DWTS Hayley Erbert Hough on coming back to show – | TV Shows

Hayley Erbert Hough never carried out alongside a superstar on Dancing With the Stars, but she still isn’t ruling out the likelihood of at some point going back to the show as a professional dancer. 

The dancer, 31, served as a member of the show’s troupe from 2015-2019, and last appeared in the ballroom in 2024 to carry out alongside her husband, professional-turned-choose Derek Hough, one yr after an emergency craniectomy process.

Now, following the pair’s welcoming of daughter Everley, who was born on Dec. 29, 2025, she is sharing her ideas on the likelihood of a return to the show–particularly as a professional.

However, while she is eager and admits she would never rule it out fully, she also feels there might be a new issue if she have been to compete.

In a new interview, she admitted that she feared the problem of being on the show while her husband serves as a choose.

Speaking to People Magazine, she opened up about the fact that it will probably trigger uproar from followers.

“Never say never,” she said. “Lots of my friends have gone back after having kids, but it’s a little difficult with [Derek] being a judge. Might be a little bit of a conflict of interest.”

Derek, 40, feels otherwise about it, however, sharing that he would make sure to not take it straightforward on his spouse and can be “overly hard” with scoring her.

“I’d be like, ‘Two.’ Then I’d be like, ‘Babe, I love you. I’m so sorry,” he said.

If the ABC show did carry Hayley back as a professional dancer, it wouldn’t be the first time followers raised eyebrows over somebody performing on stage with their important other or another member of the family or close good friend sitting at the judges’ desk.

Derek’s sister, Julianne Hough, who now serves as the show’s co-host, served as a visitor choose in both seasons 17 and 18, where she was ready to choose her brother with companions Amber Riley and NeNe Leakes during one week of each season, giving him a 9 with Riley and an 8 with Leakes. Derek and Amber went on to be topped Season 17 champs.

She then joined the panel as a everlasting choose and additional scored Derek with Bethany Mota, Nastia Liukin, Bindi Irwin and Marilu Henner in seasons 19, 20, 21, and 23. With the exception of two scores with Henner, she never gave her brother a rating decrease than 8.

Maks Chmerkovskiy also served as a visitor choose on the show during two different Switch-up weeks, during which he scored his Val Chmerkovskiy twice, giving him a 9 and a 10, and his spouse, Peta Murgatroyd, once, whom he gave a 7.

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Derek has also confronted backlash in latest seasons since changing into a choose. While he has never judged Julianne, who last competed as a professional in season 8, he has twice judged Mark Ballas, his best good friend.

In Season 31, which Mark received with Charli D’Amelio, he never scored them less than an 8.

In the show’s most latest thirty fourth season, where Mark and Whitney Leavitt have been eradicated during the semifinals, he never scored them less than a 7.