Brooke Hyland

**Brooke Marie Hyland** (born January 30, 1998) is the eldest child of Kelly and Randy Hyland and is the older sister of Josh and Paige Hyland.

During her time on Dance Moms, Brooke was the oldest permanent dancer on the team. It was stated that before the show, she used to be one of Abby's favorite students. However, as she got older, she began to lose interest in dance and Abby started to grow cold towards her.

Brooke and her family finally departed from the show after a physical altercation between Kelly and Abby in Big Trouble in the Big Apple. During pyramid, the following episode, Abby revealed that the Hyland sisters were no longer members of the team.

In 2016, Brooke graduated from Franklin Regional High School. She then later went onto attend college at Ohio University to study as a business major and graduated in 2019 with degrees in Marketing and Management Information Systems.

## Other Information

* She has been dancing since the age of 2 years old.
* Her zodiac sign is an Aquarius.
* Brooke is the oldest girl to ever feature permanently on the elite team in Season 1.
* Her solos were not often seen on Dance Moms, as she competed in an older age category from the rest of the girls on the team.
* Brooke has stated on multiple occasions that the show did not show her real personality and instead portrayed her as never smiling or laughing, as she was supposed to play a "grumpy teenager".
* Before leaving the show, Brooke said that she was closest to Maddie out of all the girls on the team.
* She is a fan of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins.
* Her favorite thing about dance was getting to spend some time with her friends and look at the beautiful costumes.
* When Brooke was younger, she broke her growth plate. This is why she is so short in height. (See more below)
* Abby stated during the third season that Brooke and Paige were not apart of her studio and only showed up to film the show.
* She got braces at some point during the third season of the show. Like Paige's, they were removed by early May 2014.
* Brooke had her first kiss when she was in 7th grade.
* When Brooke was younger, a golf cart ran over her foot and the doctors said she may not be able to dance again. After she had surgery, she couldn't leave her house but the first time she could ended up being on the same day as the dance competition. She ended up winning the National title. She stated that this was her proudest moment. Abby happens to refer to this incident during a fight with Kelly at the end of Night of the Living Dancers, stating she was the first one in the hospital when Kelly's husband drove over her kid's foot and was in the room hugging her.
* During her time on the show, Brooke didn't forget any of her solos onstage. However, she forgot apart of the "Rosa Parks" group number.
* Brooke's favorite color is Yellow.
* In April 2014, a mass stabbing incident, covered in the national and international news, occurred at her high school. Twenty-five were injured, with no fatalities.
* Brooke graduated from Ohio University in 2019 with degrees in Marketing and Management Information Systems.
* Upon graduating from college, in the summer of 2019, Brooke traveled around Europe with some of her fellow college friends.
* After traveling around Europe, in the summer of 2020, Brooke moved to LA and has reconnected with all of the original Dance Moms team including Kendall.
* Brooke has become more active in the entertainment world again doing things like interviews with Famous Birthdays, attending premieres & events, and posting on her YouTube Channel again.
* In 2021, she moved from California to Austin, Texas.