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Derek Hough’s Wife Hayley Erbert Reflects connected Her Life After Brain Surgery
Derek Hough is looking guardant to adding to his and Hayley Erbert’s ensemble.
In fact, the Dancing with the Stars judge didn’t quickstep distant from questions surrounding his and his wife’s aboriginal household plans.
“We decidedly privation to person a household eventually,” helium precocious told E! News. “We'll spot what's successful the cards, what's connected the horizon. Little dancing children moving around.”
But nary substance what their aboriginal holds, Derek is appreciating the present and now—and who helium has by his broadside done it all.
“She's a miracle,” the nonrecreational dancer added of Hayley, who suffered a cranial hematoma astatine the extremity of 2023. “She truly is and I don't accidental that lightly.” (For much with this season’s Dancing with the Stars cast, tune into E! News tonight, Sept. 24.)
And for the couple, who precocious celebrated their first wedding day successful August, each they’ve gone done unneurotic has enactment everything into perspective.
So erstwhile their day did travel around, the 2 enjoyed a quiescent infinitesimal to themselves.
“We really work each different our vows again wherever we got joined connected this cliffside successful Carmel overlooking the ocean,” the 39-year-old shared. “And it was truly affectional due to the fact that we were speechmaking the vows and reasoning like, ‘Wow, we truly enactment these to the test.’”
Because conscionable a fewer months aft they tied the knot—a clip play which Derek noted “was truly special”—Hayley was rushed to the infirmary where she underwent exigency skull surgery.
But now, 9 months aft her wellness scare, Derek added of Hayley, “She's doing great.”
In fact, 1 of their favourite activities to bash unneurotic is beryllium back, binge a bid and chow down connected immoderate snacks.
"It's important to benignant of conscionable travel location and upwind down and conscionable bask yourself and forget," Derek added. "So for me, the mode I similar to bash that is snack and watercourse my favourite show, possibly a execution existent crime."
Except, helium added, his woman is the 1 to bring the snacks—making Pepcid Max a necessity for the pair.
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So erstwhile their day did travel around, the 2 enjoyed a quiescent infinitesimal to themselves.
“We really work each different our vows again wherever we got joined connected this cliffside successful Carmel overlooking the ocean,” the 39-year-old shared. “And it was truly affectional due to the fact that we were speechmaking the vows and reasoning like, ‘Wow, we truly enactment these to the test.’”
Because conscionable a fewer months aft they tied the knot—a clip play which Derek noted “was truly special”—Hayley was rushed to the infirmary where she underwent exigency skull surgery.
But now, 9 months aft her wellness scare, Derek added of Hayley, “She's doing great.”
In fact, 1 of their favourite activities to bash unneurotic is beryllium back, binge a bid and chow down connected immoderate snacks.
"It's important to benignant of conscionable travel location and upwind down and conscionable bask yourself and forget," Derek added. "So for me, the mode I similar to bash that is snack and watercourse my favourite show, possibly a execution existent crime."
Except, helium added, his woman is the 1 to bring the snacks—making Pepcid Max a necessity for the pair.
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"She's the 1 with the popcorn, the chips and salsa, the candy and the chocolates," Derek explained. "I'm like, 'Babe, you're sidesplitting maine close now.' But the occupation is that she has 2 and I person 100. She has she has willpower, I bash not."
But betwixt their sofa clip and snacks, the mates are besides owed to deed the roadworthy unneurotic this year, with Hayley joining Derek’s “Dance for the Holidays” tour.
“To execute with her during the play of miracles, it's special,” helium added. “We're excited to spell connected circuit and to stock the joyousness and the emotion and conscionable the tone of the holidays with everybody.”
And for much of Derek and Hayley’s epic romance story, which began with their shared passionateness for dance, support reading.
-Reporting by Courtney Lopez
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October 2015: Hayley Joins Dancing With the Stars
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert conscionable backmost successful 2014 erstwhile she performed connected his and sister Julianne Hough's tour. A Dancing With the Stars producer is impressed with Hayley and she is called to interrogation to articulation the show's troupe, getting the occupation the pursuing year, according to the Hutchington News. Also successful 2015, she and Derek statesman dating.
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July 2016: Derek & Hayley Step Out
The 2 statesman going retired to nationalist events, including astatine the 2016 premiere of the Tony Robbins Netflix documentary I Am Not Your Guru.
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September 2016: Creative Arts Emmys Governors Ball
The duo get glammed up for a star-studded nighttime out.
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August 2017: Red Carpet Debut
The dancers marque their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates astatine the Television Academy's 2017 Choreography Peer Group Celebration astatine Saban Media Center successful North Hollywood, Calif.
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September 2017: Emmys Date
Hayley joins Derek arsenic his day for the Creative Arts Emmys, wherever helium was nominated for Outstanding Choreography for his enactment on Dancing With the Stars.
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October 2017: Happy Halloween
The 2 be the star-studded Casamigos Halloween Party.
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November 2017: Christmas Tree Lighting
Hayley joins Derek arsenic helium hosts The Americana astatine Brand buying mall's Christmas histrion lighting lawsuit successful Glendale, Calif.
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May 2018: May the Force Be With You
The 2 attend the Hollywood premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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September 2018: Emmys After-Party Date
The mates steps retired astatine HBO's post-Emmys celebration.
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October 2019: They Are the Ones Who Hug
They aren't pumping the brakes arsenic they be the premiere of Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
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February 2020: Oscars Party Date
The 2 airs for pics astatine the Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar viewing party.
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November 2020: Disney Holiday Singalong
Feeling festive, they creation connected the peculiar to ringing successful the Christmas season.
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August 2021: Respect Premiere
The 2 are each smiles astatine the premiere successful Los Angeles.
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August 2021: Emmy Winner
The partners look astatine the Creative Arts Emmys, wherever Derek wins Outstanding Choreography for Variety oregon Reality Programming for his enactment connected Dancing with the Stars.
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March 2022: Oscars Party Dance
The 2 creation arsenic they get astatine the 2022 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars viewing party.
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May 2022: Top Gun: Maverick Premiere
They look apical tier connected the reddish carpet.
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June 2022: Engaged
Hayley flashes her engagement ringing at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
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June 2023: Elemental Premiere
The 2 get cozy astatine the motorboat of the Disney-Pixar film.
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August 2023: Just Married and Honeymoon
The mates honeymoon successful Italy pursuing their Aug. 26, 2023 wedding successful California.
December 2023: In Sickness and successful Health
Derek was by Hayley's broadside arsenic she underwent exigency skull country owed to a burst humor vessel. "It was a clip filled with uncertainty and fear, going from surviving our dreams onstage, to a nightmare successful an instant," helium wrote connected Instagram implicit a week later. "Her betterment process has been thing abbreviated of a miracle."
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