Ryan Seacrest will likely be ringing within the new yr on Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve‘ particular with assist from a number of acquainted faces — together with Julianne Hough and Rita Ora.
ABC introduced on Monday, November 24, that Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2026 is returning with Seacrest, 50, and Ora, 34, internet hosting from New York Metropolis. They are going to be joined by Probability the Rapper in Chicago whereas Rob Gronkowski and Hough, 37, cohost from Las Vegas.
This marks Hough’s debut as a cohost on Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve, however her historical past with Seacrest dates again to 2010. The pair dated for 3 years earlier than calling it quits in 2013.
After their break up, Hough mirrored on how being at totally different factors of their careers affected their relationship.
“The rug was swept up from beneath me, and I used to be simply flying and I used to be experiencing issues that I didn’t even know existed,” she shared on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Knowledgeable” podcast in August 2024. “I had this insecurity that I used to be like, ‘I don’t ever need anyone to suppose that I’m with him because of this.’”
Hough in the end began to second guess herself within the relationship. “And so I then began enjoying smaller,” she added. “I do know that that was his expertise in previous conditions and stuff, and so I once more overcompensated, [I] was malleable to suit into precisely what any person wanted me to be for them to be pleased.”
Following her break up from Seacrest, Hough discovered love with Brooks Laich. They tied the knot in 2017 after 4 years of courting. Rumors swirled that their marriage was on the rocks in early 2020 after they hung out aside in the course of the COVID pandemic.
“We now have lovingly and thoroughly taken the time we’ve wanted to reach at our resolution to separate,” the pair mentioned in a joint assertion in Might 2020, asserting their breakup. “We share an abundance of affection and respect for each other and can proceed to steer with our hearts from that place. We kindly request your compassion and respect for our privateness shifting ahead.”
What can’t she do? Julianne Hough made her mark on Dancing With the Stars earlier than shifting on to overcome performing, singing and extra. The skilled dancer joined the ABC competitors collection in 2007 and received the mirrorball trophy throughout her inaugural season. Later that yr, she turned a back-to-back champion. Hough then shifted her focus towards performing, […]
Us Weekly confirmed that the duo’s divorce was finalized in June 2022. Hough has since mentioned how troublesome the expertise was for her.
“It wasn’t proper. That may be a tough factor to completely settle for,” she mentioned on “Armchair Knowledgeable” about her marriage. “I really feel like our relationship and our marriage was precisely proper, and the tip of it’s proper too. We each have regrets that it didn’t work out, as a result of I don’t suppose we had the maturity to come back collectively. He was contracting whereas I used to be increasing. We simply couldn’t discover one another in that.”
Hough later acknowledged that the general public may need misconceptions about her — beginning together with her profession.
“I believe as a result of I accomplish that many various issues, I’m a bit complicated,” she shared on Watch What Occurs Dwell in August 2024. “Persons are like, ‘What does she do, does she dance, is she a singer, is she an actor, what does she do?’ However I believe I’m a storyteller. And I believe by nature, every little thing that I do is storytelling whether or not it’s via my physique or via my voice or via my performing.”
Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2026 airs on ABC December 31 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
