Sir Sleep Twitter Account Teases On Val And Maks Chmerkovskiy’s DWTS14 Partners
I don’t care who these two are dancing with. I’m just glad the two are dancing!! In case you don’t know Sir Sleep is Maks’ bulldog. Maks and Val (and maybe Teddy?) like to update us on Sir Sleep and his adventures at twitter occasionally under this account. Anyway, I’m going out on a limb and taking this as good news for the “Chmerkovskiy” camp and that their fans can relax a little knowing that the two are dancing. ADDING: Though note, nothing is 100% official until the cast announcement on Tuesday.
So, if true, does this mean there are 11 dancers or are there 12 dancers? If there are only 11 dancers and 5 are male, could one of the rumored dancers be out? If so, which one?
The saga continues in Dancing With The Stars land. I feel kind of silly reporting on a dog account at twitter and it’s a first, but, it is what it is. LOL! 
Thanks to @TristanMacmanusFans at twitter for this news. Be sure to follow her for all the latest on Tristan. She’s a jewel. xx
So…it seems that both Chmerkovkiys are dancing after all if we can based on a…dog’s twitter account!? LOL Don’t fell silly Vogue! I find it cute that you are reporting in a dog’s account!
And now I am wondering the same thing. Are they going to be 12 couples now that both are in, or still 11? If they are still 11, that means one of the other (rumored) sure pros are out. If I could choose, I would say I want out Tony. And if it’s a female pro who’s out, I don’t know who to choose. The sure is that I want Anna and Kym in!
Doesn’t surprise at all. I posted earlier that I thought this whole Maks charade was staged for drama. If this is true, its a shame really, because now I can’t support either one of them.
We all know that Val will probably dance with Sherri, there is No Way those possible dance lessons will be benefiting another pro on the show, only one of the C brothers.
I tell my dog stuff I’d never tell anyone else…Sleep knows. And he won’t “speak”. Good dog. This is very good news for us Maks fans, Vogue, thanks for posting.
I didn’t find it myself. The other admin of the Tristan Fan Page found it – AddyC. She’s also a jewel!
She messaged me about it last night and thought I would pass it along.
I think there was a last minute signing or perhaps there were always going to be 12 celebs. Or maybe another male dancer is out. Mark, perchance? Have we heard anything solid on him yet?
Shucks, just when I thought I’d get a drama free season
Oh, well. lol
Usually it’s Teddy that tweets from Sleep’s account.
That being said, I think it’s hilarious how people who aren’t fond of Maks think all this “will he,won’t he” is all engineered by him (and that oh-so-clever PR person of his. *eyeroll*) and if they are fans, many of them think this is a conspiracy by ABC to punish Maks. Believe me, either way, Maks doesn’t have that much power, folks! That being said… the situation sure had DWTS in the news this past week or so, didn’t it? Without giving away the celeb cast so far in advance. (And that’s supposing that TMZ has it right about their ‘leaks’).
As for Sherry’s previous lessons – *sigh* – that kinda sucks. I find myself hoping that she’s a horrible dancer even with whatever teaching she got at Dance With Me. Is it fair? Probably not, but I don’t think there are any rules stating that if you hope to get on DWTS you can’t take lessons just in case you do get picked. (Watch, now she’ll end up being paired with Maks and I’ll be royally screwed.)
I honestly don’t know what to think about the Sleep tweet. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not. More fodder for conjecture at any rate. I, too, find it odd that Mark’s been so quiet.
The LOGICAL explanations (I know, it’s hard
) is that Maks’ celeb reached a last minute agreement with the producers OR that the drama was all staged. Since Maks was very quiet himself and the only “news” was coming from @DWTSGossip, I tend to think it was the former, but it’s possible that there was some monkey business going on. I’m just not sure it was by Maks and I just haven’t seen any real evidence of it. He arrived in LA rather late, so…doesn’t that kinda rule out Melissa as his partner? Derek too for that matter since it sounded like she was rehearsing before Maks even got here and Derek implied he hadn’t started yet.
I’m sure there will be plenty of ridiculous stories of how the Maks’ fans are so legion and powerful that the producers bent to their will, especially after that “amazing” (spammable) poll on Wetpaint. :::rolls eyes::: Can’t wait for that.
After the tweet this morning from DWTS Gossip, sounds like it’s true.
DWTS Gossip is now claiming there will be 12 couples-I guess we’ll find out Tuesday. Not really crazy about Sherry having supposedly been taking lessons-really hoping she isn’t with Mark. Mark is busy finishing up some projects and that is part of why he is quiet. I have no doubt he will be on this season.
She might be basing her comment based on Sir Sleep as well. She’s done that before. Not the Sir Sleep part, the twitter part.
Can they announce the cast already so we can all sit back with a glass of ice tea ( or beer
) and chill??? 
Tuesday morning, Zach, Tuesday morning.
So if Mark is busy finishing projects, Maks and Val just got there, and Derek and Tristan were out of town, who was Melissa practising with? Tony???
It’s funny, Evaine. I’ve seen Val and Sir Sleep tweet minutes apart and same with Teddy. I’ve also seen Sir Sleep post pictures of himself with only Maks and Val around him at the time. So, it’s hard to tell. Whatever the case, it’s someone in the C camp.lol
Anyway, I can’t wait for the season to start. My dreams have been fulfilled hopefully with all my fave dancers dancing…Derek, Maks, Val, Tristan, Peta, and Anna! I hope Daria and Oksana are back too for pro dances….as well as Teddy, Kiki, and Sasha.
I think, Vogue, that Val started the Sir Sleep account way back when and then last season when Teddy was out in LA with the boys and they brought Sleep with them, he took over the majority of the tweeting.
He was pretty much Sleep’s babysitter. *LOL* (And if Maks and Val were in the pics with Sleep – someone had to take the pic, right? 
)
And Sleep’s um… tweet grammar and spelling is quite often better than either Maks or Val’s. *LOL*
LOL!!!! True too!! So, if that’s the case, I hope this means Teddy is in California and will be part of the cast unlike people have been speculating about.
That would be wonderful!!! Maybe now that Maks has supposedly been signed on, supposedly at the last minute, he’ll need his back-up and from all that I can gather, that seems to be Teddy, so…. maybe?
I saw the tweets from “Sir Sleep” (thought it was “Sir Sleepy,” for some reason) and thought it was funny lol.
I agree that the poll at Wetpaint is “spammable.” Shouldn’t be like that. The poll is hosted at polldaddy and I make polls on that site too and I know it is possible to stop people from repeatedly voting on the same answers. Oh, well.
I’m surprised that both Val and Maks may be on. I was even more surprised that Peta is rumored to be on because I thought she wasn’t that popular, being on for just a week and having a partner who was always goofing around in the parking lot. I thought for sure that either Val or Maks was going to be on. I was leaning towards Maks being out because of the drama last season.
Hmm, let’s see. Maks’s friend Fratelli tweeted a week ago that he’d see him real real soon. TMZ happened to find Maks in LAX when they’ve never managed to find him before despite all the flying in and out of there he does, but they didn’t manage to find Val or Tony when they flew in. ET Canada interviewed Maks and Val at the Montreal event but didn’t air the video for a week until the same day word started leaking out about the possibility of Maks not being on. Sorry. Clearly a setup to put the spotlight yet again on Maks.
I’m personally just kinda tired and annoyed at all of the “Is Maks in or out? Is Val in or out? Are they both in? Are they both out? You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself about…” business. I have no opinion either way, so I’ll just say this: I would be thrilled if Sleep was actually going to be a pro this year
Maybe paired with Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier from The Artist…
If that’s the type of publicity that’s going to keep DWTS in the news, what the heck is so wrong with that, Donna? I do think that you’re over-thinking this whole conspiracy thing, ABC – DWTS – ET – ET Canada – TMZ – and… let’s not forget Lizzie Grubman and the Fratelli Café. That’s one helluva cartel!
Unfortunately, neither Tony or Val is news to the average viewer. Maks and Derek are the ones that the everyday folks know and want to know about.
And Sleep and Uggie? Would that be DWTS’ first same sex couple, Court?
Dancing With the Dogs…it just might catch on.
Courtney – Bwahahahaha!
But now you’ve got that friggin’ song going in my head! I’ll be walking around all day muttering “You put your left hand in; you take your left hand out…” 
Well, call me crazy, but I don’t see where it’s getting all that publicity outside the usual blogs and websites – and you can be sure that THEY have reasons for making a big deal out of it. Everyone wants hits – be it Maks fans or Derek fans (or Cheryl or Mark or whoever). I haven’t watched E!, ET or Extra in the last few days, but I’m not seeing a hue and cry or a big PR push – so, I guess I can’t really get behind yet another conspiracy theory. Occam’s Razor says (paraphrasing) that the simplest explanation is usually correct – in this case, Maks’ partner reached an agreement with the producers at the last minute. This is NOT the first time this has happened and I imagine it won’t be the last.
If the producers cared one iota about his issues last season they wouldn’t have found him a partner at all, so either they are satisfied that he has admitted his mistakes and are moving on OR they don’t care at all. Why would they care if half their audience thinks Maks is an ass? Clearly they still watch in spite of it. I still watch in spite of it, although it was a near thing at points.
Every show has a villain…and lots of people love the villain. We’ll see if Maks is permanently cast in that role in a few weeks.
Jesus, the Hokey Pokey?? Like I needed THAT in my head.
All I can say is that the only DWTS stuff I’ve seen on the infotainment shows (ET, ET Canada, Extra, Access Hollywood) the past week or so has been the will he/won’t he and even then, it’s not been much. Oh, and ET Canada often sits on interviews for a time – they did it with Derek last year when he was shooting Cobu in Toronto.
My personal opinion is just what Heidi said… Maks’ partner got inked at the last minute.
I questioned and thought it might be a promo move by someone in the DWTS camp to promote the show at times too. I mean…what better promo could you have for the show that by using the bad boy of DWTS at the end to cause a stir. But, I don’t believe it’s personally Maks’ fault like some fans out there are insinuating either. I’m with Heidi and Court too that nothing has been official from day one and nor was anyone official ever confirmed anything. Heidi and Court have repeated and forewarned us on over and over. I also believe TPTB simply didn’t have a partner signed for Maks yet until the last minute. Something else to consider… Madonna arrived in NYC this week. TMZ just happened to catch her on film in the airport as well. It’s something they do all the time at airports with celebrities.
Evaine, I personally am a Maks fans but have gotten tired of all his drama the past few seasons. And with each new drama, I get turned off by him a bit more.
I also don’t like what he’s turned into since he took up with Lizzie Grubman and started buying into her whole “any publicity is better than no publicity” way of doing business. The way I feel is that Maks used to have respect for the show and the celebs and his fellow pros. And he certainly used to have respect and appreciation for his fans. Crap like this, to me, overshadows the show and the other pros and even the celebs for this season. And when his manager, who represents him, is on Twitter going at it with fans who dare to express anything negative about him, or especially her, to me that’s a poor representation and reflection on Maks. And don’t even get me started on her lying and misleading and baiting.
Maks isn’t any different than any of the other pros. Some have chosen to reveal if they’re on, some haven’t. But none have this “will they or won’t they” drama going on around them and I don’t remember it ever going on around Maks before (in fact, I believe he’s tweeted the past few seasons when he’s heading to LA). None have had the tabloid media (TMZ and NaughtyorNiceRob) tweeting out their status, telling fans on Twitter they’re the star of the show. None are playing the ridiculous game of having their dog tweet their status.
Bottom line — I’m just tired of all the drama that surrounds Maks all the time. He doesn’t need it. He’s extremely talented and charismatic and I personally think should be much further along in his career than he is. But that’s neither here nor there. Although I do wonder how much his lack of opportunities and jobs outside the reality TV world are a result of his representation. He certainly seemed to get more work, and have better opportunities, before he signed on with her.
Lizzie went to LA for just one day. I’m thinking she went to disscus Maks. The change in numbers from 11 couples to 12 and Maks addition make sense.
I also speculated that they signed on an “A list” (or close to) celeb at the last minute and decided to change their plans from 11 couples to 12 in order to accommodate this celeb. I’m assuming the other 11 were already signed and the show didn’t want to back out of the commitment. Note that is just my speculation.
Next up will be seeing which of the celebs mention on twitter Monday night going to bed early because they have an early call. It will be the crack of dawn for folks in LA when GMA airs in NYC.
I assume they will gather as many as they can to be there Tuesday morning.
You don’t KNOW that there are 12 couples! No one KNOWS anything for sure!
And as for Ms Grubman, I’ll say nothing more about her because I can’t stand her. That being said, she doesn’t make me any less of a Maks fan.
If Maks is indeed on the show this season, I will be EXTREMELY happy.
Gotta love sir sleep
Ditto what Evaine said…If Maks is on the show, I will be ecstatic. Have no opinion on the other stuff. Tuesday will be soon enough to find out who’s dancing this season.
And I do love Sir Sleep and his tweets.
That’s not actually Lizzie’s job, Maddy. She’s a PR person, meaning she got him on that magazine cover and she gets him in the sexiest men lists and on entertainment shows when not related to DWTS. I would hope that Maks would have an actual manager negotiating with or talking to the producers. If Lizzie is doing it all, that could be a problem. Derek, for example, has a PR person like Lizzie, a manager, and a couple agents…I think he even has a business manager that is separate from his manager, but I’m not sure if they’re separate or the same person.
Lizzie is in a position to know because she will have to promote him, but she shouldn’t be the one making his DWTS deal. Unless she’s branched out, of course.
Lizzie claims she’s doing all for Maks. I can see why that’s a problem like you said.
I wanted to add that I haven’t seen any other manager/publicist/agent making someone’s business public like Lizzie. That’s annoying.
She claims she’s doing all for Maks – but is it reality?? She’s not exactly what I would call modest. A lot of it is as much about her as it is Maks. That’s just crazy, if so.
Also true about them usually being tight lipped. Derek’s PR person clearly follows Derek’s lead (or vice versa), since his fans know next to nothing about what’s coming – and frankly, that’s the way it should be most of the time. There is no *need* to know everything. You don’t see her getting in public tiffs with fans because she doesn’t let it get that far out of hand.
I don’t care for Lizzie or the other PR person Maks had last season…Jeremy Pond. Their mouths need to be stuffed at times. Or as in the case of twitter, their hands tied behind their backs.
Heidi, Lizzie is both Maks’s manager and PR rep. She’s mentioned it before and this article from last year talks about her transition into celebrity management and names Maks as one of her clients. http://www.fashionweekdaily.com/the-fix/article/from-the-daily-dan-livin-la-vida-lizzie
I agree with the comments about Lizzie making Maks’s business so public. And her toying with his fans with all her cryptic comments and suggestive tweets is just as annoying and unprofessional. I stand by what I said earlier – as his representative, her unprofessionalism reflects on Maks.
Wow – super bad idea to have one person doing both PR and management. It’s called checks and balances.
I saw all that drama that went on with Lizzie yesterday on twitter. I couldn’t believe the way she spoke to that woman who seems like a nice person. I don’t know if Lizzie was trying to be funny but it backfired and made a lot of fans angry and I think that would make Maks look bad. Very unprofessional! She deleted the tweet but too late. And she wanted respect? What kind of PR does she think she is, treating Maks’ fans like that??
A PR person should know better, for sure.
It’s really no different than how she played it last year when Maks was caught making out in Vegas with Cheryl. Whispering in a fan’s ear? Come on. Don’t play people for idiots, which is exactly what she did. And Maks tweeting out her “explanation” just made him look as bad as her.
@Donna – Yeah, I LOVED that “whispering in a girl’s ear” explanation… If it won’t pass the “Snicker Test” (when you hear it, you snicker), then it’s best not to float it out there!
I don’t hink Maks was going to be punished as some feel on twitter, but I do think that maybe they had a hard time finding someone who wants to be thrown into his “web”. Maybe the last minute signing wasn’t a celeb holding out or anything like that, but someone they finally were able to get to pair up with him. It’ll have to be someone who can deal with him.
I haven’t heard anything about Maks on the tabloid shows. I’ve heard about Tiffany Dunn wrecking Mark’s car, Derek doing a swan dive off a yacht, Derek on Live! with Kelly a few times, Derek going to a “formal”, Tristan being spotted out with Kym a handful of times, and Tristan getting shout out on HLN’s Nancy Grace show lol.
I’ve been told by someone weeks ago about how celebs are always getting screwed by their agents, PR etc… and I guess this is one example. I also feel this way a little about Kym’s “camp” because I think Kym deserves all the recognition she can get for what she has done on and off DWTS but her PR hardly ever promotes anything she does. I suppose there’s a good reason for it because Kym tends to stay out of the spotlight and away from drama but I think she deserves more credits and people who promote her more. I have my own opinions about Kym’s “camp” but I don’t want to make Kym look bad and I don’t think it’s my position to really say how Kym is handled since I’m not a PR or anything so that’s why I never say anything. I just keep biting my tongue and try to do my best as a fan. I guess that’s why celebs like Maks and Kym have fans!
Anyway, we’re talking about Maks in this case but I feel this way about all the celebs who get handled in this way.
Sally, I like “Snicker Test” and it certainly didn’t pass that.
My thing is that I feel Maks is immensely talented and should be so much further along in his career than he is now. I think he got a huge boost after S10. Not because of the ‘are they or aren’t they’ with Erin but because of the way HE came across after all she’d very publicly been through – a really good guy who took care of her and helped her through the worst time of her life. To me that showed the rest of the world what a lot of people were missing for years – that underneath the ‘bad boy’ image was a really good guy that was more than just a pretty face and nice ass.
Unfortunately he signed with Lizzie soon after that season and since then it’s been the Ukrainian Bachelor and H8R and pictures on Twitter with half naked ‘bottle girls’ and whispering in fan’s ears. And I think Maks deserves better than that. But he made the choice to hire Lizzie and he continues to make the choice to retain her. So he really has no one else to blame as he watches Derek star in movies and Cheryl get big endorsement deals from Macys.
Wow, Donna, well said!
Maks IS an adult, correct? Capable of making choices…like to have a tantrum, or to take it chill. He can always “shop around” for a new PR if he isn’t happy with the one he has. You’d think after getting buddy with Kirstie he would make changes if “doors opened’. Perhaps he just enjoys having his studios. As for others like Kym, she’s 35, correct? Does she own a studio? Do anything outside of being related to dwts? She makes choices too. Maybe they are happy/content with how life is. Look at Julianne, Derek, and Mark…constantly expanding their horizons (or attempting too). It’s called “drive”…some have a lot of it, some a tiny bit, other just go with the flow. Also, Chelsie Hightower, at age 22 (I’m guessing) is opening a dance studio and recently tweeted she’d like to go to college and PERHAPS study psychology. Maybe some see dwts as a stepping stone, and others see it as “it”.
Am I in the minority here because I’m not particularly interested in how the pros manage their lives outside of DWTS? I assume they see DWTS as a job, one that they do to the best of their ability, and if they keep coming back, I guess they’re happy to do so. I’m entertained, they’re paid, more than that gets way too complicated. They’re just people, talented people to be sure, but they’re like us mortals…they all have bad moments and good moments. I try not to take any of it too seriously. I just enjoy.
sheery, I think you’re right. They’re all adults and can make their own choices. But I don’t feel that it’s like they can just take a new job whenever they want. In show business and often, there’s contracts involved. I do believe each pro have a contract to be with DWTS if I’m not mistaken so that’s why they’re doing DWTS right now because they signed a contract to do it for this many months or years. I don’t know how long they are required to be on DWTS and some contracts might say they’re allowed to take one or two seasons off to go after other things like Kym and Derek did for a little while.
As I said the other day, DWTS is a very time-consuming job. You do 3 months of the show (if you stay until the end) then maybe a month to just relax, be with family and friends then another 2 months to do things you wanna do in your career then it’s back to DWTS after 3 short months of break. Not enough time to do other things unless you take time off from DWTS for a season or so. That’s what Julianna did. She wanted to focus on music then acting so she took off. I have no idea what her contract looked like but I guess they worked out something.
Both Maks and Kym and many other pros are very talented in other things and can go further in acting, singing, broadway etc… and I would think that while they’re young, they would like to do other things as well before they’re too old. But like I said, I think the pros are under a contract with the show so that’s probably why some people think that the pros are happy with just doing DWTS and nothing else. I don’t know what Maks wants to do other than DWTS and own his studios but I know Kym has been eager to do other things as well. If you got a contract, you gotta stick with it! You have an agent or manager who tells you to go there or meet with these people, to do these things etc… unless you tell them you don’t want to do them but sometimes it’s not that simple. Otherwise, you may be burning bridges. You don’t always get what you want. That’s show business.
I know the writers for PureDWTS must be very knowledgeable about the show so if you know anything about contracts and whether they’re involved or if I’m mistaken, please let me know!
I don’t think those contracts are quite what you think they are, Liz. Yes, they exist, but I’ve consistently gotten the impression that it’s pretty much up to Derek (since after season 10 or so) whether he comes back or not. I got the distinct impression that he was on a year to year basis, since then. I could be WAY off base, but he is not acting or operating like a guy who is currently under a long term contract. I think he was at one time, but I think that time has come and gone. I don’t know about the rest of them – I would imagine they are all a bit different at this point, since each dancer should have representation negotiating terms for them. Again, just guessing.