No hard feelings! Ryan Seacrest has no problem hanging out with ex-girlfriend Julianne Hough — even at work.“Jules, just to start, [my cohosts] Sisanie and Tanya have been asking me if this is awkward for me,” the American Idol host, 47, said while interviewing the dancer, 33, and her brother, Derek Hough, during the Friday, March 4, episode of On-Air With Ryan Seacrest. “And I said, ‘Not at all because we’re friends’.” The Hough siblings were speaking about their upcoming ABC special, Step Into … The Movies, where they’ll recreate some of the most iconic song and dance moments in film history.The Dancing With the Stars alum agreed, noting, “We’re friends!
We chat [a lot].”Explaining that he has remained close to his ex since their 2013 split, Seacrest said that there’s no tension when he and Julianne see each other. “There is nothing uncomfortable about it, because we’ve remained friends,” the Live With Kelly and Ryan host said, while Julianne added that they treat each other with “respect and love and all those things.”The Footloose star also poked fun at the idea that she and Seacrest were no longer allowed to spend time together. “I have a new publicist now, so it’s like, ‘It’s fine!
They can talk!'” Julianne said with a laugh.The pair were first linked in 2010. “I’m kind of dating my first celebrity crush, so I feel pretty fortunate,” Julianne told Us Weekly in October 2012.
One year later, the Safe Haven actress confessed that she still got “giddy” whenever she saw Seacrest on TV. “It was super exciting to see my man on TV.
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