Fan can’t get over how cute young Derek Hough is in Throwback

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Derek Hough.

Derek Hough shared a throwback video with fans, and it’s a testament that he hasn’t changed much in the past three decades.

In March 2023, the six-time “Dancing With the Stars” mirrorball champion-turned-professional dancer released an early 1990s family video to Instagram. In the vintage video, a very young Hough was seen performing a song with his mother and older sisters, and fans couldn’t get over how cute it was.

Here’s what you need to know:

Derek Hough sang the song “Daddy’s Hands” with his family in the video.

The short clip begins with a little Julianne Hough pushing her brother, who is wearing shorts and a white t-shirt, alongside his older, white-blonde sisters Sharee, Marabeth and Katherine and their mother, Mariann Hough. all dressed similarly. Derek also wears a red headscarf around his neck.

The future DWTS pro performs a raspy-voiced solo of the 1986 Holly Dunn song “Dad’s Hands” before the words “Crushed it” flash on the screen.

When Hough starts giggling mid-performance, his sister Sharee takes the microphone from him and he snuggles up to his mother in embarrassment, covering his face. “So embarrassing,” Hough wrote, before noting, “I think I still have those shorts.”

The talented family then burst into the song’s chorus while little Derek clapped along.

In the caption, Hough revealed that the “gem” of a video was sent to him by a cousin.

“Just a normal day singing with all my sisters and my mom wearing a cowboy hat,” he captioned the clip.

Derek Hough’s DWTS co-star pointed to the mannerisms of his childhood, which he still retains today

As his family members sang “Daddy’s Hands,” Hough repeatedly put his own hands in the pocket of his shorts. The move didn’t go unnoticed by his DWTS co-star Emma Slater, who pointed out that his childish behavior never went away.

“You’re still standing there with your hands in your pockets,” Slater wrote to Hough. “I literally said the same thing in my head!!!” others Fan interfered.

Others said Hough was so cute in the clip.

“I love this – so cute” wrote DWTS runner-up Amy Purdy.

“This is the cutest thing ever!” another wrote.

“I saw that five times as cute.” Another fan agreed.

While Hough was “embarrassed” in the childhood video, 30 years later he had some advice for his younger self. During an appearance in 2022 on The Jennifer Hudson Show The 37-year-old choreographer admitted he’d always wondered if he was “good enough”.

“What I didn’t really realize at the time was that what really matters isn’t what we achieve in this life, but what we become as a person along the way,” he said. “When you start to realize that you are already enough, you are already enough. You always have been and always will be, no matter what.”

“That’s a beautiful starting point, and I’d like to say that to little Derek,” Hough added.

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