Brooks Nader details tearful Gleb Savchenko split as Love Thy Nader cameras roll, cheating claims and TikTok shade included

Brooks Nader says she was crying in bed while Gleb Savchenko posted what she calls dumb TikToks, and she alleges the Dancing with the Stars pro cheated before their April 2025 breakup.

Hi, I am Riley Carter, casually clocking in with the receipts and a raised eyebrow, because yes, the tea is hot and also on camera. Consider this a gentle scroll, not a deep dive.

Here is the setup. Nader, 28, and Savchenko, 41, met on Season 33 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2024, a public pairing backed by the show’s own casting rollouts from ABC. The two took their chemistry off the ballroom floor and into an eight-month, on-again off-again relationship that finally ended in April 2025. In an interview, Nader accused Savchenko of cheating, a claim reported by the New York Post, which also noted that Savchenko’s rep had been contacted for comment. Meanwhile, ABC’s long-running credits confirm Savchenko has been a DWTS pro since Season 16 in 2013, context that matters as his career status became part of the conversation.

As the romance unraveled, Nader did not go through it alone. Her sisters Mary Holland, Grace Ann, and Sarah Jane, plus their parents, were in the room figuratively and literally. Cameras were rolling for the new family reality series Love Thy Nader, airing on Freeform and streaming on Hulu according to network listings. Translation, the breakup beats were captured in real time. Nader admitted it was rough to stay quiet while headlines churned and her ex danced across social media. “It was hard to keep quiet while he was just making dumb TikToks and I was crying in bed,” she told the Post, offering a snapshot that says everything about the split-screen energy of their split.

The sisters tried to hold the line, but accidental truth bombs happen. Sarah Jane recalled being at an event when DWTS fans gushed about the couple. Her impulse reply, “We hate Gleb,” was pure sister-defense, not a press strategy. Nader says the alleged cheating had just happened, and she was still doing the smile-for-photos thing. She asked her sisters to keep it professional, yet the emotion leaked out anyway. Siblings, they know too much and they are not always built for tight lips.

Mary Holland added that it hurt to see comments suggesting the cheating storyline was being used to promote the show, especially because the family could not speak on it publicly while it was being documented for the series. Her response was basically, watch the episodes and decide. It will all come out in the wash is the vibe, which, fair.

For Nader, the takeaway has less to do with ballroom drama and more to do with who stood next to her when the music stopped. She says her sisters rallied, her parents extended their stay to be with her, and the family turned into an around-the-clock support team. She jokes about her dad thinking he was done parenting once he walked her down the aisle in the past, only to watch her kiss a dancer on national TV, date him after, then bring the real life mess onto a reality series. The conclusion, they were there when she could barely get out of bed for three days, and that is the part of the story worth bookmarking.

Meanwhile, Savchenko hinted earlier this month that he was fired from DWTS in the wake of the cheating allegations, per the Post’s reporting. That is a serious career note given his tenure on the show since 2013, a fact verified by ABC’s DWTS archives and cast history. No official exit announcement was issued in the piece, so file this one under, developing.

As for Love Thy Nader, the family says the series pulled them tighter. Expect all the reality staples, from tears to minor chaos to, yes, pregnancy test panic. Nader teases that the episodes reflect their daily lives, which apparently involve about 50 things happening at once. If you are here for glossy perfection, probably not your show. If you want the mess that comes with real stakes, add it to the queue on Freeform or Hulu.

This is not the clean, waltz to credits ending, but it is honest. Nader alleges cheating. She says she was devastated while he kept posting. Her sisters could not resist defending her in public. And the whole thing is preserved on a series that promises to show how it actually went down. Two realities can exist at the same time, TikTok choreography and heartbreak, and that contradiction is exactly what makes it compelling television.

Bookmark this saga if you want to see whether Savchenko addresses the firing hint on the record, and how the show frames what happened between rehearsals and headlines. Okay cool, so like, yeah, that happened.

Sources: Celebrity Storm and New York Post, ABC, Freeform, Hulu
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