Glamour: Would you ever go back to blonde hair?
Sharna: I would love to! What's funny though is that when my roots start to grow out, I look bald! It's crazy because it's so light. No one can believe it. It's a commitment to be red, but everyone on the show is blonde, so why should I do that too?
Glamour: How often do you get back to Australia?
Sharna: My family is still there, so I try to go home as often as I can, but it's still not enough. I turned 30, and you realize how important your family is. I've been traveling for the last 12 years, and I'm in a place where I can afford to buy those flights to go home. I need to do that.
Glamour: Who among the DWTS cast are you most closest to?
Sharna: Without question, Peta [Murgatroyd] is like my sister, and we see each other and text each other all the time. We were friends before the show, so we spend a lot of our offseason together too. And Val [Chmerkovskiy] and Maks [Chmerkovskiy] are very good friends of mine. I know no matter what, they will always be in my corner and always supporting me, and that's real family. Everybody is my family on the show, but we all do gravitate a little bit, and that's natural.
Glamour: Will Peta definitely be back next season?
Sharna: I hope so! I need my girl back! It was so weird not having her this season. She had a full ankle reconstruction. I don't even know how she lasted most of last tour. That just shows how strong she is, and I've told this to her, but how silly she is too. We all learn our lessons. [Laughs] But I definitely hope Peet comes back, and I know the show would love to have her. She is an amazing pro and a great fan favorite, so hopefully.
Glamour: Lastly, let's talk about your boyfriend, Paul. He's a dancer and choreographer as well, so is that how you met?
Sharna: Yeah! He works on a lot of stuff with me too. Paul and I met in 2011 in London. We were both choreographing on a movie called Street Dance 2, and he was doing all the hip hop stuff and I was doing all the Latin stuff. The movie was incredibly cheesy, but the dancing came out amazing. [Laughs] I remember Paul came in a little bit later, as we had already been dancing for a few weeks, and I was told I had to go downstairs to meet one of the hip hop choreographers, and I said, "OK." Mind you, I looked like crap—no makeup, hair in a ponytail, sweatpants, I was just so stressed trying to get this job done, and there he was sitting in this corner with a cap on, and I remember thinking, "Damn it! I do not need to be interested in some guy while I'm working on this movie!" But, of course, a couple of days later, I walk into the rehearsal room, and he's dancing full out to this Michael Jackson track and my heart just exploded. I think I fell in love with him in that moment. It was probably a couple weeks later when we got together, and we kept it a secret the whole time because we didn't know if it was going to work out or not. It was just something that we both really wanted, and then all of a sudden, Dancing With the Stars contacted me and said, "We'd love to have you in L.A." Paul lived in L.A., so being in the same place for [an extended period of time], we were like,"Why don't we see where this goes?" Nearly five years later, we're still together!
