A Guide to All the ‘DWTS’ Pros and Their Spouses

The only thing that outshines a mirrorball trophy is a diamond ring. 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.”

The longtime couple put down roots in Salt Lake City, where they spend most of their family time when Arnold isn’t competing on the ABC ballroom dance show. In May 2020, the duo announced that they were expecting their first child together. Their daughter, Sage, was born six months later.

“Blessed beyond words to have this man by my side for eternity ❤️ I am so grateful for his love in my life and don’t know where I would be without him,” Arnold wrote in a sweet Instagram tribute to her husband following their baby girl’s arrival. “I am grateful for our beautiful daughter that we made together and I am already so blown away by how natural you are as a father. I love you, Sam.”

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. After marking their little boy’s third birthday, Murgatroyd told Us that she’s ready to think about becoming a family of four.

“We definitely want to have a baby and it will be very, very soon,” she exclusively revealed in July 2020. “[Shai’s] getting older, and I want him to grow up within his childhood with other siblings.”

Chmerkovskiy, for his part, previously hinted that he was hoping to have a daughter someday. “When Peta said [her last pregnancy] was a boy, I had this elated reaction like, ‘Thank God,'” he told Us exclusively in March 2020. “But immediately after that, I was like, ‘OK, now I’m ready for a girl.’ I just think it’s a special thing.”

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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.

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 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. 

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.

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. In July 2020, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child together, a baby boy, who was born in January 2021. During a November 2022 episode of DWTS, Carson revealed her second pregnancy.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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