Derek Hough Says Fiancee Hayley Erbert Is ‘Impossible to Surprise,’ Breaks Down His ‘Special’ Proposal

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Meant to be! Derek Hough gushed over his fiancée, Hayley Erbert, after confirming their engagement earlier this month.“I just love calling her my fiancée,” the 37-year-old dancer exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, June 6, while promoting his Las Vegas residency, Derek Hough: No Limit, which runs from now until September 2022. “I think that word now feels right to the way I feel and to my commitment to her and to our love and story and life together. … Hayley is The One.”The Make Your Move actor, who announced his engagement via Instagram on Thursday, June 2, explained that the 27-year-old Kansas native’s personality and ease with being a pet mom made him confident about popping the question.“I know she’s just going to be an amazing mother and amazing wife and she’s so thoughtful, so caring, so loving,” Hough said on Monday. “Just seeing the way she is with our animals, I mean if she’s even a quarter of the way she is with our animals how she is with our kids I just can’t wait to see her be a mom.”The former Dancing With the Stars pro got down on one knee at the couple’s home after spending the day seeing Yosemite.

Hough says the candled-filled living room setting felt more suitable for the pair who work and live together.“We travel around the world and doing all these amazing adventures, we love all that, but what we love even more is coming back home and being in our place together,” he explained. “It felt special to transform the house into this beautiful sanctuary with candles and flowers and of course our special songs and music that mean a lot to us, playing at the same time.”Hough, who knew Erbert for one year before they began dating in 2015, told Us that the whole night went as planned — although it has since