Emma Slater and Mauricio Umansky. Getty Photographs (2)
Dancing With the Stars professional Emma Slater thinks she is going to all the time have former accomplice Mauricio Umansky in her nook.
“I actually suppose that Mauricio is somebody who’s going to be in my life eternally,” Slater, 35, solely advised Us Weekly on Friday, Might 10, on the Race to Erase MS Gala on the Fairmont Century Plaza. “We actually do click on. We form of went by way of tough instances on the similar time collectively and had been one another’s confidants. It was a very nice season. Tough for each of us, however we’re actually actually grateful that we had one another.”
Slater was partnered with Umansky, 53, for season 32 of the ballroom dancing competitors. On the time, he was newly separated from spouse Kyle Richards. Slater, in the meantime, was beforehand married to fellow DWTS professional Sasha Farber and filed for divorce in February 2023. (DWTS season 32 rehearsals began the next summer time, however it’s not clear if her “tough” journey was associated to the divorce.)
“You get actually near your companions on the season,” Slater advised Us on Friday. “He’s such an incredible individual. We now have such a very good friendship that it meant rather a lot that he was in a position to come to the [DWTS] tour and help as nicely.”
From the ballroom to the actual world! Many of Dancing With the Stars’ celeb contestants and their skilled companions developed robust bonds and friendships all through the method. Months — and even years — after their seasons concluded, many of those former pairs have continued to be good mates to their one-time dance accomplice. 4 years after competing on season 24 of the favored dance competitors collection in 2017, […]
Slater and lots of of her fellow professional dancers toured america on the finish of season 32. Umansky got here to observe the reside present in March.
“It’s so good to have Mauricio come and watch the Dancing With the Stars tour,” Slater gushed.
Slater and Umansky’s friendship sparked hypothesis from followers, who clocked their intense stage chemistry. They had been additionally noticed holding arms in between rehearsals however shut down relationship rumors.
“For full readability, we aren’t relationship,” Umansky beforehand mentioned in an October 2023 Instagram Story video. “We’ve been dancing collectively now for six weeks, 4 hours a day each single day.”
Slater chimed in on the time, explaining that they share “related personalities” and are very “supportive” of each other.
Many Dancing With the Stars contestants have such a palpable connection on the dance ground that followers begin to speculate whether or not these bonds lengthen to actual life. “We actually do get on and have nice chemistry, which made this dance a lot simpler,” Emma Slater advised Us Weekly in September 2022 after DWTS host Alfonso […]
Umansky had used DWTS — he was eradicated on the October 31, 2023, broadcast — to assist cope together with his latest breakup. Us confirmed in July 2023 that he and Richards, 55, had separated shortly earlier than the pair denied third-party involvement.
Umansky and Richards, who share three daughters, have but to file for divorce however the Shopping for Beverly Hills star just lately moved out.
“Kyle and Mauricio have been dwelling individually for the previous couple of months and he’s been staying [in a new condo],” a supply solely advised Us earlier this month. “They’ve each been touring rather a lot just lately, so it’s figuring out the place they don’t keep below one roof.”
Shortly after Us broke the information of Umansky’s new pad, Richards formally eliminated his final identify from her social media bios.
With reporting by Mike Vulpo
