Dancing with the Stars pros Emma Slater and Alan Bersten have seemingly confirmed their romance with a steamy kiss following months of dating rumors.
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A DWTS audience member posted footage of the shocking moment via TikTok and called Emma and Alan's smooch "the greatest hard launch of all time."
The TikTok user captioned the video, "Not to be dramatic but watching this live made my entire life."
In the video, Emma and Alan were smiling at each other and swirling around the stage. At one point, the dancers paused, looked into each other's eyes, and kissed mid-routine.
Once Emma and Alan embraced and locked lips, the audience could be heard cheering.
Whether the kiss was spontaneous or planned, the pro dancers continued the rest of their flawless routine.
A source told Us Weekly in late October that Emma and Alan were "hooking up" but their romance was "not new."
The source shared at the time that Emma and Alan's relationship was "ongoing" but they were dragging their feet on going public with it.
Dancing with the Stars fans began speculating Emma and Alan were more than just friends when a photo surfaced on X of the pair holding hands while walking next to each other in Fall 2024.
Emma was previously married to fellow Dancing with the Stars pro Sasha Farber.
Emma and Sasha got married in March 2018 and went on to have an on-again, off-again relationship for more than 10 years.
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But Emma filed for divorce from Sasha in late February 2023 after four years of marriage. The blonde beauty cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for their split, and she listed April 1, 2022 as the date of her separation from Sasha.
Emma and Sasha finalized their divorce in May 2024.
Emma, Alan and Sasha all participated in Dancing with the Stars' 33rd season late last year.
Emma and her celebrity partner, Reginald VelJohnson, were eliminated during the show's third episode, and Sasha and partner Jenn Tran were ousted from the competition on October 29.
(Sasha and Jenn have also been the subject of dating rumors in recent months. Jenn told People that she and Sasha are "not in any rush to define anything or put anything out" in the media.)
Alan -- who was most recently linked to his Dancing with the Stars Season 27 partner Alexis Ren in 2018 -- and partner Ilona Maher made it to the DWTS finals and finished in second place.
While fans may assume it's difficult for Emma and Sasha to work together and see each other all the time on Dancing with the Stars, Emma assured Us in June 2024 that they're actually really "close friends" still.
"He's somebody who's in my life forever. It's a true genuine connection and he's the best person, just absolutely amazing. We just get on really, really well," Emma told the magazine.
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But Emma claimed at the time she wasn't ready to fully put herself back out there and begin dating again.
"I'm still really happy just dating myself, honestly," shared Emma, who said she was focusing on her career and would love to move into a hosting role at some point in the near future.
"I'm in such a good place of not really needing to be with anybody that I'm not worried about it. I'm good."
Emma previously shared on "The Viall Files" in August 2023 how she and Sasha were "still like family" after their split.
"It isn't even really that the love is not there; it's actually not that at all," Emma said of Sasha.
"We're just potentially in two different places, but the hard part was that the love actually didn't go [away]. We still have that."
Emma told Season 21 The Bachelor star Nick Viall, "It's really the kid thing," that broke them up.
Emma explained the real reason for ending her marriage was because she wasn't ready to start a family yet -- but Sasha apparently wanted to try for a baby soon.
"It's very interesting because I do want to have kids; I just don't want to delay Sasha's path in having kids, because I think -- well, I know -- that he is ready for that," Emma shared at the time.
She added, "It's not something I take lightly, and I don't want to enter into something that I'm not sure about, because I just would never do that."
While Emma said she and Sasha "did have" conversations about family planning throughout the course of their relationship, she said she felt "a resistance" in life and needed to get to the bottom of why she was feeling that way.
"So, that's been the real friction and that's been the real hard part," Emma admitted.
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Emma said navigating life after her split from Sasha was "really weird" and "really confusing."
At the time, Emma said her "ideal" partner would be a tall British blonde man with blue eyes.
When Nick pointed out how that's the total opposite of Sasha's physical appearance, Emma laughed and said Sasha is "gorgeous" but her "vision" for her next romance was simply different.
Emma also revealed how she'd like her next relationship to be more private.
Emma and Sasha met in 2009 while performing on Broadway's "Burn The Floor" and they began dating in 2011. The pair broke up once before in 2014.
During that 2014 break, Emma told Glamour, "I don't think we're supposed to finish together."
"I think there are other people that might make us both individually happy, but I'm always going to be his best friend," she elaborated. "It has just happened in the way we have gone from a beautiful three-year relationship, which I love and cherish, to best friends."
Emma and Sasha eventually got back together and then Sasha proposed marriage to the blonde beauty in 2016. The former couple tied the knot in a "fairy tale" wedding in Los Angeles two years later.
Speculation the pair had split surfaced in early 2022 when they stopped posting about each other on Instagram.
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And then in August of that year, both Emma and Sasha were spotted without their wedding rings and seemed to be spending a lot of time apart.
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