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Maksim Chmerkovskiy

'Not Just The Fat Best Friend:' Reality Show Judge Changes Her Mind About NJ Dancer 'Not Just The Fat Best Friend:' Reality Show Judge Changes Her Mind About NJ Dancer
'Not Just The Fat Best Friend:' Reality Show Judge Changes Her Mind About NJ Dancer "I'm here to show and prove to the world big girls are not just the fat best friend and they're also not just Lizzo's backup dancer." Arianna Santos of West New York is hoping to be an advocate for "all the women who look like [her]" on this season of "So You Think You Can Dance." Santos, 21, tells cameras from her New Jersey apartment that her mom was a dancer growing up, igniting her passion as a little girl. Her older sister is battling cancer and has been inspiring her to live life to the fullest, she says. Santos performed a hip-hop number with Flamenco fusion for judges&nbs…
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Arrives In Poland After Arrest, Days Stuck In Ukraine NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Arrives In Poland After Arrest, Days Stuck In Ukraine
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Arrives In Poland After Arrest, Days Stuck In Ukraine New Jersey native Maksim Chmerkovskiy has arrived in Poland. The professional dancer on Monday, Feb. 28 announced he'd be leaving Ukraine following an arrest that served as a "reality check," and took the train to the border, he said on Instagram. "There is a lot of fighting everywhere, the streets are crazy," he said in an Instagram video filmed in Ukraine. "At one point I got arrested but that was probably the least traumatizing moment in this whole thing as far as Ukraine is concerned — but for me it was just a reality check." Chmerkovskiy, who appeared on several seasons of "Dancing W…
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine Maksim Chmerkovskiy flipped his camera on and in seconds, a siren went off. The New Jersey native and "Dancing with the Stars" personality is stuck in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion. As he spoke to his Instagram followers early Friday, an airstrike happened. "This is real," said Chmerkovskiy, 42, of Fort Lee. "There is major life suffering going on. I’m talking to my friends that are here now with kids getting sick because they're staying in basements with no heat. This needs to come to an end." The professional dancer's father owned a dance studio in Ridgewood that later moved…