True Dancing With the Stars followers will always remember the primary skilled dancer to stroll away with the mirrorball trophy.
When the ABC actuality present premiered in 2005, solely six celebrities had the chance to compete within the ballroom.
After simply six weeks, Basic Hospital star Kelly Monaco was topped the winner along with her skilled companion, Alec Mazo.
Collectively, they beat out Trista Sutter, John O’Hurley, Joey McEntire, Rachel Hunter and Evander Holyfield, who was partnered with Alec’s spouse, Edyta Śliwińska.
“A number of producers contacted us in 2005, once they had been in search of professionals to seem on a present,” Mazo recalled in a 2013 interview with Jake’s Takes. “I imagine that the producers selected us as a consequence of our aggressive outcomes, how we seemed, our personalities and to see if there was a match between knowledgeable and a star who they paired up with us.”
The producers definitely didn’t make a mistake when casting Mazo and Śliwińska.
Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinsk Courtesy of Edyta Sliwinska/Instagram
The pair appeared on varied seasons on and off all through the years earlier than Mazo mentioned farewell to the present in 2009. Śliwińska, in the meantime, mentioned goodbye after season 22 in 2016.
“We had 15 seasons between us and it was an important expertise, however it turned very repetitive,” Mazo shared. “We had achieved 4 excursions of Dancing With the Stars and developed a reasonably respectable community of connections and we simply discovered that by the tip of the day, it didn’t matter if we did 15 or 20 seasons, we needed to transfer on from [DWTS] a method or one other. We had a chance to provide and that’s after we determined when it was time to depart.”
Though he discovered large success within the ballroom, Mazo pivoted profession paths and is now an funding portfolio supervisor, in accordance with LinkedIn.
He has greater than 14 years of funding expertise and serves as a common companion at DGA Capital.
Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinsk Courtesy of Edyta Sliwinska/Instagram
Followers hoping to comply with his new actuality by way of social media could also be out of luck. As a substitute, Śliwińska shares extra updates about her husband and their household, which incorporates two kids: son Michael and daughter Leia.
“The individual you marry is probably going a very powerful determination you’ll ever make,” Śliwińska wrote by way of Instagram in April. “And you made the suitable selection, as a result of your relationship will get higher each single 12 months❤️.”
Whereas dancing will all the time be a part of Mazo’s life, his spouse might deserve an ideal 10 for a way she described their present life away from the cameras.
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“My daughter usually asks me, ‘Mommy, what’s your favourite factor to do?’” Śliwińska recalled by way of Instagram in August. “It was dancing. However issues change. … I nonetheless love dancing, however I really like THIS extra: spending time with the folks I really like and nature. And the mix of those two, mountain climbing, snowboarding, going to the seaside or horseback driving, is now my favourite factor.”
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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