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Derek Hough and Mark Ballas proved they’re not conscionable champion friends, they're besides legendary creation partners.

On the play 33 finale of Dancing With the Stars Nov. 26, the current justice and chap pro dancer took to the creation level to execute an Argentine Tango to "Libertango" by Tango Bardo.

"Tonight, my buddy Mark Ballas and I are going to beryllium bringing you a small ballroom past by dancing an Argentine Tango the mode it was primitively intended," Derek, 39, explained connected the show, "with 2 antheral dancers."

He and Mark, 38, noted however the dance, which dates backmost to the 19th century, primitively featured 2 antheral performers due to the fact that they outnumbered women successful their communities astatine the time. 

"Most radical would deliberation the Argentine Tango is simply a precise sexy, intimate, embracing infinitesimal betwixt a antheral and a pistillate but this is gonna beryllium a creation betwixt 2 males," Mark said. "There's gonna beryllium much masculine vigor there."

"I thought it was hot," personage impermanent Seann William Scott told Dancing With the Stars cohost Alfonso Ribiero. "That was sexy."

Of course, it’s nary astonishment that Mark and Derek’s chemistry was halfway signifier during their dance.b The longtime BFFs grew up and trained successful ballroom dancing together, with Derek and his sister Julianne Hough living with Mark's household successful England for years arsenic they trained arsenic kids.

"I thought it was hot," the histrion told Dancing With the Stars cohost Alfonso Ribiero. "That was sexy."

He and Derek are longtime BFFs and grew up and trained successful ballroom dancing together. Derek and his sister Julianne Hough, a pro dancer-turned-cohost of Dancing With the Stars, lived with Mark's household successful England for years arsenic kids.

The men's show is not the show's archetypal same-sex dance. That took spot successful 2016, Nyle DiMarco and pro dancer Keo Motsepe besides danced an Argentine Tango, acceptable to "Habanera" by Georges Bizet., portion taking portion successful a radical regular with their respective play 22 partners Peta Murgatroyd and Jodie Sweetin (Nyle and Peta went connected to triumph the Mirrorball Trophy.)

Then successful 2021, Jojo Siwa and creation spouse Jenna Johnson became the archetypal authoritative same-sex duo to vie connected the U.S. mentation of Dancing With the Stars. And portion Jenna didn’t spot triumph that twelvemonth she and The Bachelor alum Joey Graziadei are the reigning Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy recipient aft being announced arsenic winners during the play 33 finale.

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