Brooks Nader can’t help but praise her Dancing with the stars partner Gleb Savchenko.
At the Clarins Double Serum Generation 9 Launch Party on Saturday, October 19, The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit the cover model spoke with PEOPLE about her time on the DWTS and her dance partner Savchenko.
Prior to the October 19 interview, the pair were eliminated on the October 15 episode. DWTS. Prior to that, the two were rumored to be dating when they kissed during a rehearsal taping and then kissed backstage during another episode, PEOPLE confirmed.
“He’s just such an amazing person and all around human,” Nader told PEOPLE exclusively of the professional ballroom dancer, 41. “He really cares about people and he’s always said, ‘I just want to make you look really good and I want you to have the best experience with Dancing with the stars.’ ”
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Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko on Tuesday, October 15th.
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“He was really focused on it all season, he wanted to make me look hot, he wanted to make me feel confident,” she explained.
She then noted that Savchenko also “organized that whole pole dancing lesson” for her, which she later performed on stage during Hair Metal Night on October 3.
“Just to make sure I feel great and that he just cares,” she said of the lesson. “I feel like that’s a rarity these days and that’s why I’m very grateful to have had him as a partner. He’s an amazing guy.”
Nader also told PEOPLE that it was all “amazing.” DWTS the trip was for her, despite being eliminated.
“I’m so honored to have made it this far and to be able to end on such a high note with my sisters dancing with me and my whole family was there,” she said, before adding that she had “mixed feelings [about the elimination]but everything happens for a reason.”
The model also revealed that she feels she “won in the end” because she “learned and grew a lot during the process.”
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The pair’s elimination came a week after they got matching tattoos together on Monday, Oct. 7, at Hollywood’s Nautilus Tattoo. There, they showed some serious PDA as she smeared her hip and he smeared his chest.
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Gleb Savchenko and Brooks Nader in New York on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.
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At a Clarins event on Oct. 19, while she admitted to PEOPLE that she’s never gotten a tattoo before, she didn’t reveal the details of her “private” tattoo.
She also mentioned that her parents were visiting at the time. “They saw something on page six and they said ‘How was dinner, did you do anything else?’ and I’m like, ‘No.’ And they say, ‘Really?’ And I said, ‘Well, I got arrested, but I’m an adult, so I can get a tattoo, it’s very small, very thin, and it’s my only tattoo.'”
She added that this is probably “the end [her] tattoo journey, but who knows? Anything could have happened.”
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