Derek Hough serves as a judge on NBC’s dance competition series “World of Dance,” alongside judges Jennifer Lopez, NE-YO and host/mentor Jenna Dewan Tatum.  

An Emmy Award winner and New York Times bestselling author, as well as the only six-time champion in franchise history of the hit ABC show “Dancing with the Stars,” Hough started dancing in his hometown of Salt Lake City at age 11. Just one year later he moved to London to live and train with the top dance coaches in the world and attend the prestigious Italia Conti performing arts school where he studied theater, music a...