broke the information that the Total Bellas star was relationship her former accomplice. Three months later, she confirmed the romance. “He lets me be me,” she informed Us in October 2019. “The attention of what he gives me with my soul, with my personal life, my business life. Like, I have never met anyone who’s so supportive and I have no fear that he’s ever going to leave me for my imperfections, which is so amazing.”
From there, the bond solely grew: they later acquired engaged and welcomed their first son collectively! The twosome confirmed in August 2022 that they tied the knot in Paris after greater than three years of relationship.
Chigvintsev gushed about the main milestone that very same month. “Because we’ve been together for quite some time, I [felt] like, ‘Hey, getting married’s not gonna change much,’” he shared with Us. “Just because … our days are still the same. [But] it actually does [change everything].”
The Russian native added: “It just gives you more of [a feeling of being] filled with responsibilities. … [I] definitely think through a lot more than I used to, but it feels good. It feels good to be married.”
Bella and Chigvintsev aren’t the solely pro-celeb couple to search out lasting love. In 2015, professional dancer Kym Johnson was partnered up with Shark Tank‘s Robert Herjavec. The duo had preliminary sparks and later confirmed they have been relationship.
“From the moment I met [Kym], we got along great. This is a very scary experience for me, and it’s great to have somebody like Kym to go through it with,” he shared with Us at the time.
Those sparks become full-on flames as they went on to get married — and have twins! — after the present ended.
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