Last year Julianne Hough said she wasn’t coming back to Dancing With The Stars, but I guess she couldn’t resist being coupled up with her real-life sweetheart, Chuck Wicks.

Winner CMA’s Top New Artist award this past weekend is incentive enough to concentrate on her music career rather than juggle the two:

“I wasn’t planning to come back this season because I wanted to focus on my music. But I went back and it’s been so much fun to dance with my good friend who happens to be my boyfriend.”

She will be missed on DWTS.

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