Julia Stiles may be out of the running for the โDancing With the Starsโ Mirrorball trophy, but her bond with pro Ezra Sosa is forever โ literally.
The actor, who was eliminated after the most recent, Disney-themed episode of the reality dance competition, got a matching tattoo with Sosa in celebration of the emotional friendship the two forged during their time together.
Sosa, who posted a photo of their shared ink on Instagram Nov. 5, revealed that the two got a collection of small stars tattooed on their wrists. He also shared the meaning behind the design.
โone star for every time we got to dance together,โ Sosa wrote in the caption of his post, in reference to the eight routines the pair did together.
Sosa also revealed that he got a chair tattooed on his ribs in what appears to be a reference to Stilesโ now-iconic audition scene in her 2001 movie โSave the Last Dance.โ
Stiles got the words โdiva checkโ tatted on her own ribs and Sosa explained the significance in a comment.
โItโs how Iโd ask how she was doing everyday,โ he wrote.
Stiles and Sosa were eliminated at the end of the episode in which they performed a paso doble to โSatisfiedโ from โHamiltonโ the musical. Their weekslong journey together included plenty of emotional ups and downs. But the the two became close throughout the season.
โI did this for the little girl in me that stopped dancing,โ Stiles wrote in an Instagram post after her elimination, before addressing Sosa. โWe won in so many ways. love you foreverโ
Sosa posted a separate video following the elimination in which he reads a โ10 Things I Hate About Youโ-themed poem to Stiles, expressing his admiration for the actor. The words move the actor to tears.
โI hate the way you held my hand when things would fall apart,โ Sosa says in the poem, modeled off of the one that Stiles says to her co-star in the film, the late Heath Ledger. โI hate that somewhere in this season you became a piece of my heart.โ
Though the pair will no longer be in the competition, most fans feel that that barely matters.
โThis partnership means more than scores and who wins or not,โ one person wrote on social media of the two. โThis is what itโs all about.โ
