Maksim Chmerkovskiy reiterates that a woman won't win 'Dancing'
By Christopher Rocchio, 04/24/2008
Maksim Chmerkovskiy knows who Dancing with the Stars' best sixth-season celebrity participant is -- however since it's a woman, he apparently thinks she doesn't have a shot at winning.
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"Obviously the best dancer on the show is Kristi Yamaguchi," Chmerkovskiy told Entertainment Tonight during Monday night's broadcast. "But a woman is not going to win the show. I'm still saying it. Women vote for sexy chests and pretty smiles."
The Dancing with the Stars professional -- who is not participating in the show's current edition but claims he'll return for the seventh installment -- was reiterating a previous statement he made that a woman not only wouldn't win, but couldn't.
"Girls don't vote for other girls," Chmerkovskiy told Entertainment Weekly in March. "Let's face it... Out of 25.2 million viewers, I think .2 is the men. So the rest are women -- and the kind of women that probably don't like other women to be good at something they do. Sorry women, but I think that that's the thing that would keep a woman from winning."
"She won't," Chmerkovskiy definitively answered when asked if another woman beside first-season champ Kelly Monaco could win Dancing with the Stars, adding NFL star Jason Taylor has a much better shot at the sixth-season title than Yamaguchi.
"Jason is going to come out, open his top a little bit and do his thing and 'Ahhh...' there goes Kristi's chances," said Chmerkovskiy.
Calling Yamaguchi "the best dancer" could be considered an understatement.