Mauricio Umansky couldn’t stop smiling as he reunited with his former “Dancing With the Stars” accomplice, Emma Slater.
The dancer, 35, gushed about her latest encounter on Instagram on Sunday, revealing that the reality star, 53, visited her backstage on the “DWTS Live 2024” tour, which Slater is currently hosting.
“So happy to see @mumansky18 on the last night of the DWTS tour 😆😆😆😆 ahhhh super grateful we were partners on the show, if you’ve met him you already know he’s the best,” she wrote on Instagram, adding: “Annnnnd he stole the show just by being in the audience 😂😂😂😂.”
Umansky and Slater had previously partnered on the 32nd season of “Dancing with the Stars.” The pair were sent home after the show’s “Monster Night,” where they performed a rampage and the Charleston during the “Monster-a-thon dance.”
Romantic rumors between Umansky and Slater began circulating in October amid reports of Umansky’s split from his wife, Kyle Richards, because the pair were seen having fun at an intimate dinner and were seen holding hands as they left the restaurant.
Umansky denied the connection rumors.
“We want to address this story, this whole thing, and come out and find out whether or not Emma and I are dating — whether or not we go on a date,” Umansky said at the time via her Instagram Stories. “For readability, we are not relationships.”
He continued: “After we left dinner, we were recapping and I reached out to grab Emma’s hand, and she grabbed my hand, and we, we walked out to the cars just recapping and summarizing and then the paparazzi caught it. that second. It became a blowout moment.
Richards, 55, and Umansky initially denied stories of their breakup, but went public with their breakup in September.
“Kyle and I are human beings, okay? We have feelings, we have emotions, we are going through a very difficult time, okay?” Umansky told TMZ at the time.
“Right now we are separated, we are not talking about divorce and we are trying to take care of these things internally, with ourselves, in private.”
He also told Page Six in October that despite his marital troubles, he and the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star were not yet “falling by the wayside.”
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Richards, in turn, sparked relationship rumors with Nation singer Morgan Wade.
The “Halloween” star recently left a cheeky comment beneath a photograph of Wade, 29, wearing country cowgirl outfits on Instagram.
“Save a horse, try a cowgirl 🤠,” she wrote. To which, Wade responded with: ““@kylerichards18 😂☠️🪦.”
Despite their flirtatious relationship, the two have denied having any romantic connection for several months. Still, fans continued to invest in their relationship when the musician was seen rubbing Richards’ butt while posing for photos backstage at the taping of “Watch What Occurs Live with Andy Cohen” in February.
In the second season of his Netflix reality show, Umansky has since said he doesn’t mind finding out more about the nature of his ex-wife’s relationship with her friend.
They definitely have some kind of connection; there is no doubt about it. They spend a lot of time together,” she stated.
“Maybe one of the reasons I don’t want to ask is because I don’t want to put extra pressure on her. If it’s working for her and it’s giving her a chance to deal with our separation…I’m okay with that.”
