Derek Hough Teases 'Possibility' Wife Hayley May Rejoin Dance Tour After Health Crisis: It'll 'Be Unbelievably Special'

Mar. 15, 2025

Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert on June 14, 2023 in Hollywood, California.Photo:Emma McIntyre/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Emma McIntyre/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Derek Houghis hoping to have wifeHayley Erbertback with him on stage soon.

TheDancing with the Starsjudge, 38, shared withE! Newsthat “there’s a possibility” Erbert, 29, will be rejoiningtheir Symphony of Dance touronce she fully recovers from theemergency craniectomyshe underwent in December.

“We actually met dancing on stage on tour. Our first kiss was on stage on tour,” Hough explained. “We were touring last year for the first time as a married couple and now this, going back out, there’s a completely different meaning and tension.”

“I almost need to rename the tour to the Miracle Tour or something,” added the professional dancer of Erbert’s recovery. “Because if there’s a moment where she’s with us and joining us on stage, it’s going to be unbelievably special.”

“I don’t know even know how I’m going to through it,” he confessed. “I’m an emotional guy.”

Hayley Erbert and Derek Hough on June 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

While Erbert’s return to tour hasn’t been confirmed, Hough announced he hasrescheduled the remainder of his tourafter he initially postponed it following his wife’s health crisis. The show will resume on April 16 in Tampa, Florida, and conclude in San Diego, California, on May 19.

In early December, Erbert suffered a cranial hematoma after their Symphony of Dance tour stop in Washington D.C. on Dec. 6. She underwent an emergency craniectomy beforehaving cranioplasty surgeryto replace a “large portion of her skull" a day later.

Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.".Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty

Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty

Since then, the pair have shared updates on Erbert’s condition and progress. Speakingexclusively to PEOPLE earlier this month, Hough shared how supportive both of their families have been and noted that the widespread public support really touched the couple.

“The thing that really makes us — and really her — the most emotional about all of this is just the love that she felt from not just family and friends, but just from everyone. It’s a really beautiful feeling and we’re just really thankful for that,” he said.

Hough also applauded Erbert’s determination and strength throughout her healing process.

“She’s incredible. She really is. I double take all the time just seeing the way she’s handled this situation with just such elegance and a sense of just accepting it for what it is,” he said of his wife. “She’s just an unbelievably determined person and has been unbelievably strong through this whole experience."

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The couple first connected in 2015 but didn’tget engageduntil June 2022. A year later, Hough and Erberttied the knotin August 2023 in California.

source: people.com