Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Karina & I May Never Speak Again

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and his former fiancee Karina Smirnoff attended the same event last night and the tension between the two was fierce!

Maksim and Karina both showed up at the TV Guide Magazine Hot List Party at the Beverly Hills SLS Hotel Tuesday night.

“We don’t speak and most likely never will… to me, she is just a person,” Maksim said. “I was happy to be around my friends and quite frankly, didn’t even notice she was there!”

Guess the two Dancing with The Stars pros don’t have much more in common than that anymore!

Damn that’s cold. What the hell happened? A month ago they were engaged.

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy May Fill In For Derek Hough

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy might be heading back to “Dancing With the Stars,” at least according to Season 9 celebrity contestant Joanna Krupa.

“theres a huge change,” she wrote on her Twitter account on Friday evening. “maks and i will be dancing mon since we are wking on the routine.”

Maksim stepped in to help the model learn her routines earlier in the week after her professional partner, Derek Hough, became ill with what he suspects is the flu. But, Joanna added, Maks’ appearance on Monday’s show isn’t certain.

“still not confirmed,” Joanna Tweeted. “atleast will be fun for tv!”

When contacted, a rep for ABC said the professional dancer who takes to the floor with Joanna on Monday would depend on how Derek feels by show time.

“Maks has been training Joanna,” the rep said. “If he’s well enough to dance by Monday, he will.”

As previously reported, Derek had to bow out of rehearsals earlier this week after becoming ill.

“At the docs for 3 hrs today,” Derek wrote on Thursday. “Had a temprature of 104 … Had an IV in my arm for 2hrs … Maks is steppin up for me helpin jo.”

Derek even joked that his flu was the result of dancing shirtless on Monday night’s competition show.

“Maybe I should have kept my shirt on,” he wrote.

And it’s not just Derek who is sick.

Derek’s longtime pal and bandmate in the Ballas Hough band, Mark Ballas, is also not feeling well.

“Haven’t been this sick in 2½ years :(,” he Tweeted.

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Maksim & Karina Emmys Fight: “It Got Kind of Loud”

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff may have looked fab onstage, but things weren’t quite in step behind the scenes.

An insider reports the ex-couple exchanged some heated words before and after their performance.

“They were going at it, screaming at each other,” an eyewitness tells me. “He said she was taking too long in hair and makeup. It got kind of loud.”

Backstage at the Lipton Green Vitali Tea gift lounge, questions about the breakup were off-limits, but Karina said she couldn’t be happier with their dance routine…

“It was nerve-racking, especially when we heard the announcer say, ‘From Dancing With the Stars…,’ ” Karina just told me. “My heart jumped out a couple of times, but then I was like, ‘Enjoy this because how often do you get to perform at the Emmys.’

“And then it just felt like it went very fast,” she continued. “I wanted to do it a couple of more times to really get into it.”

What she did really get into was the swag. Karina checked out products from Nespresso, Palm Pixi, FlipMinoHD, AMC and the very expensive Santoni shoe line.

Who was the idiot that thought these two should appear together after a nasty breakup? Give hiim a raise…great TV!

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