Yahoo Lifestyle Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko's Drama-Filled Relationship Timeline
Dancing With the Stars season 33 was a...wild ride, to say the least. Between Anna Delvey's constant shade toward the show, Bachelor Nation exes Joey Graziadei and Jenn Tran competing against each other, and the multiple dance partner-turned-romantic partner situations that unfolded, it made for damn good reality TV. One of the partnerships in question? That'd be Sports Illustrated model Brooks Nader and DWTS pro, Gleb Savchenko.
The pair became a hot topic early in the season with their steamy dance numbers, stolen kisses backstage, and eyebrow-raising TikToks. Brooks and Gleb's relationship has been a dramatic whirlwind, filled with romance rumors, matching tattoos, and not-so-subtle breakup digs—which is why we're breaking down all the details right here.
September 6, 2024
Brooks and Gleb are announced as partners on season 33 of Dancing With the Stars. It's only the beginning...
September 15, 2024
The duo is photographed while heading into DWTS rehearsals.
September 17, 2024
The pair performs their first dance of the season, which happens to be a spicy tango to "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears.
September 24, 2024
Ahem, this hot pic from week two of rehearsals is posted:
Brooks and Gleb also debunk romance rumors during an interview with E! News after their performance. “We’re just having fun honestly and living our life,” Brooks tells the outlet.
And Gleb adds, “Listen, when you rehearse together for such long hours and days, you create a certain chemistry. Especially when we dance together, it’s there. We’re trying to get into character pretty much.”
However! According to this fan-posted TikTok, they were also spotted kissing backstage that same day. Do what you will with that info!
September 27, 2024
A source tells Us Weekly that the pair has been “hooking up," adding, “It’s casual for now, and they’re both just having fun. Brooks and Gleb have been very flirtatious from the beginning of rehearsals. They aren’t dating, but they’re enjoying spending time together and getting to know each other.”
Brooks also spills some tea with Extra at Goldie Hawn’s Love-In Gala in L.A., saying, “Who wouldn’t want to make out with Gleb?” She specified that they were purely a “dance couple for now” and “not in a relationship.”
As she explains to the outlet, “I have so many mixed feelings about it. I’m newly single, so we’re having a really nice time.” (FTR: Brooks was previously married to Billy Haire, after whom she reportedly dated Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece. Casual!)
Oh, and she also confirms that “everything” that's been posted about her and Gleb is “real.”
September 28, 2024
Things are heating up! The Daily Mail posts pics of Brooks and Gleb during a night out in Beverly Hills as they walked out of Wally’s with their arms wrapped around each other and “shared a few kisses.”
October 5, 2024
The pair makes a TikTok set to Sabrina Carpenter's "Bed Chem," where Brooks lip-syncs "come ride on me" before Gleb cozies up to her. Spoiler alert: They make tons of TikToks together, but this one in particular might make you sweat.
October 8, 2024
Brooks and Gleb get matching tattoos, per this TikTok.
“This is my first ever tattoo and ever,” Brooks later tells E! News. “I have no tattoos. We got something that's special to the both of us, and we're not sharing what it is. But maybe we will. We'll call you first when we tell.”
She adds, “I said I would never do it with a tattoo. I promised myself this, but I'm changing so much in my life and I figured like, why would I not get one? And also, Gleb is very convincing.” The model had “a little bit of a rough day, so we just decided to take a shot and get a tattoo.”
October 9, 2024
The couple attends the PXG San Diego Grand Opening Celebration.
October 15, 2024
Brooks and Gleb's DWTS run comes to a close when they're eliminated. During the episode, Brooks tells hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, “It’s been amazing and we had so much fun.”
And to Brooks he says, “I want to thank you for an amazing season, it was so unexpected. I had a blast working with you. You are super talented and I love you.”
That same day, the ballroom pro is asked whether he's in love with Brooks during an appearance on Harry Jowsey's Boyfriend Material podcast. He replies, “I can’t hear you, what? …I don’t know, maybe.”
As he explains, “We’re just hanging out. We just have a good time. She’s amazing. I love being around her. She’s got such great energy, great personality. Obviously, super hot.” Int-er-est-ing!
October 24, 2024
Brooks confirms that she and Gleb broke up by posting a TikTok.
October 26, 2024
A source tells Us Weekly that Gleb was the one to end the fling, saying he “got way too comfortable, especially in the amount of time he was spending at Brooks’ home to a point it had begun to concern Brooks’ people and family close to her.” They add, “Gleb sensed Brooks pulling back because of this.”
Per the insider, Gleb wanted to “get ahead of the situation” and broke up with her “via a text.”
November 4, 2024
Fellow DWTS pros Ezra Sosa and Rylee Arnold are truly doing the lord's work, because they straight-up confront Gleb after he post TikToks from Brooks's house amid their breakup.
“Brooks, if you’re watching, I miss you,” Gleb says in the clip.
November 13, 2024
Gleb clarifies why he ended things with Brooks via text during an interview with TooFab at the Gurus 2024 Awards in Beverly Hills.
“There’s a lot of things,” he says. “Sometimes you can be mixed up in a conversation. So I always like to write everything down. When I wrote that down, it felt like it was perfect, because the moment you start a conversation, you might get lost, so it’s better to just write it down.”
He adds that he and Brooks “haven’t spoken,” saying, “I really actually do miss her because she’s the vibe. She’s a really cool person. And I had the best time. When you asked me if I had the best time on the season, absolutely. This is one of my best seasons.”
In conclusion: “Brooke is super talented and we had a lot of fun. Life happens, and I do miss her a lot.”
November 14, 2024
TMZ asks Brooks if she's going to get her matching tattoo with Gleb removed, to which she responds, “Yeah. I’m already in the process, girlfriend. Removal.”
She clarified that she and Gleb were “colleagues” and that her ink was a “lapse in judgement.”
She goes on to add, “I didn’t know we were dating, to be honest with you. You don’t have to be dating someone to make out, right?”
She also says she wouldn't pursue a romance with Gleb again, noting, “I don’t think a hookup again. But I’m down to be friends with him. Maybe, I don’t know. If he doesn’t pull what he pulled on me… He was really something with that one.”
November 25, 2024
DWTS pro Ezra Sosa captures content with his partner, Anna Delvey, before panning to Brooks and Gleb packing on PDA during rehearsals for the season finale.
Emma Slater also uploads a video of the pair. "What is going on?" Emma asks on camera as Gleb carries Brooks around his waist.
November 26, 2024
Brooks posts an ad in partnership with Samsung, which seemingly references Gleb breaking up with her over text.
She also reveals the exact text he sent her during a TikTok live ahead of the show's finale.
“He was going through something and then he said, ‘Picked up my stuff. I’m going to Joshua Tree tomorrow for a few nights. We should have a conversation but I think I'm done,’” Brooks reads, per People. “‘I care about you. I think you're an amazing person. You always have a special place in my heart. I love you.' That was on October 23.”
“I never responded,” she adds. “Then, October 25, he said, 'I miss you.' Then, October 26, 'I’m so sorry, I want to talk to you. I actually miss you.' Then, of course, we had a little chit-chat.”
That same night, the pair reunite for the DWTS finale, where they perform together one last time—to “Reunited” by Peaches & Herb, no less.
December 4, 2024
TMZ catches the pair outside South Beverly Grill in Beverly Hills, where Gleb confirms they “are together.” When asked if their romance was real, he says, “Of course it’s real. Everything is real. We’re not playing. We’re not playing games.”
December 9, 2024
Brooks breaks down her relationship status with Gleb in an exclusive interview with People, where she says, “It is all real, and the TikTok thing, those little rebuttals and back and forth were all real because we were a little bit broken up—not that we're like, there's no defining what we are—but he sent me that text and he started this whole TikTok thing.”
She adds, “So I was just going back at him and it was just kind of funny banter, but we weren't speaking. We were just TikToking, which is hilarious. Not speaking, no speaking terms, and then we rekindled.”
The model also gets candid about the real reason she exposed Gleb's breakup texts, saying he “made his bed.”
“I know it seems like everything's out and I'm airing out all my business all the time, but there's so many parts of it that I don't talk about that I keep really secret and private, which relationships typically I do not,” Brooks dishes. “I mean, I'm newly single, let's be real, but I've tried to be private about who I'm seeing, but this one was like he kind of asked for it because he started this whole thing.”
December 12, 2024
It goes without saying that Brooks and Gleb are back on the ~TikTok grind~, and Brooks posts some behind-the-scenes footage from DWTS.
December 21, 2024
Another day, another TikTok trend. This time, Gleb picks up Brooks—while wearing matching holiday onesies—in order to take on Sabrina Carpenter's "Slim Pickins" trend.
December 27, 2024
Gleb spends the holidays with Brooks and her family, as proven by the slew of TikToks the model posts. Dropping this hilarious prank she and her sister pulled on Gleb just for fun:
The couple is also spotted out in L.A. that same night.
January 4, 2025
As PopCrave would say, Gleb stuns in a new TikTok posted by Brooks. This time, he's marveling at all her magazine covers set to Nicki Minaj's song, "Dip."
January 7, 2025
Apparently, Gleb (who shares two kids with his ex, Elena Samodanova) is ready for Baby No. 3...this time with Brooks! This revelation comes about after his DWTS co-star, Pasha Pashkov, posts a clip to his Instagram Stories, which shows Gleb holding his daughter as she chews on an apple. Pasha writes, “Kiki wanted more apples so @Glebsavchenkoofficial brought her an apple flower.”
Gleb then reposts the video to his Instagram Stories and tags Brooks, writing, “I think I’m ready for a 3rd one.” Okay!
Aaand that's all for now! We'll add more details on these two as soon as they come.
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