Pure DWTS13 Maksim Chmerkovskiy Does Good Day New York & Writes New Blog!
Good Day NY interviewed Maks this morning!! He discusses Hope and how she was picked as his partner. Being she is an athlete, Hope personally understands the hours of training it takes to be a dancer. Maks also goes through his career and how he became a dancer on Dancing With The Stars. He talks of what he plans to do in ten years time. The reporters ask him some great questions…not the same old, same old. Lots more below…
Maksim Chmerkovskiy: MyFoxNY.com
Below is a take from Maks’ new blog at TV Guide where he talks on their new dance. Much more at the link. Thanks to @DWTSMaksimFans at twitter for the heads up.
Next week, we have the foxtrot. It’s movie theme week. It’s funny because we thought we’d get something serious since a lot of famous movie themes are dramatic. But nope! We got Toy Story! We’re going to go all out as Woody and Jessie. We’re going to fully embrace the characters and do the best we can. Rehearsals are going well. We’re traveling again this week, so it’s tough. But we’re both responsible and just do as much work as we can with the time we have each day regardless of the circumstance. I’m not going to lie. It’s really crazy to travel during the show. It takes a lot of energy. When you don’t have to travel during the show, you get into the same routine, going to the same rehearsal space every day, dance for six, seven hours, go home and pass out. On the road, you can’t have that pleasure. Her schedule has been insane. Her people are on her schedule down to the minute. I give her all the credit because as we all know, the window of a professional athlete is quite small and this is Hope’s time to capitalize. This is her only time off because she’s goes to Olympic training after this, so she’s taking advantage of it. But when we’re in the studio, she’s all mine.
I love this part too for what he wrote on their Cha Cha last week….
You can be a tomboy and a girly girl. Hope was having a hard time being sexy and feminine, but I think she’s now embracing it. The cha-cha was quite revealing and seductive. It’s definitely a far cry from what she’s known for, but that’s what’s so great about it — she’s proving that you can be both. She’s an inspiration for girls everyone. I will admit though, she’s not quite sex on a stick yet! Well, she’s sex on a stick — in a different way! Just look at her ESPN magazine Body issue cover!
Be sure to watch the Nancy Grace show on HLN tonight. Hope, Tristan, and Val will be her guests.
Thanks, Vogue! I was hoping we’d get Maks’s new blog today. I really appreciate that he’s honest about how tricky it is traveling and training but doesn’t complain about it (just like Anna never complained about traveling with Evan). Our “Sex on a Stick” is also a “Good Egg” ::LOL::
Glad he was able to do this Good Day NY bit while Hope was off doing whatever thing she had going on.
In one of the results interview videos, Hope says she & Maks will go from NYC to Chicago to run in the Marathon. She says he’s going to run the first mile with her & her team. He says he won’t. I’m thinking the odds he will are in her favor!
Hope took Maks with her to the ESPN Body Issue release party in New York. There are some cute pictures of them floating around out there but no video as far as I know. I doubt he minded that much considering his reaction to just calling into Sports Center. There are some perks to having a star athlete as a partner. Traveling sucks, but her body is used to training and travel and endless hotels being part of her career. If she gives it her all during rehearsals he’s likely ok with it. Should clear up soon. After the charity run in Chicago she doesn’t have anything big until late Nov I don’t think.
Yep, Shep, my guess is Maks will be lacing up his running shoes in Chicago 😛
Funny how we had both Hope/Maks and Carson/Anna in NYC.
Cranscape, thanks for the tip on the mag release party pics. Maks is used to going to various functions with his celeb partners, but I’m sure the ESPN gig was a nice change from the Hollywood events he usually attends. I remember he traveled to the UK with Mel.
@cranscape – good information! Thank you! I’m glad to know Hope’s schedule will lighten up soon. 🙂
Hope totally rocked the black leather mini dress she wore to the release party. It was a huge night for her and I wish Maks had dressed better for it. I understand he wasn’t exactly in his element, but he does glam so well and she deserved his best.
Maybe he wasn’t expecting to have his photo taken. When it comes to events like this he’s usually all, “This is about Hope” and tries to redirect things back to her when it is non-DWTS stuff. Goodluck with that though. Gotta be red carpet ready at all times. I like his jacket though. He wore it to the soccer games and it is normally flattering in a non-red carpet environment.
There I go again, jumping to conclusions. 🙄 As of this morning, the only pictures I’d seen of the party were Hope & Maks in his gray sweater & cargo pants, and Hope with Jackson in his coat & bow tie. Most of the women were in cocktail-type dresses. Since then, I found pages of AP photos and see that many of the other guys were really dressed down, too. So, big apologies to Maks!
Here’s a nice video of Maks and Hope at a dance studio in New York. Shows them dancing, Hope talks about learning how to deal with Maks…Maks mimicking Hope’s dancing from last week, on getting into character for the Toy Story dance, what Maks thought of Hope’s spread in the ESPN mag…and Maks singing in a southern accent! Pretty cute.
Hope is done with her marathon. She and her charity partner led all the runners for the first half a mile! Doesn’t look like Maks was there in the wee hours of the morning for the marathon (I guess he won that battle), but they were seen shopping together the night before so he was with her in Chicago at some point.
Awesome Cran! I’ll get this up in a new post coming up shortly! THANK YOU!
Wow. The guy interviewing Maks in that video was completely clueless! I would have expected that, if you’re going to interview someone on TV, you’d at least know when their show aired… How’d that dude ever get a job in a market that big?