Jen Affleck was seemingly able to clap again at Maks Chmerkovskiy for his criticisms about her Dancing With the Stars companion, Jan Ravnik — however the duo in the end determined to take the excessive street as an alternative.
Affleck, 26, uploaded a TikTok on Monday, October 27, that featured her and professional Ravnik, 30, throughout a break from DWTS rehearsal. The video was titled, “Me When Anybody Talks Trash About Jan.”
Within the clip, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star might be seen furiously typing away on her cellphone hitting again at haters earlier than Ravnik stepped in and stopped her.
“Take it down. Take it down. Take it down. We’d like it gone,” Ravnik mouthed over a pre-recorded audio snippet. “That doesn’t symbolize me or what we have to be doing.”
Affleck then sat down and rolled her eyes in defeat, hesitating earlier than in the end turning again to her cellphone to delete what she had simply posted.
“We don’t tolerate Jan slander on this home!” Affleck captioned the video.
Fellow DWTS professional Ezra Sosa rapidly confirmed help for Affleck defending her companion, writing in her feedback part, “I’ll trip at daybreak for this man.”
Whereas neither Affleck nor Ravnik specified what — or who — they had been responding to, the video comes shortly after Chmerkovskiy, 45, made feedback about being unimpressed with Ravnik’s inaugural season on the ABC dance collection.
“Dancing With the Stars is a worldwide phenomenon. … I’m sorry, Jan has completely no enterprise being a professional on Dancing With the Stars,” Chmerkovskiy claimed in the course of the Friday, October 24, episode of spouse Peta Murgatroyd’s “The Penthouse With Peta” podcast. “There’s zero basis method, high quality, understanding of the partnership. Bro, I’m getting emotional. It’s absurd, and that is unreal how blind we’ve got to be and God forbid say what’s clearly there.”
Chmerkovskiy — who was a DWTS professional himself on and off from 2006 to 2018 — pointed to Ravnik and Affleck’s foxtrot throughout final week’s Depraved Evening to help his argument, claiming that Ravnik had “no concept” what the dance fashion entitled. (Ravnik and Affleck in the end earned at 32 out of 40 from the judges for the efficiency.)
“How are you going to anticipate him to show it and ship that message in a format that’s fully totally different from even ballroom dancing?” Chmerkovskiy continued. “We had this criticism weeks in the past, and I’m like, ‘Bro, is anyone going to clarify it to him?’”
Murgatroyd, for her half, agreed that she didn’t “love the foxtrot parts” of Ravnik’s choreography — which was set to the tune of Depraved’s “As Lengthy As Your Mine” — however argued that he’s “studying slowly” all through his first season and needs to be given an quantity of “grace.” (Murgatroyd, 39, joined DWTS in 2011, serving as a troupe member for 2 years earlier than turning into a professional. She stepped away in 2024 to welcome her and Chmerkovskiy’s first child.)
Chmerkovskiy disagreed along with his spouse’s evaluation, stating that Ravnik’s dance from the earlier week for Dedication Evening — the place he and Affleck danced a Viennese Waltz to Lauren Daigle’s “Rescue” — delivered “some type of path” earlier than going “off the cliff” the next week.
The previous professional added that he has nothing in opposition to Ravnik and it’s “not his fault,” however reiterated that Affleck “has no companion.”
Murgatroyd then steered that Ravnik ought to have been put within the “troupe” for a yr earlier than turning into an precise professional on the present. She claimed that there was an “apparent” purpose he was granted professional standing so rapidly, hinting at Ravnik’s earlier job as Taylor Swift’s dancer on her worldwide Eras Tour.
“Other than that he’s a stunning man, he appears nice, he clearly is a superb dancer,” she added, earlier than noting, “Hiring a non-ballroom dancer to show ballroom dancing to a star as a job is outrageous.”
She continued, “He ought to’ve realized, gone to ballroom courses. Look, what I might do if I had been him — and I don’t know what he’s doing behind the scenes, let’s be sincere. … However I might do my 4 hours within the studio, no matter I wanted to do, after which I might take [Jen] for one more 4 hours and go elsewhere.”
Previous to his time on DWTS and the Eras Tour, Ravnik gained a number of Nationwide, European and World champion titles. He additionally gained the Finest Dancer of Slovenia award twice and an award for the Finest Coach/Choreographer from the Slovenian Olympic committee.
Dancing With the Stars skilled dancer Jan Ravnik completely opened as much as Us Weekly concerning the judges specializing in him throughout their critiques this season. Ravnik, 30, made his DWTS debut within the season 34 premiere as The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jen Affleck’s skilled companion, and up to now, his choreography has been […]
Since becoming a member of DWTS for season 34, Ravnik and Affleck have remained in the course of the pack with scoring, however have seen some criticism from the judges over their choreography.
Ravnik, nonetheless, has taken it in stride. “They’re simply obsessive about me or one thing,” he joked to Us Weekly completely after Disney Evening earlier this month. “I imply, look, I’m new, so I’m gonna take each word that they’re giving to me. I don’t suppose it’s in a foul manner that they’re all the time saying.”
Affleck, in the meantime, has maintained her pleasure over being paired with Ravnik. “I’m so excited,” she beforehand advised Us. “There’s plenty of vitality. We’re each newbies, and I’m simply so excited.”
Ravnik and Affleck will subsequent dance collectively for DWTS’ Halloween Evening on Tuesday, October 28, the place they may carry out a recent to Swift’s. “Look What You Made Me Do.”
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
