Dancing With the Stars’ Emma Slater sparked romance rumors with fellow pro Alan Bersten after the two were photographed holding hands. Are Emma Slater and Alan Bersten dating? Keep reading to find out.
DWTS is ABC’s popular dance competition where professional dancers team up with celebrities to learn new dances weekly. Each week, competitors are eliminated based on public voting and scores received from the judges. The show premiered in 2005 and wrapped its 32nd season in December 2023.
Slater first joined DWTS in Season 17 and won her first and only Mirror Ball trophy during Season 24 with her partner Rashad Jennings. Like many other pros, Slater has found love on the show; she was previously married to a fellow pro and was even rumored to be dating a contestant at one point.
Since Slater is now single, fans believe she may have a romance brewing with Alan Bersten, a pro who joined the show in Season 25. Read on to see if Emma Slater and Alan Bersten are dating.
Are Emma Slater and Alan Bersten from Dancing With the Stars dating?
Are Emma Slater and Alan Bersten dating? Although we don’t know for sure, fans believe the two pros might be an item thanks to a photo of them holding hands.
Slater and Bersten are currently gearing up for the upcoming DWTS live tour, which kicks off in early January 2024. On Dec. 15, 2023, the official Instagram account for the tour posted several behind-the-scenes photos of the pros rehearsing. In one group shot, Slater had her hand placed on top of Bersten’s hand as they laughed with the rest of the dancers.
Fans were quick to point out the hand-holding moment and speculate on the pair’s relationship status. In a Reddit thread, one fan wrote: “Side piece moving up to boyfriend status after 4 years of waiting. You go guys.” A second commented, “Lol and yet you all refuse to believe the ‘rumors’ about them. Some of the comments on this post are funny too.” A third fan wrote, “I’m here for it 🤣,” while a fourth dismissed the rumors, writing in part: “People are so ridiculous. Like honestly who cares what they do now. Who cares if they’re just friends who cares if they decide to date in the future.”
The British dancer had previously been married to fellow pro Sasha Farber. The pair got engaged during a live episode of the show in 2016 and they tied the knot on March 25, 2018. After four years of marriage, the couple separated in August 2022. Slater filed for divorce nearly one year later in February 2023, citing “irreconcilable differences.” During an August 2023 episode Nick Viall’s The Viall Files podcast, she revealed that they divorced because she didn’t want to have kids just yet. “It’s really the kid thing,” Slater explained. “It’s interesting because I do want to have kids, I just don’t want to delay Sasha’s path in having kids because I know that he is ready for that. I don’t want to talk about him too much because that’s really for him to say, but it’s about kids.”
Following her divorce, Slater was rumored to be dating her Season 32 partner Mauricio Umansky. The two were seen holding hands in Los Angeles amid their time on the show, and they were also spotted spending time together following their elimination. Their rumored romance seemingly fizzled out as Umansky was photographed with influencer Alexandria Wolfe in Aspen, Colorado, in December 2023, per People.
Bersten, on the other hand, briefly dated his Season 25 partner Alexis Ren in 2018.
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