The Best Real-Life Romances To Come From The Dancing With The Stars Ballroom

Sadly, not every “Dancing With the Stars” romance ends with the lovers twirling off into the sunset. Sometimes, couples that meet on the show split. That happened with “DWTS” professional dancers Emma Slater and Sasha Farber. The duo met on the show in 2009 and were friends first, but Farber told People that “three or four months” after he met Slater, he was sure he wanted to be with her. 

The dancers began dating in 2011, and although Slater and Farber had a brief split, they got back together and then were engaged in 2016. Like Maks Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd, Slater and Farber got engaged during a “DWTS” episode. They got married in 2018.

By 2022, the couple separated, though. Slater filed for divorce in February 2023, and said parenthood was the reason for her and Farber’s split — Slater was not ready to have kids and didn’t want to hold Farber back from starting a family. However, there doesn’t seem to be any awkwardness between them, since they both still work together on “DWTS.” Slater told E! News in October 2023, “We support each other, very, very truly.” She added, “I’ll help him with his dance and he’ll help me with my dance. We do that, all us pros together. I don’t feel that competition at all with him.”