Erm, so it turns out that Mark Ballas and Witney Carson were once feuding so bad during DWTS that they outright “refused to be in the same room together.”<\/p>\n
The tea was spilled by Alexa and Carlos PeneVaga, who were the first married couple to compete against each other in season 21. Appearing on their podcast LEXLOS<\/a>, Alexa who was paired with Mark and Carlos who was with Witney shared the insane tension behind the scenes between their pro partners. <\/p>\n Alexa shared: “There\u2019s a lot of drama behind-the-scenes. At the time, Witney and Mark were not getting along at all so they refused to be in the same room together and that was really hard because we\u2019re married,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole point that we were doing the show was, we\u2019re gonna go in and we\u2019re gonna like, do this together as much as possible, and the second we go in, boom, Mark and Witney refuse to be in a room together.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was like, oh my gosh, we thought we were going to be even rehearsing in the same room and now we have to be so separate. We have to like dance around whatever\u2019s going on with them,\u201d Alexa explained.<\/p>\n Carlos explained that Mark apparently wanted to win and do things “outside the box,” whilst Witney had a different style from him. The couple didn’t reveal why Mark Ballas and Witney Carson were feuding so badly on DWTS to begin with, although some think it’s because they allegedly used to date<\/a>. <\/p>\n But it looks like whatever has happened between them in the past is water under the bridge now, and they’re friends once again. <\/p>\n For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like <\/i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> on <\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had no idea things got so bad between them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":65316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[2165],"class_list":["post-65314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dancing-with-the-stars"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/26\/mark-ballas-and-witney-carson-refused-to-be-in-the-same-room-together-during-dwts-feud\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Mark Ballas and Witney Carson \u2018refused to be in the same room together\u2019 during DWTS feud","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/26\/mark-ballas-and-witney-carson-refused-to-be-in-the-same-room-together-during-dwts-feud\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/10\/26\/mark-ballas-and-witney-carson-refused-to-be-in-the-same-room-together-during-dwts-feud\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-1-4-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-1-4.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["dancing with the stars"],"dateCreated":"2026-10-26T08:49:51Z","datePublished":"2026-10-26T08:49:51Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T08:49:51Z"},"rendered":"