{"id":936974,"date":"2026-10-17T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:46:11","slug":"val-chmerkovskiy-gets-one-week-dancing-with-the-stars-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936974\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Chmerkovskiy Gets One-Week ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUDPATED with Chmerkovskiy response: Val Chmerkovskiy<\/a> is being suspended from Dancing with the Stars<\/a> for a week after he posted a controversial TikTok message that seemed to reference Will Smith\u2019s 2022 Oscar slap.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement released today, producer BBC Studios said, \u201cThe well-being of everyone who works on Dancing with the Stars is non-negotiable. Val\u2019s social media post was inappropriate and does not reflect the values or standards expected of anyone connected with the show. As a result, he will not participate in next week\u2019s show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChmerkovskiy sparked the controversy the day after the show\u2019s first \u201cSuper Bowl Night,\u201d during which judge Carrie Ann Inaba<\/a> offered a withering critique of the performance of Chmerkovskiy\u2019s wife, DWTS dance pro Jenna Johnson. Wrote Chmerkovskiy in the since-deleted post, \u201cYou almost saw Fresh Prince enter the ballroom last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a response to the suspension, Chmerkovskiy issued a statement through his rep, acknowledging his \u201cpoor decision\u201d and \u201cbad judgment,\u201d saying he hadn\u2019t thought through his TikTok comment before posting.<\/p>\n

\n\tChmerkovskiy\u2019s statement reads: \u201cHi everyone. As you may have seen in the news, I won\u2019t be in the ballroom this week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a moment where my instinct was to defend my wife, I made a poor decision to reference a meme to \u2018keep my wife\u2019s name\u2019 out of the conversation, without stopping to think through what else that reference could imply, which was genuinely never my intention. Carrie Ann certainly didn\u2019t deserve to get caught in the middle of my bad judgment, and I hate that she was.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe last thing I want is to become a distraction from an important week or from the incredible work my dance partner Jenna Dewan is putting in.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlease send Carrie Ann, Jenna, and the whole DWTS family lots of love during Dedication Night. I\u2019ll be watching and cheering everyone on!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChmerkovskiy\u2019s scrutinized post came in response to Inaba\u2019s on-air critique of a lift move made by Johnson, in which she read the definition of a lift and suggested Johnson should know better.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Fresh Prince comment referred, unintentionally or not, to the infamous 2022 Oscar-night moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face after the latter made a joke about Smith\u2019s wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Chmerkovskiy\u2019s TikTok comment was widely interpreted to suggest, however jokingly, that he had considered taking action similar to Smith\u2019s, though the dancer later said he hadn\u2019t thought that far.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn any case, the joke was apparently lost on Inaba, who on Thursday posted a since-deleted message on Instagram saying, \u201cSo this is what we are doing now?\u201d Her post showed photos of Chmerkovskiy and Smith, and in the text of her message she thanked the New York Post and Entertainment Weekly \u201cfor bringing this to my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter he posted the TikTok, Chmerkovskiy apologized, writing on Instagram, \u201cI want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my recent post. I have reached out to Carrie Ann to apologize directly and personally, and I also want to apologize publicly as I understand my words affect so many outside of our internal DWTS family. I should have never made the reference that I did and I deeply regret it. I recognize that I am in a fortunate position to have a platform and to be a role model to some, and I need to treat that with more care by actively pausing to think before I post to ensure what I am sharing aligns with who I am, and who I want to be for you all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChmerkovskiy\u2019s celebrity partner Jenna Dewan is apparently aware of the pro\u2019s temporary suspension and will dance with pro Alan Bersten next week in a performance dedicated to her mother. Bersten had been paired with Giada De Laurentiis this season; the duo were eliminated in Week 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UDPATED with Chmerkovskiy response: Val Chmerkovskiy is being suspended from Dancing with the Stars for a week after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79152,65324,43,44,41,39,42,40,320983],"class_list":["post-936974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-carrie-ann-inaba","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-val-chmerkovskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}