Shannon Elizabeth

Finally, we're free to dance away with our baby daddy Derek Hough's heart!

The Dancing with the Stars pro and his girlfriend, American Pie actress Shannon Elizabeth, have officially parted ways.

And they made the announcement, ugh, via Twitter.

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.

Lucky hooch.

Shannon Elizabeth got to manhandle our Dancing with the Stars favorite, Derek Hough, at the 7th Annual World Poker Tour Invitational at Commerce Casino on Saturday.

The three-day Texas Hold ‘Em tournament kicked off with a “celebrity tournament” that Shannon and Derek played in, along with Mekhi Pfeiffer, Jennifer Tilly and William Hung.

Star-studded.

We don’t care how D-List he is, Derek is still the best reason to watch Dancing with the Stars.

–Sasha Perl-Raver

Mark Ballas has pulled a muscle.

And it wasn’t in his face.

Dancing with the Stars pro Ballas, who has the most severe case of “Dancer Face” we’ve ever witnessed, has suffered a groin injury and will have to take a couple of weeks off the DWTS Tour to heal he announced to the crowd on Saturday night at the tour’s stop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Dancing with the Stars won’t unveil its “celebrity lineup” (Oooh, ahhh, ohhh, Steve Guttenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Tia Carrera. They should call it “Blinded by the Stars” there’s so much wattage) until mid-August, but rumors are already ankle deep and the major buzz is *NSNYC-er Lance Bass is going to follow in Joey Fatone’s fox-trotting footsteps.

It did wonders for Joey’s career, so why shouldn’t Lance be next?

But that’s not what people are clamoring over.