The beautiful and talented Julianne Hough is at least temporarily retiring from ‘Dancing With the Stars.’  She won’t partake in the next season of the show.  Hough says she wants to take more time to focus on her music career.

“I’m not gonna be back next season,” the Dancing pro told Ryan Seacrest Thursday. “I really, really want to focus on the music and, ya know, be taken seriously a little bit. And I think it’s hard to be on [Dancing] and be singing.”

The news comes two days after Hough, 20, who just released a Christmas album at Target stores, and her season seven partner Cody Linley were eliminated on Tuesday night’s show.

Hough is dating country music star Chuck Wick.  The two met earlier this year while on tour with Brad Paisley.

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Julianne Hough tells People magazine that she is dating fellow country singer Charlie ‘Chuck’ Wicks. The two met as opening acts on Brad Paisley’s summer tour.

With her hectic life, Hough told PEOPLE, “It’s very difficult to date – I just got kind of lucky!” Indeed, she got to know Wicks this summer when the two joined Brad Paisley on tour.

“He’s just a great guy! He’s awesome and really, really talented,” Hough says of the “Stealing Cinderella” singer. “I’m having a great time getting to know him.”

The two are workout buddies and get in workouts running stairs at amphitheaters and riding mountain bikes together.

“When we play amphitheaters, we’ll run up and down the stairs,” she says. “And all of us – all the bands – bought bikes and we go mountain biking and we’ll go to amusements parks and things like that.”

Julianne is extremely likable and a talented singer and dancer. From what I have read she is a good, down-to-earth girl. Good luck to her and Chuck!

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