Maks Chmerkovskiy Has 10 Week DWTS Season Idea, Talks On Bristol Palin, And More
According to an article at Today, Maks Chmerkovskiy has mellowed his thoughts on Bristol Palin and when someone with low scores advances on Dancing With The Stars. Kirstie Alley has helped him a lot with that issue. He said, “Everybody deserves to be here. I’m not looking at Bristol the way I may have done in the past. She’s doing a fantastic job.” Below is more on how Kirstie Alley has helped him. He and Kirstie also provide some teasers on their “Moves Like Jagger” dance…
“I realized we might not have been the best dancing couple, but we were enjoying every week,” he explained. “I looked at Kirstie and saw the transformation and how much she loved being on the show. Everybody deserves that feeling. I hate to see anyone eliminated.”
Alas, next week there will be a double elimination. But Alley, who has a say in her and Chmerkovskiy’s dance, is hoping they won’t be one of the couples leaving.
She plans on doing a routine to Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger.” Watch for Chmerkovskiy to be appropriately decked out in tight pants and a loose vest.
“We’re going to see how you move like Jagger,” she told Chmerkovskiy.
“I have a big a–,” he replied, noting that therefore it might be difficult to fit into tight pants.
“Move like Jagger plus a half,” Alley says.
This is going to be a hoot. I can’t wait. Maks says even more about he and Kirstie’s new dance in his new blog at TV Guide. And good for Maks thinking better about Bristol. I wish I felt as good about her.
Also at Today, Maks comments on a 10 week season on Dancing With The Stars with no eliminations and someone is declared a winner at the end. Below is what he said about it….
The bad boy of the ballroom has a suggestion on how to eliminate any tensions that arise over debatable scoring and unjust eliminations.
“I’d like to see a season where everybody just dances,” he offered. “At ten weeks somebody gets called the winner. Everybody should get to experience (the whole competition.) I hate that Joey (Fatone) left.”
I LOVE the idea!! What do you think? Let’s get Miss Heidi’s thoughts…
Heidi: Heh – well, Maks better feel better about Bristol cuz Kirstie ALSO stayed over a better dancer. He’d kinda be a big fat hypocrite if he didn’t have this particular “awakening”. As for his 10 week season with no eliminations idea – sure, that sounds cool. But I think you’d still have to have the judging every week and then just add the scores every week for a cumulative score at the end of the season. That way you’d still have half judges and half viewer vote. Because no matter how much people cry about the voters or whine about the judging, neither group can be trusted to get it right. There’s a better shot if both have a say. It will never happen though, because part of ABC’s revenue is from voting, not to mention that people LIKE to vote – they feel involved, like they have a say. If you take that away…you have PBS ballroom.
I think Maks has had a lot of “awakenings” here lately…No 1 is keeping his mouth shut. No flap jaw, no drama. Not sure that’s what TPTB of DWTS want,but maybe it is. I’m certainly no expert, just an observer. Kirstie is limited in what she can do because of her age and size, but I don’t think she’s as bad as Bristol. In my short time of watching DWTS, I’ve seen not so good dancers stay over better dancers. That wouldn’t happen if everyone stayed til the end of the season.
I would love to see my favorite couple dance the whole 10 weeks. And I don’t see the problem with adding the votes and judges scores from each week at the end of season…That way ABC gets their voting revenue, and maybe even more ,because a lot of people (me) stop voting when their favorites are eliminated. I do see a problem with no controversial and emotional elimination moments that this show thrives on. That I could do without, but I’m probably in the minority since in this age of reality shows that’s what a lot of people want to see.
Ha! Maks is mellowing on how he feels about Bristol! I’m happy about that for some reason. It just shows that Maks is man enough to correct a wrong. I’ll be so excited to see Maks & Kirstie dance next Monday! I can’t wait to see how it plays out. I enjoy all the dancing, but TeamKStick get all my votes!
Oh, I got all excited about the tight pants and left out something in my previous post. I agree 100% with Maks that the show would be great if everyone could dance all ten weeks before the winner is announced. I’m assuming that the judging and scoring would be done weekly and would accumulate until the end.! I would love that change to the show!
Maks doesn’t seem like Maks this season at all. Something off.
Thomas, I think Maks is ‘Maks’ still, but, I think he’s more at peace with himself currently since he’s happy and in love right now.
LOL, you wish Steph!
And count your post as deleted if you can’t be more respectful.
And that includes from the multiple accounts you’ve been using. NOT COOL!!!
Talk about pathetic – using 3 different accounts to try & convince everyone that Maks doesn’t really like Peta. I believe you’ve entered bunny boiler territory, Steph/LaTasha/Michael – and that’s a dangerous state to be in. Please get help.
The entire time I was reading the article I was saying in my head, “yeah, he’s mellowed on Bristol because he has KIRSTIE who is probably also going to overstay her welcome. He’d be singing a different tune if he had a different partner.”
Then I got to Heidi’s note, and was like, hey that’s what I just said! 🙂
I agree with Heidi and Violet.
I know this might be a crazy idea but I know how Maks’ idea might sound horrible to some people (I showed them the interview and they were like “no thanks it would kill the show”) I kinda like it but with a twist. i forgot what season it was but there was one where each person did two dances and then someone went home. It worked then and i kinda think it would work now.
Lol, young Maksim is only saying this because Kirstie is not going g to make it to the finals. I’m sure if he was dancing with Sabrina, Shawn, Melissa or even Kelly, he would be singing a different tune, lol better yet, dancing to a different beat!
Maks changes his tune a lot. One season he sees it one way and the next he’ll flip. All depends on which foot the shoe is on.