Derek Hough and Mark Ballas proved they’re not correct handiest associates, they're also legendary dance companions.

On the season 33 finale of Dancing With the Stars Nov. 26, the present direct and fellow pro dancer took to the dance flooring to create an Argentine Tango to “Libertango” by Tango Bardo.

“Tonight, my buddy Mark Ballas and I are going to be bringing you a exiguous bit ballroom history by dancing an Argentine Tango the come it used to be before the whole lot intended,” Derek, 39, explained on the present, “with two male dancers.”

He and Mark, 38, noted how the dance, which dates inspire to the nineteenth century, before the whole lot featured two male performers because they outnumbered ladies folk in their communities at the time.

“Most of us would direct the Argentine Tango is a in fact appealing, intimate, embracing 2d between a particular person and a girl nonetheless this is gonna be a dance between two males,” Mark said. “There's gonna be more masculine energy there.”

And their performance scored 10s across the board.

“I opinion it used to be sizzling,” celeb guest Seann William Scott informed Dancing With the Stars cohost Alfonso Ribiero. “That used to be appealing.”

Clearly, it’s no surprise that Mark and Derek’s chemistry used to be middle stage all over their dance. The longtime BFFs grew up and professional in ballroom dancing together, with Derek and his sister Julianne Hough living with Mark's family in England for years as they professional as childhood.

The boys's performance is just not the present's first same-sex dance. That took area in 2016, Nyle DiMarco and pro dancer Keo Motsepe also danced an Argentine Tango, pickle to “Habanera” by Georges Bizet., while taking fragment in a crew routine with their respective season 22 companions Peta Murgatroyd and Jodie Sweetin (Nyle and Peta went on to rep the Mirrorball Trophy.)

Then in 2021, Jojo Siwa and dance accomplice Jenna Johnson turned into the first legit same-sex duo to compete on the U.S. model of Dancing With the Stars. And while Jenna didn’t be aware victory that Three hundred and sixty five days she and The Bachelor alum Joey Graziadei are the reigning Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy recipient after being launched as winners all over the season 33 finale.

Preserve discovering out for a be aware inspire on the plump forged of contestants all over the most contemporary season of DWTS…