“The well-being of everyone who works on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is non-negotiable. Val’s social media post was inappropriate and does not reflect the values or standards expected of anyone connected...

"Dancing with the Stars" is benching pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy after an "inappropriate" social media post about judge Carrie Ann Inaba.

He continued: "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 ...