Two time Dancing with the Stars winner Julianne Hough told Ryan Seacrest on his morning show that she will not be returning next season. “I’m not going to be back next season,” Julianne announced. “That’s final.”
Fan favorite Hough joined the show during its fourth season and took her first title with partner Apolo Anton Ohno. She returned the next season and won again with partner Helio Castroneves. The twenty-year old dancer was diagnosed with endometriosis this season and took time off from the competition to have an appendectomy. She returned to be voted off with partner Cody Linely this week.
Despite the surgery, Hough acknowledges that was not the reason for her decision not to return next season. “It’s because I really, really want to focus on the music,” Hough told Seacrest. “(I want to) be taken seriously a little bit, and I think it’s hard to be on Dancing with the Stars and be singing and kind of get that confusion, and so I’m really going to focus on the music.”
Hough’s music career has skyrocketed with her self-titled album debuting at #1 on the Country Music Charts. Despite her announcement to not return for the eighth season of the hit show, Hough has left the door open for a possible return down the line. “I don’t know about the fall. Maybe, maybe not. We’ll see,” she wrote on her blog. “I’m definitely going to focus on the music. My first album was a learning experience, and I can’t wait for the next one. I feel like the writing and producing will be even better, really awesome.”
As for her predictions for a winner this season? “I really hope Brooke and Derek win. I think they deserve to win. From day one, they’ve been awesome. I think Brooke is the most technically sound of the celebrities and she’s a beautiful dancer.”
November 26th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
wow its cool i love dancing with the stars i watch it everyday it comes on its the best show ever and you guys can dance ur butt off keep the good work number on fan