Brooks Nader isn’t tap dancing around what happened with her ex.
After meeting on Season 33 of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2024, the model, 28, and Gleb Savchenko, 41, struck up a partnership both in and out of the ballroom.
Nader and the dance pro were involved in an eight-month on-again, off-again romance that ended for good in April 2025.
The reality star accused Savchenko of cheating on her. The Post reached out to the competition star’s rep for comment.
While going through the breakup, Nader had her family by her side, including her three sisters: Mary Holland, Grace Ann and Sarah Jane.
Along with her ride-or-dies, there was also a production team in tow, capturing the split on camera for the sisters’ new reality series “Love Thy Nader.”
“It was hard to mums the word while he was just making dumb TikToks and I was crying in bed,” Nader exclusively told The Post.
With headlines swirling, the Louisiana native and her family chose to stay silent for the most part.
“There is a moment where I was having fun at an event and honestly didn’t know the cameras were right there. And someone said something, and I replied out of emotion,” Sarah Jane recalled. “Basically, there were some ‘Dancing With the Stars’ fans at this event, and they were like, ‘We were obsessed with you and Gleb.’ And I was like, ‘We hate Gleb.’”
“The cheating had just happened,” Nader alleged.
“But nobody knew about it, and I was going, ‘Okay, yeah. That’s great. We’ll take a photo,’” reminisced the cover star. “[I was] keeping on a brave face, and I told the girls, ‘Don’t say anything. We need to be professional, and this is my work event.’ And she was like, ‘We hate him. He cheated on her!’”
“I can’t tell these girls anything, but they know everything,” she teased, referring to her sisters.
Sometimes, it was just difficult not to defend their sister to the press or otherwise.
“Definitely when all the cheating stuff was happening and comments and headlines were blaming Brooks for using it to spin our show or somehow promote our show, that was really hurtful,” Mary Holland explained. “Because we were in the midst of showing it on the show, but we couldn’t talk about it. So watching her go through that was really hard. But it’ll all come out in the wash. Tune in to ‘Love Thy Nader’ to see what really happened.”
After taking a beat from Savchenko, Nader reflected on what the split taught her.
“I think the biggest takeaway from the whole breakup was how my sisters rallied around me,” she gushed.
“My mom, my dad and how they were there for me. And I think it’s kind of ironic and funny, like my dad gave me away. He thought I was married. He thought he was done with me. And then it’s like, no, I’m going to be licking face on television with this dancer, then date him, then be on a reality show, then date other [people],” joked Nader.
“But no, they’re so supportive,” she reiterated. “They were really there for me when I was not getting out of bed for like three days when this was all going down in real life. It was special to see how they came to my bedside and they were so sweet. My parents stayed in town, and extended an extra day, and they’re just so sweet, I could cry.”
Earlier this month, Savchenko hinted that he was fired from “DWTS” after Nader’s cheating allegations. Savchenko originally joined the cast of the ABC series in 2013 for Season 16.
Despite the rocky relationship ending, filming “Love Thy Nader,” which airs on Freeform and Hulu, was a blessing for the sisters.
“It definitely brought us closer,” said Mary Holland.
Nader echoed her sibling’s sentiments, elaborating, “We got closer. We’ve pulled out. There was blood drawn. There was tears. There was everything. Pregnancy tests. I don’t want to spoil anything, but you just name it and it happened. I feel that’s sort of a look into truly our daily lives. My dad says, ‘There’s always 50 things happening at once.’ So I feel like they did a great job of showing our daily lives.”
Before moving to the Big Apple with her family, Brooks was married to Billy Haire. The Sports Illustrated model and the real estate investor split in May 2024, and their divorce was finalized a year later.
“The biggest adjustment, I think, was for me being married all those years and then moving back in with my sisters was like, whoa. But I think for the better,” confessed Nader. “It’s a dream, really. Built in besties. I mean, they’re just right there. They’re a scream away.”
Along with the dramatics that will play out on the show, fans will also get a look into the Naders’ southern roots.
“You guys really get to see how we get into it with the crawfish and the sucking of the heads and the eating of the tails. I mean, we go gnarly. I can eat my weight in crawfish. I don’t think people know that about me,” admitted Nader. “But you’ll see me throw down a few pounds in a few minutes on the show.”
It’s safe to say filming has given the ladies a sense of freedom to be themselves.
“Totally,” Nader concurred. “I mean, we’re going to be on reality TV. We’re putting it all out there. So everything is fair game to make fun of.”
“Love Thy Nader” airs every Tuesday on Freeform. The entire season is currently streaming on Hulu.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
