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DWTS suspends Val Chmerkovskiy for TikTok comments
Val Chmerkovskiy suspended from DWTS after TikTok post referencing Will Smith's Oscars slap.
In brief
Val Chmerkovskiy suspended from DWTS after TikTok post referencing Will Smith's Oscars slap. Dancing With the Stars suspended Val Chmerkovskiy for one week after he posted a TikTok referencing Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap in response to judge Carrie Ann Inaba's criticism of his wife. Originally reported by TheWrap.
DWTS suspends Val Chmerkovskiy
Dancing With the Stars suspended Val Chmerkovskiy for one week after he posted a TikTok referencing Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap in response to judge Carrie Ann Inaba's criticism of his wife.
Chmerkovskiy's TikTok post
Chmerkovskiy posted a TikTok referencing Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap after Inaba criticized his wife, Jenna Johnson, a pro dancer on DWTS.
Chmerkovskiy's apology
Chmerkovskiy apologized for referencing a meme to keep his wife's name out of the conversation without considering the implications.
“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”
The one thing
Dancing With the Stars suspended Val Chmerkovskiy for one week after he posted a TikTok referencing Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap in response to judge Carrie Ann Inaba's criticism of his wife.
