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Kenya Moore Has a Surprising Update on Her Relationship with Dancing Partner Brandon Armstrong
The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member shares why Brandon Armstrong "disappointed [her] a lot" after the competition was over.
One Atlanta peach has something in common with the six ladies of Bravo’s new series Dancing Queens: She believes she’s “probably happiest” when she’s dancing.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kenya Moore, who called herself a dancing queen in a new interview with The Daily Dish, once competed in ballroom dancing on Dancing With The Stars, and said she’d do it again in a heartbeat.
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Kenya told The Daily Dish if she was ever invited back “before they could even hang the phone up I will have my bags packed.”
Is Kenya Moore Still Dancing?
She said she still plans on taking ballroom dancing classes and learning styles like the tango, proving anybody can be a dancing queen.
“I have just a love and passion for dancing,” Kenya said. “Just having fun and living my best life, not caring who’s watching. It just makes me feel so good.”
Kenya said her grandmother introduced her to dancing when she was only 4 or 5 years old and she’s “loved it ever since” — calling competing in dance a “dream come true.”
She competed on Season 30 in the fall of 2021, and made it six weeks before she was eliminated after an Argentine tango, one of many styles of competitive ballroom dancing in a long history that dates back to royal European courts in the 1700s.
Kenya's not the only Bravoleb to take on Dancing with the Stars. She’s in good company with The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Guidice and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Erika Jayne, among others.
What Happened Between Kenya Moore and Brandon Armstrong?
Kenya had a lot of love for her partner on the show, Brandon Armstrong. She wrote on Instagram at the time, “If anyone embodies what I think Prince Charming would be it’s [Brandon]…what a good dancer, but what a great person! I now have a friend for life.”
But she recently told The Daily Dish that while the two were once close, they no longer keep in touch.
“Brandon disappointed me a lot,” Kenya said. “After the show it was just a lot of things going on, but he ended up getting married, and after that like I don’t talk to him again.”
But she was quick to clarify the two were always just friends.
“We never had any romantic chemistry,” Kenya said. “We never had any romantic interests. I looked at him like a little brother. I felt like I was the big sister he never had, and I felt such a connection with him, but yeah, we’re not in touch.”
Kenya Moore on How Dancing Helped After Split
Kenya also said the competition series and her friendship with Armstrong were what she needed at the time to get over her separation from ex-husband Marc Daly. She told The Daily Dish dancing “one hundred percent” helped her “get her body back” and her “feelings about myself just knowing that this is not the end.”
“I have all this other stuff to look forward to — my confidence, everything,” Kenya explained. “Dancing is amazing. Everyone should dance in their life.”
Watch six amateur dancers take on ballroom dancing competitions in Dancing Queens, airing Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo, and the next day on Peacock.
