Val Chmerkovskiy is speaking out after he was unceremoniously benched from Dancing With the Stars Dedication Night over his controversial comment about judge Carrie Ann Inaba. “Hi everyone. As you may have seen in the news, I won’t be in the ballroom this week,” Chmerkovskiy, 40, wrote via his Instagram Stories on Saturday, October 17. “In a moment where my instinct was to defend my wife, I made a poor decision to reference a meme to keep my wife’s name out of the conversation without stopping to think through what else that reference could imply, which was genuinely never my intention.”...
DWTS' Val Chmerkovskiy Breaks Silence on Dedication Night Absence
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Oct 18, 2026 • 5 days ago
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