Derek Bruce Hough is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor and singer. From 2007 to 2016, Hough was a professional dancer on the ABC dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars, winning the show a record-breaking six times. Hough has also appeared as an actor on stage, appearing in the West End premiere of Footloose: The Musical at the Novello Theatre. In film and television, he has starred in the film Make Your Move and had a recurring role in the ABC musical-drama Nashville. In 2016, he appeared as Corny Collins in NBC’s live musical TV-production of Hairspray Live!. Since 2017, Houg has served as a
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Derek Bruce Hough is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer, choreographer, actor and singer. From 2007 to 2016, Hough was a professional dancer on the ABC dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars, winning the show a record-breaking six times. Hough has also appeared as an actor on stage, appearing in the West End premiere of Footloose: The Musical at the Novello Theatre. In film and television, he has starred in the film Make Your Move and had a recurring role in the ABC musical-drama Nashville. In 2016, he appeared as Corny Collins in NBC’s live musical TV-production of Hairspray Live!. Since 2017, Houg has served as a judge on the NBC dance competition series World of Dance. He is the second cousin of musicians Riker, Rydel, Rocky, and Ross Lynch from R5, their maternal grandmothers are sisters. He has four sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, Katherine, and Julianne. All of his grandparents were dancers, and his parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college in Idaho. When he was 12, his divorcing parents sent him to London to live and study with dance coaches Corky and Shirley Ballas. They received training in song, theater, gymnastics, and many forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, and tap. He subsequently taught at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. He can also play the piano, guitar and drums.
He won the WDSF World Latin Championship in 2002, and the Blackpool U-21 Latin title with Aneta Piotrowska in 2003. In 2013, he worked with world champion ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White on a number for their 2014 Sochi winter Olympics short dance program that had to contain quickstep and foxtrot rhythms. In March 2014, he announced a tour of 40 cities across the U.S. and Canada with his sister, Julianne, called “The Hough Tour” Hough won his second Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, alongside Julianne Hough and Tessandra Chavez, on September 12, 2015, for the Primetime Live Show, along with the other nominees in the category. He was nominated for nine Emmy Awards for choreography, including the two nominations that he went on to win. On September 22, 2013, the category for Out outstanding choreography for the Emmy Awards was moved to the primetime live show, and all of the nominees were to create and perform a number with the host of the show, Neil Patrick Harris. Hough, who was nominated to perform on Dancing with The Stars, was part of that number, and said: ‘It’s definitely going to be an original number, something that hasn’t been done before. It’s going to utilize the talents of all of them to put this number together as choreographers’ Hough then won the Emmy Award.
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