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Dancing with the Stars’ Shannon Elizabeth Teaching Derek Hough How to Play Poker, Have Sex, Drink, Etc.


Cougar-ific Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough are living together, playing pokerEven though they’ve been eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough continue to tango.

Reports have been circulating that the two have been dating (and has been confirmed through multiple sources in the poker world). Shannon, 34, split with her math teacher boyfriend Brett Estrada around the beginning of the show, and Derek, a Mormon (dum-da-da-da-dum), was single because he’s Mormon and we’re pretty sure they’re not even allowed to date. They just get married (…and married…and married…).

So will the cougar Shannon corrupt poor little 22-year-old Derek with evils like booze, sex, drugs, and poker?

[A] report claims that Shannon is so determined to make the romance work that she’s even teaching Derek how to play poker. Says the source, “Poker is her passion. She’s won a lot of money in poker tournaments.”

What in the name of Bringham Young is going on here?

We’ll see if we see Derek at the 2008 WSOP.

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Renee May 11, 2008 at 7:27 am

I’m a huge fan of Shannon Elizabeth and the fact that she is teaching Derek how to play poker is even more exciting. A great dancer and an expert poker play, what a girl!

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