Dancing With the Stars has come a long way since siblings Julianne Hough and Derek Hough joined the feel-good reality competition back in 2007 (her in the spring, him in the fall). “In the beginning, it was like the Wild Wild West,” recalls Derek. “We’re like, maybe we’ll do a bench. Maybe we’ll have a bike on stage. Maybe try a stool. No joke, having a stool [on stage] was a big deal. Now it’s like, ‘Hey, can I have an Aztec ruin come from the ceiling [with a] water feature coming down [so it’s] raining on set?’”
Not surprisingly, the two can’t help but get emotional when they talk about the...
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