Jenna Johnson can smell the finish line—well, at least metaphorically.
As the Dancing With the Stars pro salsaed one step closer to clinching the Mirrorball Trophy with celebrity partner Harry Shum Jr., she revealed that she injured her nose during a rehearsal ahead of season 35’s quarter finals.
“So last night I definitely broke my nose during camera blocking,” Johnson explained on Instagram Nov. 10, while giving fans a glimpse at her face, noting on the right side it was “a little swollen.”
But the ballroom dancer was still in good spirits after the accident, quipping, “No black eyes today, which is awesome.” She kept up her sense of humor with the caption, “Salsa: 1, Jenna’s Nose: 0, Happy Show Day.”
Johnson, 32, and Shum Jr., 44, were preparing for Grammy Night, during which the couple—who currently hold the highest cumulative score of the season—will perform a salsa to Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars‘ “Die With A Smile.”
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As such, Johnson warned ahead of the romantic duet, “If my nose looks just four times the size, that’s why.”
The two-time champion—who won season 26 with Adam Rippon and season 33 with Joey Graziadei—is taking the unwelcome twist in stride, proving that she is still fierce competition. Johnson’s third title would tie her with husband Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Mark Ballasfor current pros with the most Mirrorballs. (Derek Hough is the all-time DWTS champion with six wins during his 17 seasons as a pro.)
And Johnson’s well aware the competition can come with difficult moments. After a tense exchange with judge Carrie Ann Inaba over a critique of a dance move during Super Bowl Week, she clarified, “This is a competition. There are judges for a reason. They do need to give feedback. So, yeah, we will take it.”
Fortunately for Johnson, she has Chmerkovskiy—with whom she shares son Rome, 3—by her side throughout the competition. And the couple aren’t the only pros who made rum-ba for romance. Read on to see the DWTS coaches’ off-camera dance partners.
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Initially hesitant due to their six-and-a-half-year age gap, he recalled to DancesportInfo in 2017, “
The dancer and the CODA star got engaged in 2023 and tied the knot two years later.
“I love you,” Britt told Daniel while signing their vows in a video from their wedding day. “I think my soul loved you before I met you.”
“When I got to know Allen on The Next Pro, I immediately felt that he was one of the kindest souls I’d ever met,” she told E! News in October 2026. “Having such a strong bond and friendship first makes our relationship now feel so right.”
“I said, ‘Hey, how are you?’ he recalled to Joe Vulpis in 2024, “and she ghosted me.”
After her mom convinced her to give him a chance, Brylee and Brandon started dating in 2021 and he proposed the following year with a custom movie trailer. Months later, they tied the knot.
“If y’all knew Bry the way I do,” Brandon wrote on Instagram in May 2026, “your life would be 100 times better.”
“His aunt was my Uber driver in L.A., which was crazy,” the dancer told It Girl in September 2026. “I got in her car, was talking to her, and she was like, ‘I have a nephew who’s playing football at USC. You should reach out to him.'”After Rylee followed the tight-end, later suiting up for Utah’s BYU, on Instagram, “He messaged me,” she continued, “and then the rest is history.”
And while they didn’t nab the mirrorball trophy while competing the following year, they scored a bigger prize, welcoming son Zane in 2022. Two years later, Brian and Sharna got engaged.
“I’m so grateful I get to do life with you,” she wrote in a 2024 birthday tribute to the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, also dad to kids Noah, Bodhi and Journey from his former marriage to Megan as well as son Kassius from past relationship with Vanessa Marcil. “Us, our tribe, our adventures past present and future… it’s all everything I’ve ever wanted.”
Marrying in 2016, the singer and the dancer collaborate both in life—as parents to son Banksi—and in work, teaming up for their band Alexander Jean.
Calling BC’s love and support “unmatched,” Mark wrote in a 2025 Instagram post, “You’re the best wife & friend a man could ask for.”
