By Michaela Gordoni
Maksim Chmerkovsky left DANCING WITH THE STARS after 17 seasons on the show in 2017.
Now, he’s sharing why it’s unlikely he’d come back as a dancer.
“I think the boat has sailed. I think my comeback is in the distant past,” he told Access Hollywood on Wednesday. “I’m looking forward to so much more dancing out of my body. I’m in maintenance every day for the last 25 years.”
“I don’t see where that’s going to go, and I’m looking forward to creative processes. [But] I also think Dancing With te Stars is a moving entity, and it just needs to move,” he said. “And we all just moved a little bit different directions.”
He isn’t saying that he doesn’t want to, but he doesn’t see how he would fit in with DTWS today.
He said, “I can’t fathom doing so much social media, and without it, how do you win?”
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Since he’s left, he’s become a dad to three children.
“With the kids, it’s so hard. It’s very tough,” he added.
He cited a similar reason in 2018, when he had just one child.
“I’m a dad, I’m a husband,” he said at the time. “Your chemistry changes when you have a child, things look different, they seem different.”
He also said, “You find yourself politicking for your votes. You find you have to be a certain way because you don’t want your antics to cost your partner their votes.”
He didn’t like putting on an inauthentic personality for the camera.
Another time after leaving, he said, “Everything that is up to me, I do at 100% and then give it my all. I just don’t think I can do the show as a professional dancer at 100% and give it my all anymore. I am at a different point in my life.”
He would have loved the opportunity to judge, but it wasn’t given to him.
“It’s not up to me,” he explained. “I would love to do that gig. That’s my thing. That’s my medium (and) that’s what I know.”
“I know exactly what I am looking at. I know exactly what I want it to be and exactly how to influence someone to do better in that genre. That’s what a judge should do, in addition to adding to the production,” he said. “If that’s in my future, I would gladly accept it.”
It could happen one day. As an active 45-year-old with an impressive resume in the dance and entertainment industry, Chmerkovskiy has many years left to fulfill that dream.
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