Stephen Nedoroscik's Dancing With The Stars partner from season 33, Rylee Arnold, shared an emotional note on missing her boyfriend, Walker Lyons. The couple was recently on a vacation in Hawaii on New Year's Eve.
Lyons, who plays as tight end for the USC Trojans Football team, recently shared a series of pictures from their trip to Kauai, Hawaii on Instagram.
The couple, who have been dating since October 2024, spent intimate moments with each other and after returning from the trip, they bid an emotional goodbye as Arnold started preparations for the DWTS Tour 2025. The dancer is now missing the tight end, and reposting a romantic picture of them on her Instagram story, she wrote:
"You guys I miss him 😭🥹❤
The 19-year-old teased fans about her dating life on her TikTok before hard launching Lyons as her boyfriend in October. The dancer was still competing alongside Nedoroscik in the reality competition and joked that she needed Nedoroscik's approval to move forward with the relationship.
“I need Stephen’s stamp of approval, don’t I? But from what I’ve told [him], Stephen’s like, ‘Yeah. He’s an amazing guy,’ and he is, so it’s good," she told US Weekly in an interview.
The couple have since made their red carpet debut during a double date with Nedoroscik and his girlfriend Tess McCracken at the Los Angeles Premiere of Wicked. They will now hope to reunite at the end of the DWTS Tour.
Rylee Arnold makes her feelings know about Stephen Nedoroscik's personality following DWTS stint
Speaking during an appearance on the 'The Squeeze' podcast, Rylee Arnold hailed Stephen Nedoroscik as the most humble guy she knew with zero ego issues.
"We both had that competitive like we want it so bad, so it's nice when you have somebody like also pushing you to want to have that [success], and another thing about him is that he's just the most humble person ever, like I never felt like he had an ego or that he was trying to be like better than me in any way or like show up in that way. So it was literally like I'm just teaching a normal guy how to dance, and we're just having a good old time," she said. [37:08 onwards]
Nedoroscik was insecure about his dancing skills at the start of the show but Arnold helped and taught him. Despite the pro dancer acting like a "Sergeant" at times, the two-time Olympic medalist has seemingly obeyed the instructions with enthusiasm.
After nearly a two-month stay on the show, the pair just fell short of the Mirror Ball trophy during the Grand Finale in November. They earned scores of 29 and a perfect 30 and placed fourth after fan choices were also taken into consideration for the results. It nonetheless bettered Arnold's sixth-place finish from the 32nd season.
