If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that Dancing with the Stars is one of my favorite TV shows, and I've already written that one apparent reason for its success is that it's a beacon of politeness in a world of surly reality shows. That theory was definitely put to the test this week.
During this season, official show bad boy pro Maks Chmerkovskiy has been paired with Hope Solo, a professional soccer star. Hope is tall and athletic, with an amazing body, but she's also a self-professed tomboy without much patience for learning the grace and sensuality that the show's judges expect from female contestants. This Monday chief judge Len Goodman came down particularly hard on Hope's rhumba performance (which I thought myself deserved criticism for being too flat-footed), and Maks exploded, going so far as to suggest that it's time for Goodman to retire. He publicly apologized on the Tuesday night results show, but the damage was done. Maks and Hope were one of the two couples at risk for elimination this week.
That means one of two things: either ABC was so annoyed by the incident that they put the couple under the red spotlight as punishment, or the fans were so annoyed that they voted for others in droves. Either way, Maks had better watch his mouth, or next season's show may have a large, Maks-shaped hole in it.
"It's becoming clearer and clearer that Maks is all about Maks and his star partners are nothing but window dressing. Maybe this explains why he's never won on this show." ~Lenni G., guest blogger for NewsObserver.com
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