Tuesday Night with Mark Ballas and Derek Hough

Anyone who reads Gossip Sauce regularly knows we love Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough.

Yes, he is extremely afflicted with major Dancer Face, but we dig it.

So much in fact, that last night we went to The Grove, an outdoor mall in LA that’s kind of like Euro-Disney for adults, to see the Ballas Hough Band play.

Around 8:30pm, Shannon Elizabeth, Derek’s (gag) girlfriend, took the stage to announce the boys to a crowd of about 75 people, including Mark’s Dancing partner, Shawn Johnson, who is so tiny and spray tanned, she looks exactly like an Oompah Loompah. No joke, we almost asked her for a Golden Ticket.

The Ballas Hough Band was better than we excepted, it’s a perky pop mix that would play well on Radio Disney, but the best part of the night was Derek, getting so jiggy with it, we had to start laughing.

He was part Ren McCormack, part Michael Jackson and full on jazz hands-ing it up.

You gotta love a man who knows the power of a major hair flip.

—Sasha Perl-Raver