The repercussions of Dancing With The Stars season 18 are here again as dating rumors between notable dancing partners resurface every now and then. Since their victory, Meryl Davis and Maks Chmerkovskiy have always been followed by online buzz and speculations that the two are formally romantic towards each other even now that ABC's dancing competition is over. Nevertheless, it's not only Meryl Davis and Maks Chmerkovskiy who are getting all the attention when talking about possible off-camera and off the dance floor romance. Big Time Rush's James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd, who were just one episode shy from the big finale, are also being plagued by this series of questions on whether they are dating, or if they are already boyfriend-girlfriend. But the two have remained tight-lipped on the issue since their exit from DWTS.
Although James and Peta have never really addressed the issue, it seemed that one way or another they have hinted the real score between them on the show (or maybe it's just us being delusional over our fantasy of James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd being romantic to each other). It can be noted that in one of the episodes, Maslow's Big Time Rush pals were taped watching the DWTS rehearsals. And we're not really sure if it was just plain teasing, but the way Kendall Schmidt teased James and Peta, saying, "You guys have chemistry like a married couple," says a lot that there is a possibility that James and Peta may actually be dating each other all along.
Life & Style first reported that James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd once dated even before Dancing With The Stars started rehearsals. The site even noted that the two "immediately hit it off" adding that this could have contributed to the overt chemistry they shared on the dance floor and on-camera. DWTS judges even admitted that James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd really look romantic, with Carie Ann Inaba exclaiming during Week 7 that the dancing partners' chemistry is "beyond sick."
Now after their elimination on DWTS, the two were generous enough to speak about their plans following their exit from the competition in their interview with Entertainment Tonight. In the interview, James Maslow said that he is absolutely keeping in touch with Murgatroyd despite going separate ways (or are they). "We're definitely going out for a drink after this," the Nick star said. Meanwhile, as if addressing the dating rumors thrown at them, Peta Murgatroyd gave a follow-up statement to what Maslow said saying: "We're just gonna see what happens."
It's been a couple of weeks already since DWTS concluded its 18th season and we have not heard anything from James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd, and they were not spotted together following their DWTS journey. Nevertheless, it seems James is becoming busier nowadays. In fact, he just graced the cover of FitnessRx magazine for its July issue. Although the issue is obviously not out yet, a leaked photo of the cover has landed the Internet, and it is now getting a lot of "wows" and "omgs" from fans and general netizens alike.
An excerpt from the article that features the 23-year-old hunky actor even teases James' motivation or main purpose on why he is investing much too much time in working out. "You're working out so girls look at you," James said. "You want them to look at you and go, 'I want to talk to that guy.'" He then added, "People are starting to look at me like a young man, and I love that I can use my physicality to separate myself from the roles that I used to get [from] the roles that I'm going to play. When I started on Nickelodeon, I was a teenager and looked very different. I'm still young. I embrace that and have a hell of a lot of fun, but those aren't the roles that I'm playing anymore."
