Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy Talks About View War

Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy talked to People about his day on the View last Wednesday when all hell broke loose. He was there with dance partner Laila Ali and fellow contestants Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson.

First off they were warned that the show sometimes gets intense. Isn’t that a little disconcerting to guests? Come on, you go on a talk show for fun and games, not for intensity. I’m sure over at Regis and Kelly the only warning guests get is about touching Kelly. Then it did get intense. Chmerkovskiy said,

At first everyone was sort of laughing, [like,] ‘See, I told you it gets intense.’ Then it was like, Okay maybe it’s one of those very intense ones. But people were still giggling. But then it became a fight between Rosie and Elisabeth.

“It was like a domestic dispute, like relatives fighting. We came to their house and we were witnessing something a little embarrassing. It was really uncomfortable.”

Alicia Silverstone was in the green room along with the Dancing folks and had to go on immediately after the break, unhappily. Chmerkovskiy told People,

She was like, ‘I don’t want to go on now.’ She had one of those hyperventilating moments where she was like, ‘Okay, I’m really nervous.’ ”

When she came out she hugged everyone but Elizabeth, and the show did go on. Luckily the dancers were able to strut their stuff without incident. Little did we know we wouldn’t see Rosie anymore.