Brooks Nader And Gleb Savchenko continued to show their strong chemistry Dancing with the stars.

In a video package that aired before their routine on the Tuesday, Sept. 24 episode of the ABC series, Nader, 27, leaned forward and appeared to peck Savchenko, 41, as he rehearsed her quickstep to Dolly Partons “9 to 5.” Carrie Ann Inaba joked in her comments as a juror that she wanted to see the two kiss in the number, whereupon Savchenko said We weekly He leaned toward Nader to ask if they really did.

“I didn’t see the package,” he said exclusively Us after Tuesday’s episode. “And I said to Brooks, ‘Don’t look at the package,’ because I don’t want her to get frustrated, like confused or anything.”

Nader, for her part, commented on the heated moment in rehearsal, explaining: “I kiss everyone I know. All my friends. I love to kiss, so don’t take it to heart. Don’t be offended. It’s just a peck.”

Savchenko agreed, noting, “She loves to kiss.”

The couple’s positive performance earned them 20 out of 30 possible points, giving them a total of 38 points in the first two weeks, and they avoided the evening’s double elimination that sent couples home. Tori Spelling And Pasha Pashkov And Anna Delvey And Ezra Sosa.

“I was not happy with it,” said Nader Us of their quickstep results. “I’m kind of an absolute perfectionist. I love high scores. But I’m really happy with our performance because we worked really hard this week. I think that showed on the dance floor.”

The judges’ feedback included Derek Hough pointed out that they used a tango frame instead of a quickstep frame throughout the dance. “I really appreciate him saying that because we’ve been working on it,” Savchenko said Us“And because the first dance was a tango, the second dance was a quickstep. It’s a different posture. And you know, I should have paid more attention. My mistake.”

Savchenko emphasized the teacher-student dynamic between him and Nader in their number by portraying a stern ballet teacher. When he’s not working as a dance instructor on and off the television, Savchenko told Us his dream 9 to 5 job would be a job on the big screen.

“I would be an actor, an A-list actor,” he said. “Such an George Clooney Type of actor or Brad Pitt.”

Nader, meanwhile, said she would be working in the medical field if she wasn’t a supermodel. “Someone told me the other day – this is going to sound so silly – that I would be a really good hospice nurse because they say, ‘I’d like to talk to you when I die,'” she explained. “I would say, ‘It’s OK. We’ve got this under control. Who cares about death? It’s that simple.'”

Dancing with the stars airs simultaneously on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Episodes can be streamed the next day on Hulu and Disney+.

With reporting by Carly Konsker