Julianne Hough’s ex-husband Brooks Laich announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Katrin Davíðsdóttir on Friday.
And the 36-year-old professional dancer was among the first to wish the couple — Brooks, 41, and Katrin, 31 — well.
In a joint Instagram post, the lovebirds shared engagement photos and the caption, ‘12.16.24 ♾️ Forever feels just right with you!’
The Dancing With The Stars host commented, ‘Congratulations. I’m so happy for you both as you step into this beautiful new chapter together. Wishing you both a lifetime of love, laughter, and endless adventures! ❤️✨’
Brooks replied with a friendly message that read, ‘thank you for the kinds words, much love Jules!’
The exes were first romantically linked in 2013, married in Idaho in summer 2017, and were divorced by 2022.
Julianne Hough ‘s ex-husband Brooks Laichs announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Katrin Davíðsdóttir on Friday
Katrin’s caption read, ‘12.16.24 ♾️ Forever feels just right with you!’
The 36-year-old professional dancer was among the first to wish the couple – Brooks, 41, and Katrin, 31 – well
Brooks replied with a friendly message that read, ‘thank you for the kinds words, much love Jules!’
Back in September Hough shared how it felt to see Laich and Davíðsdóttir at a mutual friend’s wedding.
Appearing on the The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast, she opened up to Lima about the experience, calling it ‘beautiful’ in a three-part interview.
She recalled, ‘It was so beautiful,’ adding, ‘I’m in this place where I now feel like I’m just beginning with so much wisdom, with so much insight, with so much compassion and so much empathy and understanding of what’s possible.’
Reflecting on her divorce, she described going from ‘having the extreme of like, ‘Will this ever end?’ to ‘Oh my gosh, like, I get to literally, design and create the life of my dreams.”
She continued, ‘And know that every decision I’m going to make is going to be from here and that it still doesn’t mean it’s going to be this perfect life.’
Hough isn’t striving for ‘a perfect life,’ but rather a ‘full, beautiful, connected life.’
The media fixture said, ‘You feel joy because you feel sorrow, you feel all these things because you have the spectrum to feel it.
‘You have the space to feel it, and that, I think, is what we’re here to experience… is the fullness of life.’
The exes were first romantically linked in 2013, married in Idaho in summer 2017, and were divorced by 2022; pictured in August 2019
Laich cemented his new relationship with CrossFit athlete Davíðsdóttir with an Instagram post in August 2021; pictured in a December 2024 post
Julianne shared a selfie with her dog as they took a ‘rainy morning stroll’ on Friday
Laich cemented his new relationship with CrossFit athlete Davíðsdóttir with an Instagram post in August 2021.
For Hough, she now has ‘certain non-negotiables’ and is practicing ‘living and vibrating in the place of my most authentic self for that to be what attracts whoever it is, versus I’m gonna put what I think I want and need out there and then literally force-create it.’
It comes weeks after the media figure opened up about her sexuality to Lima — five years after she revealed she’s ‘not straight.’
While appearing on the first installment of the podcast, she emphasized that she is attracted to ‘people.’
She also reflected on the empowerment she felt after coming out publicly in 2019.
‘Coming out is one of the most vulnerable and empowering things that you can do. I think for me, it was very much like, it’s not about being straight or gay or bi or queer,’ she explained.
She added: ‘It’s more about, I think I’m just learning what love is and I love people and I don’t know what I’m attracted to, but ‘I choose you.”
