After weeks of speculation, Dancing with the Stars‘ recently ousted Sabrina Bryan is coming clean about her off-screen sparks with partner Mark Ballas. In fact, she’s positively gushing. “I absolutely love and adore him,” she told TV
Guide.com.

And thanks to their shocking Oct. 30 departure from the show, the former favorites finally have time to explore their feelings—starting with a romantic night out this weekend. “[”Mark is”] joking that it’s our first date,” she told TV Guide. “We’ve
always hung out, millions of times, millions of dinners. But this is different.”

Bryan and Ballas are not the first to find love on the dance floor. Mario Lopez and his former partner Karina Smirnoff moved in together last spring. —Kate Stroup