She starred in the 2011 film remake of Footloose. All four of Hough’s grandparents were dancers, and her parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college, in Idaho. The Ballases helped tutor the two Hough children alongside their own son, Mark, schooling them at the Italia Conti Academy.

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ABC’s 20/20 called her one of the “very best dancers on the planet.” Hough’s brother, Derek, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a three-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her parents are Mari Anne (née Heaton) and Bruce Robert Hough, who was twice chairman of the Utah Republican Party. The Ballases helped tutor the two Hough children alongside their own son, Mark, schooling them at the Italia Conti Academy.

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All four of Hough’s grandparents were dancers, and her parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college, in Idaho. Her formal training began at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah, where she danced with Josh Murillo, among others, in Latin Ballroom; she began dancing competitively at nine. Her parents sent her and brother Derek to London a year later to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas, and to spare them the strife of divorce. On November 20, 2008, Hough told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show she would not be returning for the foreseeable future to Dancing with the Stars in order to further her country music career.

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