DWTS2014 Janel Parrish And Val Chmerkovskiy Chat On Their Chemistry And More – New Interview
Janel Parrish and Val Chmerkovskiy talked to Access Hollywood today about this past week’s dance on Dancing With The Stars. They discuss their chemistry and the competition. They also play a lie detection game…
Aw, this was cute. Personally I’ve never noticed any showmance/romance between them, though I will admit they are occasionally flirty but it’s never come to me as romance-flirty, more like friendly-flirty. The line can definitely be thin though, and I say that as someone who is friendly-flirty and often gets in trouble for it.
I thought the video was pretty cute too. The chemistry with Val and his partners is there in a professional way and any “romance” is more of a “showmance”. He has admitted that he is married to DWTS during the season. I agree with Ammie I haven’t seen a showmance this year as much as I did with Kellie Monaco. That year I thought there really was something going on between them off camera.
Janels bf just announced their breakup on his twitter. I am sure there is more to it than DWTS but that must have added some stress to them with Val and Janel’s approach to winning. Showmances are never good and she really did ignore addressing their relationship when she could have. It will be no holds barred now.
I was just coming in here for that news. I guess it will be a full on
showmance now since Janel has been hanging out with the C-bros a lot lately. I might not finish watching this season if it happens.
I agree Judy! And I have to say…I’m not surprised for the reasons you mentioned.
Ria, I bet it gets worse too and it’s getting so old.
Honestly, I can’t wait until these two are eliminated and off of my television screen. The sooner the better. They are both gross!
Full steam ahead for vajanel then ….yeah only not i feel sick already lol
i wonder if this will work against her. I am not sure she is getting a lot of votes as it is. The mods have suggested that is one reason the producers are pimping them. With people thinking she has been “unfaithful” , by omission if nothing else, it might not work in her favour. Dump the bf and move onto sexy dance partner? Not sure that makes her look particularly good. People make assumptions right or wrong and who knows what will happen voting wise in that case.
Add me to the grossed out and feeling sick Team!
I agree Judy. I could care less about her or her personal life but I don’t think this helps the image she has already created for herself. Given what has been the demographic of the show, I don’t think she’s getting the votes.
Ashley, perhaps her bf’s best revenge! Twitter breakup announcements are a low blow I think and he has to know this will create a stir. She hasn’t acknowledged him since starting the show and now he publically announces the breakup. Interesting timing to be sure.
I don’t know. I just saw it and he wishes her the best. And I don’t think Val would touch her with a ten foot pole off the show. I don’t care about them but with the instant finger pointing on other social media sites, why tell the world your personal business. Crazy selfie-obsessed kids of today.
Can the C-bros take their showmances elsewhere and quit ruining every season? The sooner Vajanel is off, the better. The whole thing is strange.
The breakup sounded quite mutual by what he wrote (and her in return). I mean why would he write such kind things about them if Janel were to have truly smchoozied up to Val? It was even quite nice for her never mentioning him so I honestly think it has nothing to do with Val or DWTS.
I don’t think it does either Ammie but since Janel and Val initiated a showmance, the shippers followed suit and here we are. You reap what you sow.
@Kate(1) – “Can the C-bros take their showmances elsewhere and quit ruining every season? The sooner Vajanel is off, the better.”
To me, the C-bros behavior on the show is just validation to the viewers that neither one of the C-bros has or ever had the talent or the skills to carry them on this show. So to compensate for that, they create diversions…
Man, if this isn’t them pushing the romance and showmance button, I don’t know what is? New instagram…
http://instagram.com/p/uOdwhrj0Zn/?modal=true
Oh brother! I’d bet money that Janel and her bf will be back together the day she is eliminated from the show!
@Vogue – OMG! That’s just plain gross! If this is what they are dishing out on Monday.. Maybe I’ll pass.
See he doesn’t have what it takes to win this show… And he knows it!
Save a place for me on the Grossed Out And Feeling Sick Team! We should have team buckets to barf in.
The jaded side of me is thinking this breakup is only supposed to endure until the end of the season. Once the showmance is no longer needed I bet they get “back together”. Man I hate feeling cynical like this. It makes me feel icky.
Showmance is full steam ahead! I see Val posted a “family dinner” with Maks and Meryl I’m guessing they’re getting tips for this upcoming show. I’m hoping this BS is over soon!
Those C-bros sure are desperate for a mirror ball trophy. I’ve never seen such blatant showmancing in all he time I’ve watched DWTS.
For a while it appeared as if Val was coming to his senses, but he must have realized there’s no way in hell he can win over Alfonso, Sadie and maybe even Bethany. I would bet money his little sexpot isn’t getting the votes.
The absolute worst thing DWTS could do is allow another C-Brother to win this season.
I shouldn’t have clicked the link you posted, Voguerista! I shouldn’t have, I shouldn’t have…
The only thing I can think of is “help”! Can somebody please make Janel go away!
I was wishing I hadn’t clicked it either.
So the same day Janel’s boyfriend posts a public breakup with her, the showmance queen shows up in LA and we get all these happy family pictures. Oh how I hope Janel is eliminated this week. I’d rather see Michael plod through 10 more dances than watch another minute of these two. I’m disappointed in Val. I thought he’d learned his lesson with Kelly. Who, BTW, also got back with her boyfriend right after the show ended. I really wish Maks would get a gig somewhere, whether it’s acting, dancing, choreographing or standing on his head. This is what happens when he has all this free time to hang around LA doing absolutely nothing and has stuff he needs to sell. In this case tickets to Sway and a mirrorball for Val.
I can not believe they put this on TV. It was not cute or funny. It was very sad. Per all the instagram pictures Val & Janel are going for sexy again. Is this all this girl can do? Best moment of the season will be her elimination.
Here’s my assessment of the whole “are they or aren’t they” Vajanel debate: it’s all just TACKY. I don’t care if they ARE actually dating, I don’t care if they AREN’T dating – why exactly do they feel the need to convince people one way or the other? One minute they’re being awfully coy and dropping hints about chemistry, the next minute they’re vehemently denying anything going on, then they’re back to talking about how steamy their routine is going to be. Which is it, guys? And why are you trying so hard to make us believe it? All of it just feels very, very manipulative…and that’s what I have a problem with. I get the feeling they they think have everyone fooled…and the viewers are not that stupid. Why not let your talent speak for itself, a la Sadie or Beth? Or even Lea? None of them attempted to hint at a showmance, or dispel one. They just DANCED.
The whole fam is just tacky, period. And I don’t know why they are
pushing Val and Artem this season. Artem is just creepy and Val-please stop with the shirtless thing. I was so glad when Maks was gone and now here we go again. Doesn’t Maks have his vodka to peddle to 7-11 stores?
The fact that another C-Brother is trying to overtake my show (Yeah, I said it, It’s MY show) again this season and make it all about them, is really disappointing and sad. BOO!
Sandy, which it? YOUR show or Maks’? lol 😉
In the past I have always been a supporter of Val and loved his partnerships and wanted to see him and his partner succeed, but now I just want Janel and Val off the show. Janel just seems cold to me and I can’t bring myself to like her. I have easily liked every single one of Val’s past partner’s and his friendship with Zendaya is amazing, but it just feels so fake and forced with Janel and Val that I honestly just want to turn my TV off when they start dancing.
For me, I could care less what Janel & Val do, because this season like all other seasons, it’s the journey and the one that has grown through these first 5 weeks. They don’t fit in that category for me. I would have loved to have seen Lea with Derek in the Switch Up last week, or even just Derek’s partner period.
But, Artem is doing a great job with Lea, and he has won a trophy in SCD. There are two more I am enjoying, also.
To me, it makes Janel seem pathetic, totally insecure, very low self esteem. I feel very sorry for her, but nevertheless would like her gone from the show.
Val I think is just weak. I think being doted on by both his parents and Maks (by order of his parents) has made him extraordinarily self-involved with an entitlement chip on his shoulder. In the interview his body language speaks way more volumes than his words. That lie detector thing is so JUVENILE. I can’t believe that grown people would participate in this, on either side. But I guess once you’ve made a video of dancing around with a Pharrell hat on your privates, a mere sit down/talk, regardless of the topic, doesn’t even register on the embarrassment meter. The meter could do with a recalibration.
IF they are pushing Val and Artem – and I’m not sure I agree that they are – it’s because they need them when the massive void of Derek leaving actually happens. They’ve got to make one of those guys happen. I say good luck. There ain’t no replacing Derek. Hell, I’m not even a Maks fan but he’s miles better than Val (not in choreo) just in star power.
Well Val is gross and Artem is creepy, so I hope that’s not the shows intent. In my opinion, neither one of them is even remotely attractive.
If I was the shows producers I would be track down Gleb, get on my hands and knees, wave a BIG FAT CHECK…. And BEG this gorgeous pro to return to the show.
Val, Janel, Meryl, Maks have formulated a new strong shipper anti-itch cream today, Vajesyl (sounds very much like Vagisil :P) They’ve been hanging out together and have been promoting themselves on social media. Janel seems pretty happy for someone who supposedly broke up. After last season, I can never underestimate shipper votes.
The shippers are going nuts. They’re expecting a wedding announcement pretty soon for M&M and an engagement from Vajanel.
You know I can’t even stand Val’s smug face anymore – he’s not all that
and when I see him with his friends if I’ve not known that they’re danceers I would have thought they’re thugs! I agree with Gleb – now, he is handsome, or Christian – they’re the ones they should be promoting not Val and Artem. When Derek leaves that’s it for me and DWTS.
40. Maks thinks this foursome reunion will make his shipper base switch gears to voting for Vajanel. I’m tired of these off the show games they keep playing. And how did Val manage to get a partner who fits so beautifully into the fam??? Janel and Meryl have similar motives. Janel needs more votes because her dancing isn’t all that and she is trying to overcompensate with the showmance.
#Kate(1) Waiting for my mammogram — thanks for the laugh!!
Kate(1) – That’s what the M&M shippers are doing right now. They are
voting for Val and Janel because they want him to win and they want M&M to be there on the finale. They’re off their rockers. You should see the frenzy about the pic of the four of them!
They scheduled Sway a few days before Christmas. I’ll bet ticket sales are terrible and this sure fired up the shippers who will now run out and buy tickets in the hopes Meryl and Janel are appearing. And it makes the shippers even more determined to overvote for Val and Janel. What they don’t realize is that at the same time they’re turning masses of people off. I keep seeing more and more how people want Janel gone and I also see a lot of skating fans starting to turn on Meryl for playing this game. And how about Jenna’s tweet last night right after the pictures started coming out? She knows what’s up.
Exactly what they intended I’m sure. Clearly, neither Val nor Maks think they can win on their dancing so they have to resort to showmancing. But only one showmance has won this show and I don’t expect this season will up it to two.
You can’t win this show without the general public. The general public was largely fooled by Meryl and Maks (even some of my sensible friends!), but I doubt very much they will be fooled again. And Janel ain’t no Meryl.
Not surprising Bully Bush and his sidekick were the perpetrators of this “lie detector test,” since they are only about the showmances. It really is funny how the couples, even non-showmancers, know exactly what segment of their audience they can play with certain social media posts and pictures. As for Meryl and Maks, it is even more funny that the shippers keep falling for the same plays every.single.time.
Didn’t Val just confirm the Maskyl showmance in this interview, yet the shippers still fall for it.
Jenna’s tweet is very telling.
I wish the C-Bros would leave and take their drama with them.
#47 Ananya yes he did. But he was deflecting. Or trying to throw off the media. Or keeping his brother’s life private because Maks is the most private person in the world. It changes from minute to minute. With this Disson show and Sway I think we’re unfortunately in for a lot more of this crap until they’re both over.
Vajanel is probably feeling some heat from the boyfriend break up. Vajasyl is here to the rescue. The shippers will start voting for Vajanel again in full force. They just want to see that Maksyl reunion again in any circumstance and the best way to do it is to have Vajanel in the finals. The field is stronger this time around and TPTB are not making it all about Vajanel so there is some hope. I agree PH, the general public will not be fooled this time. At least I hope that’s the case.
Clarification- The field was strong last season too, but the TPTB were helping a lot in pushing M&M. They propagated a notion of them being miles apart from everyone and untouchable. This time Janel isn’t a 100% ringer like Meryl and could be eliminated.
Maks has become an expert at playing these fake romances. Without DWTS it’s the only way he can keep himself relevant and keep his name in front of people. He still has jewelry to sell, there are still tickets to sell to Sway and Disson and Val needs his mirrorball. Meryl is the only option he has left because for some reason she enjoys all the publicity she gets from being one of many women linked to him and no one else is interested in playing this game with him anymore. They’re both pretty pathetic.
Val is also launching his new clothing line website an hour befor the show on Monday they announced. They are pulling out all the stops to integrate all fan bases for voting purposes imo. I suspect Janel and maybe Meryl, Zendaya, etc will be modelling items for it. This is a mass media type push to get Val his mb. The calculated timing of all the photos on sm, the website launch and celebs involved in it all would indicate that. But whether this increases his fan base or continues tapping into the same one is the question. But I think it is all part of a calculated plan to win.
I think the “fam” thought they had gold with Janel but she is proving to be very polarizing. Lots of Val’s fans are not voting for them, they are voting for others, or not at all. Meryl and Maks, Zendaya even Kelly M posted an ig pic of her and Val this week for the first time in years, all this is part of compensating for that lack of votes imo. Hopefully it won’t work cuz it has nothing to do with dancing.
It just makes me annoyed that the C-bros will go to any lengths to manipulate the shippers. The sad part is that the shippers buy into all the deception. They try to turn this show to be about everything else but dancing. Maks claims he is done with the show. Yet, at the same time they try to stay firmly attached to it for publicity. I wouldn’t be shocked if Maks comes back again next season because his acting didn’t work out. There is no getting rid of them for good.
It really pisses me off that this season is being bombarded once again by the C-brothers manipulation.
And although I love the benefits that social media allows us, to enjoy our favorites in conversation, media, and videos. Unfortunately, the C-brothers have chosen social media to propel their mission of manipulation, and in a sense bullying the public. Shame on them!
Maks is a bully and so is Val. It’s in their blood. Their mama raised them that way. Enough said.
What I’m afraid of is that the M&M shippers are rabid fans who did everything last season to get M&M win by voting and they are trying to vote Val now to win this season. I used to be amused by their fanatical ravings about M&M but they have now jumped the shark and have become really obnoxious that it’s no longer fun reading their comments.
As for Meryl-I’ve lost my respect for her last season and I really believe she is enjoying all this attention(which she never really had when she was skating-funny,people thought she was very plain before then all of a sudden she is this glorious goddess after she won the OGM)and it does not makeme like her now that she is continuing all these crap with the C-bros/fam.
While Maks’ showmance certainly got him the win, it wasn’t without a shit ton of help from TPTB and the fact that Meryl is the biggest ringer on the face of the earth. She and Charlie had a huge following. The general public bought it all and she was a very good dancer, even though the choreo often let her down.
Janel doesn’t have the “shit ton of help”, she’s also NOT the dancer (or person) that Meryl was and her following probably can’t come close to touching Meryl and Charlies. Alfonso, Bethany and Sadie ALL have bigger followings – the same wasn’t true for S18. I don’t think the general public is into Janel’s poor showmance, particularly not since she so easily went from Val to Artem. Meryl never did that. As for the choreo? Well, we have yet to see anything truly spectacular, especially when compared to Alfonso.
All I’m saying is that while Val and Maks might be working it HARD to get Val an MBT, I don’t think it’s going to work. Even if it were to work, it just reaffirms the fact that they can’t win on dancing, even with RINGERS. And really, isn’t that SAD?
The bf on Meryl: “People seriously think she’s beautiful??? Her face is too flat, her eyes are too far apart, her makeup looks chalky, and she talks like a baby. Pass.”
I honestly think the only reason some people suddenly think Jenna & Meryl are as gorgeous as Gisele & Heidi Klum is due to their associations with Val & Maks. There, I said it.
Ria, I think there are more Derek fans than there are “rabid shippers” by a lot. Always has been. And there are certainly more Derek fans than there are C-bros fans, just going by social media. My point is – a pro’s fanbase, shipper or non-shipper, does NOT win this show. If it did, Derek would win every time.
This show is watched by anywhere from 12 to 14 MILLION people. None of the pros can touch that. The general audience loved Meryl and Maks – even some of my sensible friends were into it. Do you get the sense that the general audience is into Vajanel the same way they were for Meryl and Maks? I sure don’t. The only time Vajanel popped up in my media twitter feed was when they were out with Meryl and Maks. And I don’t think that’s enough to get them the win over Alfonso. Or Sadie.
#54 Kate I totally expect Maks back next season with some ridiculous story as to why Meryl is suddenly not the last person he wants to dance with anymore.
#56 Ria I don’t think the shippers alone got them the mirrorball. I think there were also enough skating fans and general fans of their dancing, along with Maks’s fans and the fans who thought he deserved to win. The ship doesn’t seem to be all that big anymore. I think a lot of them jumped off over the summer as Maks kept showing up with other women and didn’t make any effort to see their queen. And I think those really fanatical ones turned a lot of the others off. Maks’s fans used to think they were “strong” enough to get him the mirrorball all by themselves by staying up all night voting. That didn’t happen. I don’t think the shippers are even close to strong enough to getting Val there. Besides they’re too busy writing fan fiction and searching Instagram for secret messages to spend that much time voting. LOL
#58 Oh Courtney thank you for saying it. Jenna would be just another barely known troupe member if she hadn’t tied herself to Meryl and the brothers. And Meryl knows her friendship with Jenna keeps her in the family circle even when Maks is busy going to birthday parties and Italy. I read last night the shippers are upset Leah will be filling in for Erin rather than Meryl and it’s because they believe Meryl would outshine Erin. I think Erin’s doing a good job and is certainly better than Brooke though she has her weak moments — but to think that mousy little Meryl with her little girl voice and childlike mannerisms could outshine the beauty and big personality of Erin is just laughable.
Laughable indeed, Donna. Are they really that delusional?? Meryl couldn’t even give Brooke a run for her money in the co-host department.
When they get eliminated, I really cannot wait to see her reaction because I really feel like their desperation is becoming way too much. Unfortunately, Val is really turning into Maks (but with more creativity with his dances though).
#62 Heidi you’re talking about a group of grown women who think because Jenna and Meryl took a very strategically posed picture in Maks’s living room that’s concrete proof Meryl is staying with him and they’re dating and he’s just waiting for her to accept the proposal he made with multiple engagement rings (so she could coordinate them to her outfits). Do you really need to ask if they are that delusional? LOL
Ugh. This is why I can never stand shipping. Reality rarely enters into it. In fact, it’s not allowed, discouraged even.
Speechless.
@Donna (post 64): That made my day. Add the shippers of Val and Janel in there and maybe they can have a double wedding LOL
#67 Vin they’re too busy planning a double wedding for them with Val and Jenna. Jenna and Meryl are besties so that’s the ideal delusion. LOL
I think this shipping thing is getting way out of context. What Janel and Val are young 20 somethings that are flirty to the sake of creating a story line for yhe dances that is it in my opinion. Val is an ectremely talented dancer by proof of his history on and off the show. He has developed into a great choreographer the last 4 seasons are evidence enough of it. He is a man that is very expressive with emotions and gestures but thats just him being himself. Like it or not. What you see is what you get and i like it about him. He may have similarities to his brother. But he is a more focused working buzzy bee. He may be as effectionate to his friends but he s a man if his own character.
Maks is more moody and get agitated more easily. Maks is still a great dancer and has choreographed some great numbers but he was a late bloomer in that. I think Val has still a lot to offer.
Lets not forget Janel is an actor and a good one. She is trying to act the romance sometimes but its obvious tgats its just for show. And she is delibrately making it obvious i am just kidding kind of thing. To her i think its like a big audition where she is trying to prove she is a leading lady. Not just a side character. The real Janel people around tge show say she is more mellow. We just see a few photos and mountaged clips. Thats not real its a show. They r just giving the audience a variety
I disagree Rana, we understand it’s context all too well. It’s called desperation to win a mirror ball trophy. When the season started Val was acting as if he had won the lottery. Enter Alfonso, Sadie, and Bethany. The ringer dancer was suddenly not going to be good enough and he knew it. Enter Maks and his wealth of showmance knowledge and that’s where we are today. I have a feeling those two have just begun but I also think they’re going down for all the reasons Heidi mentioned.
I don’t believe the shippers have an impact either. It will depend on how convincing Vajenel are with the mainstream viewers and, if the shippers think Maks and Mery are a thingl, they don’t know him at all. I suspect the vast majority never followed him prior to S18.
Oh, Rana – the next time you decide to get up on your soapbox, you best not direct it at me or my boyfriend. The whole “we’re all beautiful on the inside” speech? Sweet sentiment, but a beautiful heart doesn’t land you a gig as a supermodel. There’s a reason why Susan Boyle doesn’t model for Victoria’s Secret. And as for poor little Meryl – even if she’s were physically gorgeous (and I think the bulk of us here can agree that’s not exactly the case), the sh*t she’s pulling with Maks makes her ugly to me and boyfriend….and a bunch of other people. So takes that high-and-mighty attitude elsewhere, boo boo.
Peace out Pure.
Attacking these ladies looks is too much for me. I never attacked anyone’s looks but to anyone I’ve hurt with my words, whether I viewed my opinion as a benign observation or not, my deepest apologies. I should have known better.
Buh-bye, Ashley.
@courtney sorry if i offended you or your bf. To me it sounded a bit harsh. But it was your share and you r entiltled to your say. I ‘m not of perfect body and find it hard when people judge on looks. That was all i meant to say. It was nt meant to critisize you but to show how it sounded to me personally. Things sound different to different people and i might not be as lighthearted as the average person.
HAHA Courtney, your bf described Meryl’s appearance honestly which most people have trouble speaking/hearing these days. I find her voice to be like nails on chalkboard, so intolerably high pitched and scratchy. Some of her fans were saying that she should get into commentating for skating. I would have to stop watching it or find another network, if she ever did, because it would make my ears bleed. If she ever hosted a show, it would cause that same problem. And her actions and Janel’s actions truly do not make them attractive or respectable in my eyes. I’d rather see those two disappear into the sunset with the C-bros. I have no interest in seeing Meryl skating with Charlie either.
Ok Rana, I’ll bite. Here’s the point I was TRYING to make, but apparently your “mean girl” radar was pinging too loudly: the Vajasyl fans just GUSH and rhapsodize about how drop-dead GORGE Jenna & Meryl are. Here’s what I wanna know: would they still be doing the same gushing if Meryl wasn’t associated with Maks, or if Jenna hadn’t sorta-maybe dated Val? I don’t think they would be – neither lady is what I would consider traditionally attractive enough to warrant the kind of gushing that I’ve seen. They’re “pretty by association”, which I find to be an even more slippery slope. Because as soon as things go sour between Meryl & Maks or Jenna & Val? You can bet those same fans that were once fawning over how gorgeous those ladies were will be the first to start slinging insults. I saw the exact same thing happen with Karina, who endured taunting at the hands of crazed Maks fans for YEARS. Peta was slightly immune, probably due to the fact that her split with Maks was fairly amicable and she’s what I think most would consider to be extremely attractive; but some of those fans just LOVED to attack everything from Karina’s lips, to her nose, to how she wore her hair, to her boobs, etc.
Would the world be a lot better off if we all looked at what was on the inside instead of the outside? Sure. But that’s not really how the world works, and I hate to say it, but unless what’s outside is reasonably attractive, a lot of people don’t even bother trying to find out what’s on the inside. And in Meryl & Jenna’s cases, I’m beginning to wonder what exactly the inside looks like, since I find their joy in being seen with Maks & Val to have rather ulterior motives.
Maks has dated some REALLY gorgeous girls, Kate Upton, Erin, Peta, Karina… Just for that you see meryl is far from being his type. But, hey, the shippers want to believe that she changed him and made him the best man in the world.
As for Val, I think he’s way better than his brother, just wish he would stop using the showmance card
@Kate(1) – THANK YOU. For a minute there, I thought I was taking crazy pills – do people HONESTLY believe she’s some sort of Aphrodite all of a sudden??? I mean, standards of beauty do change, but considering some of the comments I saw on social media back in 2010 about her “bizarre looks”, I don’t think they change THAT quickly. Again, I think this is a case of “pretty by association”, where someone gets perceived as more attractive simply because they hang out with attractive people. I could go on and on about the psychology of it, and Figamentation & I had a really interesting conversation the other day about just that – the psychology of attractiveness. The bf seems into run into a lot of dancers who are, at best, of average attractiveness, but because they dance and may have gained a certain modicum of fame because of it, they perceive themselves as far more attractive than they really are…and conduct themselves accordingly. I don’t want to get into a whole other debate about it, but let’s just say I tend to see a lot of those same dynamics at work amongst the DWTS pros 😛
I am baffled by Meryl. I mean, she is a top-notch iceskater and an Olympic gold medalist. She is not in the same league as Maks or Val. What would be the point of her hanging around them? It would be Ok for them to be friends, but to partcipate in all this craziness seems out of character for her. Look at Shawn, Aly Raisman, and Charlie. They are also top-notch Olympians but they behave as adults, and both Ally and Shawn are much younger than Meryl. They are not clinging to their former partners all the time, even though they share great bonds with them.
I really hope once all these scheduled obligations are over we start seeing Charlie do stuff with Tanith. I like him and he doesn’t deserve to be dragged into all this Meryl & Maks crap or have to answer questions about them. Meryl is so private yet she’s the one who announced she was on her way to LA and has no problem letting the paparazzi she’s supposedly so intimated by photograph her getting out of Maks’s car at the practice studio. If you noticed she didn’t post any of the pictures from the family dinner but she was quick to post the strategically posed picture of her and Jenna in Maks’s house. I think the problem is that Maks needs her right now because she’s the only one willing to go along with his game and give him the publicity and attention he craves so much. JLo is obviously done with him, the bikini girl is looking for more than an unemployed dancer. Karina I imagine scoffs at him and even Peta seems to have smartened up. We know Kirstie’s done with him so do any of his partners even bother with him anymore? He’s obviously on good terms with Erin but she’s too busy with her hockey player to give him the kind of publicity and attention he’s looking for. So Meryl wins by default. Quite frankly I’ve followed Maks for a long time. If he wanted to date Meryl he would’ve started dating her during or right after their season ended — not spent the summer jumping from woman to woman. And how convenient this reunion happened just when Val is really needing to turn up his own showmance and get people voting for him.
Someone once told me that when someone is too open about a relationship, it is almost always fake. He said that when you start a relationship with someone and you value it, you try to protect it and nurture it, giving it time to develop just between you and the other person, not sharing with the rest of the world. That is why I am sure there is no more than friendship between those two.
#78. Courtney, there is reason why Gracie Gold(Olympic skater who still hasn’t become a champion internationally) got a feature in Cosmopolitan magazine after the Olympics but Meryl didn’t. There are a lot of good looking women in figure skating who would beat Meryl by a few miles. You are right about the “pretty by association”. Part of the hype comes from the fact that she did win with Charlie. There were crazy shippers who wanted them to be together, pointing out to Charlie how she is so much prettier than Tanith Belbin (who was a Ford Model). Most people find Maks attractive and these other breed of shippers want her with him, so they’ll go to great lengths to prove that. I know for a while those crazies were trying to tweet magazines to get her on it LOL. If they only knew, that’s not how it works. 😀
WORD, Donna. Especially the last bit about how Maks would have dated her right away, if he were interested. I tend to shake my head when besotted shippers claim that, within the first five minutes of meeting Meryl, Maks changed all his ways, his personality, and his preferences in other women. People don’t change that fast or that completely — at least not on account of another person they’ve known for less than ten weeks.
Court, I remember back in 2010 that people weren’t exactly fawning over Meryl’s beauty. Heck, even after winning the 2014 Olympics, when I searched for Meryl on twitter, one of the auto-fill results that came up was “meryl davis lizard face”. I’m not saying that she’s ugly, as I actually do think she’s pretty, if not beautiful — I’m just noting that the majority of the people who are calling her drop-dead gorgeous now (and certainly all of the tabloids) weren’t nearly this enamored of her before she became associated with Maks.
Maks has always leveraged his DWTS partnerships so in a sense this is no different. The big difference is those partners showed some class. That picture of her in his apartment wearing socks is not a classy. She needs to get her head on straight because if the tabloids get a whiff, she’ll be all over the National Enquirer. Not a good look for a Queen.
#79 Machane Meryl got a taste of the publicity and attention she gets from being linked to Maks and found she likes it. It’s the same thing that happened with the once fiercely private Erin. And Meryl also likes the attention being paid to her by a charming hot famous guy like Maks, as well as feeling she’s part of some kind of clique with the family. That’s why she’s perfectly willing to go along with everything. It’s funny how no one questions Tony’s closeness with Leah who he seems to spend an awful lot of time with while his wife is home in CT. But that’s because he and Leah don’t play coy or try to play their friendship as anything but what it is. I also suspect Meryl’s got herself quite a crush on Maks and is hoping if she continues to go along with his crap and be part of the family he’ll eventually change his mind about her. That’s just my feeling. Though why any woman would wait around for a guy who’s jumped among as many women as Maks has this summer is beyond me.
Photos of the “family dinner” are on Us Weekly, Rumor Fix and other sleazy tabloid sites. This was also the case w/ their lunch in August. I guess Maks’s publicist emails it to them. There’s got to be people in her skating world who are rolling their eyes at this, right? A person who is supposed to be a role model for young girls don’t usually show up on these websites.
#86. I don’t think she cares about the skating world. It is quite clear that she is trying desperately to go the Hollywood route. There is no future in skating because Charlie is going in a different direction. The irony of it is, she is trying to do this with Maks and fam, who only know how to get themselves into the tabloids every month LOL. 😀
And speaking of these delusional women who finds Meryl drop dead gorgeous and actually denigrate Tanith’s looks. Tanith has been voted the hottest Olympian in Vancouver and was a Ford model. She is absolutely stunning in person. I have seen Meryl in person when I went to see her and Charlie(I actually went because of Charlie)and the most I can say about her is that she has beautiful skin. Honestly,I really don’t see her as someone who Maks will go for.
But yes, she definitely is enjoying all these attention which she never got skating. I read all the pre-Sochi write-ups and she was never included in any list of “Hot Olympians” like Charlie was.
And I don’t think Charlie is enamored of Maks and his fam either. Maks and Sharna travelled with them for quite a time and I have never seen him socialize with him outside of the show. It is sad because she isn really turning me off and it takes away from my enjoyment of her and Charlie’s ice dancing.
#88 Ria I’ve thought the same thing with Charlie and that he seems to have no use for Maks. And what the shippers take as him having “inside knowledge” of the non-existent relationship I take as Charlie trying not to roll his eyes at what he sees his partner turning into. I also think it’s funny how they all worship Sharna because they think she’s some kind of insider to the non-existent relationship because she traveled with them. Meanwhile Sharna is one of the many pros who have said there is no relationship.
Just a couple of observations about Meryl. One problem she has is she’s achieved her life-long goal of an Olympic Gold Medal. I don’t think she ever thought about what happens after that and is sort of at a loss about how to proceed. I think that’s one reason she’s been so amenable to all the C-bros crap — she doesn’t really know what to do with herself. Still not a smart, or classy, choice. The other thing is during the season she was on I tried to figure out what was so “unique” about her face, and what I came up with is her features are very close to the edges of her face. When you look at her face next to someone else’s, that someone else looks like all their features are clustered in the middle of their face. When I read about what she will be doing — dancing with Maks, skating with Charlie — it made me angry that Charlie has to get dragged into this vortex of crap once again.
#88. HAHA Ria, it is so ridiculous.
With all the pics of Vajasyl outside the studios, I have a feeling Maksyl might have schemed a way to weasel into Vajanel’s rehearsal package for Monday. LOL these sentences are sounding dirty. 😀
After Charlie and Sharna were eliminated they were on the press line and I remember him saying “we never tried to be anything other than ourselves” or something like that.
I wonder if he was trying to convey, in a classy, low-key way, what he really felt about Maks’s tricks.
#90 Did you see the recent interview where the person interviewing Meryl and Charlie, said to Charlie that he should also do DWTS, not realizing he had already been on Season 18? Poor Charlie had to dodge that one too. I bet he’ll he more than happy to retire so he doesn’t have to do these awkward interviews. I can’t blame the interviewer since Maksyl was all that they showed.
#91 Kate isn’t it incredible how Meryl’s suddenly got no problem letting the paparazzi see and photograph her with Maks when for months we’ve been hearing about how private they are and how hard they’re trying to keep their great love affair away from the cameras? So let’s show up at the rehearsal studio which we know will be filled with paparazzi cameras! Honestly these two couldn’t have made this visit any more public than if they’d taken out a billboard on the 405.
#91 – Kate — I’m very impressed at the ease with which you employ the various neologisms arising from the distasteful behavior of the Chmercocky bros. Your distinction between “Vajanel” “Maksyl” and “Vajasyl” shows your remarkable expertise. With such proficiency, maybe you can tell me this: Does any of them come in a clear gel rather than the standared cream?
#95 Susan, since they are all for shipper anti-itch needs in a certain area, they will come only in cream form. A gel would burn LOL. Maybe that’s what they need though LOL.:D
Kate(1). Yes,that interview was ackward. And that shows you how the entire season was taken over by the stupid showmance.It was all the people talked about and I felt sorry for all the other contestants because it’s like they never existed. If the show was done fairly, they should have shown that M&M was never the runaway hit that the judges and the TPTB proclaimed it was. It still make me mad whenever I think about it.
And now Vajanel. Maks is going all out endorsing them and of course Meryl is doing the same.
They are all out to diner so Meryl & Maks scan tutor val & Janel on showman 101…Val figures it didn’t work his way with Kelly Monaco, so he’ll try big bro’s way now 🙂
#97 Ria, I thought that was the first time I’ve ever seen a hint of Charlie almost getting ticked off in an interview. He handled it in the best way he could, but I feel he has grown weary of this too.
I would be ticked off too. I remember him and Sharna going on an interview and they get shown the picture of M&M almost kissing dance and were asked what they think about M&M! That was just so rude. At the time it was all the media could focus on and I do blame both Meryl and Maks and just found it too tacky.Not to mention the whole handholding and cuddling displayed in the interviews done after they won already.And of course they were offended when Wendy Williams asked them if they were sleeping together.
Meryl supposedly has all these friends and sorority sisters in LA. How come they weren’t at her celebratory dinner? How come there are never any pictures of her and her fiancee with her friends and family, only his? Not even a picture of them with Charlie and Tanith to be found.
Charlie and Tanith probably do not want to be pictured with them since M&M overshadow everybody when they appear together. Lol NOT. Brangelina they are not whatever the shippers say./
#102 But they are hoping that Charlie and Tanith will invite Maks to their wedding LOL. 😀
#101 It is all an act. Most people don’t even know who Meryl’s friends are outside of skating. She has never posted pics of them or even with skaters outside of competitions. But she seems more than willing to portray that she is staying at Maks’ apartment.
My sense from all these little hints Meryl is dropping is that she’s a stealth famewhore.
Really, you’re private? No, you ain’t. You know perfectly well that the cray-cray shippers know what the inside of Maks house looks like and you know what conclusions they would draw, and you used it.
I just saw the picture, but it doesn’t say who’s apartment it is. Could it be Jenna’s place?
Edit – Oh, I just your post Heidi. I’m sorry, I did not know they knew it was his place.
Al, I assumed that all Maks fans know what the inside looks like because of Instagram/Twitter pics, much like Derek fans can identify his condo pretty easily, thanks to the people around him tweeting photos from there. It’s not hard to figure out anymore.
Janel actually had a cute boyfriend. Looks like it is her loss. Not all relationships can survive a showmance, especially if there was any doubt. It is so strange how people’s priorities are so messed up on a reality show. This show truly tests your character and the ability to be true to yourself and others.
@Kate(1), you are right! But it is hard to understand what Janel will win from all this – even if she wins the mirrorball trophy. It is not something which will be pivotal in her career. It may be satisfying on a personal level, but is it worth jeopardizing a relationship and running the risk of alienating fans just to get it? The season will be over in a month, so, what will she do later?
#107 Al if you follow Maks on Twitter or Instagram you know what the inside of his house looks like. It’s where everyone hangs out and there are tons of pictures tweeted out from there.
109. Sometimes, people only think about the present and forget about what consequences their actions will lead to. As I mentioned, this shows tests your strength of character. It is hard to say no, especially if the producers wish to push a certain angle. She can always hang out with the C-Bros clan like Meryl, trade breakup stories with her and make a career out of extending the showmance. 😛 It is possible she will realize she made a mistake after she gets eliminated.
#104 Heidi that’s how I feel about the pictures from the rehearsal studio. It’s not like both Maks and Meryl don’t know the place is swarming with paparazzi cameras and the pictures would be published to fuel romance speculation. Someone who values their privacy like Meryl supposedly does wouldn’t have showed up like that. Someone who’s desperate for the romance rumors to continue being fueled would.
I suspect Maks and his many women will be laying low after Meryl goes home at least until after Sway is over.
So M&M are rehearsing at the studios today for SWDOI. Who would bet that the two of them will appear on Janel and Val’s package this week?
Or maybe the celebratory lunch.
OTOH Sharna is tagging 5 of her friends(including Meryl and Charlie)about Val’s new clothing line(Aha ha ha goodluck with that since Charlie only wears Ralph Lauren’s polos)and encouraging people to tag their friends. I wonder what will be Val’s line would be. Would it be shirts slashed to the waist? maybe different hats covering his privates? Does he even have a style?
109. Your comment got me to thinking of how else Janel could have navigated this whole experience, and for the life of me I can’t imagine any. If the showmance idea was in fact suggested to her, I think she might have been relieved, because she knew that was something she could do.
Wow, everyone makes such great observations! My mom and I have been watching DWTS together since the beginning. We all know the C-bros, Meryl,and Jenna are all using each other to gain fame for the future. Does anyone, including Val think Janel is going to win this season? Of course not, but why not gain some attention by having a showmance so she can model his clothing line and be a celebrity guest for Sway. Jenna and Meryl are using the C-Bros to gain and continue to have fans. I think they are going to have Meryl be another celebrity guest for Sway and they want to sell those tickets! This is why I continue to be a Derek Hough fan. He doesn’t need to use his dance partners to gain anything for himself. He is building his own empire away for DWTS all on his own.
I am sorry to bring the C-bros vs. Derek Hough comparison up, but this is why Derek has never annoyed me after all of these seasons. He doesn’t need to use his dance partners to sell stuff or succeed outside of DWTS.
I use have so much respect for Meryl before and during the Olympics. Now, she seems fake and not even like the same person. As for Charlie, my love and respect for him has only grown. He was the real winner of DWTS between the two.
And lol Court to what your bf said. He tells it like it is.
I don’t either. Not even close.
#116 Sweet I’m not a tremendous Derek fan but I agree Derek has made his career on his own while Maks and Val (Maks in particular) have attempted to make a career out of being tabloid fodder.
#117 Vogue I think she’s totally fake and would stab anyone in the back, including Charlie, if it got her what she wanted.
Derek is a great example of how to succeed with class, and so is Amy. She took her newfound celebrity and popularity and put it to good use doing a speaking tour with Oprah.
Charlie saw through the DWTS and C-bros right away. As I recall, he never even followed Maks on a Twitter. Notice how he has no desire to return.
118. Not only is she totally fake, but highly overrated. It is sad that people in the figure skating world see Meryl and Charlie as a unit. They are always going to be respected unless it gets to the point where all her famewhoring muddies her name enough, to start affecting Charlie. He wants to continue being involved in skating, which will hopefully help in dissociating his name should she show up on the National Enquirer doing questionable things.
115. You are right. Janel and Meryl are being used for their various peddling projects of tickets, clothes, etc. like Zendaya. I really have a strong feeling they are going to show up in the rehearsal package to give that extra boost to the publicity to sell stuff. Maks is no longer on the show and nothing has caused him to make a name outside of DWTS yet. What happened to that successful movie career which hasn’t even started? He is going to use the show to get some face time with the public because those 200 uber fans aren’t cutting it. It is quite tacky and desperate to be honest and I can’t believe people fall for this time and time again.
Well, well. The couple that waxes together, stays together. Just when I thought things couldn’t get grosser between Val and Janel. I don’t think he even did stuff like that with Kelly and that was a real showmance.
Ick. Now I shudder to think what would be next. It seems that there is nothing the C-bros would do.I still am grossed out by that hats on their privates dance that they did last time.
#122. A pre-req for hanging out with the C-bros is to first throw, any class that you possess, out the window. Another reason we never saw Charlie fraternizing with them. There is no limit to the ick.
#122. A pre-req for hanging out with the C-bros is to first throw, any class that you possess, out the window. Another reason we never saw Charlie fraternizing with them. There is no limit to the ick. In order to be one with the fam, you are expected to do these things and it reminds me of initiation into a cult or a fraternity(something Meryl knows all about). I can see why Sadie didn’t want Val as her switch up partner LOL. 😀
Truth. Derek and Mark win their dances because of the choreos – not showmance stuff. I really don’t know what DWTS is going to-raunchier dances. skimpier costumes, more showmances. It used to be fun. Now I can’t even watch some of the dances and forget about the packages mostly fake and dramas.
Ugh. I really hate this because I love Charlie and Meryl and ice dancing but Meryl makes it more and more impossible for me to like her
lately. I was hoping it stopped when they won but it is still going on and her being BFFs with Jenna does not help either. I can’t help but think “birds of the saem feathers……
This is pretty similar to what Maks did with Kirstie after her season was over. Used her to sell tickets to shows, played coy (and suggestive at times) about a romance between them, pulled her out for photo ops when he needed some publicity, and once he didn’t need her anymore he kept her at arm’s length, pulling her out when it was convenient for him. Leah may have been the final straw but it was pretty obvious long before Leah came along that Maks and Kirstie weren’t all that close anymore. She never said a word during his season with Meryl until he won and for all her talk she never had him on her show or that pilot she shot for ABC (but she did have Gilles in that). And she certainly never hooked him up with any of her connections to help him become the next John Travolta.
The only time I was a Val fan was his season with Zendaya. All about choreo, pushing her extra hard because she had dance ability and experience, keeping it classy. But now I realize that say Zendaya had been 20 years old, that whole season would have been distracted with the usual C-Bro nonsense.
@sweetlibrian2 I’m with you I enjoyed Val’s season with Zendaya because it was all about the dance. I too wonder had Zendaya been over the age of 20 would things be different. Truth of the matter is Val knows he has fans that “ship” him and Zendaya and he uses it to his and the fams advantage. Why else have they not announced weather she will be in their show or not they are hoping they’re fans will still buy tickets in hopes they will make a surprise announcement that she’s going to be there it’s sad and disgusting. Poor girl probably just has a crush on him and goes along with it.
I had to look at the clothing selection from Val’s new clothing line out of curiousity. Is it for Halloween with the black macabre theme? I think he needs all the help he can get to sell that for couture LOL 😀 I’m certain even a showmance won’t make people shell those kind of dollars for that offering HAHAHA 😀
The problem with the Val and Janel ship is that there’s nothing emotional connecting them, which won’t pull in the general viewers. The reason that the general audience fell for the Maks and Meryl thing is that it didn’t appear to be rooted in sex, but feelings (even though they were clearly platonic, the masses bought that there was something more). All Val & Janel do is grind up against one another – that’s not what the people outside of their own fan base care to see. Even Val & Kelly had a better emotional connection – despite her boyfriend – than he and Janel have displayed thus far. So yeah, this showmance won’t get them anything if it just appears that they are bumping uglies.
Kate(1) I went and looked myself – what exactly is his line? I’ve worn
exactly those black shirts/pants minus valentin on the back. Those clothes are so generic. Good luck with that! Maybe he can sell the clothes with Maks next time he peddles his Denim vodka to liquor stores.
#130 I did not watch M&M last season and nothing about Vajanel makes
me want to watch them.
#131. Ria, HAHAHA, isn’t that crazy. One would need to be quite intoxicated to buy those clothes. I’m surprised that Sharna is peddling it too. Maybe she feels obligated since she has been included in Sway now.
#130 TPTB aren’t as infatuated with Vajanel either as they were with Maksyl. I think that played a big role because those packages of Meryl doing her weekly psychotherapy on Maks seemed to go down well with the audience and tipped the shippers to ecstasy.
@Ria-Tanith is gorgeous! @Kate (1) #93- Wow I can’t believe the interviewer actually said that. That brings me to something else I’ve been thinking about the past few days. I loved both Meryl & Charlie last season but sometimes I think it might have been best if they hadn’t done the show. Not necessarily Charlie but more Meryl. It seems she’s known more for her showmance with Maks and used as an accessory for him and his fans than all of her accomplishments. Like winning a gold medal (no one will ever be able to convince me the Russian couple that placed 3rd didn’t deserve that gold though) and being such a good skater despite her depth perception issues. Anyway onto Janel & Val. I’ve enjoyed most of her dances but find the tired showmance angle to be off putting and I wished they had picked Shay Mitchell to do the show/ represent PLL instead.
This is my second season watching DWTS – I watched last season for Meryl and Charlie – and apparently have a lot of feelings about the show even though I know nothing about dance. 🙂
I actually really like Val. I don’t even mind the constant (most likely producer driven) shirtlessness; although, I agree with others above that Artem is kind of gross/creepy. I even thought the waxing video was cute. I don’t know much of the backstory that is alluded to here, but I think he seems pretty genuine on the show and like he works hard. I thought his dances last season and this season have been choreographed well. Since they seem to be constantly compared, Derek has been a quiet entity in what I’ve seen. I liked that he was doing that big clap after someone else’s dance last week. He seems pretty busy outside of the show which probably gives the producers less to work with. I thought he had some pretty great dances with Amy last season but wish he had challenged her a bit more (or the show had shown him trying to challenge her and reworking stuff).
I don’t have any real feelings toward Janel and can take her or leave her. I figure she’ll end up around 4th behind Alfonso, Sadie, Lea/Bethany. I won’t care when she leaves except that I like watching Val dance. I think Janel’s trying to work the show for the exposure and potential future work (like all the celebs) but can come off as desperate at times. There have been a couple moments that I thought she was cute or likeable when she was caught off guard and forgot to act. As far as producer pimping, I get the impression the producers can’t figure out who to push. One week, I feel like they’re pushing one celeb and the next I feel like the same celeb was screwed over. I don’t know if that means the voting is all over the place or what.
Mostly, I think the problem with the show is that none of the celebs really stand out so a lot of these smaller issues (shirtlessness, showmance vs no showmance, song choices) seem bigger because that’s all there is to talk about. I think Alfonso and Sadie are the two that stand out the most – they both seem to be having fun dancing – so I won’t be surprised to see them end up as 1 and 2. I want to like Bethany, especially considering everything she’s been able to accomplish, but I just don’t see Bethany when she dances. I think last week was her best week at inhabiting the dance instead of just going through the steps. I hope she can continue that this week. I feel like I don’t know her at all yet (of course I feel like I don’t know Derek at all either and according to the show all Mark does is complain about scores so it could just be the show not showing me their personalities). Lea just seems desperate, which is too bad because I thought she could have had a really fun dance last week if she had just gone with it.
I thought Meryl should have won last year, but I do think Maks did her a disservice on choreography. I always felt like she could have done more. Last season was my only exposure to Maks, and he can stay away as far as I’m concerned. I don’t like it when grown men forget to act like grown men, especially on camera. I also agree with others that Meryl’s behavior on the show and post show has me changing my mind on her. I also really hope the show doesn’t promote Jenna anymore until she can stop mugging for every camera that passes near her.
Sorry that’s so long. I apparently really did have a lot of feelings about the show.
Kate(1) Meryl is also endorsing the clothes in her twitter. Charlie could care less as he is tweeting about his dogs like he always does.LOL!
#133 I also wish they have not done DTWS more because of Meryl but I did love Charlie’s dances so I am conflicted.
Sharna seems really close to the fam now. Is she still with Paul?It seems she has not mentioned him for a while now.
@Ria- Maybe Charlie should have just come on by himself. I think Sharna is close to pretty much everybody. She just seems like that type of person and I don’t see her getting too involved in one particular group. She seems too smart to do that.
Sharna’s been pretty close to the family ever since Maks was dating Peta. She’s Peta’s best friend.
It seems there was a Childhelp event yesterday that Maks attended so the shippers are now harassing people who were there trying to find out if Meryl was with him. It’s incredible to me how they think this is normal acceptable behavior.
Is it more normal than harassing other bloggers who do not think M&M are together? Which is what they are doing on the internet. Apparently. they are befriending M&M’s friends on twitter to find out if they know anything about M&M, they are tracking flights to see if M&M are going/meeting somewhere, scrutinizing every bit of jewelry Meryl is wearing to see if it came from Maks,and resenting her skating with Charlie because it takes away from her time with Maks. And the sad part is they are not wall 13 year old girls.
#137 Ria that’s what flips me out the most If these were teenagers I could understand it but these are supposedly grown women behaving this way. And the day their ship sinks for good it’s going to be Maks who suffers their wrath, not Meryl. In their eyes she’s perfection and can do absolutely nothing wrong.
Ria, #134.I had the same question about Sharna and her bf. It doesn’t look like they are still together. There are too many signs pointing out in that direction.
This is a sickness. Seriously disturbing. Have they nothing in their own lives to focus on?? Nothing better to do??
Here’s a tip – I read books. Right now I’m reading a historical non-fiction novel about the prelude to WWII (In the Garden of the Beasts – REALLY GOOD). I listen to audio books. I keep informed about politics (although that is somewhat bad for my blood pressure, so I’m dialing back – used to be WAY into it), I go out with friends, I TRAVEL. Oh, how I love traveling. Currently planning another visit to Great Britain. Also planning a small ship cruise – but can’t decide on Oregon or New England next year. I LOVE my job and I’m really good at it. This is just the tip of my iceberg.
So, what are these nutbars doing?? Do they have lives?? I find this seriously disturbing. Surely there are better ways to spend ones time?
#141 Heidi their jobs seem to be searching for info on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr that will prove Maks and Meryl are really dating/in love/about to get married. Some of them claim they have children and grandchildren which I find hard to believe. If my grandmother behaved like this I’d be seriously worried about her. And yes she does watch DWTS.
PH, I suggest New England in the fall. The autumn leaves are beautiful! The little coastal towns are charming and and the cities are filled with history! 🙂
#141 Heidi, Yes, Yes come to New England 🙂 We have cruise ships stopping in Maine. They usually go into Bar Harbor. A very touristy area but beautiful.
Poor Maks/Meryl shippers. I had hoped they would have moved on but I guess they never will.
I’ve been all over New England, but interestingly, this cruise goes to several places I haven’t been to, like Nantucket. But I’ve never been to Oregon either. So….
Oh how I would love to travel, PH. Sigh…I can’t even get my husband to agree to take our 10, almost 11yr old son to Disney in Florida. He REFUSES to get on an airplane!! So I guess I’m going without him 😀 I’d LOVE to go to England. One of my high school classmates lives there with her husband. Also want to go to Paris. And take a cruise…to Alaska!
I love travelling and try to go at least on a big trip once a year. I’ve been to Europe, Asia and Australia so this time I will try to see more of the US. Meeting new people on my travels also is a big plus.
Seeing the places that you have only read or seen in the movies like the Roman coliseum or the Sydney Opera House is just amazing.
Alaskan Cruises are AWESOME – but take my advice if you’re going to do the train to Denali and Fairbanks – start in Fairbanks and work your way south with the cruise being the last part.
Paris – beautiful!! Ireland – Amazingly gorgeous. My mom wants to move there but I told her she can’t change countries at her age. 🙂
I vote going without husbands who are pains in that way. 🙂 I travel alone a lot for work and once you get used to it, you enjoy your own company. And you can do whatever the hell you want when you want. 🙂
What I haven’t done, but I’m dying to do, is one of those Viking River Cruises. They look awesome.
Just did the Avalon River Cruise through the south of France (Provence) this summer! Fantastic!
I’d go on any of them. Really want to do Copenhagen though.
I go with my 2 sisters – they enjoy travelling and we have fun sightseeing and shopping. My husband(not another church! why do we have to go to another museum? I am tired-I’ll just be sitting on this bench and wait etc etc)is no fun!
I have been to England (specifically London) once and it’s gorgeous. I think there is a cruise to England as well but not sure which one had it. I took a plane there but it’s gorgeous. In all seriousness though if you wanna stay stateause my uncle took a cruise to alaska and said its gorgeous.
My cousin is going on a cruise to Aruba or something like that for the fourth time so that one must be fun? Not really a tropical island kinda guy lol I need noise museums and people and history lol.
I’m with you, Vin.
#103 Kate, you obviously don’t follow Meryl or you would know that she DOES in fact post pics of her friends, sorority sisters, etc. etc. In just the past three months there are pictures of her skating friends (outside competitions), pictures with her friends just a couple weeks ago at a football weekend and also a pic with her friends and their husbands, and from a couple’s baby shower (also attended by Tanith, Charlie, and Maks) and pics at a friend’s wedding. And there are more before the past 3 months. So please don’t make statements like she NEVER posts pictures of her friends.
#155 No need to scold me. You are obviously one of the shippers so I won’t waste my breath refuting your delusional claims.
Amy, how about you calm the hell down and YOU don’t tell other people how to post.
#155 Amy you’re very obviously a shipper since you claim Maks was at that baby shower which is yet another piece of made up nonsense the shippers invented to convince themselves he stayed in Michigan after his shopping mall appearance. You remember, that’s when he was paying people to not mention on Twitter and Instagram that they’d seen him when Heryl was being photographed with fans in restaurants and Target? LOL
#158. Donna, I am glad someone else spotted that key piece of information that gave away any ounce of credibility HAHAHA 😛
@159 Kate it’s one of my top 3 favorite shipperisms along with Maks and the bikini girl being casual business acquaintances who just happened to be on the same trip to Italy and JLo & Lizzie planting all the Maks/JLo romance rumors against Maks’s wishes. LOL!
Val is going off on twitter trying to backtrack on the showmance. I think the whole strategy has not worked out for them and with Janel’s relationship ending there must have been a lot of chatter about Val’s involvement.
Meanwhile, Janel’s tweeting heart-eyed emojis about cologne in her hair. *snicker*
Mixed messages ought to confuse the fans!! Maks commented on them in People, while he finally denied dating Meryl, or dating her in the future. But Janel calms Val down like Meryl or some such stuff according to Maks. So clearly they are trying to make a connection to the two women’s ability to “change” their partners. I wish they could cut the drama and just be normal like all the other pros. Why is there always drama around the Chmerkovskiy’s? Seriously, why.
Anyone have any spare life vests? LOL
There is such a simple way to get rid of the showmance shit – fucking say “NO” when asked point blank if you’re dating!! Why is this so hard to understand?? I watched the first few minutes of this interview (all I could stand) and neither one of them just says “we’re just friends. we’re not dating”. They tap dance around it, joke, she leans all over him. They have no one to blame but themselves for not being able to answer a simple question. You can’t have it both ways, Val.