Well, we all suspected it and now its confirmed… Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas are officially a couple. They were voted off last week’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, in what is said to be the most shocking cut in the franchise history. They were the far ahead favorites to win the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars, so it was a pretty big shock when they were told they were leaving. But at least she got her man!

They’ve been dancing around the speculation for weeks, but now, still reeling from the most shocking cut in the show’s five-season history, “Cheetah Girl” Sabrina Bryan admits that she and her Dancing with the Stars pro partner, Mark Ballas, are dating. “We’re going out tomorrow,” says Bryan, referring to Sunday the 4th. “He’s taking me out for a surprise this weekend and he won’t tell me what it is. He’s joking that it’s our first date because we’ve always hung out, millions of times, millions of dinners. But this is different.”
In an exclusive interview, TV Guide spoke to Bryan on Saturday night, the first full day she was back in Orange County after a blizzard of media appearances in Los Angeles and New York. “People were so angry,” says Bryan, who was both touched and surprised by the strong reaction to her ouster on Tuesday night. There is word on the Internet that there may be protest signs in the audience on Monday night. “For the producers and the talent to come up to us after the show was amazing, because they were so upset. [Judge] Carrie Ann [Inaba] was in tears. And when I saw her at The View a few days later, she was still emotional about it.”

For her part, Bryan has been remarkably self-possessed and gracious about leaving the show. But her true feelings came out two days later when she danced with Ballas again on The View. “That was the first time I actually showed a little more of a vulnerable side and cried because Mark and I did our Cha Cha again (their dance from the first week of competition) and we wanted to do it the same way that we did in the beginning,” says Bryan. “And when it ended, it was so heartbreaking because we knew we weren’t going to get a chance to really show America what we wanted to do in the competition. We had so many amazing ideas for the freestyle! They were just spewing out of us. It was so disappointing.”

It is worth noting that they are claiming the relationship didn’t turn romantic until after they were voted off. Yeah, right!

And although Byran acknowledges that people started talking about them as a couple weeks ago, she says they haven’t gone down that road – until now. “We’ve been so focused on the competition,” says Bryan. “But now that that has died down, we’ll see where it goes. We haven’t had a chance to do any of that [dating] or even talk about it. We didn’t even realize that people would think that about us until they started asking us. Because you get so close to someone, you get so comfortable, that you don’t even see it.”

But the dead giveaway may have been the moment when Bryan called Ballas “Baby” on the air when they said their thank-yous on the dance floor in front of millions. Bryan laughs. “I always call him ‘Baby Marky.’ I absolutely love and adore him.”

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This spoiler posted on Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 12:45 pm.

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