It seems Julianne Hough’s estranged husband Brooks Laich is still on friendly terms with her brother, Derek Hough.
Brooks, 36, posted Insta Stories footage this Thursday that showed him cheerfully hanging out with a few pals including Derek.
The get-together comes three weeks after Brooks and Julianne announced they are separating after less than three years of marriage.
Staying pals: Brooks Laich (left) is apparently still friends with Derek Hough (right) amid the former’s marital separation from the latter’s sister Julianne Hough (center)
Looking fab: Derek, who shot to fame on Dancing With The Stars, was filmed by Brooks playing ping pong in a garage
Brooks and Derek were joined by the latter’s girlfriend Hayley Erbert, who like her man became famous as a Dancing With The Stars pro.
The get-together also included their pal Kristy Sowin as well as photographer Cory Tran, who is engaged to Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto.
In footage Brooks posted to his Insta Stories, Cory and Derek could be seen playing ping pong in a garage as Hayley and Kristy relaxed on yoga mats nearby.
The group went without face masks when they were seen in the video but were spaced out around the open garage.
Stylish: Derek wore a fitted white tee while he played ping pong
Brooks had been self-isolating in Idaho, where he and Julianne held their wedding, but appears to have returned to Los Angeles now.
Meanwhile in the wake of her marital separation the formerly blonde Julianne died her hair pink this month and then went brunette.
‘Julianne’s not doing great right now and feels like her brunette hair is a reflection of her feelings. She is super upset,’ claimed an Us Weekly insider.
Julianne and Brooks announced their separation at the end of last month less than three full years after getting married.
Pals: Derek’s girlfriend Hayley Erbert (left) and their pal Kristy Sowin (right) were also part of the friendly get-together
The pair had been beset by rumors of marital problems ever since they went into lockdown separately amid the coronavirus pandemic.
‘We have lovingly and carefully taken the time we have needed to arrive at our decision to separate,’ Julianne, 31, and Brooks, 36, told People together.
An insider told People they ultimately decided to split after discovering they were ‘perfectly happy and fine being apart’ while self-isolating in different states.
Two days before the separation announcement, Brooks posted ‘THIRST TRAP!’ shirtless photos from Idaho and Julianne commented that they were ‘awesome.’
Esteemed opponent: Derek was playing against photographer Cory Tran, who is engaged to Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto
A People source said Julianne is a ‘deeply different person than she was when they got married,’ and is ‘proud of those differences and changes she’s made and she doesn’t want to go back. He is the man he is and he shouldn’t change a thing. But they shouldn’t spend the rest of their lives together – not as spouses, anyway.’
During an Instagram Live interview with Oprah Magazine in April Julianne said of being in lockdown without Brooks: ‘I don’t feel lonely, but I definitely feel alone.’
Julianne, who has described herself as ‘not straight,’ was glimpsed in mid-April on a stroll with dashing 38-year-old English actor Ben Barnes who is an old pal of hers.
Meanwhile: In the wake of her marital separation the formerly blonde Julianne died her hair pink this month and then went brunette
Brooks explained: ‘I mean like in my sexual relationship, what is my sexuality and what am I craving and what are my desires and what are my wife’s, and like, how can we have this language to feed each other in – and get everything we want and be sexually expressed to the nth degree and everything?’
He also said: ‘When I think of being married and being in my relationship, truthfully at my core, I don’t see any other life for me. Like that’s the life that I choose.’
Julianne reportedly began dating Brooks near the end of 2013 and they married in July 2017 by the lakeside town of Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.
‘Love and respect’: ‘We have lovingly and carefully taken the time we have needed to arrive at our decision to separate,’ Julianne, 31, and Brooks, 36, told People together