Karina Smirnoff On DWTS15 Cast: “Women are very strong, but the male celebrity guests are a little bit stronger overall”
Karina Smirnoff not only made an appearance at the “It’s So Miami” pop-up pool Party in NYC, she also gave her thoughts on the upcoming cast of Dancing With The Stars. Below is more from People today. Check out what she says about Bristol Palin too.
“The women are very strong, but the male celebrity guests are a little bit stronger overall,” Smirnoff told PEOPLE at an event sponsored by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau. “I mean, we have an Olympian male guest – Apolo Anton Ohno. I’m sure he’ll go very far.”
Otherwise, added Smirnoff, it’s a crapshoot. “It’s going to depend on the chemistry that [the stars] have with their partners, the quality of the dancing that [they] do, and who has more fans,” she said.
There is one star for whom Smirnoff doesn’t have high hopes, however. “I’d be very, very surprised if [Bristol Palin] won,” she said. “Bristol was not known as the best dancer of [her] season. … There was so much controversy when she was on.” (Still, the reality star landed in the finale during season 11.)
See People for more.
Kelly following Val on twitter…
HA! Now that she sees Apolo is the frontrunner with the fans, she appears to be more interested & talking about him recently. She and her fans were clearly eyeing on Gilles at first.
I really don’t believe Karina will get Gilles. Kym and Peta are both tall, and Karina is small as are most of the male stars. I sincerely hope she doesn’t get Apolo. Karina had her win already with J.R., now I would like to see Chelsea win and I believe Apolo is her best chance.
I’ve always thought Chelsie was a cute and sweet girl but I’ve never seen her as a great choreographer and I do think Apollo might be capable of harder choreography than Drew or Helio. I don’t really see her and Apollo being the best match, unless the show just wants to take the easy way out by giving him the Julianne replacement and hoping lightning will strike twice. I’d rather see him with someone like Karina, who is probably the best dancer (at least according to a lot of people who seem to more about dance than me). Although there would be a big age difference between Chelsie and Drew, I see that as a better match.
@KarenT. – I agree, Apolo needs more than Chelsie can offer. Sure they sound cute on paper but I think the pairing of Chelsie and Apolo is all wrong. Chelsie’s choreography is too safe, Apolo needs to be pushed to his limit. Someone like Karina can do that. And also agree on Drew and Chelsie they are a much better match.
I am anxious to see what the pairings will actually be.
I have to agree with Karen and I’d like to see Anna with Apolo! Karina would be great but I believe she’s too tall for him.
Apolo needs someone who can push him at the same time he can goof around with.He is not the best dancer, and he needs the best teacher to go with his likeability. Karina is just not that.Personality speaking, i think he matches Cheryl in every aspect. Apolo’s discipline and focus,,,,,,and when to have fun. Cheryl is a disciplinarian tough with great teaching skills, but can also be cute and knows how to have fun.And Cheryl is Apolo’s closest buddy next to Julianne,,,, but the physical appearance and styles are way off for Cheryl and Apolo.
Apolo would look good beside Chelsie and Karina.
Karina is buying followers on twitter. HA! A lot of people already confirming it…. She knows the popular pros are the priorities and given longer staying power…. She wants the producers to make her a priority and keep her longer as possible every season. From 90,000 to almost 300,000 in over a month followers on break season. When she’s not buying, she barely gets 30 followers a day. In one day, it suddenly surged for an extra 25,000. I follow her on twitter…..
#8 Mel, I don’t follow Karina, but since you do I was wondering whats her take on the Maks and Peta “romance”?
Seriously?????
Since they appear to now be on speaking terms, yes, I am curious as to what Karina thinks of it all. I’m sure when Maks gets engaged, Karina will wish him well.
Mel , may I ask you why you are following Karina on twitter bc you are obviously not a fan.
Thanks for this Vogue! You are a veritable fountain of information! 🙂
Awww thanks…and DITTO!!! 😉 xx
Karen, from the first day of their break up Karina wished Maks all the best. As you might noticed she was very loyal to Maks and Peta last season. I expect her to take a high road in a future as well.
Uh, no – we’re not going down that path again, Karen. I follow all four of them and there has been little to no discussion on it and anything that Mel comes up with would just be her imagination aided by her clear dislike of Karina. You wanna talk romance, take it somewhere else. We’ve been down that road already and it’s off topic on this post.
As Mark is also buying fans on twitter – offering signed goods when he reaches 200K, it’s not a surprise Karina is doing the same thing. I am also expecting Chelsie’s spambots to start a twitter campaign for her to reach 100K, but I’m not sure how much she’ll personally support the campaign.
I would never compare what Karina is doing to what Mark is doing. Mark is actually going about it in a legitimate way, offering prizes – and I don’t think it’s going to gain him a 100k followers in the space of a month, which is what Karina did just by shelling out some cash.
I don’t get the point of doing that, but it would be her people doing it for some reason known only to them.
Not that it necessarily means anything, but Gilles is following Karina. They would be a hot couple so I’ll keep hoping.
I didn’t think about Apolo and Cheryl ’til now, but that would also be a winning match up imo.
Those two couples along with Kym with Emmitt and Derek with Shawn and I’d be set.
Yeah, I would like to see Gilles and Karina and Apolo with Cheryl – that would be good. And yes, Derek with Shawn – but somehow, I don’t see this happening. They’ve just never given him an athlete OR someone that young.
I would like to see Tristan get Shawn just to see how far he can go with someone like her. I also think they would look cute together.
Katarina, Gilles follows quite a few pros including Cheryl (obviously), Kym, Chelsie, Lacey, Derek and some others. Karina was his latest addition, so I agree with you it probably means nothing. Or, who knows, maybe he is taking classes in her studio. I think Karina is only one pro who has studio in LA.
Karina gave out CASH????? Where was I ? LOL
When Karina’s phone number was publicly tweeted by some guy who claimed to be a friend of Jen G and Derek is when she had a bit of a surge in followers. I remember someone on another site saying they saw it in the middle of the night, called, got Karina on the phone, and chatted with her about it. A couple of fans started harassing the guy on twitter and he deleted her phone number, but some damage was done. Supposedly she had to give her phone to a buddy/pr person and said she may have to change her number.
Gilles supposedly is taking lessons at an Arthur Murray studio. Yup, some people on the “voting” site lol, are already complaining because he is.
*shrug* At this point, can’t say I’m really surprised at anything about the all-star season – so if Gilles is taking outside lessons, big whoop. They all have experience from their previous seasons anyway, so I don’t know that taking lessons to brush up is going to be all that advantageous…plus if they’re coming from Arthur Murray (quite possibly the sh*ttiest franchised dance studio chain out there), they may actually be at a disadvantage. The bf has had to get quite a few students that came from Arthur Murray to “un-learn” what they were taught there, because the instruction they received was so subpar.
I bet several of the celebs are getting back into the dance studio ahead of time to brush up their skills. Joey has been on the DWTS LV show. And the voted in celeb will have been too.
Yeah, I figure if Kyle or Sabrina get on, and since Joey recently danced, that we can complain if some are “brushing up”. The “complainers” would even complain if paparazzi saw Bristol at a dance studio practicing haha!
Giles taking lessons isn’t a big deal (or at least ti think so). i would be money that the only three that might need some lessons to get back into it are kelly and drew and emmitt.
add bristol to that list. kinda forgot she was on this season.
Arthur Murray…. R they still in business? Geez, I haven’t heard that name for ages.
@Heidi – Those pairings sound great. I have to admit I have been jotting down on paper some of my dream pairings, which by the way keeps changing daily… Oh my goodness, I really need to get a life!! 🙂
I can only hope and pray Bristol takes a ton of pre-show lessons. Not that it would help. Sorry, that was snarky, but I couldn’t resist.
I think all the stars should be practicing at this point. I mean who wants to look BAD on the All Star Season?
Er, a “bit of a surge”?? We’re talking more than 100k. I don’t think anyone gets that kinda surge unless they are….Brittany Spears or something.
Karen, there are still 7 weeks until the Premiere….. At this point, that is too long. Yes, all of the contestants have already been through the process, but 7 weeks of hard, intensive training that they will have for the show will just mean 4 extra weeks to get hurt.
I think they made the cast announcement too soon….. And still, even after they make the pairs announcement, they aren’t supposed to be practicing…. If they allow them to start on August 30, which is what I heard somewhere, it’ll still be giving them more time than usual before the start of the season, 3 1/2 weeks is still a lot of practice time.
Joey just got thru dancing on stage so if other celebs feel like refresher courses that seems only fair to me.