Maksim Chmerkovskiy weighed in on Carrie Ann Inaba’s recent critique of his sister-in-law Jenna Johnson’s Week 5 dance on Dancing With the Stars—and he did not mince words.
The veteran pro dancer, who last competed on the ABC celebrity ballroom competition during its 25th season in 2017, had three key words for Inaba: “Get some consistency.”
On Oct. 15, Chmerkovskiy appeared on Nick Viall’s The Viall Files podcast alongside his wife Peta Murgatroyd, where he slammed Inaba for her confusing criticism of Johnson’s samba with actor Harry Shum Jr.
During the live episode, Inaba called out Johnson for including an illegal “lift” in the dance.
“She goes and starts reading off the rulebook, but then that same rulebook that’s applicable in ballroom with lifts is only applicable to a couple dancing,” Chmerkovskiy, 46, said on the podcast. “You’re not talking about extra background dancers running out.”
“There’s no ‘three other people’ in the rulebook,” he continued. “The point is: Carrie Ann, get some consistency. A lift is a lift if a partner lifted his partner. … If you’re going to have the troupe run out and throw someone in the air, that’s not a lift. That’s Dancing With the Stars creative direction, and you should complain to the creative director.”
Chmerkovskiy did agree with Inaba that there was not enough samba content in the dance, which was set to Usher’s “Yeah!”
“They gave too much of a nod to [Usher’s type] of movement and the movement quality, which is Harry’s card,” he said. “But samba didn’t play out, and I think that’s where Carrie Ann should have ended. To give it a lift situation, come on? Then, give him a 7, take the points, something. Why did you bring this up if you’re not going to do anything about it? That’s my problem.”
During DWTS’ Super Bowl Night on Oct. 13, Inaba told Johnson, “You need to put more content into your dances. And there was a lift.”
When Johnson questioned her, Inaba read the definition of lift from a paper.
“A lift is any movement during which one of the dancers has both feet off the floor at the same time with the assistance or support of their partner,” she said. “Yeah, lift.”
Inaba had the same conversation with Johnson seven years prior when a lift made its way into her tango with Karamo Brown.
In addition to Maks, other members of the Chmerkovskiy clan weighed in on Inaba’s critique of Johnson.
The DWTS pro’s dancer sister-in-law Murgatroyd admitted that even she was confused by the lift rules.
“When I heard what she said about no one could lift the person, I agreed with Jenna in the fact, like, ‘Oh, so even if it’s not me, he can’t be lifted either,’” Murgatroyd admitted on Viall’s podcast. “I think maybe that would have been confusing for me too.”
And Johnson’s husband Val Chmerkovskiy posted and then deleted a TikTok comment that said, “You almost saw Fresh Prince enter the ballroom last night,” according to a screenshot shared by Page Six. was seemingly a refreence to Will Smith’s famous stage slap at the 2022 Oscars.
Related: DWTS’ Carrie Ann Inaba Schooled Jenna Johnson on Lifts 7 Years Ago in Resurfaced Clip
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