Julianne Hough is sharing her love.
Following the news that her ex-husband Brooks Laich’s fiancée Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir is pregnant and expecting their first baby together, Julianne shared a sweet message with the couple.
“Congratulations you two on expanding your family,” the Dancing with the Stars host wrote on Brooks and Katrín’s joint post. “This baby is already so loved.”
And indeed, the smiling faces of Brooks and Katrín—who got engaged in December 2024—as they excitedly hold up the sonogram in the photo carousel prove Julianne’s words ring true.
As they wrote in the caption of the May 4 post, “Our greatest blessing. Baby Laich coming this fall. Mom & Dad can’t wait to meet you, our little one!!!!!!”
Katrín—a former CrossFit Games champion from Iceland—also took a moment to praise Brooks as he prepares for his next role.
“HE’S GONNA BE A DAD,” the 31-year-old wrote on her Instagram Story over a photo of Brooks jumping in the air with the sonogram. “My whole heart. I love this man so much. Luckiest little one in the world to get him as a dad.”
As for Julianne, this is not the first time she’s proven to be on good terms with her ex and his fiancée. In addition to congratulating them on their engagement on social media, the 36-year-old once happily recounted running into Brooks and Katrín at a mutual friend’s wedding.
“My ex-husband was there with his girlfriend,” Julianne—who finalized her divorce with Brooks in 2022 after separating two years earlier—recalled on The Jamie Kern Lima Show in September. “It was so beautiful. I’m in this place where I now feel like I’m just beginning with so much wisdom, with so much insight, with so much empathy and understanding of what’s possible.”
In the same conversation, the dancer also shed more light on how her split with Brooks, 41, largely boiled down to the changes they were each going through in their lives and their evolution.
“I started becoming more of a woman,” Julianne explained. “And as that was happening, things started changing. I really started shifting and changing and questioning what I believed in.”
Meanwhile, she said of Brooks, “My ex was contracting. Because he had just got let go from playing hockey and he was going through an identity shift. It was an expansion for me and a contraction for him, and we weren’t understanding each other, and I don’t think we had the maturity to come together.”
But nevertheless, Julianne knows everything happened for a reason.
“We’ve had this conversation now that we wish we would have had the maturity to come together,” she said. “That there would have been potentially a different outcome, but I think everything has happened the way that it should have happened.”
For more exes in Hollywood who have stayed on friendly terms, read on.
Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt
No, they are never, ever, ever getting back together. But at this point—between the birthday parties, the friendly embraces and even freaking acting out a sexual fantasy in a star-studded virtual reading of Fast Times at Ridgemont High—it feels like the former Hollywood golden couple is just taunting us.
Sarah Silverman & Jimmy Kimmel
You know you're cool when you can pop into your ex's talk show and give him a hard time. Such was the case when Sarah turned up on Jimmy's stage to chat about her new show, I Love You, America and his "cute," "bright," "funny" wife Molly Kimmel. "It's not fair!" she cracked. "She gets, like, new woke Jimmy. I had Man Show Jimmy."
Chris Pratt & Anna Faris
TBH, we might still be mourning this relationship harder than either of its participants. Because when Anna—now married to cinematographer Michael Barrett—heard that Pratt was set to wed Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019, she offered to officiate. She even sent over a gift after the newlyweds welcomed daughter Lyla in August 2020. Thrilled for son Jack to become a big brother, a source told E! News at the time that Anna "is very supportive."
Tarek El Moussa & Christina Hall
It would have been super easy for the exes' relationship to become a flop. But more than four years after a messy split, the HGTV stars are still killing it at two projects: parenting kids Taylor and Brayden and turning run-down properties into someone else's dream home.
Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
Literally "best friends" as the rocker put it in a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the parents to actress Zoe Kravitz still consider themselves kin. "We're one big happy family," Lenny said of his ex, who went on to wed Jason Momoa before their 2020 split. "It's beautiful, and it just shows you what can be done."
Julianne Hough & Brooks Laich
After the Dancing With the Stars co-host and former hockey player called in quits in 2020, the pair have continually proved they are on good terms.
When Brooks' announced his engagement to Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir in December 2024, Julianne celebrated the news, writing on Instagram, "I'm so happy for you both as you step into this beautiful new chapter together. Wishing you both a lifetime of love, laughter, and endless adventures."
Months later, the dancer and her ex-husband, alongside his pregnant now-fiancée, spent the day together on the lake, posting a pic herself with them with the caption, "Special day on the lake with these three cuties.”
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner
Since their 2015 breakup, the parents to Violet, Seraphina and Samuel have hit the conscious uncoupling trifecta: Joint vacations, shared holidays and public displays of admiration with Ben dubbing his ex "an amazing mother" during a 2016 interview with E! News.
Nina Dobrev & Ian Somerhalder
Nina and Ian may have called it quits in 2013 after three years of dating, but they've remained close friends since then. In 2014, the Vampire Diaries star started dating Nikki Reed and tied the knot later that year. Naturally, Dobrev befriended the Twilight actress.
Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney
The two called it quits in July 2016 after five years together. The singer said on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show the following October that she's "very close" to Kinney, adding, "He's been my lover and a friend for so long."
"We love each other," she said. "That's it."
Mindy Kaling & B.J. Novak
The Office's on-and-off pairing remained so tantalizingly close after the series wrapped in 2013 that even Mindy gets why people are still shipping them. "If I was on the outside looking at it, I would think the same thing," she told Good Housekeeping in 2019 of naming him godparent to her kids. "But the truth is that B.J. is so much more like family now than a platonic friend."
Ashlee Simpson & Pete Wentz
The exes had no trouble coparenting their son, Bronx, after finalizing their divorce back in 2011. The Fall Out Boy singer has even said his former wife is "an awesome mom."
Miley Cyrus & Nick Jonas
So she's over those "7 Things" then? The JoBro musician has said he's "really friendly" with his ex. "We've got a good relationship."
Michael C. Hall & Jennifer Carpenter
The Dexter stars first met on set in 2006 before things got romantic in 2008. And although they divorced in 2011, Jennifer assured there was "nothing but love and respect" between the exes a few years later.
Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
Long the gold standard of copacetic exes, the parents to daughters Rumer, Tallulah and Scout remain so tight that the decision to ride out coronavirus stay-at-home orders together in Idaho was a no-brainer. Quarantine dance party anyone?
Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony
Some four years after their 2014 divorce, Lopez was still giving her former spouse, dad to her twins Max and Emme, props. "While I was married to Marc, he really helped me with my confidence and he saw where I suffered," she said on a 2018 episode of Sunday Today. "He was like, 'You're a great singer. Don't ever let anybody tell you you're not a great singer.' And I respected him so much 'cause I consider him one of the best singers of all time."
Courteney Cox & David Arquette
Even if it hasn't been his day, his week, his month or even his year, the actress will be there for her former husband and Scream costar. "I mean, as divorces go, I would say it's one of the better ones. For sure," she shared on Running Wild With Bear Grylls eight years after their 2010 split. Raising daughter Coco, she continued, "We're good co-parents together."
Cameron Diaz & Justin Timberlake
Their real life romance may have fizzled in 2007. However, that doesn't mean the two couldn't heat up the screen in the 2011 movie Bad Teacher.
Peter Facinelli & Jennie Garth
Sure, the initial few months of their 2013 split were rough going, but the actors have now reached the group vacation stage of their divorce. "I really like her husband and I think he's a great guy," the Twilight alum told LaPalme Magazine of a 2017 trip to Cancun that included Garth, Dave Abrams, Peter's now-fiancée Lily Anne Harrison and their three daughters Luca, Lola and Fiona. As for his relationship with Jennie, he continued, "People come into your life for a reason and relationships can change," he told LaPalme. "Just because we aren't living together doesn't mean you can't love each other."
Will Arnett & Amy Poehler
Despite a surprise separation in September 2012, the couple decided to put on a united front for their children. "As you know, Will and I are very, very good friends," she explained during a 2014 interview with Howard Stern. "We are doing a really good job. I don't think a 10-year marriage constitutes a failure. I think relationships are really tough."
Maren Morris & Ryan Hurd
The Grammy winner and her ex-husband—who finalized their divorce in January 2024—have remained on good terms as they continue to parent their son Hayes. In fact, the songwriters live just five minutes apart from one another, which makes co-parenting a breeze.
“Our stops are really easy,” Maren told The Zoe Report in May 2025, “and we’ll have family dinners.”