“Watching you two dance really made me excited to have that own, my own moment with my…”
Scott Hoying is about to enter his dad era.
The 34-year-old singer and Grammy Award-winning co-founder of Pentatonix took to Instagram on Oct. 14 to share that he and his husband, Mark Manio, are expecting their first child together.
“The moment we found out we’re going to be dads,” the couple wrote over the video, which shows them reading an e-mail notifying them of their surrogate’s pregnancy.
“Finally,” Hoying said to his husband as they hugged in the kitchen.
The couple celebrated the news on the Oct. 14 episode of “Dancing with the Stars,” which saw Hoying dedicate his dance to his husband, who accompanied Hoying at the beginning and end of the dance.
“I want to dedicate it to my husband Mark, because I feel like he’s just changed my life in so many ways,” Hoying said in an interview with Extra TV, published Oct. 9.
“I’m so in love and we just celebrated our two-year wedding anniversary. I’ve written so many songs about him and so I really just wanted to dance to a song and have him there,” he added.
The dance was set to Hoying’s original song “Parallel,” which he wrote in honor of Manio.
“Outside the sky is falling / Look in my eyes and tell me / Why I would ever be anywhere else / Like something that I've never felt / You and I, parallel,” Hoying sang before starting his foxtrot dance.
The dance ended with Hoying and Manio laying beside one another on the floor.
READ MORE: Did Derek Hough accidentally reveal his baby’s gender during viral ‘Dancing with the Stars’ moment?
While talking to Extra TV after the performance, Hoying opened up about the full-circle moment.
Not only did he get to sing a song that he wrote for his husband, but he alluded to the “parallel lines” of a pregnancy test and how it correlates with the title and chorus of the song.
He also referenced their first date, which involved staying up all night talking while lying on the kitchen floor — an ode to the end of the dance and the fact that they learned of the baby news in the kitchen.
“It was the kitchen,” he said of the baby news. “We actually — I didn’t even realize that. And a pregnancy test is parallel lines.”
Scott Hoying opens up about the ‘amazing’ surrogacy journey
Hoying and Manio met at a mutual friend’s birthday party in 2017, according to Us Weekly.
They started dating shortly after, announced their engagement in 2022 and tied the knot the following year — three months after welcoming a dog into the family and six months before welcoming another.
In June, the couple announced their intention to become parents after finding a surrogate, per People.
READ MORE: Derek Hough tears up over Vanna White’s touching gift for his soon-to-be baby. ‘Are you kidding me?’
Now four months later, their surrogate is pregnant — and their baby is expected in June.
"The surrogacy journey has been longer than we expected, but it's been amazing," Hoying said in an interview with Parents.com, published Oct. 15.
"We're so excited to become parents that we just love every single step of the process,” he added.
Scott Hoying’s husband added: "What we found so special about this is that we got to do everything together. We were in this journey together from day one."
The exciting baby news comes less than two months after Hoying and Manio released their first children’s album “M.Y. F.A.M.I.L.Y.”
“If we had to choose one word to describe this year, it would be ‘family,’” Hoying wrote on Instagram at the time.
“We feel more grateful than ever for the family we’ve found in each other, the families we come from, and the family we’re just starting together,” he added.
It also comes six weeks after the couple released their second children’s book “Fa La La Family.”
“Especially as we have our kids, we want to show them that families can look so many ways," Manio said of the book in an interview with People, published Oct. 15.
“Whether it be a single-parent home, or maybe you're raised by your grandparents, whoever it may be,” he added.
ALSO ON MOD MOMS CLUB: Country singer Hardy shares a bold take on parenting one child. ‘I don’t care what anybody says’
Hoying and Manio released their first children’s book, “How Lucky Am I?” in May 2024.
