Derek Hough was forced to miss a group rehearsal for Dancing With The Stars after becoming violently ill with the flu on Thursday.

Oh dear, we hope it isn’t swine flu!

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Dancing With The Stars partners Derek Hough and Joanna Krupa are showing off their “back” — kinda — in a new viral hit heating up YouTube.

Tune in when Derek and Joanna take the floor for real on the ninth season premiere of DWTS Sept. 21 @ 8PM on ABC.

Dancing With The Stars pro Derek Hough and sexy American Pie actress Shannon Elizabeth called time on their fancy-free romance earlier this month after persistent questions about Derek’s sexuality began to weigh heavily on Shannon, tattles for The National Enquirer claim.

The duo met and fell in love after they were paired together on the hit ABC series in 2008.

Citing the lack of any hard evidence, “Shannon never believed” the rumors that Derek, 24, is gay, but the “Derek Is Gay” banter that’s popular on many celebrity gossip websites started to bother her.

“Derek is very metrosexual, so many people just assume he’s gay. Shannon got sick of it, and agreed to end things.”

Derek Hough and Shannon Elizabeth took to their Twitter pages on Friday to share news of their breakup.

Derek, 24, began dating the 35-year-old American Pie star while competing together on the sixth season of Dancing With The Stars in 2008. On Friday, both posted Twitter statements announcing the split.

“Hi everyone, we wanted you all to know directly from us, that Shannon & I have decided to end our relationship as boyfriend & girlfriend… however, we love and care about eachother very much and will reamin friends and in eachothers lives,” the former couple wrote in nearly nearly identical messages on each of their Twitter pages.

“Thank you everyone for all your sweet words & encouragement – it really means a lot to me! Xoxo,” Shannon later Tweeted.

It looks like at least one good thing came out of Lil Kim’s ousting from Dancing With The Stars this week — the Brooklyn-born MC got to visit her biggest fan, the very smitten Regis Philbin.

Here’s a video clip of The Queen Bee and her professional dance partner Derek Hough showing off their fancy footwork on Live With Regis & Kelly — on location in Miami — on Thursday morning.

Derek cutting Footloose?

Two-time Dancing With The Stars champ Derek Hough is interested in replacing Zac Efron in Paramount Studio’s upcoming remake of Footloose, show tipsters have reportedly told The Chicago Sun-Times.

Efron, who got his start appearing in Disney’s High School Musical franchise, dropped out of the film based on Kevin Bacon’s 1984 hit last week.