'DWTS' : Derek Hough Misses Week 3 'Out of an Abundance of Caution' Due to 'Potential COVID Exposure'

Derek Hough was missing from the judges' panel onDancing with the Stars.

At the top of Monday’s week 3 show, which was a Britney Spears-themed night, host Tyra Banks announced that Hough, 36, was not present in the ballroom.

“Due to a potential COVID exposure, and although he’s fully vaccinated and tested negative, Derek will sit out tonight’s show out of an abundance of caution,” Banks said.

Then, the camera panned to the three original judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. (Hough joined as a judge for the show’s 29th season, competed as a pro 17 seasons and won the mirrorball trophy six times.)

In addition to being aDWTSjudge, Hough has been traveling back and forth to Los Angeles from Las Vegas where he has been performing his new show,Derek Hough: No Limit, at The Venetian.

Hough’s Sunday show in Vegas was canceled, according to a Ticketmasterrelease.

Derek Hough.Isaac Brekken/Getty

Instead of a live performance, the judges and the audience watched their taped rehearsal at theDWTSpractice studio which was filmed “before Burke’s positive COVID test” was known.

The pair’s dance will be the first-ever remote performance in the ABC franchise’s history.

Dancing with the Starsairs Mondays on ABC.

Breakthrough cases— COVID-19 infections that occur in people who have been fully vaccinated against the virus — are unlikely, but possible and expected, as the vaccines are not 100% effective in preventing infections. Still, vaccinated people who test positive will likely be asymptomatic or experience a far milder illness than if they were not vaccinated. The majority of deaths from COVID-19 — around 98 to 99% —are in unvaccinated people.

source: people.com