Derek Hough and his spouse Hayley Erbert are dad and mom.
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert’s fingers cupped round their first kid’s toes / © Instagram
The Dancing with the Stars decide and the 31-year-old dancer welcomed a child lady referred to as Everley Capri Hough into the world on December 29, 2025, and introduced her arrival on Instagram on Monday (05.01.26).
In a joint publish, the couple shared a candy black-and-white picture of their fingers cupped round their daughter’s tiny toes, and captioned it with: “December 29, 2025. Everley Capri Hough. Each step of our lives has led us to you. Our hearts have been cracked vast open and our world is without end modified.”
The add from Derek, 40, and Hayley – who beforehand skilled a miscarriage – sparked 1000’s of congratulatory messages from their family members within the publish’s feedback part.
His sister-and-Dancing with the Stars skilled dancer Julianne Hough, 37, penned: “Welcome to the world candy angel Everley.”
Derek’s fellow decide on the ABC Latin and Ballroom dance present, Carrie Ann Inaba, 58, typed: “Congratulations!!!! Welcome Everley (sic).”
Mannequin Heidi Klum, 52, left: “Congratulations.”
And lots of of Derek and Hayley’s followers wished the couple effectively, with one saying: “Congratulations so blissful for your loved ones.”
One other supporter despatched: “Congratulations in your new bundle of pleasure!! What a magnificence! Welcome candy Everley. (sic)”
And a 3rd consumer mentioned: “We won’t wait to see her operating and dancing round too.”
The couple – who met in 2014 when he and Julianne employed Hayley as a dancer on their Transfer Stay Tour – shared they had been anticipating their first baby collectively through a video posted to Instagram in July 2025.
Within the heartwarming clip, the pair – who struck up a romance when Hayley joined the 2015 collection of Dancing with the Stars as a troupe member – shared a hug earlier than Hayley held up some sonogram photographs for the digicam.
The duo – who received engaged in June 2022 – captioned the publish: “We will’t consider the largest factor to occur to us could possibly be so small.”
Within the run-up to Everley’s arrival, Derek – who wed Hayley in entrance of 106 visitors throughout an outside ceremony in Monterey County, California, in August 2023 – shared his pleasure about turning into a dad, in addition to doing actions and occurring journeys together with his and Hayley’s toddler.
In September 2025, he advised Individuals: “Going to Disneyland, or occurring journeys, and simply seeing their wonderment, and their eyes, simply vast open.
“I can not wait to expertise issues for the primary time with my lovely baby.”
In November that yr, the choreographer admitted he had learnt all the things he may about being pregnant.
Derek advised E! Information: “I have been having lessons with the doulas and midwives, studying all concerning the being pregnant. Simply all these various things and all these instruments to actually perceive this start, as a result of it may be a really intimate start.
“It is going to be a bit of totally different, so I’ve to ensure I do know what I am doing.”
Derek hopes his expertise of being a mentor on Dancing with the Stars will stand him in good stead as a dad.
He mentioned: “I am at my greatest as an individual once I’m serving to anyone or simply being current and listening to them converse.”
Welling up, Derek continued: “I get emotional fascinated by it, the place I get to information, mentor, love this human being from day one.”
Smiling, he added: “It is gonna be superb, and I am trying ahead to what all of it goes to do and imply for me as a dad, as an individual, as a person and what is going on to evolve inside me and alter.”
