Emma Slater Reveals Which ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Cast Member She Misses The Most

Dancing With the Stars pros Daniella Karagach and Pasha Pashkov’s 22-month-old daughter, Nikita, stole Emma Slater’s heart on the live tour.

“The cast member I miss the most!” Slater, 36, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, April 26. “She as given her own little opening number costume made by Kristen in the #DWTS wardrobe!! 🥹.”

Alongside the message, Slater shared a sweet video of Nikita sporting an orange two-piece over her clothes and placing loose clothing in a bin. “Look at our little wardrobe helper, every single show,” Slater gushed in the clip.

“I haven’t recovered from saying bye to her honestly, @daniellakaragach @pashapashkov bring her back!!!!” Slater concluded. “We love you so so much little munchkin Nikita 🧡🎈 @nikitasofiapashkova.”

Slater’s post comes days after the DWTS: Live Tour came to an end — and which she and fellow pro Alan Bersten closed out by sharing an onstage kiss. While Slater and Bersten, 30, have yet to formally address their relationship status, a source exclusively told Us Weekly in 2024 that the pair were “hooking up.”

The insider shared that Slater and Bersten were a private couple but their romance was “not new” and “ongoing.”

Before being linked to Bersten, Slater previously tied the knot with fellow pro Sasha Farber. The exes were married for four years before filing for divorce in 2023.

“We’re still like family, so it isn’t really like the love is not there, it’s actually not that at all,” Slater said during an August 2023 appearance on “The Viall Files” podcast. “We’re just at potentially two different places. But the hard part was that the love actually didn’t go [away].”

Slater shared that the reason for their breakup boiled down to “the kid thing.”

“It’s interesting because I do want to have kids. I just don’t want to delay Sasha’s path in having kids because I know that he is ready for that,” Slater said. “I don’t want to talk about him too much because that’s really for him to say, but it’s about kids. I do want kids. I don’t know what it is, I’m just figuring that out for myself. It’s not something I take lightly and I don’t want to enter into something that I’m not sure about because I would never do that.”

In the years following their split, Slater and Farber have remained on amicable terms. “We really are close friends,” Slater told Us in June 2024. “He’s somebody who’s in my life forever. It’s a true genuine connection and he’s the best person, just absolutely amazing. We just get on really, really well.”