Who needs a dating app when you have a ballroom? Dancing With the Stars ' 33rd season will take its first choreographed steps Sept. 17 with a slew of Olympians ( Ilona Maher , Stephen Nedoroscik ), reality stars ( Jenn Tran ), actors and even one fake heiress currently on house arrest after a larceny conviction (hi, Anna Delvey !) set to (dance) battle it out for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy. But which star will win DWTS isn't the only question on viewers' minds as the series has proven to be—to borrow a bit of parlance from ABC's other appointment viewing reality series—the perfect place to fall in love.
Though the are-they-or-aren't-they showmances fizzled out shortly after the season 32 finale in December, partners Harry Jowsey and Rylee Arnold and Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater had fans rumba-ling about their respective relationships. Which is more or less what happens when you gift your dance partner a $14,600 diamond bracelet . As for Mauricio, who is currently separated from wife Kyle Richards , and Emma, they were quick to set the record straight .
"We do want to address this story, this whole thing that's going out and about, about whether Emma and I are dating," Mauricio said in a video alongside Emma shared to his Instagram Story last October, after the two were allegedly spotted holding hands . "About whether we went out on a date. For full clarity, we are not dating.
" Emma, who split from fellow pro Sasha Farber in 2022, also sounded off on the specula.