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Putting in the work. While discussing season 31 of Dancing With the Stars, Val Chmerkovskiy praised his partner Gabby Windey and opened up about how they work so well together.
“She’s a great student. She knows how to take direction and she doesn’t take things personally. With me, I think that’s, like, the biggest thing. There’s a very — and I wouldn’t say it’s a thin line — I think it’s a very clear difference between being hard and demanding accountability when it comes to the work that we do on the show. In regards [to] me, at least,” Chmerkovskiy, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, September 27. “I try to not to venture into being a dick as much as I can. I do have dick moments, but she thankfully is patient enough to understand that.”
According to the DWTS pro, his ability to communicate with Windey, 31, has also helped the partners make significant progress in the competition. “I’m the first to say that the patience that you want from me when it comes to teaching you how to dance [is] what I would love back,” he continued. “I have moments [that are] not my best moments, but once those moments pass I’ll be the first to make them right. [So] Gabby has been wonderful to work with and I’m only as good as my partner.”
The Ukraine native, who has previously won two seasons of the ABC ballroom dance series, offered a glimpse at his dynamic with Windey that fans may not have seen yet on screen. (The pair scored 28/40 and 32/40 in their first two weeks.)
“We laugh about it [but] she calls me a short king. We joke around about the height challenge, especially in the ballroom dances,” he shared with Us. “We talked about the physical challenge of our height, but slowly that just starts to disappear. I feel it even in our
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