Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd set the #relationshipgoals bar quite high when they wed in 2017, and the couple has remained steadily in love ever since.ET celebrated their romance for ET's Couples Week, and the lovebirds took us back to the very beginning of their love story. «I have the correct version,» Maks told ET's Nischelle Turner of the day he met Peta. «It was on Broadway and I literally walked in, stage right, and said 'hello' to the crew and she was the furthest away.» The couple met as dancers on the 2009 Broadway production, a live dance show inspired by a performance at Elton John's 50th birthday party.Maks told ET he felt a spark with Peta right away. «I always knew it was going to be her,» he said.The attraction proved to be a slower burn for Peta. «He came in big chested, 'Here I am, I'm Maks from ,'» she remembered.
She had yet to join the cast herself.«I was like, 'I don't know who you are, I'm from Australia so I couldn't really give two hoots,' and I was just sitting back very much observing him,» she said.
Though their love took time to grow, Peta admits their friendship became important even before it turned romantic. «It wasn't love at first sight or anything,» she said. «We were strictly platonic friends and our friendship grew to the point where he actually offered me my first visa to stay in the country, as a friend.» Maks laughed at the memory, recalling the fact that he didn't actually know how to help her. «I didn't know what I was saying,» he said, but he called colleagues at in an effort to figure it out and keep her from leaving.
Though Maks and Peta never danced as a couple on they did join together for a few gigs early in their friendship. Both of them agree the dance floor.
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