Derek Hough was once worried he’d lost Jennifer Lopez as a friend after accidentally pulling out her hairpiece while dipping her at a salsa dancing party.
The hair-raising incident most likely occurred in January 2016 when the 38-year-old DWTS judge visited the 54-year-old pop diva in Las Vegas during her All I Have residency at Planet Hollywood’s Zappos Theater.
‘We’re dancing, and we’re having a good night,’ Derek recalled on Tuesday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show.
‘We’re sweating. The live band’s playing. It’s steamy, it’s going great. This was several years ago. And I dip her and…I step on her hair, and I pull her back up, but her hair didn’t come back up.’
The three-time Emmy-winning choreographer said JLo ‘didn’t miss a beat’ and managed to surreptitiously scoop up the hairpiece while doing a squat turn move, which he demonstrated for the 42-year-old EGOT champ.
Oops! Derek Hough was once worried he’d lost Jennifer Lopez as a friend after accidentally pulling out her hairpiece while dipping her at a salsa dancing party (pictured in 2020)
‘Congratulations!’ The hair-raising incident most likely occurred in January 2016 when the 38-year-old DWTS judge (L) visited the 54-year-old pop diva (2-L) in Las Vegas during her All I Have residency at Planet Hollywood’s Zappos Theater
Later that same evening, the former Fly Girl and Janet Jackson back-up dancer – whose hairstylist Lorenzo Martin frequently gives her extensions and faux-ny ponytails – confronted Hough: ‘Derek, do you know what you did?’
The Utah-born Mormon replied: ‘Show you the time of your life, what’s up?’
‘And she’s like, “No, you pulled out my hair!”‘ Derek recounted.
‘She has a chunk of it. I was like, “I’m so sorry, oh no!” And then the next day she’s like, “Hey, do you want to do a project with me?” I was like, “Fantastic, because I thought our friendship was over!”‘
That project turned out to be NBC reality competition World of Dance and the deal for Hough to judge it alongside Jennifer and Ne-Yo was finalized in November 2016.
World of Dance aired for four seasons from 2017 until its 2021 cancellation.
The six-time Mirror Ball Trophy winner also chatted about his August 26 nuptials to fellow dancer Hayley Erbert in front of 106 guests in Monterey County and subsequent Italian honeymoon.
‘It was so special. It was such a beautiful, beautiful weekend. It was magical. It really was…It was a lot of fun a lot of dancing literally till the to the the end of the night. It was awesome,’ Derek gushed.
Derek recalled on Tuesday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show: ‘We’re dancing, and we’re having a good night. We’re sweating. The live band’s playing. It’s steamy, it’s going great. This was several years ago’
Hough continued: ‘And I dip her and…I step on her hair, and I pull her back up, but her hair didn’t come back up’
‘She didn’t miss a beat’: The three-time Emmy-winning choreographer said JLo managed to surreptitiously scoop up the hairpiece while doing a squat turn move, which he demonstrated
Later that same evening, the former Fly Girl and Janet Jackson back-up dancer (pictured in 2020) – whose hairstylist Lorenzo Martin frequently gives her extensions and faux-ny ponytails – confronted Derek: ‘Do you know what you did?’
Hough replied: ‘Show you the time of your life, what’s up? And she’s like, “No, you pulled out my hair!” She has a chunk of it. I was like, “I’m so sorry, oh no!”‘
The Utah-born Mormon continued: ‘And then the next day she’s like, “Hey, do you want to do a project with me?” I was like, “Fantastic, because I thought our friendship was over!”‘
Aired from 2017-2020! That project turned out to be NBC reality competition World of Dance and the deal for Derek to judge it alongside Jennifer and Ne-Yo (L, pictured in 2020) was finalized in November 2016
‘It was magical!’ Hough also chatted about his August 26 nuptials to fellow dancer Hayley Erbert in front of 106 guests in Monterey County and subsequent Italian honeymoon
The six-time Mirror Ball Trophy winner (pictured September 2) gushed: ‘We were in Como, we went to Rome, we went to Tuscany. We even stayed in this ancient city called Matera which is 10K years old. It’s the third oldest city in the world where we literally stayed, our room was a cave. It was wild. It was really cool’
So in love! At 29, the Kansas-born hoofer (L, pictured September 2) is nine years younger than Derek, whom she began dating in 2015 a year after dancing with him in his Move Live On Tour
‘Sharing it with my beloved!’ The newlyweds resume their 60-date Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance tour this Thursday at the DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids, MI (pictured October 9)
Airing Tuesdays on ABC/Disney+! Hough also judges the 32nd season of Dancing With the Stars alongside Carrie Ann Inaba (L, pictured Tuesday) and Bruno Tonioli (R)
‘The honeymoon was fantastic. We went to Italy. We went all over. We were in Como, we went to Rome, we went to Tuscany. We even stayed in this ancient city called Matera which is 10K years old. It’s the third oldest city in the world where we literally stayed, our room was a cave. It was wild. It was really cool.’
At 29, the Kansas-born hoofer is nine years younger than Hough, whom she began dating in 2015 a year after dancing with him in his Move Live On Tour.
Before Hayley, the Step into the Movies star previously romanced India de Beaufort, Shannon Elizabeth, Cheryl Cole, Lauren Conrad, and his sister Julianne’s bridesmaid Nina Dobrev for six weeks in 2013.
The newlyweds resume their 60-date Derek Hough: Symphony of Dance tour this Thursday at the DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids, MI.
Derek also judges the 32nd season of Dancing With the Stars – airing Tuesdays on ABC/Disney+ – alongside Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli.
