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Derek Hough hilariously recalled the time he thought his friendship with Jennifer Lopez was over.
“There was one time really I went salsa dancing with Jennifer Lopez,” Hough, 38, defined throughout a Tuesday, October 24 look on The Jennifer Hudson Present. “We’re dancing and we’re having a very good night time. We’re sweating, the stay band’s taking part in. It’s steamy, it’s going nice.”
The Dancing With the Stars decide, who famous that this was “a number of years in the past,” stated issues went awry when he dipped Lopez, 54, after which unintentionally stepped on her hair.
“And I pull her again up, however her hair didn’t come again up,” he recalled, including that Lopez “didn’t miss a beat” and mimicked her persevering with to bop whereas selecting up her hair from the bottom.
Hough, for his half, stated he had “no concept” what had occurred till Lopez informed him later within the night time.
“She stated, ‘Derek are you aware what you probably did?’ I used to be like, ‘So that you had the time of your life, what’s up?’ And she or he’s like, ‘No, you pulled out my hair!’” he recalled. “She has a piece of it, and I’m like ‘I’m so sorry!’”

He continued: “After which the subsequent day she was like ‘Hey, do you need to do a venture with me?’ And I used to be like, ‘Incredible, ‘trigger I believed our friendship was over.’”
Earlier than Hough sat on the judges desk on DWTS, he served as a decide alongside Lopez and Ne-Yo on World of Dance. (The present was in the end canceled after 4 seasons in 2021.)
However the pair shaped a friendship exterior of filming the truth dance competitors. In September 2018, Hough revealed he and his now spouse, Hayley Ebert, regularly double dated with Lopez and her then-boyfriend Alex Rodriguez.
“Yeah, man. We exit on a regular basis,” Hough informed Us Weekly on the time. “You understand, yachts,” he added jokingly.
In 2020, Hough despatched a very good luck video message to Lopez forward of her Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency and credited Rodriguez, 48, for placing collectively the gesture.
“After all I made a video wishing her good luck, wishing her the perfect,” he informed Us. “All of the artistic administrators, everybody concerned, I do know all of them. … I’m simply actually completely satisfied for all of them.”
After the efficiency, Hough sang his pal’s praises. “Jennifer was simply so polished, a category act, I liked seeing her daughter sing! … It was so particular, so cute,” he gushed. “I liked it.”
