Originally Posted by
Karma Ardent:
“Here's the link Jane scroll down to the comments of Ray Whitewood -
http://www.whosay.com/maksimchmerkovskiy/photos/177856”
Bless you! Thank you for finding and posting that. Damian's dad is spitting mad. I guess like a lot of breakups, Damian's and Peta's was a little bumpy. I liked Damian on his one American DWTS season with Pamela Anderson. Pamela would talk about how dancing would bring up all these romantic feelings in her, and then she would quickly namecheck Peta - Damian's then girlfriend - to make sure it all stayed respectful. I liked that frankness.
Originally Posted by
edy10:
“Peta and Maks is a big :yawn::yawn: for me. Its their life so whatever. Im not completely sold on this new girl Peta(meaning as a pro on dwts) plus I think that Maks has become such a famewhore nowadays
I have always been a Karina's fan and I dont know why she used to get so much flack from everybody (not only for their breakup but as a dancer also). ”
I think Peta is a terrific dancer, but I don't care for Maks. Getting close to Peta is the closest Maks may ever get to the mirrorball, and he's drooling all over it.
Maks is a lousy teacher for newbie dancers. He takes the frustrations that arise out of his professional shortcomings out on his students in a vile way. See Hope. See Melissa Gilbert. I don't care how much those women publicly defend him. He's the only dancer I actually dislike on any of these dancing shows, and it's because he's such a cowardly little bully to these women.
I rooted for JR and Karina, and less than a year ago, years after his breakup with Karina, he was still being a jerk to her. Doing stupid canine-like dominance moves of wedging his body between her and a presenter during on-camera interviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qKo...ature=youtu.be
He would cover Karina's picture with something in the rehearsal studios. This is stuff on camera. I can only imagine how difficult he was to Karina when the cameras weren't rolling. Now, he's with Peta, I guess he's finally ready to be civil to Karina on camera.

The best I can say about Maks is he is no gentleman.
Originally Posted by
fridgesoup:
“BIB - It was definitely real!! No surprise that Val was in Maks' corner (but blimey!...so harsh and so public!
), but I was gobsmacked that Mark and Tony would be so partisan (and a bit childish) in public - they had to work with her after all. Whatever you think of Maks, it did seem as if Karina broke his heart. (It put me off her for ages). Anyhow, it was good to see them apparently having put their differences behind them this season.
As to Katherine doing Strictly, I don't know how she would have gone down
. Quite a few people seemed a bit sniffy about her doing DwtS, though...as if she'd snubbed Strictly (and the UK ). I think as others have said, she divides opinion. She has a sugary sweet image which a lot of people are quite cynical about (me included - but she really grew on me on DwtS - perhaps the same would have happened on SCD). I do think she had more to gain and less to lose by choosing to do the American show, and, as it turned out, it was a bit of a result
.”
So the video wasn't a myth!Thank you for confirming!
That's a keen perspective on what Katherine on SCD might've been like.

I found her charming too. Perhaps she would've won over doubters in the SCD audience.
Originally Posted by
roomonthebroom:
“UltraJane - re Katherine and a Strictly win, I'm not sure. The thing is there was absolutely no reason for her to do SCD because she's such an established star here and no need to raise her profile - doing DWTS was all about breaking into the America market so completely logical for her.
The other thing to bear in mind is that Katherine does tend to polarise people here - she has plenty of fans, but people who don't like her tend to really not like her IYKWIM - so who knows how this would have panned out had she done SCD. Plus you have the complication of her ex fiance who was a hugely popular Strictly star and the prevailing public view seems to be that she dumped him to pursue fame and fortune in the US - though, to be fair, no-one has a clue as to what really happened, but people will always have their ideas won't they
. So she might have faced a bit of a backlash from that too.”
Fascinating! I didn't realize she was polarizing to an extent. I guess almost everyone even mildly famous is. See my reaction to Maks.