May 24th, 2011 at 8:59 am by
Susan P.

Could this possibly be Dancing With The Stars’ sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s last season? Well it seems so. This season has taken it’s toll on all the dancers and Chmerkovskiy is no exception. He and his partner Kirstie Alley are in the final three and tonight we will know their fate.
When asked if he was going to be back in September for the next season he responded:
“I don’t know,” he shared. “It takes a lot out of you. When you invest that much of you into something that’s supposed to be just work you [can] get misinterpreted. I don’t know [if I'm coming back]. We’ll see. Right now, I’m drained.”
The ‘misinterpreted’ part of the sentence doesn’t make sense. Perhaps it’s the exhaustion talking? Or perhaps it’s the lure of the silver screen (or TV screen) like Julianne Hough and Derek Hough before him? It seems his partner Kirstie Alley believes he’s got what it takes to act:
“He’s got good qualities,” she said. “He’s handsome, he’s got a good voice and he’s funny. He’s got other qualities … he’s broody, he’s deep. All the bad boy actors are like that. He could be a really great actor if he wanted to act.”
I can see that. Can you? I picture a role on Hawaii Five-O or something like that. It seems perfectly Maks! But is that what Maks wants?:
“I have a great team of people behind me,” he said. “They know how to make me do the right thing. It’s going to be up to them.”
Even if he does foray into acting, dancing will always be a part of his life. In addition to dance studios in Ridgefield, NJ, Manhattan, NY and Long Island, NY he and his partners are opening another Dance With Me Studio in Los Angeles.
He’s also going to be making family time a priority:
“I haven’t seen my home since August,” he said. “I want to make sure I do stuff for me because it seems to me that I do a lot of things for others.”
I can’t imagine what Dancing With The Stars would be like if Maksim Chmerkovskiy didn’t come back for Season 13. I still miss Julianne Hough and now this season her brother Derek Hough is gone. Something tells me he won’t be back either.
Would you be crushed if Maks didn’t come back for Season 13 of Dancing With The Stars? Would you still watch if he weren’t there?
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