Pure Derek Hough

Mostly non-annoying paparazzi video from Saturday night, courtesy of X17. Derek looks good, and I think he’s growing his hair out!!

Oh, nice look. I threw in one of Julianne just because.

Dinner at Katsuya! I know he was out with Julianne and her Burlesque friends last night – let’s hope some pictures of that show up later. I have this vision of Derek, his hot band friends from England and all these hot Burlesque girls hittin’ the clubs. Surely there will be video. Where’s Henry? (He doesn’t have it yet, I looked. )

Thank you baby Jesus.   Thank you.  Just. Thank. You.  Socialite Life is my new favorite web site – click through to see a total of  ten, count them TEN, pictures of Derek sans shirt – Make sure you look at all three pages of pictures. Holy moly.  No, I can’t stop with the religious references – he looks that great. Socialite Life.  Oh, and Maks is there too.  ;-) ETA: Added more pictures because they didn’t call Derek a hunk.

Cheryl chatted with MTV (UK version) behind the scenes of Parachute – and OF COURSE Derek’s name came up.

The promo was shot just outside London at Eltham Palace and also features Dancing With The Stars man Derek Hough as her love interest.

Chezza told us he also worked behind the scenes. She told us: “The choreographer for this video is Derek- who is a massive ballroom dancer.

 

“As soon as I heard Parachute I wanted to do some sort of stamp-me-feet-passionate-ballroom-thing!

 

“At first It’s like I’m in a dream world where I’m reflecting on when I was younger and I was in this relationship with this mystery man.”

 Very obviously siblings, these two.   You can find 13 pictures of Derek and Julianne at X17 Galleries.  I put a cute one below.

Well, from what I’ve seen, the reaction to the Parachute video has been resoundingly positive. Even people who are NOT fans of Cheryl Cole seem to really like the video. Lots of flattering adjectives applied to Derek’s person, too. Of course – I expect nothing less. Here’s a sampling:

From Idolator:

Cheryl Cole Opens Up Her “Parachute” With ‘DWTS’ Pro Derek Hough
But it all worked out pretty decent. “Parachute” is now scheduled to be the third single, and Cheryl snagged Dancing With The Stars heartthrob Derek Hough to cut a rug with her in the music video. You can catch the full clip below—and hopefully Cheryl can finally get some sleep at night.

From Popbytes:

good morning everyone! here’s the brand new cheryl cole video for her latest single parachute – the third release off her debut album 3 words which i really like (it even got an honorable mention in my top albums of 2009) plus the video stars mega cutie derek hough from dancing with the stars – i just love him – i hope he comes back next season! popbytes over & out for now … xoxo

From the Mail Online:

She’s gearing up to head over to Los Angeles to make a real go of her solo career, and her new video will cement her break away from Girls Aloud.

Cheryl Cole looks every bit the solo star in the promo for her latest single Parachute.

The singer, 26, is put through her paces by Dancing With The Stars U.S. star Derek Hough, 24, as they perform a high-energy dance routine.

Intimate: Cheryl Cole and Derek Hough get up close and personal for the racy dance routine in her new video for the single Parachute

Heat: The Latin routine involves a lot of smouldering, close up positions

She first performed the Parachute on stage for her Night In show on ITV1 in December last year, where she was joined on stage by Hough for a Latin style dance routine.

Backed by a troupe of Latin dancers in black and red, Cheryl showed off her petite figure in a hot pink tiered skirt and asymmetrical sequinned body as she worked the dancefloor.

With her dark hair swept back into a tight bun and cherry lipstick, Cheryl looked every inch the Spanish Senorita as she performed the sexy sequence.

Derek Hough is a former world champion in Latin dance and would no doubt have had a strong influence over the racy choreography for both the video and their previous stage performance.

Uh, yeah.

Stuff Heidi found on Twitter today.

Someone’s favorite part of Parachute (great job, Derek):

Very nice blog about Move with a GREAT DEREK Picture can be found at Smash and RoddBot! Be sure to click the picture to see if full size. Derek is looking more gorgeous than ever.

Another fan’s (@CoCojnL) BFF met Derek at a “resort” (her words) in Park City today and tweeted this cute picture.

Mark tweeted another pic from his video shoot and with his director Derek.

Some of my favorites. He just looks fantastic – she does too, for that matter. They make quite the hot couple. If he does her tour in May I may be flying Europe. Oh the hardships I suffer for this website.

Hey, try clicking on this first picture and see what happens.

Gallery – click to open page, then click again to get full size.

Oh my god – I expected it to be good, but DANG DEREK!!! It’s fantastic!! I’m nearly speechless. I’m so freakin’ impressed!!! I advise watching full screen. From Cheryl Cole’s Official Website:

ETA: More thoughts….did anyone besides me and DJ notice the painting of Derek behind Cheryl’s head when she’s alone in that white room? So cool. I’ve always thought Derek was an amazing choreographer and dancer; I hope he gets to do more projects like this one…as long as he always dances in them. But I still have “Movie Star” in MY five year Derek plan. I hope he cooperates.

I think I get the concept of the video too, but I’m not going to say – I’d rather not be wrong in public.