Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa Reveal Matching Star Tattoos From DWTS

Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa now have a permanent reminder of their time on Dancing with the Stars, and fans finally know what it looks like.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, Sosa revealed on Instagram the matching tattoos he and Stiles, 45, got just days after they were eliminated from season 35 of the ABC dance competition.

The pair each got a cluster of small stars on the inside of their wrists. Sosa captioned the post, "one star for every time we got to dance together."

The reveal came two days after Sosa shared a photo of Stiles getting tattooed on his Instagram Stories. "Continuing the tradition," he wrote over the snapshot.

One star for every dance

In one of the photos Sosa shared, he and Stiles clasp hands to show off the matching designs. Each of them has eight small stars in clusters on the inside of the wrist.

Sosa said each star marks a time they danced together. The pair performed in eight weeks of the competition before their exit.

A chair and a "diva check"

The two didn't stop at the matching stars. Each also got a second, personal tattoo tied to their time on the show.

Sosa got a small chair tattoo. It's a nod to their Week 5 jazz routine on Super Bowl Night, which used a chair and hip-hop-inspired choreography as a tribute to Stiles' 2001 movie Save the Last Dance.

Stiles, meanwhile, got the words "diva check" in cursive on her ribs. The phrase appeared to reference an inside joke between the partners.

Ezra Sosa's Instagram post revealing the matching tattoos.

Inside the tattoo session

Before the reveal, Sosa had already given fans a peek at the appointment.

In the photo, Stiles sits in a tattoo chair with her arm stretched out on a padded rest as artist Christian Delacruz tattoos it. The studio behind her is lined with mirrored walls and bright pink lights.

Stiles kept her look casual for the appointment, wearing a navy short-sleeved top, black cropped jeans, black slip-on shoes and a delicate gold necklace with a crescent moon charm. Her hair was pulled back into a low bun.

Sosa tagged both Stiles and the artist on the Story.

Two days later, Sosa revealed the finished ink.

A tradition Ezra started

Getting a tattoo to mark a partnership has become something of a signature for Sosa on DWTS.

After he and his season 33 partner, Anna Delvey, were eliminated in 2024, Sosa got the word "nothing" tattooed in script, with the number 33 beneath it. The ink was a cheeky nod to Delvey's comment that she was taking "nothing" away from the competition.

Then, after season 34, he got matching "Just Married" tattoos with Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles in December 2025. The pair got the ink in response to false engagement rumors, and Sosa captioned that post "Keeping the tradition." He has the phrase in cursive between his thumb and index finger, while Chiles has it on the back of her neck.

So when it came to Stiles, the idea came up early. Sosa said it was "probably one of our first discussions."

Stiles knew about the tradition. She said back in September, "yes, I did know about the tattoos."

Their final dance on Disney Night

The couple's DWTS journey came to an end on Monday, Nov. 2, during the show's Disney Night.

For their last dance, Stiles and Sosa performed a fiery paso doble to "Satisfied" from Hamilton, and the judges gave it 33 out of 40. They also took part in a team dance to "Zoo" from Zootopia 2.

In the end, their judges' scores and the fan vote weren't enough. Stiles and Sosa were sent home in eighth place.

The night was a close one at the bottom of the leaderboard. Stiles and Sosa were tied for second-to-last with Tatyana Ali and her pro partner, Jan Ravnik, while Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas landed below them. But once the viewer votes were added in, it was Stiles and Sosa who had to say goodbye to the ballroom and to the season 35 competition.

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"I'm gonna miss seeing this guy every day"

The elimination hit both of them hard.

"I'm really sad because I'm gonna miss seeing this guy every day," Stiles said after the show. "I had so much fun. I'll always have that: I had so much fun."

She was proud of how they finished. "I'm really, really glad that we were able to go out with a bang," she said. Earlier, when she and Sosa landed near the bottom of the leaderboard, Stiles said, "I pulled things out of myself that I didn't realize were there."

Stiles also reflected on her final dance with Sosa in an interview. "I learned a lot about what I can overcome. I found my confidence, I found my strength, I was able to own that dance," she said.

At one point, she tearfully told Sosa, "The worst part is that I feel like I let you down." Sosa shook his head and told her that wasn't the case.

Sosa was just as emotional. "She made me a better person. Oh, I'm gonna cry!" he said. "Just your openness, and your honesty, really," he explained. "It touched me in so many ways, and I'm just so lucky."

Watch Julia Stiles react to her elimination

Entertainment Tonight's video of Julia Stiles reacting to her elimination.

Ezra's "10 Things I Hate About You" tribute

Sosa didn't just say goodbye. He did it in a way only a true Julia Stiles fan could.

He channeled her most famous movie, the 1999 teen classic 10 Things I Hate About You, with a goodbye poem inspired by the iconic speech her character, Kat Stratford, reads to Heath Ledger's Patrick in the film.

"I hate the way you doubt yourself when I see everything you are," Sosa began. Later in the poem, he said, "I hate the way you held my hand when things would fall apart."

He ended with a sweet twist on the movie's famous last line: "But mostly, I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

Stiles was touched. "Oh, my dear," she told him through tears. "That's really beautiful. Thank you." After Sosa said he would miss her, she replied, "I'm going to miss you, too."

Sosa shared the moment on Instagram with the caption "10 things I hate about Julia Stiles" and a white heart emoji.

Ezra Sosa's Instagram post, captioned '10 things I hate about Julia Stiles'.

"Some people are just meant to find each other"

On Wednesday, Nov. 4, Sosa posted one more heartfelt tribute to his partner on Instagram.

"I came into this season hoping to teach you how to dance, but you ended up teaching me so much more about life, love, and friendship," he wrote.

The post opened with his belief that some people are just meant to find each other. He told her he loves her, then closed with a romantic line: "And if fate ever lets me find you in another lifetime, I hope I get to be your dance partner there too."

Stiles also spoke warmly about her partner. "I will remember all the times that Ezra made me laugh, and was just so attuned to what I was going through," she said.

Why Julia finally said yes

Joining DWTS was a big step for Stiles. She revealed before the season that producers had asked her to compete in previous years, but she always said no.

The reason? "For a number of reasons, the first one being my own fear," she explained.

This year, though, something changed. "The timing just felt right, and I was like, 'You only live once,'" she said.

Season 35 premiered on Tuesday, Sept. 15, on ABC and Disney+.

Stiles, who also starred in Save the Last Dance and the Bourne movies, finished the season in eighth place. Looking back, she said she hopes her children will learn from her time on the show to "dive deep and tackle the things that scare you, and also excite you."

Now, she and Sosa have eight little stars to remember it by.