--- title: "Mauricio Umansky + Emma Slater Deny Dating Rumors" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/27/mauricio-umansky-emma-slater-rumors/ type: post date: 2023-10-27 modified: 2023-10-27 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/27/mauricio-umansky-emma-slater-rumors.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Mauricio Umansky + Emma Slater Deny Dating Rumors ## Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater shut down dating rumors and insist they are "really good friends" after hand-holding pics. *[Dancing With the Stars](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/09/21/dwts-s32-kyle-richards-morgan-wade/)* partners [Mauricio Umansky](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/09/14/rhobh-mauricio-umansky-dwts/) and Emma Slater are laughing off the rumors that they are dating almost a week after they were spotted holding hands. In an Instagram Story posted on Thursday, [Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/25/mauricio-umansky-kyle-richards-emma/) squashed gossip about their relationship status after they were photographed holding hands while leaving a sushi restaurant in Beverly Hills on Sunday. The DWTS partners wanted to ***"address"*** the speculation head-on while claiming on video that they are simply ***"really good friends" ***after practicing together daily for the last six weeks. ***“We are not dating. We are really good friends. We've been dancing together now for six weeks, four hours a day, every single day,” ***Mauricio Umansky said in the video. ![Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-27-at-7.44.38-AM.png)Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater's official DWTS season 32 photo ***“It's intense like you really form a very, very special bond, and I think we have similar personalities,”*** Emma said in agreement, noting that they are ***“super supportive”*** of each other. ***“We’re definitely there for each other, and it's beautiful. That's a great thing,”*** she added. ***“You know, just to clarify, we went to a restaurant to get some sushi right after rehearsal. We were in our rehearsal clothes. Lots of the stories are wrong,”*** the real estate mogul continued.  ***“We were talking about the week during dinner, and when we came out of dinner, we were recapping, and I reached out to grab Emma's hands,” ***he said. ***“And she grabbed my hands, and then we walked, you know, to the cars just recapping and summarizing.”*** ***“The paparazzi caught, you know, that moment, and it's become a blown-out moment,”*** the *[Buying Beverly Hills](https://allabouttrh.com/2022/11/17/kyle-richards-daughter-and-buying-beverly-hills-star-farrah-brittany-opens-up-about-her-moms-painful-feud-with-sister-kathy-hilton-and-the-hate-her-mom-has-received-from-fans/) *star added. > [View this post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy4Ik3rvgK_/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)[A post shared by All About TRH (@allabouttrh)](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy4Ik3rvgK_/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) This video comes a day after [Kyle Richards](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/kyle-richards/) appeared on  *[Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen](https://allabouttrh.com/category/wwhl/)* and shared her feelings on Mauricio being photographed holding hands with Emma. ***“I was taken aback. That was very hard to see. It hurt my feelings,”** *[the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star admitted](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/26/kyle-richards-mauricio-emma-hands/). ![RHOBH OG Kyle Richards appears on WWHL following the season 13 premiere](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_4831-1200x771.jpg)RHOBH OG Kyle Richards appears on WWHL following the season 13 premiere She continued: ***“I mean, hold holding hands like that. Andy, I really don’t. Why are you doing this to me? I don’t know if anything’s happened yet, but obviously, there’s something there. And I love him very much, and we are amicable, but that really did hurt me.”*** As AllAboutTRH previously reported,  [TMZ ](https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/23/mauricio-umansky-dwts-partner-emma-slater-hold-hands-date/)caught [Mauricio Umansky](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/09/30/rhobh-mauricio-umansky-kyle-morgan/) getting cozy with his[ Dancing With the Stars](https://allabouttrh.com/?s=dancing+with+the+stars) partner in Beverly Hills. [The two were photographed holding hands](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/10/24/mauricio-umansky-emma-slater-hands/) after exiting a restaurant on Sunday evening following a one-on-one dinner. There were no other signs of PDA between Mauricio Umansky and Emma, but they were coming off very couple-y. *[The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills/)* airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.  ## Thoughts on this all? Sound off in the comments!