A Guide to All the 'DWTS' Pros and Their Spouses

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." 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.

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." 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.

The couple met when they were paired together for DWTS season 31 in 2022. After their time on the show came to an end, Stewart and Durant revealed that they were dating. The CODA star proposed to the professional dancer in December 2023. They got married a little over a year later, tying the knot in California in August 2025.

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.”

In July 2025, the couple surprised fans when they announced they are expecting their first baby. “We can’t believe the biggest thing to happen to us could be so small ♥️,” Hayley wrote via Instagram.

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.

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.  

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!”

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.

The Utah native married her high school sweetheart in June 2015 and the pair welcomed their first child together, daughter Sage, nearly five years later. In October 2022, the choreographer revealed she was pregnant with baby No. 2 after previously documenting her fertility struggles. The couple welcomed a second daughter, June, in May 2023.

Arnold ruffled feathers in June 2025 by poking fun at Cusick’s bed-making skills on social media, resulting in one user calling for Cusick to “divorce” her because of the apparent over-share. Arnold, however, confirmed that same day that her husband “still loves me” and they “still love/appreciate” each other.

Maksim began dating the New Zealand native in 2012, but the pair broke up after 10 months together. Eventually, they found their way back to each other and got engaged in December 2015. The pair exchanged vows in Long Island, New York, in July 2017, six months after the birth of their son, Shai. They went on to welcome two more sons in June 2023 and July 2024. 

The So You Think You Can Dance alum wed McAllister on New Year's Day in 2016 in her home state of Utah with best friend Lindsay Arnold serving as her maid of honor. The couple welcomed son Kevin in January 2021 and son Jet in May 2023. 

Farber and Slater dated from 2011 to 2014. One year after they called it quits, the Aussie dancer confirmed via social media that he and Slater were back together. He popped the question during an October 2016 episode of DWTS and the pair tied the knot in March 2018. In August 2022, Us exclusively confirmed that the twosome split after more than four years of marriage. Six months later, Slater officially filed for divorce from Farber citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the separation. 

Karagach and Pashkov began dancing together in 2009 — and quickly felt a spark. They exchanged vows in July 2014 after four years of dating and welcomed daughter Nikita in May 2023. 

In July 2025, the couple marked 11 years of marriage by renewing their vows at the Corazón Cabo Resort & Spa in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. 

Burke first sparked a brief romance with the Boy Meets World alum in 2007 after Lawrence's brother Joey competed on the ABC dance show. In 2017, Us confirmed that Burke and Matthew were back together after a decade-long break. The actor proposed on Burke's birthday in May 2018 and the duo exchanged vows one year later.

Us confirmed in February 2022 that the couple called it quits, with Burke filing for divorce after nearly three years of marriage.

In September 2015, Johnson confirmed that she was in a relationship with the businessman, who was her celeb partner on season 20 of DWTS. The couple got married in July 2016, five months after Herjavec got down on one knee. They share fraternal twins Haven and Hudson, who were born in April 2018.

The two-time DWTS champ proposed to Jean in November 2015 after three years of dating. The twosome tied the knot in November 2016 in Malibu, California.

In June 2023, Ballas and Jean revealed that they were expecting their first child after Jean previously suffered a miscarriage. The couple announced in December 2023 that their son, Banski, arrived one month prior.

The former So You Think You Can Dance stars held their nuptials at a California winery in December 2013 and share two children: son Maddox, born in March 2016, and daughter Zaia, born in November 2019. Holker is also the mother of daughter Weslie, whom she welcomed in May 2008 with her ex. Boss died of a reported suicide at the age of 40 in December 2022, days after celebrating the twosome’s ninth wedding anniversary.

The Dutch-born dancer married his longtime boyfriend in Utah in January 2017. They adopted son Daniel in December 2019 and finalized the adoption of son Jonathan the following year.