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That’s Mario, the R&B singer who uses only his first name (existent gens Mario Dewar Barrett), and not Mario Lopez, former Protected By the Buzzer Star.

Karina Smirnoff is partnering with the former on Saltation With the Adepts this season. Three seasons ago, she partnered with Mario Lopez.

Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff dropped in love and are still geological dating as an outcome of that season of Terpsichore With the Hotshots. All picked up up?

The DWTS pro and certifiable cutie reacted this week to bruit that she is soaking up with her current partner, the R&B singer Mario.

“We have a totally professional human relationship,” Karina Smirnoff informated. “I have a muckle of regard for Mario. He is an outstanding soul.”

Mario and Karina: The 2008 Dance With the Mavens variation

The Fresh House of York Post described this week that the current DWTS loop of Mario and Karina were “fashioning extinct by the man with their custody all all over each early” at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Luscious chitchat!

Mario’s repp refuses the title, locution “this made not fall out.”

But a beginning close to the gifted singer takes a firm stand “there is decidedly chemical science and a flirt betwixt the two.” Then once again, it is dancing.

Ah, what would Terpsichore With the Wizards be without constant assemblage rumors? Or the improbably attractive and someway still chaste Julianne Hough